/sci/ - Science & Math

Person x: [Legitimate science question here]
Person y: Are you fucking retarded? Go get a job even a slightly intelligent 8th grader would know that.

It is for this lack of humility and understanding that has given me the pavement to walk along out of here and leave for good. I'm tired of it.

Science is about learning and understanding. It doesn't matter if you know the question's answer intuitively, it has still yet to be discovered by someone who may not have reached that thought yet. I am absolutely appalled at the rather lack of understanding by a forum that discusses science and mathematics. If you truly understood what it is you were studying, you would be quick to realize that there is no stupid question or statement.

First off, don't state something as factual if you are even slightly uncertain. This triggers the anger brought about in someone who cannot control themselves and lash out because it is contrary to what they think they know. Try "I think...". Maybe it will open a good-hearted discussion as opposed to an ego battle.

Even if the question is deemed absurd to yourself, try answering it to the best of your ability, even if it is conceived silly and disconnected. Make it connected and argue appropriately with the purpose of reaching a conclusion among one another by reason, not because you want to win an argument.

I find this sort of behaviour rampant among all forums on 4chan. This sort of behaviour also leads to wars; I suspect that if the world shifts to a paradigm of science and understanding, there will continue to be wars. Look at how some of these people in here senselessly badger another with insults. It's not hard to miss

There isn't a stupid question. I hope you understand this and take your ego and cut it up into one million pieces.

>>3589262

How does this grab you?

Explain what?

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>>2316553

sup

Shit son, the moon doesn't even stay the same size throughout the month.

>>2225750

You'd be surprised at the ingenuity of astronomers in performing valid experiments without pulling the universe into a tiny laboratory. Take for example the M100 supernova, or the Jupiter-quasar experiment.

I can't speak for sociology, but if it cannot do the same it may be because it is not a hard science.

>a hypothesis to me can occur at any point in the process
>prove a hypothesis

I do not believe that you grasp the scientific method as well as you think you do.

You start with an objective. "I want to find out what causes my tallywhacker to curve to one side."

You move to the initial observation. "I whack off on that side all the time. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?" (this is not a hypothesis at this point, which is where you seem to be getting confused)

Then you research. "Which tissues, if any, could be affected by this in the necessary manner?"

Then you research some more. "Which way do you hang and what hand do you use?"

If you discover a possible cause and a correlation, THEN you can form a hypothesis. "Regularly whacking off on one side could preferentially stretch this soft tissue, leading to a permanent list or curvature."

Now you must perform an experiment, and giving up on devising one because it's "too much trouble" is not acceptable. Just because formulating one is not an easy task for you does not mean it cannot be done or should be omitted. You could hire volunteers and have them attempt to alter their curvature over a period of time using the principles your hypothesis predicts, for example.

Check this shit out.

I have a 22MB animated gif of a rover moving across the surface of mars.

Obviously too big to upload here, so have a moon instead.

>>1033077
Isn't it freaky? like the far side took most of the pummeling from meteoroids and shit. Makes sense really. This gif freaks me out more. You never get to see the moon being pulled by the Sun and the Earth in time lapse.