/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3652838]

>yfw you realize there are billions of different civilizations throughout the cosmos at this very moment

>yfw we find an underground base on Mars with a complete collection of Martian history and their tehcnology of Interstellar travel

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652843]

I hope so, what a day that would be.

[Anonymous No.3652844]

more like we find some fossilized microbes. how could anyone believe mars had sentient life, let alone a civilization.

[Anonymous No.3652850]

We are actually the first civilization to arise in the Universe.

[Anonymous No.3652851]

A civilization of humanoid canines I think so.

[Anonymous No.3652857]

I don't think mars has ever had intelligent life.

[Anonymous No.3652880]

>>3652851
I hope so. Just imagine everything we do, but with dogs.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652890]

>>3652880
>find furries living underground on Mars
>proceed to smack Phobos for terraformation
Sorry Colonel Coffee, no dice.

[Anonymous No.3652895]

>>3652890
physically lol'd at the idea Col. is a furry.

[Anonymous No.3652897]

>>3652850

that would be both awesome and terrifying if true

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652900]

>>3652895
Wait, as in him being transformed into a furry or just him fapping to furry stuff?

I thought the latter was pretty well-established. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.3652903]

>>3652900
...
The latter
is there proof of this?

[Anonymous No.3652907]

>>3652850
I uh....well...oh god.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652908]

>>3652903
He used to post Leopardgirl.jpg quite a lot. Here's some OC from him.

[Anonymous No.3652913]

>>3652908
>furry
I can fap to this
>straight
well, shit.

[Anonymous No.3652914]

>>3652838
Unlikely because that would result in fairly visible artifacts that we could detect. If they underwent a singularity, we might not even exist if they didn't care for other species in the galaxy.
Still, I hold hope that we would find replicators (life) around the universe if we look, but the chances of finding intelligent life close to home are probably small.

[Anonymous No.3652918]

>>3652908
OH GOD GOOGLE AGREES WITH YOU
WHAT THE SHIT COLONEL

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652925]

>>3652918
Personally I don't care about him being a furry, but I'm not hugging his future girlfriend; I'm allergic to cats.

[Anonymous No.3652928]

>>3652918
http://archive.gentoomen.org/cgi-board.pl/sci/thread/1522196

Every time I come here I find out new, horrible things about people I like. Mad Sci is a paedophile! Colonel is a furry!
>>3652925
so do you have any strange fetishes?

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652935]

>>3652928
A couple. Shit, it's the internet. You'll be increasingly hard-pressed to find someone that doesn't.

(Andnoit'snotfurry.)

[Anonymous No.3652939]

>>3652935
I'm guessing you're a necrophile and homosexual hebephile. Only because I can't think of anything in particular I know about you.

[Anonymous No.3652944]

>>3652850

You sure? Because this isn't even where the oldest planets are.

[Anonymous No.3652945]

>>3652939
You should have just said tentacles, practically everyone on the internet likes tentacles.

[Anonymous No.3652948]

>>3652945

I don't like tentacles.

[Anonymous No.3652950]

>>3652945
Now I look he's active on /g/. Octopodic waifu seeming increasingly likely
>>3652948
ohshithe'sgoingcommando.jpg

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652951]

>>3652939
None of the above.

[Anonymous No.3652952]

>>3652948
I like tentacles.

[Anonymous No.3652956]

>>3652918
I think I should take some blame/praise, as I once posted one edited Sagan here. Pic related.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652957]

>>3652928
>Mad Sci is a paedophile!
Nope. Misunderstanding. I don't intend to go into details for I don't want to betray his trust.

>>3652950
Who's active on /g/, me?

[Anonymous No.3652963]

>>3652956
I seriously want to talk to him. He sounds interesting and familiar.
>>3652957
Preliminary googlage says yes. Also, your gamertag is inurdaeswat and you go by eddyking4 on google.

Can you give any information at all on Mad Sci? IIRC he was B& from SA

[Anonymous No.3652965]

>come to /sci/ after a while
>scroll down
>a thread which says there is no life outside of earth
>scroll down further
>this thread
>mfw

But yes, what OP said is a dream of mine aswell.

[Anonymous No.3652969]

>>3652965
mfw i forgot mfw

[Anonymous No.3652980]

>>3652963
shiit, I'm creepy. Sorry.

Genuinely interested in you guys though.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3652981]

>>3652963
>gamertag is inurdaeswat
TD Tharsis, I don't play X360 anymore.
>you go by eddyking4 on google.
I used that username so long ago.

