/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15184751
I better be able to scream SAVE ME NIGGERMAN on public TV when it happens.

>>12412906
Bros, be honest with me. I'm going to be 30 when I finish my degree. Is that too late to get a quant trading job? I hear the work is really stressful and the median age of traders is really low because of that.

>>12181071
>Starliner has all female crew roster
>surviving Shuttle engineers throw quiet "not the most dead women in orbit anymore" party

>>11019139
>friend struggles to find postdocs despite having a really good dissertation that actually advanced the theory
>departments across the country, ours included, are eager to take on new alg geo postdocs even if they already have two or three
When did you realize that academia is a giant circlejerk, and choosing not to work in a prestigious area is essentially choosing not to be a successful mathematician?

Why don't the cells in your body take off and live on their own as unicellular organisms, or smaller multicellular organisms?
Was the transition from unicellular life to multicellular life essentially a suicide pact where everyone goes down with the ship (not counting bacteria which happen to be inhabiting your intestines or other parts of your body at any given time; just your own body's cells)?

>>10790366
>Either the univese is infinite, or it has an end. Both options are horrifying.
Neither are horrifying because you'll die long before that would have any sort of relevance to your own life.
If you're going to worry about something worry about something realistic like all the many severely fucked up diseases you're reasonably capable of waking up with one day. Start noticing your balance feels a little off or there's a twitch in your leg muscles and it could be your immune system attacking your brain giving you multiple sclerosis that'll have you shitting your pants and unable to talk paralyzed in a wheelchair.
Or a slight stomach ache could be the first sign of Ulcerative Colitis where ulcers open up in your intestines and you start shitting blood, mucus, and bile out uncontrollably 20 times a day until you look like a walking skeleton and doctors place you on immunosuppressants where the major side effect of concern is cancer. Or you get toxic megacolon from it first and you either die from fecal matter induced sepsis or survive with an ostomy where a piece of your remaining intestines is pulled through your abdomen to uncontrollably drain liquid shit into a plastic bag for the rest of your life.
Or there's ano-scrotal fistula where your own shit seeps out through abscesses in your skin causing flesh tunnels that result in fecal matter draining into your scrotum causing inflammation and infection with shit and piss leaking out different abscess holes in what's been described as "watering can perineum."
Or Stevens-Johnson syndrome that starts like the flu but then you get a rash all over and your skin dies and falls off your body.
Or even just your run of the mill heart attack, stroke, and cancer cases are all pretty horrifying in themselves.
Disease is EASILY the worst part of living. Not natural disaster and not the harm people cause to each other. Disease.

>>10789421
If anything reproduction benefits your genes, not you (and even that much is debatable since it's not like genes care about being spread far and wide into the future so much as that's the sort of thing natural selection promotes by way of their respective organism's traits not doing that ending in oblivion by definition). Organisms reproduce because of naturally selected instincts, not because they consciously decided it would be to their personal benefit to do so.

can science explain Tarrare?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare

> He travelled France in the company of a band of thieves and prostitutes, before becoming the warm-up act to a travelling charlatan; he would swallow corks, stones, live animals and a whole basketful of apples.

>he agreed to submit to any procedure that would cure his appetite, and was treated with laudanum, tobacco pills, wine vinegar and soft-boiled eggs. The procedures failed, and doctors could not keep him on a controlled diet; he would sneak out of the hospital to scavenge for offal in gutters, rubbish heaps and outside butchers' shops, and attempted to drink the blood of other patients in the hospital and to eat the corpses in the hospital morgue. After being suspected of eating a toddler he was ejected from the hospital.

euthanasia is becoming legal in some places