🗑️ 🧵 Scientific Method
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 22:19:38 UTC No. 16166508
How much do you trust the scientific method?
If 99.99% of society believe in something that is not science based like God (just an example, pick your own), would you follow them or prefer a scientific reasoning ?
🧵 Geniuses aren't inpressive
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 21:37:56 UTC No. 16166448
I have never met someone genuinely impressive. All the so called "geniuses" just seemed like tryhards or people who just spent alot of time focusing on one thing. Even once ina lifetime prodigies like Terrence Tao, supposedly the biggest intellectual talent ever did nothing at all. He didn't even solve a millenium prize problems which are worthless and banal and the only allure is the only and being pat on the head for being such a heckin' smart boy
Even throughout history there has never been a genius that commanded the respect that people imagine. "Geniuses" are below average looking, grew up sheltered and have a specific skillset that anyone could have if they bothered to put in the hours. Even Howard Hughes. The image of the handsome industrialist sternly looking over his inventions was not impressive at all. He was average looking at best, saved only by his height and created a couple or boring movies and one shitty plane that flew once and was thrown away in the dustbin of history. He grew up rich and threw his wealth at a bunch of worthless passion projects that amounted to nothing. And he is the face of the American inventor. Ayn Rand and pop culture always use the image of the mustachioed titan of I industry genius yet the real thing was lame as fuck.
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 21:22:39 UTC No. 16166419
How come the people who didn't get the vax didn't all die?
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 21:14:24 UTC No. 16166404
How feasible is it actually to be a self taught engineer/scientist? The biggest obstacle I can name at the top of my head is that without a lab and equipment only universities or big companies can afford, you can't get practical knowledge, unless you were doing something that only needs a computer
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 20:50:16 UTC No. 16166350
If climate change is supposedly a crisis, then why is nobody acting like it?
🗑️ 🧵 The Ultimate Truth
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 20:32:32 UTC No. 16166312
What is the point of science? The more we learn about the universe and our place in it, the more futile human life, all life becomes. What is it that the scientists in all fields are striving for? When all the pieces of the puzzle are in place, what picture will we see? What if it transpires that the purpose of life on earth is to suffer for the sake of a Lovecraftian monster? What will the brave men and women of science say then?
>the logical conclusion of science is atheism
>the logical conclusion of atheism is anti-natalism
It is science, not superstition, that will ultimately be responsible for the voluntary extinction of the human race.
We were never meant to know such things. Now we are doomed.
🗑️ 🧵 Christian Science
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 20:13:07 UTC No. 16166277
So is evolution a result of gods work or what?
Does this mean I get to live again in heaven or?
🗑️ 🧵 Can I scientifically stop being racist/rapist etc.?
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 19:31:39 UTC No. 16166214
I'm tired of having compulsive thoughts about killing niggers, jews, browns, fags, etc. and raping random women I see on the street. I got a girlfriend roughly a year ago and thought they'd go away but it's just gotten worse. Also I love talking about myself if you couldn't tell.
Pic unrelated
🧵 RFK Jr bros…this looks bad for us
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 19:29:51 UTC No. 16166213
Are brain eating worms real?
If so how do you avoid them?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rf
>RFK Jr said a worm ate part of his brain and died in his head
>RFK revealed in a 2012 deposition that he also suffered from mercury poisoning
🧵 Nuclear Fusion Power is Our Future
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 19:29:04 UTC No. 16166212
How can we convince retarded hippies that they shouldn't be afraid of nuclear fusion power?!?
🗑️ 🧵 How are there so many Chinese valedictorians?
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 17:49:22 UTC No. 16166117
For the past few years my school district has only had nearly all Chinese valedictorians.
I had one on them in my computer science class where we learned Java, and he wasn’t particularly intelligent. He genuinely did not now how to actually code, so I have no idea how he ended as a valedictorian. It all seems a bit sus.
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 17:16:15 UTC No. 16166070
Lately I have a doubt. If the first figure is supposed to measure more kilometers, then why does the second figure encircle more blocks and streets if it is supposed to measure fewer kilometers than the first figure?
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 17:14:36 UTC No. 16166068
Is there any real way to disprove the Boltzmann brain? I know eggheads like to dismiss it as pseudoscience, but doesn't it make a lot of sense?
🧵 /med/ - medicine
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 16:38:15 UTC No. 16166026
Moomin edition
Last thread
>>16140594
We discuss research, DO NOT offer advice (just fucking go see your doctor), make fun of premeds and shitpost.
Keep vaccination/clamping/vitamin K/soliciting advice out of this thread and start your own because it takes a lot of space.
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 15:53:54 UTC No. 16165979
Why are maths teachers like this?
🧵 PARALLEL UNIVERSES, PARALLEL UNIVERSES PLEASE
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 15:47:04 UTC No. 16165973
I fucking love science mythology so much bros.
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 14:27:32 UTC No. 16165896
The science changed, bigot.
🧵 A reality based-economy
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 12:44:21 UTC No. 16165731
Apologies for this post I know it is not the right board, but there is no more philosophy board so I guess this is were I found the best fit for this mental exercise.
So I've been wondering much about this idea of a reality-based economy. In such a world realism rules:
- there would be no debt since debt is not something material nor real. No one could pay another with a promise, and no currency would ever be emitted out of thin air.
- trading doesn't exist, since we know that there are no truly fungible items in reality, no two grains of rice are ever the same. In other words, items have no value of equivalence to trade. Only elementary particles with the same quantum properties are truly identical and tradeable.
- There would be no days of the week, nor months, for they reflect nothing in reality. (today is not a Wednesday, in case you're wondering)
- There would be no private property since physical objects, though they have many properties that can be measured, none have a "belongs to" trait.
What other quirky characteristics would such a place have?
🧵 So how did centipedes end up on land?
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 11:51:18 UTC No. 16165660
There are no sea centipedes so how come there are land centipedes?
Is it possible that ONLY TWO arthropod groups arrived on land, 440 million years ago?
440 million years ago
group 1: sea scorpion
-while sea scorpiones eventually all went extinct on the sea during hundred million years, their land relatives survived
-their offspringe are land scorpions, mites, spiders, dust mites, harvestmen
440 million years ago
group 2: pill bug like crustacean related to shrimp
-evolves into centipedes
-evolves into velvet worms (velvet worms further evolve into insects but their ancestral form didnt disappear)
-first insect is silverfish, looks a lot like pillbug in a way
-does not evolve into land crustaceans
150 million years ago, so it is recent attempt!
another group of crustaceans, a long lineage of lobsters make a landing
-they evolve into freshwater crabs
-they evolve into coconut crab (completely terrestrial and has lungs)
compared to vertebrates, arthropods landed twice or even three times, all from different groups of arthropods
the original sea ancestor of sea scorpions and crustaceans lived 1 billion years ago and was a worm, this means the two arthropod groups have had unimaginable amount of time passed after they split
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Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 10:49:36 UTC No. 16165590
>theory doesnt work
blame dark matter
>economy doing bad
blame dark people
>joke isnt funny
blame dark humor
>no aliens in the sky
blame dark forest hypothesis
>can't see shit
blame darkness
>can't have sex / breed
blame dark triad
>unlucky that day
blame crossing dark cat