/sci/ - Science & Math

Welp, Its been a good run everyone.

We got a lot done and found out some cool stuff. Got men on the moon, got pictures and data from multiple body surfaces, and even got some flyby data from some super-distance objects. Some info from outside the solar system to the edge of time.

But, this virus will crash this country, and kill us all. By April the Boca Chica and Blue Origin sites will be empty, and overgrown with plants/animals by this fall. Humans had a good run.

This is the end guys. Go get high and fuck around. We aren't leaving this rock again, and we are never finding life out there. GGQQ.

I'm sympathetic to the idea of going to mars for science, but O'Neill cylinders are the future.

>can create verdant, lush environments, free of mosquitoes and parasites, every single plant edible or harmless, all carefully climate controlled into permanent spring
>can build from resources found in space, trojan asteroids, comets brought in by tugs, powered by solar or fusion depending on how far off from the sun you are
>incredible possibility of expansion-we could have billions of these things within a few centuries, from oasis of pastureland to thrumming centers of science or manufacturing, some filled to the brim with re-created dinosaurs or mammoths or dodos, some just shallow oceans that we set loose dolphins and sharks and giant squids within and observe from below using vast glass windows
>vast fortunes to be made selling a place in these paradises, in manufacturing ships and scientific instruments in space, in trade routes betweeen the far-flung outposts of humanity, in building immense generation ships or perhaps some far future version of the Orion project (or if we're lucky and certain wild-eyed theorists are correct, Machian gravito-inertial ships) to fly outward on series of nuclear detonations and explore our nearest neighboring stars

and above all, freedom! Immense, all-encompassing freedom! Freedom for the wretched and ugly past of this sin-cursed earth and all its blood and evil. The best will build shining cities and prosper out in the vastness, limited only by the laws of our universe and their own creativity and determination.

Space is life.

>>9489194
Trash tier. If you go through the tremendous effort to make something fuckhuge in space, you build pic related, not shitty centrifugal commie blocks.

I'm going to post more pictures of hypothetical superstructures like the one in question. Feel free to do the same!

Hey /sci/, this is my first time visiting this board. I would like to increase my understanding of the world and of science. Particularly I am interested in learning about theoretical physics, but I would like to do so without going to school. What are some good books to get me started?

Is there a chance pi ever repeats all its previous digits? I don't mean it being rational but repeating like 3.[14159...94][14159...94]8593...