/sci/ - Science & Math

YES, but I'm an ecology guy and pretty much every ecology guy I know loves nature art and film. I also like poetry and surrealistic fantasy stuff. You also learn to be pretty critical of scientific illustrations when you study biology.

I sort of see art as a necessary companion of science, but to explain why would take me a while. Just let it be know that I think it's important that we all appreciate art, whether it's nature art or the natural beauty of fractals.

Also, SO THIS THREAD CAN BE PRODUCTIVE, here's a JS Math Cheat Sheet.

>>4256468
Some things are disabled because of shit like
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People also used to flood fuck ass HUGE arrays.

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>>4256276
Good stuff; my views are revised.

In that case, weather would still be a worry to me (you don't need to account for weather systems on a moon with little or no atmosphere = advantage), but it seems doable anyway (in the far future). I'd love to see Titan get more attention. A year ago (or perhaps more), there was an article from JPL that mentioned to possibility of a form of life on Titan as evidenced by certain compounds not precipitating out of the atmosphere. I haven't seen any follow up (I could have missed it). As a biology guy, this interests me greatly.

...and, after a quick googling, here's the JPL article:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-190

>>4256185
Wait, I don't mean that the atmosphere is mostly methane. I mean that there's enough methane to be a problem (at least as I understand it).

Just clarifying.

>>4256155
Titan has a methane atmosphere. Filling a bubble with oxygen and putting it on the surface is asking for a massive fire. On Titan, you'd also have to deal with WEATHER, which is a problem. Frankly, if I were going to land on one of the gas giants' rocky moons, I'd hit up Ganymede. Europa is an OK choice, too.

...and, suddenly, I found a nice little Wiki page about all of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_outer_Solar_System#Jupiter

Radiation levels would make this difficult, I think. Also, space exploration hasn't been cancelled.

Here's a nice post about the radiation issue:
http://astrobio.net/exclusive/3010/hiding-from-jupiters-radiation

You might be OK if you got underground, but that's a step beyond what I would expect in the next century for a place so far away. Temperature would also be an issue, but that's true anywhere outside our blue bubble.

Dude, clonazepam isn't that bad. For me, it wears off after around 24 hours (I had to take it for a while because panic attacks). You should be fine. I don't know how it mixes with weed, though. That's not my thing.

That said, /sci/ is still shit tonight.

Holy god, /sci/ sucks tonight.

>>4243944
Oh, well, we're cool then.
Carry on.

Saging only because OP apparently left.

>>4243894
>Sees typo
>Ignores people trying to help
>Ignores a graduate student in Ecology trying to help you write an essay about biodiversity.
Stay classy, /sci/.

You're doing to have to be more specific. Do you just want any foreign (foreign relative to where?) biodiversity research?

Here's an article about Yasuni,one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. It has large species richness across many taxa and some species are endemic to the area (found only there):

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008767

It's a national park, so there's your "how biodiversity is being preserved" angle.

What if Skyward Sword was fun and not tedious?
What THEN? /venting

I actually believe it's a combination of developmental factors (such as incomplete androgenization) and "nuture" or environmental factors (e.g. the way you were raised and the roles you've assumed either by choice or otherwise). That's not to say that being gay is a choice in any sense (I'm gay; I know); it's about as much of a choice as other things that are influenced heavily by your environment (e.g. personality, which is pretty hard to change, but you can fake having a different personality [like the whole gay thing]). There may be some heritable traits involved, but I don't think they play as much of a role as the above described factors.

That said, I'm an ecology guy who just reads about this kind of thing because it's relevant to me.

Girl: "so whats your major"
Me: "Ecology"
Girl: " *blah blah* KEYSTONE XL / BP OIL SPILL?"
Me: "...."

No one fucking understands what ecology actually is until they study it.

Oh /sci/, it may be because it's almost 2am, but that was hilarious.

SAWTOOTH WAVE VOLTS CUT DOWN TREES

WHILE PLAYING THE MEGAMAN X THEME

WAKE UP PEOPLE

(I enjoyed this moment, OP)

>>4065242
Dude, that's not even true.
It's a basically a prion disease that doesn't involve prions (i.e. it involves proteins misfolding). It's distribution in the population is almost entirely random.

Cancer is a more sure fire thing as we live longer and longer.

>>4002648
Now do it for lim(x->0)0^x and see what answer you get.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=lim%28x-%3E0%29x%5E0+%3B+lim%28x-%3E0%290%5Ex

>>4002620
That's supreme bullshit logic.
What's infinity^0 then?

It's indeterminate; educate yourselves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_form

Yes in fire-adapted ecosystems.
Not necessarily in an ecosystem that historically never saw fire (e.g. peat fires are no bueno).