/sci/ - Science & Math

Some kind of audio source (microphone?) to an input of an amplifier?
If so, it is to make it less likely to pick up hum from lamp ballasts, etc..

>>5484960
Getting serious now. I enjoy spending a day at the university library, wandering the shelves and picking up and browsing anything that looks interesting. Sometimes, it can be even more fun to browse topics about which I know little.

>>5484856
Haven't read it myself.
I heard the plot was good, but the character development was a bit weak.

>>5484678
How is it?

>>5470878
That was a legit (however uninformed) question. What didn't you just explain it to her?

Some of you science guys bitch about how scientifically illiterate people are but then treat your knowledge as if it a powerful secret to be guarded.

>>5469618
That is fine just be diplomatic:

"I can see how you have the impression that there is a "hole" in an ozone layer, the media oftens calls it that, but..."

>>5425967
>bitch please, goats give you cheese and milk and all kinds of dairy products, and they could probably stop burglars. Somebody breaks into your house-bam that dude is rammed like he's getting payed for it.
>Also the boy goats have pretty cool beards. Goats are just all around great.
This explains why goats are the world's most popular pet.

We all know it is better to switch, even if we can't get our heads wrapped around the idea.

>>5398638
>>5398861
To sit for the "patent bar" an attorney is generally required to have a STEM undergrad degree .

>>5398861
>English will teach you some literature and how to talk pretty or something, I dunno.
Yes, you don't know

>>5398938
>They want to study philosophy precisely because they aren't capable of the rigorous logical reasoning needed for mathematics and subjects based on mathematics.
I'll will concede that a lot of people go into the liberal arts because they don't like/aren't good at math but that does not mean they are not good at logical reasoning.
>>5398948
>>>5398350
>We need both.
That is what I was saying. "By THAT concept..."

>>5398364
>I hear it's a good preparation for law school. Bwahahaha!

I'd say English would be better. Physics would be a great choice for someone who wanted to do patent law.

>>5398154
>Consumer of every thing the society offers him without giving anything back.

This is laughable. By that concept of "giving back" a garbage collector is more valuable than an experimental physicist.

>>5398028
I didn't read what you had written as carefully as I had thought. I saw "Myers-Brigs" next to "astrology" and jumped to a wrong conclusion of what you had written.

Tl;dr: Sorry, I was a dumbass :)

>>5397768
>myerrs briggs
Disagree with your opinion on Myers-Briggs. Every personality test is an extreme oversimplification. There is no way all people can neatly fit into one of sixteen categories. But, I don't think the strongest proponents of it would make that claim. It is a very rough indicator; it can be helpful, in a general way, in dealing with other people.

Heisenberg?

Dunno. I'm uncertain 'bout him.

>>5395244
>golf players, too, use their power to heavily influence and shape the society we all have to live in, crippling scientific and social progress at every opportunity.

Municipal golf course here is a very large part of the city budget.

The controversy over the golf pro's ridiculously high salary has repeatedly made the news.

I get your point, but "golf players, too, use their power to heavily influence and shape the society" is more true than you know.

>>5395320
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei

>>5393989
>except van der Waals who was a pussy
? I know his work, but don't get the joke. Something 'bout his personal life?

>>5393931
>Steve Wozniak.
Better analogy.

Whitney and Sam Colt interest me, but again I'm a history guy.

For those interested, Fulton didn't invent the steamboat. He ran the first commercially successful one, albeit only for a short time.

>>5393943
want a hint?


nobel prize physics x2

>>5393823
If you call yourself a scientist or a sciencefag, I'll argee. If you are a history buff, then it depents upon your specific area of interest.

(I'm more of a history buff, but my area of interest is the history of science and technology. So I do know, but don't expect many other do)

>>5393762
>OP because no one except a few idiots actually gives a shit about anything Tesla did


>engineering stuff. Nothing theoretical,

Agree that Tesla was way, way more of an engineer. Said that already.

We need both engineering and theoretical stuff. I don't even get why people don't get this and want to view one as "better" than the other.

>nothing of any real consequence that wouldnt have happened anyway if he was never born.

I give you that, but could make the same argument about any scientist, engineer, inventor or explorer.

If that is the logic you are using, artists would be "better" than scientists. If not for Newton, someone else would have formulated his theories but if not for Shakespeare no one else would have written his plays. If not for Einstein someone else would have eventually come up with his theories but if not for Michelangelo, no one would have sculpted his David.

>>5393655
>entered into marketing wars, pitched products, and sued people for copyright infringement

He did all these things. He did not do them well. Marconi got credit for the invention of radio. If you were to give credit for radio to only one person*, Tesla is more deserving of this honor than is Marconi.

Tesla developed AC, but made a poor deal with Westinghouse and received little reward for it.

He had important roles in the development of two inventions which became widely used but died almost pennyless.

>>5393653
>>confirming my statement
>case closed

Merely acknowledging that he was a very important inventor and that he was screwed, even if you criticize his lack of business skill gets one labeled ad a "fanboy".

* no ONE person deserves all the credit for radio, IMHO

>>5393632
>Because Teslafags who repeatedly make threads about him are all fanboy devotees who didn't complete high school and think he was some kind of oppressed super genius who died for all mankind's sins

>super genius
that he was
>oppressed
I'd say "screwed over", but "oppressed" works too. He was. He was no businessman and did some of this to himself, but Edison DID screw up and Westinghouse mostly abandoned him.

>>5393610
NO, NO, NO!

Gates is a businessman (not to take away from his role in developing software and computers, but Gates is also a businessman). Tesla was far, far from having any skill in business.