/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9102407
I'm not trolling, and I'm not OP.

You made the claim there is a non-zero probability of life. What is that based on?

>>9055730
>being raped =/= turned gay
Are you implying all prison sex is rape?

>damn it's hot today
>muh global warming

>>9015082
>Classical language
>Classics
>Philosophy
>Linguistics
>Russian
>"high math"

>>9004675
>Maybe because I'm not arguing against the recognition of mathematical work but for the fact that prizes are entirely redundant. Good mathematical work is recognised with or without a prize attached to it.
I've already given an example of when they're not redundant: Galois.

>From the start I pointed out that the only sensible measure of merit is posterity: recognition by future generations.
Why is this the 'only sensible measure'? Do you think good mathematical work can't be lost or forgotten?

>No one cares, just like no one in the future will care who will have won the Fields medal next year.
Frederick the Great cared about Euler's prize... and that led Euler to Berlin where he was granted academic freedom and did most of his most important work

>Most Fields medalist will have no lasting impact on the development of mathematics, their mediocre "achievements" ignored by history.
But most already have...?

>>8994070
>The experiment is the limit of what is physically possible
SETI is not an experiment to test the hypothesis of whether there is life outside Earth, only the hypothesis that there is life within 100 light years of Earth. You do understand this right?

> if that's inadequate then ALL experiments are inadequate.
With current technology, sure.

>What can we conclude from 30 years of experiments without finding any evidence what so ever?
That there's no life within 100 light years of Earth... do you not know how to negate such a simple statement?

>What the fuck have you been arguing about then?
Your both misinformed and baseless conclusion that there's no life outside Earth.

>Anon I have a masters degree in physics
Seems like it hasn't done you much good in the cognitive department