/sci/ - Science & Math

We're alive in the most exciting time to be alive so far

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE

Not counting Arab spring and the possible giant global upheaval as sociological and psychological leaps, though they'll probably wind up being that.

Still waiting on a stable fusion reaction.

>>3789198
>dat feel

>>3789206

Link please.

what about that all purpose antiviral drug

Organize your post better, why is everything spaced, instead of just separations of points?

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>>3789215

Was afraid it wouldn't all fit in one post.

>AIDS will soon be cured
Brace for the worst famines in the history of Africa and Europe being flooded by refugees.

>>3789180
>http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/05/study-researchers-crack-the-mystery-of-aids-immunity/

Before someone get really happy, remember you still have to use condoms to not have a kid or there are others dst other than aids

>>3789220
Then why did you make it longer? Question still stands, more curious than ever, in fact.

>>3789236

I fear I am misunderstanding you, though if I could edit my OP I would at this point. I am afraid I can not however attain your standards. You win, good sir.

Don't forget SpaceX's first cargo mission to the ISS is this year

>>3789180

>2011: The year when science took a giant leap forward"
>Posts link from 2010

>>3789180
OP, don't forget this shit: >>3787539

I heard about some kid creating a cold fusion reactor in his garage somehow. It was all over the news one day about five to seven years ago. I haven't been able to find any info on it though.

>>3789211
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo&feature=player_embedded
http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

>>3789252

There is ONE link from 2010, and I did mention that the reason I posted that one is because I couldn't find the one from this year where they said they made even more discoveres making a cure possible. But here's a link to a story where they tried the cure they designed, and it fucking works:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/05/16/apparent-immunity-gene-cures-bay-area-man-of-aids/

We are almost at the singularity.

12/21/2012

http://news.discovery.com/human/hiv-used-to-fight-cancer-110914.html
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1103849

Scientists use a modified HIV to attack and kill cancer cells. Curing two patients of lymphocytic leukemia.

>>3789279
>cured cancer
>patient now has AIDS

Oh, science!

>>3789279

Curing cancer isn't so simple, as one cancer can differ greatly from the other. Still, that's great. We've been finding cure after cure, which is why the mortality rate for many types of cancers has been going steadily down.

>>3789287

We live in an era where a vast network of electronic information undreamed of only a few decades ago connects people all over the world. Phones are smaller than Star-Trek communicators. Militaries are now utilizing combat robots. Cybernetic prosthetic limbs that respond to mental commands are slowly becoming more common place. Now we might even have cracked the speed of light.

And we STILL do NOT have any fucking JETPACKS!

How about that Leukemia shit?

>>3789313
yes we do

>inb4 I Am Legend, Rise of the Planet of the Nigs and Children of Men scenarios

>>3789313

You would have crashed your stupid jetpack anyway.

>>3789180
>The virus carries DNA from humans, mice and cows, a virus that infects woodchucks, and one that infects cows.

>The patient becomes a bioreactor
>The patient's face when

Here's another really big one that just happened.

6. Neuroscientists were able to construct accurate visual images by measuring bloodflow through the visual cortex and using an MRI to make voxels out of it.

http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

A GLORIOUS YEAR FOR SCIENCE

>>3789313

>Wants an explosive, volatile tank of fuel and a combustible engine strapped to his back
>2011

Get the fuck back to 1980 you troglodyte.

>>3789279
>cure cancer
>with AIDS

Why does this sound like an advice cave johnson macro?

>>3789356
>doesn't build his jetpacks from safe, gravity repelling matter.
>2011
realy, if the egiptions could do it, why dont we?

>1. Heisenberg uncertainty principle bypassed

You know this means we'll have quantum computers within twenty years, right?

>>3789373
Biologist here, I dont follow physics or compsci too much. What exactly is a quantum computer? I mean, how can atomic particles process information?

>>3789313
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBndcBjQFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im1iNq02Kz0

http://youtu.. be/2gcurwcPs3U?t=44s

(sorry about the space in the link, but apparently 4chan thinks it is rude for whatever reason)

>>3789389

Right now, computers use binary, which is 0s and 1s (no and yes). With a quantum computer, you could have a state which is neither 0 or 1. This would mean computers that are retardedly more powerful than what we have right now.

>cure for aids
well shit, i was just hoping aids would wipe all the niggers out

I remember an article where lab rats were fed something that seemed to repair telomeres and actually stimulated brain growth and brought color back into their coats. It was for all practical purposes reversing aging. They thought that the ability to regrow brain tissue would be be a possible treatment for Alzheimer's.

>>3789416
>incredulous face

>>3789332

>>3789442

Except that hormone had some really bad side-effects if IIRC.

>>3789445

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

>>3789416

I thought it wasn't "neither 0 nor 1", but instead just having a lot of OTHER states (somewhere around 32?) adding billions of combinations for every byte.

>>3789457

Pretty much. Either way, what prevented us from doing that properly was the uncertainty principle. And now we can bypass it.

>>3789416
No, quantum computers are not necessarily more powerful than traditional computers.

The biggest difference is that they are able to better solve certain types of equations.

The biggest impact from them will be in regards to cryptography, as a quantum computer would be able to quickly solve many of the types of encryption we use today.

>>3789457
A quantum computer could very well have a continuum of states. But that would require very complicated technology.

Most quantum computing currently just takes advantage of the superposition of multiple concurrent states.

>>3789482

OP here, I couldn't really give you the details, I'm a psychology student, not computer science. Just spilling out what info I have.

>>3789457

As I understand it it meant you could have two additional states. 0 with a superposition of 1 or 1 with a superposition of 0.

>>3789457
>>3789506
it has an infinity of states, one qubit would need an infinite amount of normal bits to represent it, thats why its so powerful.

