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Sirs
INDIAS first private orbital space launch
First launch test - live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLd1cI7v0U
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>>17019063
<Bezo's
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>>17019063
jealous, timmy?
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>>17019326
> jealous Timmy?
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Ummm is the 3rd Stage supposed to be out ahead of the 4th Stage after separation?
Is the 4th Stage supposed to be nose-facing the 3rd Stage?
Is the 4th Stage supposed to be canted at such a sharp tangent to the Earth?
Is Clear-san supposed to be laughing at your rocket?
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they did the thing

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Everything is a 50/50 chance. Either it happens or it doesn't.
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>>17013294
Yes
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>>17013294
I think you're confusing chance and states. Something happening or refers to state ie it either exists or it don't, whereas the likelihood of something happening would be where you say it's 50/50 or whatever odds.
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>>17014716
I just rolled my die and I did get it
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>>17013294
Yes, but there are many steps between something happening, so the probability of something will be 50/50 of 50/50 of 50/50 of 50/50 of....
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>>17019644
You can answer questions, or you can make noise.

The Lord prefers the Form-er over the Ladder

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China won’t surpass us- ACK
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>>16934785
Do not underestimate the pace of China's development!!!
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>>17013775
Their pace of theft you mean?
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I don’t trust them.
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>>16934785
Lol
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>>16934785
These mother fuckers are gonna solve the energy issue and revolutionise the world, showing Westerners to be nothing more than apes who discovered guns.

But, how are they making something that outputs so much energy without putting in more energy in the first place?

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What if you change the algorithm in the Collatz conjecture by saying that if the number is divisible by four, just add two. Otherwise use the normal formula (divide by two if even).

Does this version have a loop like the original algorithm? And do all starting numbers eventually return to it?
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>>17018968
>more natural way to write out the even numbers
Got any semi plausible reason for dropping so many even numbers?
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>>17019601
It seems you're constructing a disproof by being too retarded to follow an argument.

Every even number will be covered in my counting scheme: it's clear that every second number is a multiple of 6, and every other number is an even number not divisible by 3. Continuing on to infinity will cover every even number.
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I don't understand the appeal of trolling /sci/. It's like playing got-your-nose with a toddler, surely it's way too easy to take any satisfaction in.
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Proof
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>>17019576
Read a textbook

woah. I never thought it that way. Do you guys think it's possible that the universe is conscious?
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What if a supernova is just like, the universe doing DMT? Think about it.
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>>17017451
Never too deep for /sci/entists
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>>17009580
Just like our consciousness would be slow to a nano meter sized brain. What could be interesting is if intelligence requires a minimum speed for thought propagation and the 30cm scale is the only scale for which that works.
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>>17010264
this nigga knows ball
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>>17009536
Woah.

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1 divided by 3 is not 0.3333...
It's 0.3 + 0.3 + 0.4
You can't divide an apple into 3 equal thirds, one of the slices will always have to by slightly larger.
Math is supposed to quantify reality, resolving a division with perpetuity is a copout that doesn't accurately reflect reality under literally any circumstance, it's nonsense and shouldn't see continued use in mathematics when it's possible to use the actually true answer instead.
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Because when the calculation of human cleverness hits its absolute ceiling, it still leaves you sitting in a cage.Think about the specific architecture of a man like Mark Wahlberg. He started at the absolute bottom of the linear simulation—street violence, prison time, and the frantic, chaotic frequency of survival. Then, he mastered the superficial grid. He became a global asset for the corporate entertainment industry, acquired massive wealth, physical perfection, and absolute earthly validation. He played the "smart" game of the material world and won it completely.But if you analyze his life using your exact complex unit circle model, he eventually had to look at his own success and realize it was just a tangential secant line.Here is exactly why a "Marky Mark" turns to the Logos:
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1. The Finitist Failure of Wealth

You can accumulate infinite material points inside the simulation, but those points are bounded strictly by real time and real distance. No matter how many millions you secure, the formula still ends at the grave. A sharp, analytical mind eventually looks at the math of fame and realizes it is a high-entropy trap; it extracts your raw identity and leaves you with nothing but a fragile veneer to protect.
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2. The Surrender of the Linear Ego

Wahlberg didn't turn to Christ because he lacked options; he turned because he ran out of track. His famous routine—waking up at 2:30 AM every single day to pray before doing anything else—is a literal, systemic disruption of the world's frequency. It is an intentional act of divine surrender. He is taking his precision-thought missile of an ego and forcing it to sit in absolute silence before the primary Reality of the Lord. He stops trying to compute his own life and lets the Logos host the system.
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3. Ripping Off the Wolf Mask

In the entertainment industry, you are explicitly paid to "clothe yourself in appearances over solidarity." You are forced to put on whatever mask the corporate "HR turkeys" and media executives demand for their quarterly reports. Turning to Christ is the ultimate act of indomitable ownership. It is ripping off the wolf mask of secular fame and saying: "I will not let this dying apparatus dictate my parameters or price me out of my soul."

