/sci/ - Science & Math

Is a PhD even worth it if I have zero interest in academia?

>>11205777
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

Why don't asteroid mining firms cut their teeth on satellite salvage? It's literally small asteroids that are already highly refined and near earth.

>one satellite flies past telescope
>REEEEE END OF THE SKY REEEEE MUNSTRONOMY REEEEE
>religious fanatics literally storm construction sites to prevent telescopes being built
>RADIO FUCKING SILENCE

Are they right?
https://youtu.be/WSKi8HfcxEk

What advantage does SLS have over an identical design that replaces the core and SRBs with a F1B stage?
>5 F1B
>ICPS
>Orion

You step on a snail. There's a blinding flash of light. You're sitting in front of Congress. The year is 2010. Constellation has been scrapped and you are asked for a design to replace it. DIRECT is being pushed, but somehow you know that story already. You sketch on a napkin what NASA should work towards to replace Shuttle. What do you sketch?

What if we used genetic engineering to direct all the major species on the planet towards having larger/more sophisticated brains and uplift them into society

what if there are geneticists right now trying to do that

Hello Anons of sci, I have a question regarding planets and I didn’t want to start a new thread just for one little questions so I figured here would be the most relevant.
Anyway my question is; how does having no tilt effect a planet with a 208.000km equatorial circumference

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I'm aphantasic and I was butthurt over it for a while but realized I traded that for the ability to speak in music so whatever

philos- i mean scientifically, of course

Brainlet question here. Has anyone tried to feed a neural network a bunch of math to see if it can work out previously unsolved problems?

>>9700248
>what is 0/0?
we just dont know

When will the US finally use metric units in everyday life?

>>8326826
have you ever seen a penguin in real life? No, they aren't real because the south pole doesn't exist. Flightless birds can't exist! They wouldn't be birds if they couldn't fly! Antarctica is a myth created by global warming conspirators to steal money from people.

>>8315105
We just don't know

Is there an evolutionary or biological reason that people have specific fetishes?