As for Mad Sci I can only say that knowing him as a good friend that he is pretty damned awesome and smear campaigns against him have been caused by people butthurt at him for 'insulting their friends beliefs. Any extra information you want on him he likely won't give and therefore you'd have to ask him yourself.

[Anonymous No.3652984]

Nope. We have received no radio signals, we have seen no evidence of K2 civilisations from our observations of stars, and there has been no visitations to our solar system from an alien species. Any species capable of interstellar travel would definitely be interested in our sun due to it's stable and long burning nature. The odds of life occurring at all are so small that it is surprising it even happened once in the entire universe.

[Anonymous No.3652989]

>>3652981
I have no problem whatsoever with paedophiles. Child molesters, on the other hand. I'll ask him next time he's on.

Edin is a pretty cool name too.

[Anonymous No.3652998]

We are alone. It is our duty to spread life across the cosmos. Unfortunately, it looks like we may destroy ourselves before this happens. The universe will then remain bleak and lifeless, for eternity.

[Anonymous No.3652999]

>>3652984
What do you mean stable and long burning nature?Last time I checked, all stars are like that.

[Anonymous No.3653005]

>>3652999
No, some stars are highly unstable, releasing much more solar flairs and such. Also, in cosmic terms, some stars burn out incredibly fast, while some (red dwarves) burn incredibly slowly.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653006]

>>3652989
>Edin is a pretty cool name too.
Nope, similar though

And he's not a child molester. Or a pedo.

Anyway, how the hell did this convo go from discussion of potential Martian super seekrit alien technology being discovered to furries to shelling our personal information from tripfags?

[Anonymous No.3653014]

>>3653006
Sorry, eddy
http://www.thesocialrev.com/forum/showpost.php?p=393355&postcount=13

[Anonymous No.3653015]

>>3652999
Not that guy, but some stars can have lifetimes as short as ten million years.

And some stars that live tens or hundreds of times as long as Sol, flare too violently and too often for earth-like life to survive.

[Anonymous No.3653016]

>>3653005
Yes, because there aren't bajillions of stars identical to our sun out there.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653022]

>>3653014
Well, my name certainly isn't that anymore. Official name change.

[Anonymous No.3653025]

>>3653016
Yeh, but any K2 civilisation looking to become K3 would highly prize stars like sol as they are easy to harvest energy from. The fact that we have not heard so much as a radio signal implies that there are no advanced civilisations within our galaxy at least.

[Anonymous No.3653030]

>>3653022
Noice.
Well, I'll go and dig through gentoomen for information. Have a nice day.

[Anonymous No.3653036]

>2011
>still using a tripcode

More mindblowing theories.

Sometimes, just sometimes, a hot female comes to /sci/ to ask for help, you never realize it because aspergers.

You can be fairly certain that i'm not the only female that does this.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653041]

>>3653030
You've exposed pretty much all of mine that /sci/ has come across, have fun

CCM is an engima wrapped in a mystery, won't give out a single shred of any evidence about him, and goes under the pseudonym Alex Rosslyn.

Mad Sci is much the same.

[Anonymous No.3653050]

>>3653036
post tits

[Anonymous No.3653051]

>>3653036
Or alternatively most of us are engineers and/or not shallow. And afraid of girls.
>>3653041
So far I have that MS lives within 10 minutes of a forest, on foot. I haven't started on you yet

I aint trying to buttfrustrate you, bro.

[Anonymous No.3653065]

>>3653050
I can't right now.

Also not science.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653066]

>>3653051
Don't worry, I know you aren't. But i'm quite surprised someone on /sci/ hasn't started shitposting digging through other sites going LOL LOOK INURDAES DID SOMETHING A BIT DUMB

I'm fine if anyone does that, it makes for an interesting read.

[Anonymous No.3653075]

>>3653036
Could just be that this the internet and gender doesn't matter here and bringing gender up AT ALL is a call to get your ass chewed.

[Anonymous No.3653078]

>>3653066
Meh, they have EK for doxxing.

So, I'm looking for a robert who is a technical modeller, with a father quite well known in his field and also interested in underwater habitation.

[Anonymous No.3653084]

>>3653066
This actually reminds me, I should check the blog I made as a 15y/o(which I really enjoyed writing in), It was basically like maddox or trolling just back in the day when it wasn't that popular.