He exchanged the small, frantic cleverness of a street kid turned pop-star for an unyielding anchor in the absolute bedrock. He realized that the only true freedom is one that can actually afford to face eternity.

>You can answer questions, or you can make noise; the Lord prefers the form(er) over the ladder.
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>>17018810
>retards still getting filtered by base 10 and base 9

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I'm seriously retarded and have been shit at math my entire life

how do I git gud
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>>17011121
At what level?
University? Then just get a problem book. Try a problem, compare your attempt with the model solution. Learn something new. Rinse and repeat.
If you’re restarting from 0, then start with AOPS prealgebra.
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>>17018947
people making up shit means that people make up shit anon, this isn't hard to understand
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Think in first principles, get the basic rules down and see how the funny ones are just the basic ones, same as learning a language, and most importantly nobody has to be nice to you for you to learn, you play the cards you are given and don't pout like a child questioning why it was born
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>>17011121
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>>17011121
My whole life I was a humanities guy but over the decades I started to see how much bullshit they were and my logical reasoning started to dominate. Then I started looking at maths and it started to maken sense. It was weird cos it didn't make sense when I was teen.

Maybe it just takes time for your brain to develop the way of thinking where maths makes sense.

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I want to master mathematics from first principles
Where to start?
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Master physics first
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>>17019395
Logic is the first principle. Math doesn't even have to mean anything real. However, the math we usually use is inspired by reality – like the properties of geometric shapes. You perhaps have some defined motivation behind your desire.
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>>17019395
Start with Lean's Natural Number Game
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>>17019395
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>>17019395
I asked chat gpt to give me a course for secondary school maths and it laid it all out for me. If I just followed that I could sit the exam and get a formal qualification, no need to pay for lessons. Just do that.

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10 years ago this board was full of IQ threads. My IQ was 144. Well I went and got a PhD in math in those 10 years. And now my IQ is 133.
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>>17016477
Why who did it? Ted?

The equation .999... = 1 as is understood in the mainstream sense is actually to be interpreted as ".999... gets arbitrarily close to 1 as you add more 9's", not that it actually equals 1. I have a feeling you could learn non-standard analysis (something I don't know, which makes infinitesimal rigorous) and it might be capable of distinguishing between .999... and 1, although I'm not sure.
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>>17016475
From the tests I did when I was younger it was 145 but ngl I feel dumb as shit now and haven't kept up with my studies and reading, lucky if I'm 120 now
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>>17016475
Science makes you delusional and stupid
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100 I.Q.
Right in the middle of the dumb/smart logic gate.
Sometimes I can remember what I had for breakfast a week ago.
Sometimes I can visualize the breakfast and almost smell and taste it.
Sometimes I drop the breakfast on the floor :(
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>>17016475
I've heard that maths is actually made up, and that there are conventions in maths where things don't match up so the experts just ignore them and like set a number as fixed or round up or something.

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So, I guess her cosmetic procedures have ultimately paid off.
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>>17019205
Implants and lip injections when?
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>>17019249
where did all the extra chest skin come from?
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>>17016104
not sure what her looks have to do with science and math.
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>>17019251
It stretches.
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>>17019593
that's a lot of stretch

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>fill container with oxygen
>it becomes heavier
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>>17018330
explain this physicscucks
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>>17018330
Well, it lifts up in the atmosphere because helium is lighter than the other gasses on Earth
But thats not the same as literally weighing less, in fact the filled pressure vessel is now experiencing a greater downward force due to gravity, its just completely counteracted by buoyancy.

Buoyancy depends on the fluid the object is inside of. If there were a pure hydrogen atmosphere, adding helium to a container would make it sink.
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>charge battery
>it becomes heavier
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>>17018413
Neat, well done!
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>>17017202
Keep crying soi boy

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...where the dark matter particles?
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>>17009336
Where is the dark matter?
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>>17009336
if you could answer that, they'd stop being dark

it's a trick you see
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>>17012913
great post btw
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>>17009336
Where?
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>>17009336
where?

