/sci/ - Science & Math

>my car's tires need to filled to 35 psi
>MSLP is 14.7 psi
>space is 0 psi
>the difference between my tires and earth's atmosphere is more than the difference between earth's atmosphere and space

>>11553692
thanks for this

>>10597584
>Eating shitty food makes you more likely to get sick

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>>9644167
>There are several posters in this thread who have seen multiple people die
I'm actually less high than usual and somehow this is still kind of blowing my mind.

>>9590704
>Practicing something for more than 10 years will make you good at it

>>9344394
>Its prettyun disputable that a lot of the problems with modern American education is the anti-intellectualism among the youth stemming from urban black culture taking over the mainstream

maybe, i don't know, stop glorifying their shitty culture? ever think of that?

Currently writing a sci-fi novella where two naval forces engage in a massive dogfight. Both have nuclear weapons in the form of fighter-to-fighter missiles, high yield orbital mines, torpedoes, and cluster bombs.

I chose nuclear weapons for the first draft because they were the first thing that came to mind when I thought "I want some big boomy things, some little boomy things, and I want flashy, grand potential destruction by conventional terms".

The technology used by either side is a more developed form of conventional kinetic weaponry.

One side uses large caliber rounds with multiple effects, the other fire's bolts of (mostly ineffective) plasma.

I was approaching the end of the first draft when the thought came to me, "Alright, so these ships burn up from the burning gases released, so incendiary rounds are alright. How does the plasma leave the barrels? Maybe it fires out from a magnetic field generated in the barrel like a gauss gun? And nukes. Okay, and I wrote them as releasing shockwaves. But space lacks an atmosphere. I like the shockwaves though."

I've thought about specifying the nuclear weapons as using nuclear fusion, but I'm still not sure as to what exactly can create powerful shock waves in the vacuum of space that parallels the blow-back affect in an atmosphere'd environment that would justify using explosive weaponry.

>>9049903
Holy fucking shit.

>>9047572

>if two functions are holomorphic on a connected open set D and the functions are equal on a subset of D that has a limit point inside D, then the functions are equal on the entirety of D

>if f(1/n)=g(1/n) for all n then f=g everywhere

>>8847309
The sky is actually just one giant display if we build a tower high enough it would break through this giant screen and the world would collapse on itself. The sun, moon and stars everything we see in the sky is just an illusion. N O T H I N G R E A L L Y E X I S T S

>TFW you realize time is relative and is a concept created by men

>mfw learning about the Standard Model

Particle physics is fuckin neat

Do you guys think anything smaller than elementary particles exists?

If there are infinite multiverses, does the chance of life on other planets out there increase or decrease? is the drake equation still relevant?

>>7897448
Yes, obviously your feelings trump scientific reasoning and evidence.

>>7423658
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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