Want to know what your major should be, what you should do with your life, what cool jobs there are for you, or how to do a homework problem? This is the General Help sticky. Post those sorts of questions here, NOT IN A NEW POST.

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>>	p 10/03/15(Mon)13:46 No. 8184 ID: 6512d4 File 126868597767.jpg - (116.21KB , 500x359 , The_Graduate.jpg ) I have one word for you, Ben.........plastics

Up until a couple months ago, I had always thought that I sucked at physics, and had grades to corroborate. Then I found this book to the left: the Resnick/Halliday/Walker. All of a sudden things made sense in class and my grades shot up. Right now I'm lightyears of ahead of my class in physics. So my question textbooks does /sci/ reccomend for physics, chemistry and math?

This is now the textbook and and book request thread

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>>	Anonymous 10/03/13(Sat)08:17 No. 8161 ID: b87d5b File 126849702028.jpg - (34.23KB , 327x500 , asimov.jpg ) I picked this up in the $5 bin at B&N years ago, Asimov's nonfiction is a great read for the layman.

Happy zeitgeist day slavefags

pic related, board chosen correctly. Project venus is about leading humanity through science, not violence and politics. Often i feel like im one of a rare few who understand the stupidity of governments etc.

Channers thoughts?

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Anonymous 10/03/14(Sun)05:02 No. 8174 ID: ea5675 File 126856812163.jpg - (9.48KB , 230x230 , tin-foil-hat-big.jpg ) >>8167 So basically you're saying that its the exact same bullshit and half facts that "zeitgeist" has been for years, and there's nothing new. Zeitgeist was mostly pseudoscience and conspiracy when it came out as a shitty movie that hoards of retards love and adore. What you've posted is certainly not new, and has no relevance to this board. Scroll up and read the board rules.

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Imhotep 10/03/16(Tue)02:27 No. 8187 ID: 53d4a8 Whenever you learn something, and then feel you have become enlightened above others, then you should slow down, release the excitement and consider it deeply. Consider whether you are correct or incorrect, consider whether you have actually been enlightened. It's very easy to become so satisfied with your new position that you don't bother analyzing things anymore. Sometimes, you have found some actual truth or understanding. Not most of the time though. On the subject of this "zeitgeist" thing, there seems to be lots of fragments of sensible things, like "leading humanity through science", but it also seems to be wrapped up with a lot of nonsense. I would never buy an intellectual package deal such as this. It's the same reason I am not a Humanist. They take one sensible stance, Atheism, and then bundle in a bunch of stuff about ethics. Even if I agreed with the ethical stances, why attach them to the Atheistic stance?

>>	Nathan Explosion !!tjMQIwLzR2 10/03/16(Tue)03:59 No. 8188 ID: db51c5 Zeitgeist's drivel honestly sounds like old Soviet propaganda at points and at least the Soviets contributed.

Google Fiber. They claim that it can process data speeds of over 1 gig a second. What do you think of this, /sci/?

Let's say, as a purely hypothetical mental exercise, you wanted to break into a bank vault or a high security safe. Without damaging the goodies inside, how would you get it open?

You're welcome to describe any method you can come up with, but try to keep it within the confines of the tools and skills you have, or could procure, at your disposal. So unless any of you own a tank, don't say you would just roll up in one and blow the hinges off with the cannon. You would probably destroy everything inside anyway...

http://www.desktopaero.com/adw/welcome.html

My attempt:

Wings: 40 degree sweep; 3000 square foot area; aspect ratio 8
Tail: conventional; 20% area; aspect ratio 4
Engines: turbojet; 2 aft engines
Fuselage: 3/3
Max speed: 535 knots (mach 0.93)
Cruising altitude: 36000 feet
Fuel capacity: 64,000 pounds

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>>	Anonymous 10/03/12(Fri)14:57 No. 8158 ID: 613245 >>6534 FFFFUUUU

>>	Anonymous 10/03/14(Sun)07:22 No. 8177 ID: a3a902 Welp, apparently a hercules shouldn't be able to fly according to this game.

>>	Anonymous 10/03/15(Mon)01:58 No. 8183 ID: e0cf87 File 126864349847.jpg - (154.57KB , 1030x763 , ScreenHunter_03 Mar_ 15 04_57.jpg ) >>5642 sup

Consider this for a moment. Intel's newest chips are using a 32 nanometer process, which means that the "wires" connecting the transistors together are roughly 32 nanometers long. The previous process was 45 nanometers, so we're jumping quite a bit every time.

The width of a silicon atom is roughly 1/4 of a nanometer, which means that the "wires" in the cpu are about 130 atoms wide, down from 180 in the last process. At this rate, it won't be long before it's physically not possible to make it any smaller. What then? Carbon nanotubes won't shrink it any (though they will improve performance drastically), so the only way to go is larger. What then? Will we eventually see dinner-plate-sized cpu's with 80lb heat sinks? Or will we stop growing the processing power and start shrinking the processes? Maybe both? What does /sci/ think?

Since there is no longer a Psychology board, I approach you, /sci/.

I am writing a paper on Kohlberg's stages of morality. Here I present you with a couple of scenarios. The answer you provide is not what I am interested in, it is the thought process involved in reaching your answer that I am after.

So please, if you have a second to look over these questions and shoot me a quick answer, I would be ecstatic!

1.) Two friends, Tim and Kyle, are walking down the street discussing Tim’s financial troubles. Tim has been laid off from work and doesn’t have enough money to provide food for his family. Kyle, on the other hand, has a job and some money saved up, though the ominous shadow of unemployment is always in the back of his mind. Tim asks Kyle for some money to pay for food and some bills. Kyle desperately wishes to help his friend, but knows in doing so he could possibly be putting his family in the same danger down the line. What should Kyle do? Why?

2.) Assume Kyle has refused to lend Tim the money. As they head off on their separate ways back home, Tim, with the knowledge that he scarcely has enough money to buy his family dinner tonight fresh on his mind, comes across a blind man collecting charity. The collection is for families that have been recently laid off and are in need of financial assistance. Tim, realizing that this money is for people in his exact situation, considers skipping over official channels and taking some of the money directly from the blind man, who will never know who is was that stole from him. What should Tim do? Why?

Thank you for your input, your help is greatly appreciated!

I've been wondering as to which came first, and since we know both are present I think we should also understand which came first. So, the question persists: soup or spark?

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30df25 10/03/03(Wed)16:37 No. 8071 ID: 30df25 File 126766302970.jpg - (46.96KB , 280x244 , chickenandegg.jpg ) The question is meaningless -- soup doesn't create spark, and spark doesn't create soup. B'sides, the "lightning in a swamp bottle" theory is *so* 19th century. These days we're finding polymer chains in cometary halos and deep inside meteorite rock. We'll probably find self-replicating polymers in the Oort cloud, where there's neither soup nor spark.

>>	Anonymous 10/03/03(Wed)20:11 No. 8074 ID: 676014 This is a question on neuroscience.

>>	Anonymous 10/03/14(Sun)21:39 No. 8178 ID: 676014 ygfjui6yio ygfjui6yio

Why does the Rabies virus avoid most of the immune response?

How does it get through all those layers of immunity to result in 100% fatality!

It is THE god mode virus and it is absolutely incredible!

What do you think? Why?