/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11380033
>what?
Which part "what"?
Check out this pic of Henri Poincaré.
See what I mean?

>>9849738
THIS, but even more so.
We're not only moving from a world with a small number of more powerful transmitters to larger number of weaker signals.
And as we make more efficient use of the bandwidth, it sounds more and more like white noise.
Even if someone were listening to television channel 13, they'd get the Baltimore CBS station, the New York PBS station, etc, etc. all jumbled together.

Perhaps the greatest criticism of te Fermi Paradox is this...
We know people like us are possible, so where are the other people like us?
Well, since we've never gone anywhere, and we can't pick up signals like our own at interstellar distances, the universe _could_ be chock full of people _just_ like us, and we'd never know.

>>9775711
>You're just begging the question by wrongly assuming it's a philosophical issue.
Says you...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipse_dixit


But even if it is a scientific issue, science is nowhere near being able to touch on the issue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

Sure, sure, you've got MRI s _clearly_ indicating it's not really me making the decisions, it's my brain.
Or determinism means it's not really me making the decisions, it's predestined based on who I am as a person.
Never mind the obvious flaws in either assertion, science still can't decide what the mind is, so it's really not yet within the purview of science.
And it's possible it never will be.

>>9765956
>(see link above).
Oops, forgot link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#We_are_not_listening_properly

>>9750397
>sounds like you have ebola. Definitely ebola.
Thanks! For a minute there, I was worried it was scabies.

>>9486697
>I got satan quads
Go back to /b/.

>>9149344
>fuck off sagan
Thanks, that's the nicest thing anybody on the 4chins has ever said to me.
:^)

>>9081798
>What is more true than the human experience?
Go home /x/, yer drunk.

>>9010914
>Astronauts breathe pure oxygen, but I think the pressure is lower.
That's GOT to be wrong.
MY job is tough enough, can you imagine being an astronaut? The pressure must be enormous.

>>8996460
>A pretty small percent. I am not claiming to have evidence on this issue
Oops, I thought you were OP, my bad,

>>8543860
>Even stormfags don't dare propose that, because they want a race war, not an IQ war.

>>8380539
>>effects
Found the OCD pedant.

>>8314410
>In that case, since I've already tried, could you try explaining it to this literally raging autist?

I think he's more concerned with the direction society is going, than setting a goal.
Maybe that's why he thinks we don't need a relative scale.

The big problem with that is that things could always be better (or worse), so without a scale, you could describe any situation as bad (or good).
A lesser problem is that without a scale, he's convinced himself things are not improving, when they clearly are,

Hope this helps.

>>8208587
>do you think IQ is an accurate measure of intelligence
"Intelligence" is a small subset of the things your brain does.
If muscle memory or spelling ability (rote memorization) counted, I'd be considered retarded.
Instead, I'm the /sci/ standard 140 IQ.

>>8166997
>If there were any signs of intelligent life, we'd see non natural structures.
MFW there's a community of Boltzmann brains living in the sun.
...not to mention the critters living in the liquid methane oceans of Titan.

Srsly tho... "intelligent life" doesn't require "non natural structures".
Dolphins are possibly smarter than us, but don't build shit.

>>8164087
Sweet Jesus titty-fucking Christ
And I thought you were serious at first, lol.