/sci/ - Science & Math

It would take the telescope 1,000 years to get there at the fastest speed allowed by physics, then it will take another 1,000 to receive the data. It wouldn't be worth the effort.

Done more to encourage scientific literacy and interest than any one man in the past 50-100 years. Doesn't matter whether or not he was a great discoverer himself, what matters is that he inspired many people to become scientists.

Hitler wasn't an atheist. The fucking motto of Nazi Germany was "Gott Mit Uns" "God on Our Side"
The myth that Jews killed Jesus was one of the driving motivators for his foot soldiers

>someone tries to understand a concept foreign to him
>explain it by insulting him
Guys, if you give a shit about education you can't reprimand people for asking stupid questions.

>implying white people are the smartest

Anyways, given the sociological studies done within different ethnicities in the same culture and economic conditions, the difference is mostly societal. And even if racist theories were correct, there's so much travel and inter-racial breeding going on that the differences are already starting to level out.

Great little horror short, but this has to be fake. Right?

Art is basically the need to influence our immediate surroundings in ways that attach "meaning" and significance to seemingly random occurrences. Science is how, and art is why. At least that's how I see it.

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So the "life" of a carrot is worth as much to you as the life of a pet dog?

"I do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men. And at other times, there is a different sense of the absurd, a playful and whimsical awareness. Both of these senses of the absurd can be communicated, and some of the most rewarding highs I've had have been in sharing talk and perceptions and humor. Cannabis brings us an awareness that we spend a lifetime being trained to overlook and forget and put out of our minds. A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word 'crazy' to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us. In the Soviet Union political dissidents are routinely placed in insane asylums. The same kind of thing, a little more subtle perhaps, occurs here: 'did you hear what Lenny Bruce said yesterday? He must be crazy.' When high on cannabis I discovered that there's somebody inside in those people we call mad." - Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan's widowed wife "Ann Druyan" is a member of the NORML board. It's an organization developed to increase the mainstream acceptance of Pot, and to advocate for it's legalization

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4493

Why aren't you guys smoking more often?

"The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before." - Carl Sagan