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final bump

I have no idea what the fuck this is. Is it some kind of relative of the cassowary?

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cassowaries are maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs...
just like chickens and hummingbirds.

How dramatic would it be if one of jupiter's moon were to crash on Jupiter?

Would it be like throwing a small pebble in the ocean, or would the moon explode into smaller fragments as it got closer to the planet and form a ring?

Depends which science. In physics, you'll find that Fortran and C/C++ are the standards, with a number of research groups moving to Java to improve development times. I know of one group which uses Haskell.

Basically everyone should learn R.

Python's overrated. Anything you can do in it, you can do better in some other language. The only advantage is that it's pretty flexible in terms of available libraries.

My group uses Fortran. I tend to use LISP for most things that don't need to be shared with others in the group, do processing and file conversions in Perl, and build anything that requires graphics in Java. R for stats, Octave and Maple for mathy bits, C++ for quick and dirty test code. Currently working on porting our data to a relational database instead of flat files, so it's been a fair bit of SQL and PHP lately, but this is probably atypical.

I recommend C++ as a place to start because it'll give you a more solid foundation for learning other languages than starting with any other will. You want to be doing things object-oriented and functionally. Get Stroustrup's book... it not only teaches the languages, but explains the design decisions behind it, which is something you will not get anywhere else. Next go to some flavour of LISP, and then you're ready to see why Python and Fortran are such shit languages.

Guess what bird this is.

>"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us…. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."

>Edward O. Wilson

Is it possible, take the dna of an extinct animal and then making out what it looked like? Like the color of their skin, their eyes, detailed stuff like that?

Like taking a man's DNA and then somehow using the information to reconstruct a digital image of him.