/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6075751
Ok, I'm wrong.

But I still think you're an ass hole for not at least acknowledging that that resonance structure is much less stable than the original structure. The O-C BO may be higher than 1, but not by much.

OP, your naivete angers me because I hate it when I see people placing the act of raising children up on a pedestal. So, I must respond to your post.

>What does /sci/ think of the idea that reproduction is the highest goal of human life in the scientific world view?

I think you're confusing what drives natural selection with the "scientific world view", as you put it. Indeed, natural selection is a scientific theory, but it does not constitute a world view of any kind. In fact, natural selection has no view whatsoever. Reproduction is central to natural selection because it exemplifies the fitness of an organism; successful reproduction does not, however, exemplify a view or goal of any kind or anything anthropogenic.

Understood? Great.

Now I'm going to bitch about people that think raising children is worthy of praise and admiration. Every organism on the planet is capable of reproducing, and many of them raise their young, just like us. But we are humans, for crying out loud. What makes us human, distinct from other life forms, is our higher neurological function, not our ability to reproduce. God fucking damn-it if you think reproducing makes you special then I really really really hate you. You are a waste of resources and should be relieved of your sex organs. I volunteer to do it, myself.

Ahhhh. Now that I've gotten my nerd-rage out of my system, I'll take this moment to make it clear that I'm not suggesting that raising children is only something that idiots deserving of sterilization do. What I'm suggesting is that it is very unfortunate for a child when the extent of their parents' achievements was their ability to reproduce.

>or would knowledge and scientific achievements be considered higher?

I hate you for thinking that there is even an iota of a chance for a meaningful debate on this.

My take on death is that your mom is a whore.

>>2807229
HURR LETS INSULT EACH OTHER YEEEEEEEAHHHH WE'RE SMART, FOR LIFE, 4 LYFE.

>PARASITICAL SUB-HUMAN AI

>>2795146
Nothing. You scared?

>>2707419
>>2707446
Now wait a second you two. What >>2707419 said isn't inherently racist, it applies to all relevant cases. So, obviously poor people in general, but also the case of the papered, trust-fund kids. Condition-free handouts turn them into useless fucks too.

>>2707518
Yeah... I'm pretty sure I can come up with a dozen alternative hypotheses/explanations that fit your (or "their", perhaps you're just quoting) "observations". Here's one to try on for size:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/03/10/ncbi-rofl-and-the-most-racist-study-of-the-ye
ar-award-goes-to/
(it's not actually racist, I don't know why the reporter frames it like that)

>>2707528
You're attempting a joke here?

>>2707537
See
>>2707565
Until you can be reasonably sure that you've factored out all relevant confounding variables, I can't see what would *justifiably* motivate you to select one plausible hypothesis/explanation over another.

As for "my hypothesis" about equal racial inferiority... I'm not really attached to it in any way. It could be true or false for all I care. No, my "sense[less]" and "[un]sientific" disposition here is merely the result of of my adoption of the so-called Null Hypothesis... you know, the initial assumption grounding all analyses.

Also, if it WERE the case that the races were inherently unequal, what would the implications be? Surely you wouldn't be content with leaving this as a descriptive/observational matter. What would you have us do in that case?

>>2683200
Well that's all fine because, as I said, water has a negative temperature coefficient as a moderator.

All this means is that there is a negative correlation between an increase in temperature and the rate of the chain reaction when water is your moderator.

I guess you're just mad that I'm refusing to use the exact semantics that you want me to use. This pleases me.

lol only troll threads allowed in /sci/, faggot