/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4812378
>Classes on critical thinking,analysis of argument (logical fallacies etc.) are compulsory.

Fucking this. How much would politics change then?

>>4177836
>mfw I did neither TAing nor any internships and still got into Oxford

But then, undergrad TAing in the UK is pretty much unheard of besides small scale buddy schemes or whatever.

>Is it true that engineers from western countries are usually much better at engineering than Chinese engineers? If so, why is this?
I haven't heard of this. Might be on average, but China has over a billion people. They have a lot of engineers to pick from.

>I've read that China has been having many problems with their high-speed railway and that they have been using engineers from Europe to help them out.
Well China's only been doing high-speed rail in the past decade or so, and Europe has engineers experienced in implementing high-speed rail. I'm not surprised they asked for help, it would be the responsible thing to do.

>>3860779
If the United States were to sink money into NASA for this, it would help a load with the current status of the US and its manufacturing base. Any modern electronics would severely drop in price if it's using any of the metals dumped on the market. Aluminium used to be rare as hell as little as 100 years ago, more expensive than gold. And now it's so ubiquitous in industry! Abundance of elements stimulates the creation of new, profitable and still cheap inventions that previously would not be able to take off because some element they used was too precious. And while NASA is at it, study LFTRs a lot more for commercial power production. Electricity prices dropping also helps industry.

>>3735451
Email me a four character (letters and numbers) code along with some random word to the email in the email field and if 15 years from now everything's gone almost exactly as I laid it out I'll arrange an interview for you to be trained as a test pilot/someone that works on/in live, in space, spacecraft. This goes for everyone else on /sci/.

>>3030682
>some of us would honestly rather do fascinating, fulfilling challenging work for pretty good pay instead of soulless trash on wall street for great pay.

You are good person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU&feature=relmfu

Really good TED talk involving children who when left up to their own devices can teach themselves excellently.

>>2416859
I had this mental image of a ship from Earth landing on the moon and then being refueled, and then lifting off once more.

Utopia is Greek for 'no place.' Somehow people started describing any systems or visions of the a much better future as 'utopia'.

Anyway, if you want something done, do it yourself.

I'd link you to the futuretimeline.net page of immersive virtual reality in 2039 but their webhost is shitting up.

Also,
>but I'm not hopeful that will be around in my lifetime (60-80 years from now).
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029
http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes

This looks like it could be cool.

Sup /sci/?

I was always very terrible at mathematics. In high school I only made it as far as Geometry. I was supposed to get advanced algebra, but I didn't pass the states standardized testing and when I re-took it they were late on getting the scores back (I actually did well on it the second time) and got placed in a remedial class because of it.

So now It's one year after graduation and I've pretty much forgotten all math you would never use in any practical way and I'm gonna go to a community college for my first two years, and I need some help for the placement tests.

Just give me some of the basics and formulas of what I absolutely need to know to not look like a complete jackass and at least get placed one behind math 101.