/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15279726
a genius is always alone because they don't get along with other geniuses. geniuses get pet dogs.
https://rumble.com/v1mbza0-newspaperman-finds-a-friend.html

>>12679881
I would think that would throw off the calculation of the centroid (to use the center of mass analogy, I don't think the center of mass of a glass bowl and the center of mass of a glass bowl with a glass lid are going to be the same). I suppose if the area of the surface you're closing it with is well defined you could subtract that off somehow, but I haven't come up with a way of defining the surface that would close it off.

>>12509040
thanks for the vid fren. god i fucking hate this shitty fucking world.

>>11373045
>>11372995
>>11371482
If there's truly been alien activity since the Manhattan project, it's because our achievement is interesting in the same way this gif is interesting to us.

>>11263038
LOL OH MAN WTF DID I JUST READ THE UNIVERSE IS INHERENTLY REPETITIVE LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>humans advance more in 100 years than we have in the preceding 200,000
>dude why aren't we further ahead

how old is the universe when you take time dilatation into account?
it's 13,8billion years old for us, but are there parts that are older or younger because they move at different speeds? how big of a difference does this make? what is the oldest and youngest part in the universe relative to it?

I'm in dire need of a very rare image of someone playing club penguin rambling about the four color theorem.

>>10882339
>So surely focusing on this aspect, a political one, could actually give more scientific dividends down the line than even engaging in scientific research right now?
You mean like studying policy impacts and different systems/structures of government? Yeah, that'd be pretty cool, but there'd no doubt be shitloads of bias and tampering in those. Also, the research would be pretty slow and difficult.
>surely increasing the educator to researcher ratio a bit would have greater longterm dividends?
The issue isnt so much a lack of teachers, as it is a shitty system of teaching. Government schools are more interested in indoctrinating kids than they are making them critical thinkers. I know that's a pretty common narrative to hear, to the point of sounding meaningless, so I'll go a step further and tell how to fix it; teach facts only and let the students interpret the implications, focus more on teaching independent research and accessing source bias, teach about cultural values from different cultures around the world, challenge students to take non-mainstream positions in papers and projects to normalize dissent from the consensus. These things will make education more objective and promote critical thinking. Too many come out of the system merely towing the party line.
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So I was watching Mutiny, a channel 4 show about a group of lads surviving at sea following captain Blight's journey.

It struck me when they were running out of water.
Right now they have 51 liters of fresh water left.
Fresh water has a salinity of MAX 40mg per liter, since the official cut off is 20mg/L, but lets just say its 40mg/L.
Seawater has a salinity of 35GRAMS/L
Men should take in 4-6 grams of salt MAX.
So could we simply mix 7 liters of freshwater with 1 liter of seawater, making the new brackish water have a salinity of about 35/8 = 4.375GRAMS/Liter.
So now one could drink one liter of this new brackish water, and not exceed the daily limit of salt intake. Lets consider they are on water ration, consisting of 1L of water a day each.

Would this work or would they all die quicker?
What say you, men of science?

>>10242019
I use daydreaming while /diy/. imagining myself fixing the problem reduces trial and error, foresees new problems and saves resources. Also i look like a retard, my dad asked me earlier if im drunk after i stood 10min in the shop staring in the air

Why aren't you tuned in yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEw0ePZUMHA

Playing a musical instrument develops the brain. A LOT. Hands are tricky. The brain needs to process huge amounts of sensory information and even more if you read classical sheet music while playing.

Creating music is the next step. Harmony, exploring scales... that activates the right hemisphere of the brain.

so it requires high cognitive skills. Can we relate that with IQ?? Maybe...

>graduated with a bullshit degree few months ago
>hate it
>want to go back for EE which I started in
>was lazy retard and fucked around then changed majors

Should I become an electrician bros? I can't afford to go back to school like I want and I can leverage my degree down the road. I originally wanted to focus on technology with EE but my dumbass wanted to do dumb shit like party and have fun.
But, how can I make my way back into uni as an electrician apprentice ( since that's where I'll have to start) or become something more than just your run of mill electrician working for a contractor

>>9968213
>animals can't reason

I need help figuring a problem out if anyone can help

Three girls downloaded a total of 833 songs on their iPod. Jane downloaded 4 times as many as inez and since Tracy wanted to download the most she downloaded 5 more than Jane did. How many songs did each girl download?

>be me
>working for 5 straight months in this fungus project
>suddenly hurricane
>all my work gets destroyed
>didn't have a back up plan so now Im fucked
>need to collect data the next two weeks to start working in something and present it in 6 weeks

Need your help, lads, please give me ideas, the only thing I can tell you is that it has to be in an altered patch of forest that has been regenerating naturally the past 40 years, because its the only place need my house. Any idea helps.

For example 4x2 - 10x + 6

How the heck do you do that? Is this witchcraft or something?

How does one measure IQ of an animal?

smart doggo

>>8799840

i'm in school now, a bit older than most people. had a bad start in life. i'm studying business and engineering. i'd like to own my own business at some point, so i can have kids and pass it on to the next generation.

i've absorbed lots of the philosophical and spiritual/psychological stuff, used to read obsessively. i wonder if it helped or hurt.

i used to want to be a composer, when i was young. now i just compose and study music for my enjoyment.

Is it smart to work hard ?

Is it smart to give up if you can't solve a problem or is it better to try harder to solve it ?

Is it an optimal use of mental resources to belittle yourself and call yourself stupid when you could have been thinking of how to solve a problem ?

We may be dumber than the next anon but answering those questions correctly will allow us to become the smartest versions of ourselves.

what the fuck is going on here