/sci/ - Science & Math

Does curving help students or only further hurt them by masking the truth?

Hey /Sci/ Whats the lowest amount of math that an 18 year old person should know so /sci/ wouldn't poke fun at him/her?

>>4812619
>vectorize code

The forced vectorisation of MATLAB/Octave really grinds my gears. It's great most of the time, but in the instances where it's a pain you pay in blood.

>mfw it's night time and I forgot about this until just now

>mfw people don't clap at the end of a guest lecture
>mfw people don't clap at the final lecture in a series

Not an Amerifag but I would like it if people applaud more.

>If you had the money what would you cure?
Energy scarcity and material scarcity.

Undersea mining.
Asteroid mining.
Liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
Space-based solar.
Plasma arc waste disposal.
Use profits to accelerate research in automation.

>>3959896
What happens when you stop dreaming?
You stop looking ahead.
You innovate less.
Your society falls into a funk, usually causing many to be depressed.
I think we should allocate 0.5% to dreams. Don't you?

>>3927485
>Related, how much self improvement will you do with your time, /sci/?
I would do everything.
EVERYTHING.

>>3842836
Realize it is not your ambition that limits you, only the laws of physics.

Capitalism will be transcended by the technologies it helped come to fruition.

We're all on the cusp of the second Renaissance.

I will. And so will you.

The technology:
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/06/spacexs-falcon-heavy-most-powerful-private-rocket-ever/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13506289
http://www.universetoday.com/73536/nasa-considering-rail-gun-launch-system-to-the-stars/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4799369.ece

The will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bIQLiKi3g
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/lord-british-wants-to-take-you-to-space-and-hes-closer-th
an-you-think.ars/3

The time (and one of the main kicks in the ass to get it started):
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029
http://www.ted.com/themes/might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/sierra-sciences-working-towards.html
http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972#
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-biologists-yeast-cells-reverse-aging.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-dna-reverse-premature-aging.html


The economic benefits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile contains more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Objects#Near-Earth_asteroids
>As of May 2010, 7,075 near-Earth asteroids are known,[14] ranging in size up to ~32 kilometers (1036 Ganymed).[16] The number of near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter is estimated to be 500 - 1,000.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/

>>3584189
>radioactive cloud
oh jesus I'm learning so much right now
holy fuck the solar system both loves us AND hates us.

>>3545253

Not op, but fucking love that pic. Thank you.

>>3305311
Lifespan hundreds, if not at least tens of thousands of years long

Witness the progress of humanity much as if an Ancient Egyptian was alive today. Watch as poverty, relatively scarce resources are conquered. Explore the universe. Experience photorealistic all senses virtual reality. Likely have access to suits and replacement bodies that dwarf the Crysis suit in capabilities. A good life. For you and all.

I'll be chilling in subtropical Tharsis Tholus.

>>3240910
>that is such a fucking unattractive trait in a girl that wants to be my wife and mother to my children
Are you me?

>>3240945
>its when you win an arguement with pure logic, then she cries and bitches for hours afterwards.
Oh Jesus I have been there. Pic very related

23 year old virgin here. feels bad, man.

>S 11.5 degrees E
>miles per hour
>Aviation

>>2924679
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyeYq9XI4MM

>>2817409
>>2817309
I feel kind of "warm and fuzzy."

Your banter about capitalism, socialism and communism amuses me /sci/.

Everyone knows technologies such as automation and molecular assemblers will bring a achievable form of post-scarcity rendering most of all of these systems irrelevant.

Hold your head up high, a new and glorious dawn awaits.

"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are." - Niels Bohr

http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna5.htm

http://sifter.org/~simon/AfterLife/

Both are likely. The first is something I am working towards.