Party like it's 1999.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653088]

>>3653084
>listen to anything I made even as recently as two years ago
>want to claw my eyes out
Welp

[Unnoteworthy !!Mh9dXblOzzt No.3653089]

Not that anon
Since you're in a talkative mood today, has anyone ever told you that your name makes them dyslexic?

'Cause seriously every time I see 'Inurdaes' I read it 'Inurades'

[Anonymous No.3653095]

>>3653088
I used to play on a smallish online game with a community of about 40 people, starting when I was 11. At some point I became good friends with one of the global mods and he let me see my ban record. All my embarrassment.
>>3653089
I've always read it "in err daze". I think it's just you.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653097]

>>3653089
And everyone spells it Inurades.

Believe it or not, the name Inurdaes was just me slightly modifying a randomly generated name for a blood elf on a private World of Warcraft server.

Then I tell anyone that asks that it means 'Fire of life' in some forgotten ancient language

[Anonymous No.3653100]

>>3653097
oh, fuck you. I thought you were all educated 'n' shit.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653103]

>>3653095
>mfw everyone mispronounces my name
Ehh, to be expected.

It's In-err-die-ess

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653108]

>>3653100
And now you know the terrible truth.

[Anonymous No.3653109]

>>3653103
I'm guessing your trip is "V 1 ess fob o sah" then?
why pronounce it like that?

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653113]

>>3653109
I just prefer that pronunciation. And nah it's vee-one-ess-foe-boes

[Anonymous No.3653114]

>>3652838

[Anonymous No.3653115]

>>3653113
lies. it's foe boss.

[Anonymous No.3653117]

>>3653065
>>3653050
>mfw this assburger-infected anon probably feels guilty and ashamed after being rejected in 4chan

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653119]

>>3653115
I pronounce it as both foe boss and foe bose

[Unnoteworthy !!Mh9dXblOzzt No.3653121]

>>3653097
Must be one of those quirks of language. Lkie tihs siht... Fvie lteter wdors dmamit.

>>3653103
That's better than in-ur-aids I suppose.

[Anonymous No.3653138]

>>3653121
I don't like these. It's only simple for 5 or less letter words, otherwise you still have difficulty.

For icatnnse instance is not easy to read.
Environmental as Etamvreinnol is also dftfliuct

[Anonymous No.3653162]

is that

is that king turret?

it's be so long since I played portal.

[Castrol !!St50KRF88Ua No.3653163]

Ok, maybe there's another civilization out there in the (supposably) spherical universe with a radius of an estimated 308 billion light years.

However, we can only see 14 billion light years in any one direction, and even seeing that far into the past, there was only ever 1 planet that science has ever discovered that hung in a hospitable zone around a star.

Grand total: 2 planets in 14 billion years capable of allowing evolution of life. Fuck yeah Science that's awesome.

[Anonymous No.3653166]

>>3653163
we found 400
we verified 1

[Samefag !SHjzCSZsqE No.3653173]

>>3653103
Inurdaes

In-err-De-us

Inner deus

INURDAES IS A RELIGIOUS SPY

[Castrol !!St50KRF88Ua No.3653174]

>>3653166
Are you trying to correct me by saying I was right?

[Anonymous No.3653179]

>>3653174
no, I'm saying that we found 400 of them, we just didn't confirm the other 399. Plus, we're not even looking outside of a small region for a short distance.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653181]

>>3653173
Well I do main Spy.

>>3653162
Indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzG94ct2d5k&feature=channel_video_title

[Anonymous No.3653182]

>>3653163

>we've already covered the whole sphere with a diameter of 28 billion light years

I don't think so, Tim.

[Anonymous No.3653189]

>>3653181
Col. is actually seeming kinda like a dick at the moment Perhaps it's just because I'm gay.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653197]

>>3653189
Oh he has his periods of misanthropy and blinding friendliness.

[Castrol !!St50KRF88Ua No.3653200]

>>3653182
Well fuck you, Al. There's a lot of shit out there and we can only comb so fast. Maybe we'll find another on the 2nd go around.

[Anonymous No.3653201]

With all my heart I hope that aliens contact us in the next 20 years. That way I'm young enough to be part of the war against them or other aliens.

How fucking awesome would that be man. Life = complete.

[Anonymous No.3653204]

>>3653163
Is this guy serious?
We can expect to be able to detect a planet, only for extremely nearby stars.