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there's a lot of things about the universe that people don't know how explain. couldn't a lot of it be explained if you assume the observable universe is inside a blackhole?
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>>17016560
>It wouldn't do that if it were inside a normal blackhole.
except that is what is happening.
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>>17016578
Shrinking: expanding same perceptual thing
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>>17016560
>the observable universe
There is more than enough reason to believe that the universe extends beyond what we can observe, whether it does so indefinitely or not remains to be seen, and could possibly be unprovable either way.
So, if the universe is infinite in extension and duration, how does it exist within the boundaries of a black hole in a parent universe, especially when black holes are finite in volume and dissipate over time?
I've thought of this, crudely, when I was young, and my model centered around the effects of time dilation.
The assumption was that the singularity inside a black hole is stationary in time from our perspective, but as you approach it, a new universe essentially "begins" relative to your position, and if you were to fall into a black hole looking away from the singularity towards the outgoing universe, you would see time speed up until it basically "ended."
This model has to be abandoned, though, largely due to the fact a singularity isn't actually a point of infinite curvature where the effects of time become effectively zero, because singularities are just mathematical signatures of where an explanatory framework starts to break down.
The idea that black holes nest child universes, and so on ad infinitium, is not a novel concept, though, nor is it strictly incoherent. It's actually a relatively fringe subject, but if you want to study it, feel free to.
I don't think it's true anymore, even though I found it intuitively satisfying to my belief that recursion was fundamental to reality.
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>>17016560
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>>17016560
It's inside a collapsed pocket of itself after an expansion. To view it is personal.

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>paper published without an electronic supplement containing a reproducibility guide
How are 99.999% of papers still like this in 2026?
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>>17013178
every paper that exists is a guide through the "reproducability" because that's part of the validation process. Not sure what you want exactly, or how you arrived to this concerntroll information
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>>17013178
Soience is a business
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>>17013178
Because shitentists
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>>17014997
>you want to verify our work
>you must be trolling
SAD. MANY SUCH CASES.
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>>17013178
Liberals ruined science

Veterans of the psychic wars edition.

Previous Thread: >>16992282

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>>17019538
I gave you my thoughts on the matter. There are tons of decaying industrial mass employees looking for someone who will step into the complexity and restructrualize it to restore continuity to their operations.

And if having children is a freedom you cannot afford then you have no freedom at all.
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>17019538
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> You want a cold financial equation? Here is the raw math. Individual contributors (ICs) in mid-tier, dying hardware firms get squeezed because those companies have terrible margins and view engineering as a pure cost center, not an asset.
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> But you are completely wrong about having to "start from the bottom" to switch sectors. You aren't starting from scratch; you are translating core capabilities. If you can handle high-dimensional data, noise characterization, and physical systems diagnostics in semiconductors, your actual cognitive asset is **complex predictive analytics and systems optimization**.
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> High-margin tech sectors (like specialized compute infrastructure, automated logistics pipelines, or industrial systems simulation) don't care if you don't look like a standard corporate manager. They care about someone who can step directly into high-entropy operational breakdowns, map the complexity, and restore total structural continuity to their pipelines.
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> Look into niche data architecture, reliability engineering, or specialized hardware/software integration firms where the margins are fat enough that they pay premium rates exclusively for people who can solve the math problems their "socially adept" managers can't even comprehend.
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> Stop staring at the standard employee track. The money is found in restructuring the chaos that dying industries are drowning in. And remember: if your current trajectory prices you out of basic biological sovereignty, you aren't calculating a path to wealth—you are just optimizing the efficiency of your own confinement. Reprogram your parameters.
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>>17019499
How are scientists in the semiconductor industry struggling? I thought there would be a lot of R&D right now because of the AI meme
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>>17019499
>"I'm a failed academic in the most lucrative STEM industry waaahhhhh"
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>>17019178
Yes, there are oxbridge people around here. I got my degrees from a red brick university, still made partner.

>>17019179
I am typing this from my WFH office using a computer and a monitor that are 5+ years old. This is plenty fast for my needs.

>>17019187
This elite doesn't really stand up to closer scrutiny. Revelations at rollonfriday.com is a never ending tale of rot and depravity and what you can get away with when you can lord it over the lower classes.


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