/sci/ - Science & Math

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Retard
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Guys cool:

Phil Plait (Slate's Bad Astronomer) doesn't think they're related: https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer

Note especially: 12 hours is a long way at 8 km/sec, so this object in Ruissia was on a very different orbit than 2012 DA14.

and also: Also, apparently moving east-to-west tho I can’t say for sure. Anything on the orbit of DA14 would be moving south-to-north.

Obviously info is still pretty thin, and this article seems pretty speculative. I'd wait a few hours before jumping to any conclusions.

I suggest you go to this link to read the dispute against Dr. Richard's ban which was just given moments ago. He was apparently banned for advertising, but in the link you'll truly see the meaning of his "advertising"


I think it's safe to say that i can speak for all of /sci/ when i say he deserves to be unbaned ASAP.

>EDIT: He wrote the dispute on a website that's blocked, so i'll just post what he said directly

ITT: Science as America's savior.

>Only citizens with degrees in Math and Science can vote. Granted, isn't hard to receive a bachelor's degree in any field in the group, but it also keeps a lot of idiots from voting.
>Citizens with math and science degrees receive some type of governmental incentive (tax deductions, loans, etc.).
>Take money out of Social Security and Defense and put them in scientific organizations.
>News stations required to appropriate a given amount of time to scientific discovery. This is as opposed to hours of political bullshit, public interest stories, or news about how some athlete or actor fucked a stripper.
>College level Calculus, college level Chemistry, college level Physics, and college level Biology all mandatory for high school graduation. I'm tired of extremely low standards.

Give me one reason why any of these would not be good. This of course would be good for any other country, with specifics relative to each country's social order.

Hey, /sci/. I'm not a scientist or anything, but I am an incredibly intelligent philosopher.

I propose that we can prevent our solar system from ever being destroyed by a Big Crunch or any other galactoid disaster by constructing a large shell around said solar system, made from a titanium-lead alloy. This will protect the solar system (and, by extension, Earth) from space radions and asteroid dust.

I haven't worked out the exact proportions for the shell, but I'm in the process of doing so.

What do you think, /sci/? As I said, I'm no scientist, so I would appreciate your insight.

Hey guys, I have a question, please take a serious look at it:
Since quantum physics and general relativity seem to contradict each other..what if:
Is it possible that, because our understand of quantum mechanics is not fully understood, that it does in fact agree with how things move about at the big levels, and that we simply haven't figured out how yet?

Furthermore, is it also possible that our understanding of it to be 'probabilities' instead of action and reaction, is merely a result of also not understanding it enough to figure out what really goes on? I believe insufficient information leads to not truly knowing what a particle is doing.
Kinda like how dna mutation is known as random, but in reality its a set amount of change at the molecule level due to various radiation present.

Theoretically, if a planet was large enough.. could its moon have a moon? would it be called a moon? enlighten me.