[Anonymous No.3653205]

>>3653197
He seems more and more like me.
Only with some kind of writing ability.
I need to find an email address for this guy.

[Anonymous No.3653207]

>MFW

[Castrol !!St50KRF88Ua No.3653210]

>>3653204
Yes.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653217]

>>3653205
Search arosslyn on Twitter

[Ludwig !9CUY39dDYo No.3653239]

>>3653217
>genetics
>picture of furry fap bait
>mfw

[Anonymous No.3653241]

What if there was a civilization of intelligent reptilian people on earth that left for mars right before the meteor that hit earth and knocked off a huge chunk to create the moon and thats why we cant find any remnants of their civilization?

[Unnoteworthy !!Mh9dXblOzzt No.3653250]

>>3653239
I thought it was funny actually...

[Anonymous No.3653254]

>>3653217
coolio. Time to proxy the fuck up and get me a new email.

[Anonymous No.3653295]

>>3653250
aw cool, you have twitter too.

[Unnoteworthy !!Mh9dXblOzzt No.3653315]

I do but not under this name... nor do I post anything on twitter, I just use it as a news feed. Like this... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-graphene-light-idUSTRE77T3FG20110830

[Anonymous No.3653317]

>>3653315
I meant to link to inurdaes, sorry. That's also a cool guy though

I haven't seen you around here much, how often do you post?

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653320]

>>3653317
>>3653295
I do indeed, but don't expect constant updates.

[Anonymous No.3653321]

>>3653320
I won't

[Unnoteworthy !!Mh9dXblOzzt No.3653329]

>>3653317
Daily, though I don't always remember to use my trip.

[Anonymous No.3653335]

>>3653329
ah. Same

Of course, I've now reached the point where posting with it would probably be unwise.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653344]

>>3653335
Now I'm really interested, could I have the first letter of your trip?

[Anonymous No.3653355]

>>3653344
O. I suck up to Mad Sci sometimes.

Also, please don't actually post it- people I know in real life know it :D

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653356]

>>3653355
I know exactly who you are.

[None !/SpaceW6lM No.3653361]

>>3653356
Yup, that was too obvious
I'm far too temperamental for this tripfagging business.

[Ludwig !9CUY39dDYo No.3653389]

>thread about aliums
>trip fag mentioned
>EVERYONELOSESTHEIRMINDS.jpg

[Anonymous No.3653392]

>>3653389
I thought we'd done the stuff about aliums
The OP was pretty unlikely and vague.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3653405]

>>3653389
>>3653392
Agreed.
So we must discuss SCIENCE!

Suitcase-sized nuclear reactor for space missions:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110828140926.htm

Could Thorium be adapted to this? How large could they scale it from a similar design to provide power to all of the colonists? Do you think the public would chuck a shit over such a small reactor?

[Unnoteworthy !!Mh9dXblOzzt No.3653441]

>>3653405
Sadly it seems like they aren't even considering thorium in their designs.

Also it seems to me rather than simply scaling it up what is needed is the ability to interlink the power they produce into a distributed generation type of smart grid. I'd think it would just be safer and more reliable in general to keep them smaller but have more of them.

[Anonymous No.3653447]

>>3653405
As far as I understand, not with the stuff we're designing at the moment. Thorium needs more for critical mass to be attained, plus it needs to be stored in a salt at several thousand degrees.

solar panels are probably our best bet at the moment.

[Anonymous No.3653452]

>>3653447
>at the moment
>at the moment
argh

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3655338]

What is going on here?

[Anonymous No.3655355]

>>3655338
oh shit it's you

Can I stalk you and/or ask you questions? You're interesting as fuck, with all due respect

[Anonymous No.3655367]

>>3652838
>yfw you wake up and realize you've been in the matrix because it was the only choice when scientists realized FTL wasn't possible, nor was there any feasible energy source, and you had to be put in suspended animation until the nuclear winter was over.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3655372]

>>3655355

You're appealing to my tripfag ego to get information from me and ruin my life like they did to EK!

You know, probably. What do you want to know?

[Anonymous No.3655379]

>>3655372
Don't worry, I have no idea how we got that shit that fast. Even if I had a grudge against you, I couldn't possibly subject /sci/ to that again.

You say you were essentially counselled into being beta, if I understand? What kind of stuff did the psychiatrist do?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3655400]

>>3655379

>You say you were essentially counselled into being beta, if I understand? What kind of stuff did the psychiatrist do?

