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Can you sanitize your hands just by rubbing them? I can rub my hands quickly enough to give myself a burn, surely the temperature reaches far above the 60C (deadly to most bacteria), right?
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yes, the niggers reduced hand sanitzation to zero ... giving the illusion of pain and misery

we want the asian games, fucking quit it and let the earth go
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>>16454992
You could but it won't reach far, the only thing you would achieve is killing of small regions of bacteria leaving them ripe to be recolonized by bacteria from areas that didn't get the heat or from places you touch.

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So…..what IS it, exactly?
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>>16422849
upvoted, my good friend
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>>16454723
I don’t really know, but either way, it’s not the first time I’ve heard this sentiment.
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>>16454781
From other other schizos larping as physicists online, I presume
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>>16454829
It is the internet, so. Would be a weird thing to lie about on its own though.
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...where the dark matter particles
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>>16435242
Dark matter and Dark energy is negative temperature thermodynamics. It's why they both seem to violate the laws of thermodynamics which, btw, do apply to these large scales
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>>16435242
Does dark matter cause global warming?
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>>16442584
nobody has ever discovered any dark matter, it was invented
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could you make a laser sword out of dark matter?
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>>16454919
In theory, it repels matter so it could be focusable

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All those statistically insignificant results are in the trash as a result.
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Cual es el nivel de significancia estadistica del ano de Batman?
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>>16452035
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er0SVun8rww
good talk but why the fuck does this euro guy have tds in march 2024?
>"they want to save science, at the same time they run the danger that maybe Donald Trump, someone else, will use this to totally cut funding."
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>>16452019
All the stuff we are trying to get
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>>16454976
I dont think he does. He was just referncing an attitude people might have. He also mentions later in the talk that part of the motive for our flawed approach to p-values was that academics and publishers were obsessed with muh Russia and muh communism, and Jerzy Neyman was from Russia, so the academic community just ignored his work. Not to mention, Karl Pearson and Egon Pearson were chuds obsessed muh Germanic culture and muh genetics.
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>>16454989
Etc etc, antoine saint exupery knew this

They can't see facts they see people

Making a call to all anons for a large international cooperation to INVENT THE FIRST TIME MACHINE
Humans have been wasting enough time trying to expand in space, but exploring time is much more pressing now. Use this thread to compile all resources you are aware of pertaining to time machines and how to make them. No shitty sci fi books though.
>inb4 /x/
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It's complicated. You have to set your rest mass to imaginary. If you surrounded yourself with a tachyonic field (let's say they exist, in all likelihood they don't), you can never stop traveling. The difficulty after approaching FTL speeds is slowing down. Because when tachyons lose energy their speed increases. So you need a way to release a massive amount of energy to make sure your tachyons gain energy and thus slow down. But even then, you can never drop below the speed of light.
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>>16454185
tl;dr Conservation of Momentum
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>>16454171
If a time machine ever exists, then a time machine always exists.
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Just take shrooms, salvia or something and chill lmao
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>>16454981
Pod designing?

This will help space travel

So we put you there floating in psychodelics eating from a tube and see if wormholes lead into the past

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Why Mars?

It barren

It's a conspiracy as to how one went as far as decided what to go more look like with Mars. Mars is the most isolate hell hole imaginable. We'll definitely die populating it. Our navigators are wasting time by funding Mars colonization. We'd be better off going to one of the moons in our solar system or Pluto.

Space, faggits, you are not ready for space.
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Our space navigators are unfit to serve and are making a critical mistake that will waste the next 30 years.
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>>16454954
Literally no one is funding mars colonization, if you are sending money to someone thinking it buys you some pod in mars then you should kys immediately.

If two fish that diverged 184 million years ago can create offspring, then why can't humans breed with chimpanzees, who we only diverged from ~10 million years ago?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturddlefish
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>>16452258
Wrong chromosome count, its impossible for you to impregnate a sheep according to the science experts in this thread.
Instead you should try fucking an olive, olives and humans have the same chromosome count so crossbreeding should be possible.
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>>16452558
>you should try fucking an olive, olives and humans have the same chromosome count so crossbreeding should be possible.
lol
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>>16419875
Time isn’t a measure of how much a species has changed in terms of genetics. If there is no selection pressure, little change will occur even after a long time.
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>>16443270
If this were true there would be hundreds of known cases of this happening, it would basically just be common knowledge.
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>>16454631
are you trying to imply that africans regularly have sex with chimpanzees?

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Is there matter without mass?
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>>16454763
>Not all particles are matter.
Wrong or stupid. Either way isn't worth addressing
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>>16454827
> In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.[1] All everyday objects that can be touched are ultimately composed of atoms, which are made up of interacting subatomic particles, and in everyday as well as scientific usage, matter generally includes atoms and anything made up of them, and any particles (or combination of particles) that act as if they have both rest mass and volume. However it does not include massless particles such as photons, or other energy phenomena or waves such as light or heat.[1]:21[2]
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>>16454867
Is Wikipedia behind? Energy and matter are interchangeable, and everything is energy/moving/working.

"Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared."

Light is energy. It doesn’t matter if it has mass or not. It’s still fucking energy. Real particle phenomenon. That’s Matter.

