/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4995196
Some people just don't seem to comprehend that.
I feel bad for people like this... such as the friend I mentionned in >>4995191

Enjoy your uselessness, brotha ;)

thank you for this, anon
brought tears to my eyes

maybe there is hope, after all...

>>4939946
>>4939923
My niggas

>>4897500
Magnets. That's what it all comes down to.

How amazing is humanity to have made it so far?
Think about our leading up to this point man... gives me chills...

(Ignoring 90% of population, of course, otherwise it's just depressing looking at how further head we could've been without them, but then again, is that not the 10%'s fault for not implementing better education and not being greedy fuckers? I digress.)

The point is, a computer, as the name implies, is simply an electrical counting machine. From thereon, it was built upon, and I believe you can imagine how the rest shapes up.

>>4863804
>enhance space travel
>solve waste disposal
>stimulate economy: transport
>awesome
>infinite possibilities!
>physics experiments

why haven't we funded this yet?

>>4783499
Even better, thanks

Mad Scientist, as a long-time lurker of /sci/, and a long-time admirer of your efforts, I say you should go. You seem to love scientific research for the sake of science, and you seem like the kind of person who would fit an antarctic research position perfectly.

Go for it.

bump

>>4017818
>first space mission, travel 700 million kilometers to a terrestrial planet
I'm fucking jelly of their space program.

>>3899048
Oh god
That was fantastic.

>>3898949
If you have the technology to create self-replicating space probes chances are you're not far from replicating entire starships and O'Neill cylinder colonies.

>>3857007
I don't know about his first one, but...
>remaking video purely off brainwaves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-video/8782271/Scientists-map-images-from-human-brain-for-
first-time.html

>and practically digitizing consciousness is still inconceivable.
Crawl before you walk. Colonel Coffee tells me that a nematode has been mind uploaded, can't find a site supporting this so...

>Computers possessing the "processing power" of the human brain are too prohibitively expensive for anyone other than an oligarch to obtain one.
ITT: Opinions of the future of computers in the 1970's

>>3834208
Orbital solar mirrors

OR

Infrared laser from Mercurial orbit

In our own backyards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>At 1997 prices, a relatively small metallic asteroid with a diameter of 1 mile contains more than $20 trillion US dollars worth of industrial and precious metals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Objects#Near-Earth_asteroids
>As of May 2010, 7,075 near-Earth asteroids are known,[14] ranging in size up to ~32 kilometers (1036 Ganymed).[16] The number of near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter is estimated to be 500 - 1,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%286178%29_1986_DA
>Asteroid 1986 DA achieved its most notable recognition when scientists revealed that it contained over "10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum", or an approximate value at the time of its discovery of "$90 billion for the gold and a cool trillion dollars for the platinum, plus loose change for the asteroid's 10 billion tons of iron and a billion tons of nickel."[3]

>>3660530
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask/issues/38/38s_NASA_past.html
>The Apollo program was expensive, but it has been estimated that, for every dollar spent on the Apollo program, the nation has received nine dollars in benefits from new technologies.

Similar benefits would come from a Mars mission. Not to mention the millions of young people, not only in the United States but across the world that would get excited and interested about science and then head into science and engineering fields, adding their inventive genius to economies and innovation.

>>3494561
>non-compulsory education
I hate school with a burning passion but I think this is fully retarded. From your concerns I reckon education just needs a whole revamping.

Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OVlfAUPJg

>>3270862
Well in that case, I'm off to sleep. Continue reporting and fueling my tears electrolysis fuel cell, I expect to find a B& page in the morning.

>>2968445