/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2513643
>>2513624

THIS, YOU FAGS. The idea of the dark ages was perpetuated by upper-middle class Italian douches circlejerking over how good things were when the Romans were around.

In reality, during the middle ages, the church fostered academics, literacy, and science, and unified Europe under a single, not-so-bad religion(some of them barbarians were still doing human sacrifice and shit, man.).

The crusades in and of themselves were also a rather clever way of unifying Europe. In the wake of unification, you had all these desperate religious zealots who were used to IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE YEAR 1000, THERE IS ONLY WAR, and so these restless fighters and warlord's attentions were turned towards the Arab world to keep them from rabblerousing in Europe.

Distilled water is FINE as a water source.

However, harder waters containing minerals are known to have a notable positive effect on cardiovascular health.

Now what's bad for you is DEIONIZED water, water with all its salts removed. This'll cause osmotic shock, as all the salts from your intestinal cells get pulled the fuck out, your cells will swell up, and you'll get diarrhea(or if you drank shitloads), intestinal bleeding.

Not pleasant.

>>2350451

Also, it's this.

This is also the reason why I decided not to pursue a graduate education in biology. Because it would be nothing but drudgery and slavery.

>>2350455

Nobody said that they were obligate anaerobes.

But it's obviously a gram stain comparison, considering there's no obvious differentiation techniques shown for oxygen tolerance.

Quit being such a dick

>>2350444

That's less outlandish than you might think.

I mean, it -might- be something like enteric vs nonenteric.

Or bacillus vs streptobacillus

>>2350431

What, g(+) and g(-)?

>>2202911
>>2202919

The vast majority of people over 30 derive a great amount of their social lives from work.

Once again, this isn't about IT skills. It's about creating an environment where people can feel fulfilled. I understand that the vast, vast majority of people here are not yet 30, but it's something to consider. How else are you supposed to make friends or meet people when you're starting to get old and lame, can't go partying or clubbing regularly, and may not have time for intensive hobbies?

A major part of any career(career, not job) is socialization.

>>2202860

You cannot maintain loyalty, morale, or culture of a business via teleconferencing.

Most adults get their primary interaction with others from two sources. Work, and home. Removing work from the equation absolutely isolates a whole bunch of single people. Likewise, many people cannot work from home because they need to be free of their families to achieve decent performance.

To completely shift everything to work-at-home teleconferencing is to destroy your over-30 workbase, while ensuring that the under-30 workbase never feels loyalty or pressure. You'll have nothing but a bunch of contract-jumpers.

>>2197896

They really don't. They war with other populations of pygmy chimpanzees, squabble over mating, and otherwise exhibit pretty typical behavior that you'd expect out of apes living in a vaguely matriarchal social arrangement.

They just get talked about a lot because of that one shitty study and hipster scientist bias.

>>2196984

But the bonobos in the study that said they have orgies WAS cruel.

The bonobos exhibited exaggerated sexual behavior WHEN they were taken from their homes, put inside an unfamiliar location, and subjected to intrusive observation for long periods of time.

>>2169347

You're probably white. In which case that's not very amazing.

>>2169255
>>2169311

Milk is a pretty good source of nutrition, bro. You also gonna swear off dairy and stuff, too?

Look, I understand that not everyone's bodies are set up for it. Lots of people have immune issues and milk is one of those inflammatory foods that causes acne, exacerbates asthma, etc. But some people can exploit milk painlessly. Why hate on them? Organisms are meant to find nutrition from what they can manage to get their hands on, and humans in particular are pretty good at exploiting the land around them.

You've got some sort of food purity dysfunction, if you ask me.

>>2149376

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Circles have no straight lines. Therefore, there are always nonintersecting parts, no matter how many corners you remove.

This could have happened in any arsenate breather with minimal issues, considering they probably already have a host of adaptations to prevent arsenic toxicity/oxidative stress from incorporation of arsenic.

Oh come on, guys. I know what tardigrades are.

But RUSSIA. BEARS. SPACE

WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH.

I JUST READ THE MOST AWESOME THING WHILE READING UP ON BIOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY.

>A current mission is planned by the Russian Space Administration to launch water bears at Phobos to study the scientific theory of panspermia.

RUSSIA IS FUCKING LAUNCHING BEARS INTO SPACE, MAN.

>>2141338

OP isn't that incorrect, though. If a population lives to a long age, there's a point where instead of helping others, individuals start competing against each other.

Not to mention that death by aging helps drive evolution. A population's genes adjust more rapidly with a high turnover rate, thus excluding previous generations from continuing to contribute via breeding. It speeds adaptation, I'd presume....though this is one place where I'd need to do some serious studying.

>>2141309

Never underestimate the capability of scientists to absolutely whore the most trivial of discoveries in the hopes that they somehow get funding.

>>2141278

Not particularly. All it has to do is incorporate arsenic instead of phosphorus. You don't even have to start from scratch. Hell, it might just be an uptake and tolerance thing. See: >>2141301

>>2140899

But he fucking said that it lost 80% of its water.

Not that its new total weight was as if it were 80% instead of 90% water

original weight *.9 is the weight of the water value. The remainder is solid weight.

water weight * .8 is the water weight after time has passed.

Add the solid weight to the new water weight.

Ratio your two total cucumber weight values(divide them. I don't know how dumb you are). Multiply by 100. That's the percent difference.

This kind of basic problem solving should really be self-evident. Just how fucking old are you?

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ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME.

There's a small frame of reference problem due to it being ambiguously worded.

After time has passed, does it have 80% of its original water, or is the cucumber now 80% water weight?

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>>2140846

Impossible, my ass. Arsenic partially substitutes for Phosphorus in most biochemical reactions anyways. All it'd take is enough adaptations. And god knows bacteria will fucking figure it out eventually.

>>2140823

It's the proper mentality to hold, though. Scientific method and everything.