/sci/ - Science & Math

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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Big constraints:

1. Preventing contamination. Presumably, you will be using an engineered strain of algae that produces the right types of lipids for biofuels, so you don't want contamination by leaving it in the open air. Thus you need a bioreactor.

2. Feeding CO2 into the bioreactor. If you can cheaply concentrate CO2 from the atmosphere, then there's no need to use algae or any plant for that matter to make hydrocarbon fuels.

>>2569996
Why are you so bent on proving blacks to be stupid? This isn't normal in the modern age. It would have been understandable to think like this fifty years ago and before, but now...? What happened? You got mugged?

>>2569937
Christianity is OT in /sci/

Oh, and he got his math Ph.D. from Cal b4 AA existed. There is a tremendous amt of genetic diversity in Africa; don't dismiss an entire race.

>>2565251
>>how do you explain that african american children that have been brought up in adoptive middle class white families still underperform SIGNIFICANTLY in IQ and SAT tests.

Obvsly the blacks up for adoption in the first place are not gonna be of good genetic/biological stock to begin with. Probably crack fumes in utero, poor neonatal nutrition. My calc prof is a black guy.

>>2569838
A mechanistic worldview is just as potentially dangerous as a fundamentalist worldview. While I am an atheist science nerd, I must admit society will be more happy & polite with some sort of religion or dogma that makes them want to be good for fear of punishment in the afterlife. Karma is excellent bc it doesn't necessarily require a god or arbitrator, and thus would be compatible with the cosmic age age.

Regarding celebrity atheists like Hitchens or Harris, I think most are assholes. If someone's delusions are making them happier about living life, why take it away? Given no other negative effects as a result of the delusions, most psychiatrists will not try to deprogram a patient's benign delusions--it is last on the list as standard med practice

>>2569160
>>We tell them they can have free tacos with every vasectomy.
How racist but funny in a dark, sinister manner.

>>2569328
Listen, of course the brain in the computer would be exactly the same as yours. It would have the same emotions and all that shit. I don't think that should be the subject of the rebuttal to Singularity. It should be that it will make people no longer human. Besides, there will be little point to living if one is ruminating in suspended digital animation in perpetuity.

I can only imagine...Ted Kaczynski would have a heart attack if he even heard of this sort of thing.

>>2569198
>>No. If the situations were equivalent, then the presence of an additional, arbitrary number of humans would result in the death of the entire species, necessitating the death of that number of humans. This is not the case, and it won't be, because the carrying capacity of the planet exceeds projected growth of the population.

*Sigh.* I can't go through entire physics and biology textbooks here--but if I did it would tell you how retarded your reasoning is.
When we eat an orange, none of the atoms magically disappear, okee? When we burn petroleum, no carbon or hydrogen magically disappears either, otherwise we wouldn't be worried about climate change, okee?

Troll.

>>2569173
Intellectual brain exercises like brain teasers will marginally restore a brain to its prior state. For instance, an old person who's been retired for 20 years should do puzzles because his brain is festering due to aging and possibly some beta-amyloid accumulation in the mix. But a 19 year old doing sudoku isn't going to get one IQ point smarter. IQ is largely unchanging after age 14-16 (medical fact look it up).

Aricept, Piracetam, any acetylcholinesterase inhibitor will do.

All with some basis in medical literature: periwinkle plant (Vinca minor), Ginko (G. biloba is only extant species, food of dinosaurs), choline (from soy lechitin), dimethylethanolamine (an industrial curing agent good luck finding it).

If you're a chick who is scared of pills (yet unafraid of putting an erect penis in the same mouth), you're not going to boost your memory very well. It must be done biologically!