Oh, nothing, just talking. And building lego houses. Really I lied to her all the time but I turned out fine. Maybe I just autofixed?

[Anonymous No.3655412]

>>3655367
Why not just cull the humans back?

>>3655400
I thought you perceived the furry fetish/attraction as wrong, my apologies.

So are you exclusively into furries?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3655417]

>>3655412

>I thought you perceived the furry fetish/attraction as wrong, my apologies.

I mostly do.

[Anonymous No.3655422]

>>3655417
oh, awright.

Are you exclusively into furries?
New question: How did you do in high school, academically and socially? Any good friends?

[Anonymous No.3655475]

Bump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiRjywbypLA

[Anonymous No.3655522]

Colonel?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3656890]

>>3655522

Um, sorry, I had to leave all of a sudden.

Can we talk about something that isn't furries?

Also, are you that !oddSpace tripfriend?

[Anonymous No.3656930]

>>3656890
How bout transhumanism?

[Anonymous No.3656954]

>>3656890
I am, I was trying to not post the name here though :D

Never mind.

How's the fiction going? Also, where do you sit politically?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3656976]

>>3656954

>How's the fiction going?

Trudging along.

>Also, where do you sit politically?

Oh well geez I don't really have many political opinions. I could not sustain them, and I have mixed feelings about stuff.

[Anonymous No.3656989]

>>3656976
I used to, but thinking more recently I've found that most of them don't match what I actually think.
What do you think about capital punishment?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3657022]

>>3656989

In theory, I'd rather do some NEUROSCIENCE and see what comes out. It would not be the same person, but it's not like we change naturally. So it's only borderline acceptable if you accept identity is an illusion :D

In practice, I'm more likely to go on a murderous rampage (Or swear I will and instead do nothing) if they killed someone that really mattered to me.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.3657026]

Intelligent life is a short lived phenomena. Intelligent life always wipes itself out or uses up its habitat's resources before it can grow beyond the limits of its planet of origin.

[Anonymous No.3657041]

>>3657022
Ah, makes sense

You'll probably have an opinion on this: should science be privately or publically funded?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3657073]

>>3657041

Both. Curiosity-driven, long-term experiments are something that requires a steady source of funding that strictly profit-making entities may not supply.

On the other hand, though, you have companies like Zyvex, the only company doing molecular nanotechnology research (The rest of 'nanotechnology' companies are materials science/chemistry companies) because they genuinely see the profit potential on the horizon.

Public funding is something that can easily be messed up though. It created the atomic bomb and the Apollo program, but on the other hand, it destroyed molecular nanotechnology (My pet subject obviously) research forever, see here: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/09/eric-drexler-ralph-merkle-or-robert.html

[Anonymous No.3657092]

>>3657026
>evolution is a dead end and always ends in death

hurr durrrr

[Anonymous No.3657106]

>>3657073
Love the fact you classify the atomic bomb as a good thing.

Fuck poorly allocated money. to some extent, fuck the fact that we need money to do science.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.3657122]

>>3657092
I don't understand what you are trying to communicate.

[Anonymous No.3657127]

>>3657122
He's trying to say "That's a dumb idea". It's unsubstantiated and it goes against how natural selection normally works.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.3657143]

>>3657106
>atomic bomb
I presume the implied goal was scientific progress. The successful development of any technology, no matter its application, would thereby be considered a good thing.

One needs to establish goals before value judgments can be made.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.3657166]

>>3657127
> It's unsubstantiated and it goes against how natural selection normally works.
His claim was unsubstantiated or my claim is unsubstantiated? If you are referring to mine, then are you making the substantiation claim now or were you still simply attempting to divine HIS meaning from his post?

[Anonymous No.3657183]

>>3657166
Yours, and I'll take his point. My counter is that in the history of the planet earth life has never wiped itself out. Neither has any human colony. We don't posess the means to cause apocalyptic conditions.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.3657264]

>>3657183
>My counter is that in the history of the planet earth life has never wiped itself out.
I never said ALL life would die out.

With that in mind, please reword your argument.

[Anonymous No.3657282]

>>3657264
The rest still stands. What you're saying will happen has never happened on a small scale.

[fizx !d75etXAowg No.3657350]

>>3657282
>What you're saying will happen has never happened on a small scale.
The habitability of the environment effects the chances of survival of the organisms within that environment. Organisms within an environment can cause a reduction in habitability thereby leading to a heightened probability of species die off (e.g. algae blooms).