/sci/ - Science & Math

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What is this?

Why do some snakes give birth live and others lay eggs?

What purpose is there for needing to do this and how did they develop this? What's the relation to placental animals?

Are perpetual motion machines possible?

I keep thinking that if so, they could provide perpetual energy as well. Or am I just being dumb?

Was Plato giving a political allegory when he wrote about Athenians fighting Atlantis and NOT a historical recounting? IE a bedtime story to keep people praying?

Is there are definitive proof of this?

If I change my sleeping routine and sleep every 48 hours, how fucked am I?

A fucked up question but if you have a boner and you die, will the boner fade away or it will still be there?

Is there a condition that lets a person stay active without the need for sleep?

What's the melting point of diamond?

Also, how much pressure does it take to make an artificial one?

What's calculus useful for?

What does /sci/ thins about the Area 51 Theory?

How do I polyphasic sleep?

I find it extremely hard to have religious friends.

Obviously, I'm an atheist. I've read pretty much all that hitchens wrote, and after I finished his "god is not great" book, I find really hard to have any form of respect for religious people.
I have quite a few atheist friends an I'm fine with them, and I meet new people frequently, but if somehow I find out that they have any type of religious belief, all of a sudden I simply can't take ANYTHING they say seriously.

I'm not ashamed of it. I mean, srsly, I'm profoundly intrigued by how someone can live in this world, be an intelligent, kind and lovable person and still believe in the sky wizard. How a sane mind can accomodate that is simply beyond me.

Is it just me?

So what is the point of philosophy?

In all seriousness, it was the first attempt at thinking something other than "lol god did it", but all scientific fields look to me as not born from, but born from a break with philosophy.

Heidegger shot himself in the foot when he concluded that being is nothing, while managing somehow to write 500 completely uncomprehensible pages about it. The only thing barely left for philosophy to discuss is ethics, but psychology is stepping up to the plate to make a science out of it, and Sam Harris did a pretty good job at telling us how science can rule ethics.

So when ethics is finally gone and we all admit that logic belongs to math, what will be left for philosophy? Of course, one could keep speculating deepeties that are either trivial or untrue (such as everything could be an illusion) but that is practically diving into theology.

Lastly, it contributed in precisely nothing to humanity. It is the root of retarded systems such as democracy and communism, has been used to justify divine mandate, produced billions of tons of pure garble and even sometimes refuses to submit to formal logic.

tl;dr In 200 years, will we think of philosophy as we now think of alchemy?

inb4trolling, I'm dead serious. To add insult to injury, I'm majoring in psychology.

Given that our measurements of the shape of the universe indicate that it is flat, and thus it's existance and creation can be pretty much explained by quantum fluctuations and modern physics - despite the fact that we have not quite understood the mechanics of the universe - has science disproved the theory of god, or at least offered so much evidence against it that it is malicious to argue otherwise?

I'm majoring in psychology, nut I have no respect whatsoever for psychoanalysis and socio-historic bullshit. I'm looking to get into neuroscience. What do?