Just giving this one last bump before I go to bed.

>>3789279
>Scientists use a modified HIV to attack and kill cancer cells. Curing two patients of lymphocytic leukemia.
>infect patient with HIV
>cures cancer

>cancer
>take costly treatments for a year or two and hope you live
>or just live with it and die peacefully

>HIV
>have to buy into medication for the rest of your life to keep it more controlled


I COULD ONLY WONDER WHO WAS FUNDING THESE SCIENTISTS

>>3789564
lol

>>3789267
>>3789258
has anyone noticed this?

>>Cyborg implants and shit.

i like you as a person for formulating that sentence that way

don't forget the cure to aging

We're still just seeing the first glimmers of light coming from the impending technological singularity.
Unless people manage to destroy the world or something, we're going to see unimaginable technologies in our time.

why does no-one mention this:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/new-drug-can-treat-almost-any-viral-infection-cold-flu
-killing-infected-cells

>>3789708
because we don't have autism, and thus only feel the need to mention something once.

>>3789206
>>3789265

>>3789715
>we don't have autism

No, we do.

>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/06/02/science-heisenberg-uncertainty-steinberg.html

wasn't as cool as it sounded

>>3789720
Yes, we dont.

>>3789276
>singularity
>occurring in 2012

Let's not be ridiculously optimistic

>12/21

Or insane, in your case.

This is a good year for science indeed. Also keeps me more motivated to continue to study. ;)

If what the experiment is shown the be true, then this also unlocks possible solutions to black hole theories, because much of the currant models of physics brake down when matter falls past the event horizon (because it would be moving FTL).

This is probably just as important time in scientific history as when humans found out that earth is not in the center of the universe. New laws of nature will be discovered. It also stimulates the imagination that maybe one day we will be able to transfer information faster than the speed of light...which is useful for interstellar travel.

yea but aliens

>The Mirror
Gonna be needing a better source,OP.

>>3789331
>didn't mention holocaust

it'll be a holocaust

it'll be America

>2011: The year when science took a giant leap forward

That's nice...

Will 2014 be the year we get our genetically engineered catgirls?

>>3789276
I thought that was supposed to be close to 2045

>>3789793

I think he's referring to a bunch of cultists who mixed 2012 with the Singularity.

>>3789800
ahhhh

captcha: ulargia World;

>>3789785
I strongly oppose the creation of catgirls. I am allergic to cats and non-chimera human women are just fine.

>>3789752
>because much of the currant models of physics brake down when matter falls past the event horizon (because it would be moving FTL)

you obviously don't even know what event horizon is so shut the fuck up

Also, that heisenberg thing in OP? Nothing revolutionary. They mention it even in the article, that this doesn't violate uncertainty relations in any way. I was quite surprised it got published in Science. Just a further proof that Science is getting shittier every year.

>>3789785

Hopefully.

>>3789848
I think that if we had the knowledge to create catgirls, curing allergy wouldn't be a problem.

>>3789785

I remember shit like that from Batman Beyond

treating it like tattoos or piercings

I'd be down

i'll still be posting on 4chan and spending 10+ hours per day on the computer when all this crap gets around to happening

caring levels at minimum

I kinda wish I'd been born twenty or thirty years later. It's not so much death that scares me, it's missing out on all the crazy shit science will do in the future.

>>3789848

>I strongly oppose the creation of catgirls. I am allergic to cats

There was a manga like that... The main character gets a catgirl, but he is very allegic to her.

>implying AIDS, Alzheimer's and MS will ever be cured.
Haha, good one. Maybe in a hundred years, but not anytime soon. Those articles are probably just huge exaggerations, just like articles that came out years ago promising the same things.

>Every year

>The year science took a great leap forward


ftfy

>>3789905
Really, I can't see myself being attracted to any chimera-women. I love lizards, snakes, fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, etc. but it's not like I find them attractive in any way. Any of their features on a woman would also be far from attractive.

Now genetically engineered lizards? I'm on board! Komodo dragons with the right temperament and slightly enhanced intelligence to become house pets would be great. I'd also like either a sea turtle or an aquatic monitor (like the mertens) as a dive buddy.

>>3789313

Yes we do. We've had them for years. They are just too expensive and impractical to be put to commercial use.

>>3789938

>skeptical of catgirls
>likes snakes

Could I interest you in a Lamia, perhaps?

/v/ seemed to fall for that lamia in the porn game recently. Lamia porn is pretty popular these days for some reason.

Add this to the list:

http://m.gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

>>3790085
No thank you. While I appreciate the effort, it's just not an actual woman. Besides, there's something undeniably sexy about attaching ankle restraints to a woman and using a leg spreader to force them open.

>>3790114
O_O

Imagine, youtube videos...top researchers....explaining....with a window to their imaginations....

It takes so many of the failings in communication away, that Feynman talks about here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y


>mfw

guys 2012 is approaching

fuck your shit, I TOLD YOU MAN, I TOLD YOU

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20110594-264/physics-shocker-neutrinos-clocked-faster-than-light/

Say hello to the UNIVERS

Also there's that machine that could potentially record dreams. They make them watch hundreds of youtube videos, measure their brain activity during specific parts, and then recreate dreams by matching the brain activity to the videos.

>>3790274

Oh, like THAT'LL end well.

You all laughed at me when I said we will go beyond the speed of light one day

WELL LOOKIE HERE I LAUGH AT YOU
HAHAHAHAH

never put faith in science, it's being proven and disproven and reproven all the time.

>>3790316
Yeah, science got disproved BY SCIENCE.

There are no facts in science, and there is no proving or disproving. Ever. That's the point.

>>3790320
Can we go outside the universe?

we will one day...