/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12471617
This but Unironically.

How the FUCK do I find atmospheric density by altitude? Every online calculator I use limits the altitude below the value that I need to find, which is 364,566 ft.

>>9352416
>>going into any field should be based purely on interest, and not potential job market or future income
How many lives were ruined by this one? Reporting in.

Its fucking over for us as far as a normal life on this planet goes.
We are already seeing the feedbacks kick in such as increasing wildfires, loss of Arctic albedo, methane seeps in the arctic and in shallow ocean clathrates. At 2 degrees, which we will reach by 2025, there will be no stopping hundreds of millions of dead. Worldwide crop failures, infastructure collapsing due to heat, rising sea levels killing off farmland. If you live in certain places you might as well be dead already. Even in first world countries, times will get tough. By 2100, the current standard of living in somewhere like Paraguay will be considered first world due to the consequences.

Geo-Engineering is the only thing that can delay complete extinction. And even then, it won't happen until millions have already perished, until life have been unchangeable altered from the path we wanted for this species. Economies will crash, poverty will skyrocket. Even geoengineering can't completely stop things like rising sea levels. We will never become a space faring race. Never achieve fusion. Never see a new Timesplitters game. Never meet aliens. Our 'future' is a few centuries of ever increasing geoengineering, becoming less and less effective as the feedbacks overwhelm the amount of aerosols we can pump into the atmosphere. Eventually the warming will resume faster than ever and the planet will see another Permian extinction.

If you are under the age of 30, you have a right to be fucking furious about this. The scum generation before ours and the one before that has doomed us. They knew about this in the fucking 1970's and did nothing. As soon as we have a blue ocean event, mark my word, I will become the Elliott Rodger of climate change. Not a single coal burning world roasting slut will withstand my assault.

>>8628077
Oh also, OP here but I forgot a smidge

>be doing undergrad mini research with old professor of mine

>we're asymptotically analyzing and trying to rework notoriously poor algorithms (bubble sort, etc)

>find some cool shit and new applications in meteorology in which bubble sort is actually useful

>write the whole deal up with lots of maths and cool shit in a pdf

>get it pushed for publishing, still waiting from our uni's (((money handlers))) if it's worthwhile or not


>call my parents in glee because it's a big deal to me
>they don't understand the utility or significance of getting something published
>treat it like something a little kid can do because of the stigma surrounding college campuses (cry babies, etc), so they dismiss any major successes i have


REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE