/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6083838
>>Government won't fund unmanned space exploration.
COUNTEREXAMPLE: Curiosity rover on Mars right now.

When was the last time we had a human mission beyond low Earth orbit?

And Curiosity actually got people excited about planetary science.

>>4433430
>>Robots are created by Electrical engineers
nope, most robots are created by mechanical engineers. Mechanical engineers make the robot and often the algorithms to control it and electrical engineers make the control system.

>>4348868
Nope. Infinities can be useful some times.

DEPLOYING AUTOMATED CAVALRY

>>3954144
I didn't! That's why I chose Mech E!

>>3885310

Come back when somebody makes an artificial general intelligence.

>>3885311

>ethics

>>3875154
I don't think that is science.

>>2210729
it computes DESTROY ALL HUMANS!

This thread is now about robots

>>1690831
fuck yeah!

>>1458927
Don't listen to the haters steven.

/sci/, do you know of any good reading I could do regarding the Universal Great Attractor?

Don't know if there are too many newfags on here for me to ask this, but what's the weirdest citation you've ever come across when reading white papers?

Also, you probably won't be able to beat mine, someone cited the Terminator 2 movie, though to be fair it was a paper on reconfigurable robots.

inB4 "noord rapture!! Vs inevitabl trends" trolling.

Let's discuss the rights of artificial people, /sci/.

Let's say, for the sake of discussion, someone invents a program capable of beating the Turing Test within the next two decades and releases it to the mass market. Since we all seem to know the internet pretty intimately, we can probably safely predict that either Japan or the US will release sexual themed AI's to serve as virtual girlfriends for neckbeards (And...coochbeards? Hambeasts? IDK, what do you call the female equivalent of a neckbeard) the world over.

However, if the AI is advanced enough to simulate desire and concious thought, what happens if your virtual girlfriend gets a headache, or objects to something? What happens when she realizes that you could kill her with the touch of a button? Can you realistically simulate the human condition without including fear, jealousy, discontent, hatred, you know, all of the things that most people would buy a virtual girlfriend to avoid?

If science has proven anything, it's that true understanding is limited only by someone's insistence that something is impossible.

ITT post the best pictures of science in action (pic related, it's science)

Can somene explain to me what the Laplace Equation is used for, I am a non-scientist+also stupid

In your humble opinion, what's the best design for a theoretical interstellar space vehicle, /sci/?