/sci/ - Science & Math

So my sociology teacher told me that genes are a fascist construct.

Does /sci/ agree?

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

I am seeking for a well composed periodic table. Would any of you be so kind as to posting some?

It is very important.

So I'm majoring in chemistry and I'm not sure what to minor in... Thinking of having two minors.

Any ideas?

also, pic unrelated.

>>3982481
Pic related.

How do I work this one out?

<div class="math">\int_{0}^{2\pi }\frac{dx}{\sqrt{2-\cos x }}</div>

I do know it's an elliptic integral but I want to get its value (like pi times something). I tried using Residue theorem but I end up with a clusterfuck of fail and AIDS. Any ideas?

awhile back there was a video showing 3 magnetic spinning marbles and something to do with them as a future power source, does anyone have the video?

>>3600940
>you'd have to change the mindset of a whole society or even the world
And your kind of thinking doesn't exactly help, now does it?

Talking about it spreads the awareness.
If showing genuine interest has a chance to ignite the spark in even one in a hundred people, the chances improve.

Being pessimistic and going "It's useless since it's never gonna happen" does the opposite.

>>3584788
Let me guess;
'Bitchbitchbitch food shortages'
'Blahbitchblahblah water scarcity'
'Shitblahbitchbitch energy crisis and climate change'
'Fagshitblahbitchblah poverty'
'Shittybitchfagblah expensive'
'Bitchbitchbitch bitch blah shitty shit fag OTHER THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT'

Make space pay for itself a thousand times over. Chase did a study in the 1970's determining the economic impact of the Apollo program, and they released that for every dollar spent, $14 was returned in terms of how many extra people were inspired to become scientists, engineers, optimism of people investing in ventures that they usually probably wouldn't of, etc.

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.

The picture of Earth from the moon by the Apollo 11 crew started the modern environmental movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_F3pw5F_Pc

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]

http://inventorspot.com/articles/spacebased_solar_cells_could_bea_7507
"A single kilometer-wide band of geosynchronous earth orbit experiences enough solar flux in one year (approximately 212 terawatt-years) to nearly equal the amount of energy contained within all known recoverable conventional oil reserves on Earth today (approximately 250 TW-yrs)," according the report. "This far exceeds the projected 30TW of annual demand in mid-century."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110722132828.htm
>the researchers have found a mass of water vapor that's at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world's oceans combined, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3492919.stm
>Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

>>3527270
>exceed any one human's lifespan
There's a scientific experiment that's been going on since 1927 to measure the viscosity of pitch.

Granted that the experiment is very cheap, it also isn't imperative for long-term survival of the species.

Thinking only in terms of
>one human's lifespan
might be the one thing that kills us in the end. Pic related.

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