/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4740488
>You seem psychotic

lol please explain further, im trying to understand your reasoning

>>4740486
Anything that is going to be pure (meaning devoid of many compounds, usually an isolated compound), easily obtainable, low cost, and is acidic or basic at varying strengths will be a suitable household item for extracting drugs. Vinegar is an example of an item that could be concentrated to get a nice amount of acetic acid at whatever dilution is required.

Synthesis however is a much different (and often more difficult) process for obtaining a drug. Most drugs, like LSA, are simply extracted from a natural source because its easy as fuck to do.

Meth is an example of an easy synethesis, as there are virtually no natural sources of it to extract, and so the process relies on making small changes to ephedrine or other phenethylamines to produce it.

>>4740373
Uhhh.. "drug" is pretty broad. What kind of drug are you wishing to make from household items?

>>4740411
Oh, just do a simple meth batch then. Even retarded hicks in the woods can make it (although often impurely)

Most DIY and at-home recipes for shit are going to be simple acid/base extractions (extracting caffeine for example)

>>4740444
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>>4740440
>So zombies characteristics would be impossible, but now people are observing them, so that means that there might actually be a possibility, right?

Lol no

It would be like making a set of the characteristics of a unicorn. Just because some horses can have genetic defects which could result in a horn like formation doesn't make it a unicorn at all. The deformed horse just fits our description of what unicorns would be like if they were to truly exist.

The same applies with the zombie bullshit. First off, the people weren't dead which is probably the biggest requirement for a zombie to exist. They're playing off of the brutal cannibalism of the tweaked out people in the media as the beginnings of a zombie apocalypse which is just retarded and absurd, but basically only used to generate hype and other shit.

>>4740440
>so he said that zombie characteristics are impossible and bunny ones are possible, and zblormbie (or whatever) are also not. And that because of a "counterpart in reality"

Well not from what I gathered from reading this shit, but I don't feel like double checking lol Basically, he was saying the characteristics of the "zombie" attacks in the media don't fulfill any of the characteristics of "actual" zombies, and so its wrong first off, and secondly, its retarded to believe that it occur because zombies are mythical and none have been observed in reality

He was using set notation to compare two unlike things, but basically said it in a retarded way.

>>4740423
>what is all that about P=(p1,p2,p3,p3) and all that shit?

That's just a set. For example, a set containing all real odd integers Z would be Z = {1,3,5,7, etc etc} into infinity (for some sets).

He was merely defining characteristics of zombies as members of a set (which is essentially all you're doing if you're making a list of anything that's describing the characteristics of something)

>>4740418
>Fail rates of 85% in math classes are normal

Uhh.. No, not really. The highest dropped math class at my uni is Calc 2 and it usually has a fail/drop rate of around 40-50%, but I don't have exact figures.

>>4740421
This. An 85% fail rate means the course matter is either astronomically difficult, there are a low number of people in the class and a majority drop for various reasons (basically skewing data), or your professor sucks dick at explaining what should be quite easy for someone who has a Phd

I'm thinking if he's belittling people, and its a low level math course, he's just trying to get people to fail or something which sounds illogical. He must just be an asshole

He's merely saying that zombies are of fiction, that there are none in reality, and just because there are incidences of people assuming "zombie-like" behavior, to even state that there could be a possible zombie apocalypse or occurrence is retarded because its impossible, using the Zblormbies example.

Basically, everyone that (truly) believes there is a zombie apocalypse is stupid.

He just used the characteristics of zombies and other shit as members of a set in mathematical notation. I honestly don't see how this is hard to decipher

>>4740347
I would recommend reading short summaries on molecular orbital theory, it would clear things up a bit. Wikipedia is a quick source for this.

