/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5007380
there's nothing wrong with "actually wanting to sleep while you're sleeping", but lucid dreaming has in fact been scientifically proven. There's absolutely nothing pseudoscientific about it. Look up Tibetan Buddhists and Dream Yoga. Quantum Jumping, on the other hand, seems more like pseudoscience.

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Hey sci, can you please help me with some chemistry? I did an electroplating experiment with a 6 volt battery, a copper plate piece, copper wire and a quarter. "Write the two half-reactions that occur in this electroplating process. Be sure to include the states of the elements or ions."

Bumping for great justice.

/sci/, not a regular here by any means. Wanted to run this by you because I need a semi-objective opinion that isn't someone who knows me already.

I'm 27. When I was 18 I went to a decent State University and got an Undergraduate Degree in English and when I got out, an MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) with an English concentration. Normally this is a degree used to teach High School (I was and still am Teacher Certified for 6-12 English at the Master's Level) but I decided to teach low-level college courses to have more autonomy and academic freedom.

I Adjuncted for roughly 3 years at a local community college and it was fun while it lasted, but as anyone who knows what an Adjunct is - the pay and workload were very irregular, and I wasn't able to parley it into a full time job as a Tutoring / Writing Specialist even though I was successful in the classroom. Eventually I had to find a standard office job because I couldn't make ends meet on such an irregular pay schedule.

So here I am at a job I absolutely loathe - working in Risk Management at an Insurance Consulting firm. I could always teach High School, but I liken that to prison with the amount of regulations they place on what you do and say in the classroom. I am thankfully debt free on the count of some kindly funding from another source, but the lure has been there to return to college. I've always entertained the idea of getting something technical rather than pile on my already heaping arts background.

What do you think /sci/? Am I too old to go back and study something like Biochem from stage one? What could I do with a BS in Biochem? (because getting an MA afterwards would be contingent on money I don't have - I'd be getting loans to go back this time.) The material doesn't scare me. What scares me the most is winding up with a mountain of debt on the way out and not many more job prospects than when I started.

>>4020035
I am. I'd appreciate them calling me out on it if they actually contributed to the discussion worth a damn.

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Alright Wi/sci/rds! Give me the math governing of this jumping kitty.

Question, /sci/;

If alien civilizations were to come to earth, is it more likely for them to have hostile or benign intentions toward us? I understand that the likely hood of such an event is very small, but forget that. IF IT DID, would they wanna be buddies, or would they exterminate us like algae infesting the giant swimming pool that is earth?

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>>3786952
>strong AI
I would tend to disagree.
I reckon that you could send up relatively basic mining robots with a plasma gasification unit onto an asteroid. The robots mine the rock, chuck it into the PGU which then vaporizes it all into its constituent gases which are then centrifuged apart from each other and used in molds brought along with the robots to produce relatively low efficiency solar panels. I wouldn't imagine starting up such a project would cost more than 5 billion throughout its entire duration.

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Greetings /sci/
I'm a first time EL wire user, and although i know how to adjust the length of the wire and have soldered everything correctly, i am now left with a bunch of excess wire that i rather not let go to waste. i can solder one end of the wire up to an inverter pretty easily, but the other end is the tricky spot. is it possible to cap the other end without using a specifically designed cap? i was thinking of using heat shrink, but i rather not waste my time and money if it won't work.

help would be greatly appreciated /sci/
posted this on the wrong board the first time.

I'm torn because I want to watch Nye be awesome but CNN is a pile of shit.

Math is tedious.

Science is interesting.

>>2561494
>over fudning at science arting class school fund sciencing

>mfw i couldntve said it better myselve

>>2510453
I'm not a scientist. I just enjoy science.

Also engineers are a pretty cool guys.

>>1894580
Astronomy and quantum mechanics, as of 2010, are vastly inferior to the biomedical sciences in terms of human benefit. Who could even argue?

Modern medicine utilizes mathematics to conduct studies and carry out experiments. It has been very beneficial for human life.

Hi /sci/.

I'm trying to study for my Engineering Probability class, but the professor's homework solutions are incomprehensible, and he's pretty bad at answering our questions. You know, one of those types that's so insanely intelligent that he has a hard time relating concepts to us lesser minds. Nice enough guy though, but anyway...

I've tried googling it, but could any anons out there help me find the solutions manual for the book "Probability Concepts in Engineering, 2nd Ed." by Alfredo Ang and Wilson Tang?

>>1633512

The rocket doesn't have to last the entire way there, once we send it out and the rocket does finally fail the momentum would be enough to finish the trip.

Anything in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force

Thats not wrong is it?