You can convert matter(mass) back into pure energy, and you can make matter out of energy. It’s all matter/energy.
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>>16454874
>Energy and matter are interchangeable
Unless they are waves. e=mc^2 is only half of the equation and for some reason people don't know this.
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>>16454874
>>16454878
Reminder that Einstein thought of space as a thing.

His 1920 Leyden Address:

— “According to this theory the metrical qualities of the continuum of space-time differ in the environment of different points of space-time, and are partly conditioned by the matter existing outside of the territory under consideration. This space-time variability of the reciprocal relations of the standards of space and time, or, perhaps, the recognition of the fact that 'empty space' in its physical relation is neither homogeneous nor isotropic, compelling us to describe its state by ten functions (the gravitation potentials gμν), has, I think, finally disposed of the view that space is physically empty”.

He ended by saying this:

— "Recapitulating, we may say that according to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether".

Robert B Laughlin:

— "It is ironic that Einstein’s most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed".

Laughlin sees spaces as more so a piece of window glass, than ideal Newtonian emptiness.

— "the modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo".


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If we found aquatic aliens on europa, would we be able to eat them? This may require answering the question whether all carbon based life utilize the same building blocks for cells and processes
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>>16454774
Why isn't søyjak bannable yet?
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>>16454787
>Why isn't søyjak bannable yet?
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>>16454787
Stop crying and answer the question.
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>>16454774
I can tell you're thinking of something different than "eating" aliens because of that picture

Math question for puzzle solvers

Consider using a single cup for tea, and you never swap the cup.
Instead of completely finishing up the tea, you generally drink until some of the tea ends up cold, leaving a fraction of the tea left. Instead of dumping the tea and replacing it with new cold water, you keep that tea in there while throwing the teabag and placing a new teabag, and then filling up the rest of the cup with new boiling water for the remainder.
Conretely, with raw numbers, as an example you would drink your cup of tea until 20% remains, you will then throw the tea bag and replace it with a new, and place 80% of the cup with new boiling water, meaning 20% is tea and 80% is new boiling water.

If you do this an infinite amount of times, what % of the cup will be tea versus fresh water? For any given fraction left undrank, although it is always the same fraction X that is left undrank. Do not consider any physical factors such as evaporation
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>>16454821
20% will be old tea.
80% will be fresh tea.
Every time.
So, 100% tea. Every time.

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Should everything that exists be classified as matter, since they exist? There’s something there? How is that not matter? How is a photon not matter? It exists. I don’t care if it doesn’t have mass. Light *matters*.
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>>16454389
>a wave is not matter
>it is energy
Is matter matter because it has mass, or is matter matter because it means something is there?
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>>16453732
the laws of nature objectively exist and are not matter
if you deny natural laws then you reduce science to a purely recreational activity, expedient for practicality or some other social construct
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>>16454420
>a purely recreational activity
People already postulate that existence could be just some kickstarted larger than life simulation. By that point, science is a form of art. Actually, it already is—since you cannot technically separate art from science.
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>>16454420
>the laws of nature objectively exist and are not matter
Okay but they matter
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Nothing matters. Ergo nothing is matter.


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Looks like wildberger removed all his videos from his channel. Did the ZFC glowies finally get to him??
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>>16452048
>I don't get why people call him a schizo
They simply are not yet ready to be unplugged from the real number delusion neo
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>>16452017
>>16452048
Anyone who claims that infinite sets are incoherent while also constructing based on the rationals (which are countably infinite) has, at minimum, some cognitive dissonance to deal with.
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>>16451657
>obviously wrong
>Not PROVABLY wrong or I would have brought proof.
>Just obviously. Trust me.
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>>16452156
A rational number is not "countably infinite", the set containing all rational numbers is. Wildberger does not refer to any such set so what is "incoherent" here? And no, don't say
>well, actually, a rational number is a countably infinite equivalence class of ...
No, no, good heavens, no. A rational number is a pair of an arbitrary integer and a positive integer, whether two given rationals are the same is decided by a simple finite computational procedure.
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>>16453848
Damn, this unironically changed my perspective

The only logical way to do it is to send in robots like Wall-E to set up a dome and build a town for the human's arrival.
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>>16454438
It's basically an air mattress except 100ft tall and as big as a state/country.
>>16454588
You can not extrapolate this from 0g
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>>16454588
"a lot" as in almost nothing since we've only researched 0g and 1g.
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>>16454199
Exactly people want to believe we can live on a planet we are not designed to live on.

Also how would we get the fuel to get back to earth.

It's just more techno optimism..

But but

Mr musk said we will go to mars.

Bahahahahahahahaha
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what was that? must've been the wind

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Evolutionarily speaking why are so many men with a fetish for fixing mentally ill bitches?
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What is Jade up to nowadays?
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>>16453908
>fixing mentally ill bitches?
Why fix something that's already perfect ;)
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easier to relate to girls that have gone through something similar
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>>16454214
Not what I meant, I just have a thing for crazy BPD bitches.
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>>16453945
Men have a tendency to take advantage of short term mating opportunities. Women with mental issues are less likely to be in a long term relationship, which makes them attractive targets for men pursuing a short term mating strategy.
No man has a fantasy on starting a family with a schizo woman, but a lot of man would love pump and dumping an easy schizo target.
There is nothing more to it.


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