Also look up chemiluminescence. How phosphorescence works and flourescence works is generally the same idea with the electrons moving to higher orbitals before releasing photons at differing wavelengths (producing different colors, etc)

>>4740270
Well I was thinking of it being as more of an extension of an already "natural" process. I don't know what the health risks would be if you were to lactate for a year+, but if the side effects were less drastic than some birth controls and you got large, lactating tits (rather than only enlarged by normal bc), then I'd say its a plus for some people.

But I know very little about lactation, or if its bitch for women to deal with lol I was hoping there would be some doctors or biologists around here or anyone that might know about the physiology of birth control and the potential risks of extended lactation.

The other issue would be finding a compound that would initiate and/or extend that period of time. Also, I'm not sure how the body would be affected by not having a period for 6+ months, but I know there are some birth controls out there that allow for women to go months at a time without a period. I don't know the health risks for longer than a year though, but I assume it would mimic menopause to some degree.

So I've tried searching the glories of google before asking this question, but is there a way to chemically induce Lactational amenorrhea as a method of birth control?

My reasoning is that after pregnancy, a woman has roughly a 1-2% chance of becoming pregnant while lactating and breast feeding, and this occurs for generally 6 months if other factors havent occurred.

Has it already been considered to just extend this period of time, or chemically induce this for women who aren't currently pregnant?

I'm not sure what the health risks would be for continuously lactating, but it could be better than the risks imposed by other methods of birth control. And for a lot of people with a lactation fetish of sorts, this would be pretty awesome lol

So what do you think /sci/entists?

>>4348866
This

>>4348584
Technically

>>4345407
Piracetam definitely made getting drunk very easily, as well as getting blazed easy as well.

>>4345068
I've tried paracetam, and definitely 5-HTP

But I'd just stick to stimulants, honestly.

Hello /sci/entists

>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/4482.php

Weed affecting male fertility??

>The researchers believe that THC may disrupt the way sperm swim, or it may block mechanisms designed to weed out malfunctioning sperm.
>weed out
lol'd

My only question is: If we smoke enough weed, could this be an effective male birth control, or use synthetic derivatives more able to make men less fertile (or not fertile, temporarily hopefully)?

tl;dr could we smoke our sperm retarded, and freely blow loads in women, a true win/win situation? At least potentially in the future?

This thread again?

>>4343332
Well my guess is that his class is covering which order to do reactions in order to give the correct stereochem. My guess is that they're close to learning arenediazonium reactions which make adding NO2 groups important for reducing to NH2, and which order substituents should be added to the ring, etc

The fact that he mentioned the reagents needed for nitration, and then coupled with the reagents for NAS bromination followed by grignard suggest a meta-nitrobenzoic acid synthesis.

But its just a guess.

>>4343318
You're thinking of methanol, and you'd to be making liquor to get enough of a concentration of it to fuck you up

>>4343319
Step 1 will add a nitro group to the ring
Step 2 will add a Br meta to the Nitro group
The rest will just work up the Br as a grignard reaction and result in the carboxylic acid

So you end up with a di-substituted ring, not mono

>>4343302
Err.. I guess so? I don't see anything wrong with the process

>>4343093
Depends on which position you want either group to be on the benzene ring.

In this case, you should add the nitro group last if the position doesnt matter since adding acid to the nitro group would reduce it to an amine, but I suppose you could always re-oxidize it.

If you mae the carboxylic acid first, the nitro group would be ortho or para to it. If you add the nitro group first, it will put the acid meta to it.

>>4342245
>>4342246
These

>>4333448
I certainly wouldn't suggest most hallucinogens if you're in a bad mood, or depressed in this instance, or any for that matter. But I suppose it can work for some.

I would start out and see how 5-HTP treatments feel for you if you're thinking of taking the SSRI route. They're just a supplement you can buy anywhere but theyre pretty good for uplifting mood and helping with sleep.

I would suggest maybe smoking weed and see how that helps, but honestly the best option is to see someone for this and see if any SSRI's could potentially help.

>>4320810
You do realize what the word aptitude means, right?

Anyway, you should be set on the adderall alone. You'll study like a motherfucker