/sci/ - Science & Math

well, I'm slaw, so I wouldn't be alive

Wouldn't work. Motion oscillates through the atoms using alternating compression/decompression. This oscillating mechanism will travel nowhere close to the speed of light; closer to the speed of sound really, and you should stop posting on this board bro.

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>>3466318
>Nuclear war

>>3070867
If he did, brilliant.

Either way, the number is largely irrelevant. I've seen the product of public schooling and I've seen what "elite" education produces. Though native ability plays a role, there is no real fundamental gap between the children of the wealthy and the rest as far as raw ability goes. The real gap is in how this ability is focused, nurtured, and directed. Primary school was about foundations, teaching you to think and ask the right questions. A basic layer of knowledge was also laid down. Who else had to get a 90% on labeling the world's countries on a blank map in order to pass 5th grade geography? Who else was educated about ethnic groups in said countries and their traditional tensions? What HS has most students starting in Algebra II/Trig as freshmen? By the time I hit HS, we were given something of a speech in our development class (yes, it was called that) to introduce us to the harsh reality. Not everyone can be in charge. It's fine to become an employee but it's better to be the employer. Not everyone is meant to be in charge. Regardless of education, the cream rises to the top, but proper education can help prepare the cream for its eventual role.

>mfw a rich Hausa Nigerian started off in calculus as a freshman in HS, schooled us complacent white folk into doing better
>>3070917
One data set and you're claiming victory.

>>2985400
Hell yes he is. Reading the Illuminatus! Trilogy at 14 years old was one of the best things I could ever have done for my developing little mind. I dove full bore into his other books and wound up with a small library (6 books) on tantric sex thanks to his crazy ass. My mom found them when I was 15, told my dad, and they laughed their asses off at me.

The pure awe in my dad's eyes when he realized why the next door neighbor's cougar friend and my college girlfriends behaved the way they did around me was priceless.

Seriously though, it's not exactly scientific reading by any stretch of the imagination but it is nonetheless excellent reading: both the fiction and nonfiction. >>2983399 here

>>2944831
>mfw when, as a biochemist, I got laid more than almost any of my frat brothers.

Also, bitches respect my mad hormone and neurotransmitter manipulation skillz.

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>>2911022
Yup, viruses also can use RNA. The distinction can go even further. Sometimes, a virus carries along some of its own special cellular machinery, sometimes it doesn't. Take herpesviruses. They're circular DNA viruses that carry their own little molecular gizmos for replicating their special circular DNA. If you can disrupt the doo-dads that make the circle, you can prevent the virus from replicating. This is how all antivirals that work against Herpesviruses work.

Sorry to the hardcore types for being generalized, but I figure that not everyone here has taken enough virology/molecular biology/pathogenesis to understand the highly technical stuff.

>>2516686

>russian action
clickety clack jiggle the slide back
pour vodka down the barrel
to clean off the mud tracks
dry off the handle, hold your sac
pop in the mag, rata tat tat

>>2275601
>145 Billion Dollars
HHHNNNNGGGGG

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