Go to school.
They teach you stuff better there.

Don't Rest Your Head is the coolest game of the last decade.

The Emperor was actually the son of Horus.
True story!

you can't get any grimmer or darker than Grimdark.

if you put "noko+sage" in the email field you can post in shitty threads without bumping them and without people being butthurt that you're saging their thread

That sink's pretty cool

1d4chan, google it, read it, love it

Bees, despite the fact that they can direct other bees accurately over several miles, have no way of communicating the concept of 'up' to each other.

The existence of GPS proves that space is curved.

The United States operates 11 aircraft carriers. The rest of the world altogether operates 12.

>>12693036
Explain further, please?

>>12693071
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

To achieve this level of precision, the clock ticks from the GPS satellites must be known to an accuracy of 20-30 nanoseconds. However, because the satellites are constantly moving relative to observers on the Earth, effects predicted by the Special and General theories of Relativity must be taken into account to achieve the desired 20-30 nanosecond accuracy.

Because an observer on the ground sees the satellites in motion relative to them, Special Relativity predicts that we should see their clocks ticking more slowly (see the Special Relativity lecture). Special Relativity predicts that the on-board atomic clocks on the satellites should fall behind clocks on the ground by about 7 microseconds per day because of the slower ticking rate due to the time dilation effect of their relative motion.

Further, the satellites are in orbits high above the Earth, where the curvature of spacetime due to the Earth's mass is less than it is at the Earth's surface. A prediction of General Relativity is that clocks closer to a massive object will seem to tick more slowly than those located further away (see the Black Holes lecture). As such, when viewed from the surface of the Earth, the clocks on the satellites appear to be ticking faster than identical clocks on the ground. A calculation using General Relativity predicts that the clocks in each GPS satellite should get ahead of ground-based clocks by 45 microseconds per day.

>>12693115
The combination of these two relativitic effects means that the clocks on-board each satellite should tick faster than identical clocks on the ground by about 38 microseconds per day (45-7=38)! This sounds small, but the high-precision required of the GPS system requires nanosecond accuracy, and 38 microseconds is 38,000 nanoseconds. If these effects were not properly taken into account, a navigational fix based on the GPS constellation would be false after only 2 minutes, and errors in global positions would continue to accumulate at a rate of about 10 kilometers each day! The whole system would be utterly worthless for navigation in a very short time. This kind of accumulated error is akin to measuring my location while standing on my front porch in Columbus, Ohio one day, and then making the same measurement a week later and having my GPS receiver tell me that my porch and I are currently about 5000 meters in the air somewhere over Detroit.

The engineers who designed the GPS system included these relativistic effects when they designed and deployed the system. For example, to counteract the General Relativistic effect once on orbit, they slowed down the ticking frequency of the atomic clocks before they were launched so that once they were in their proper orbit stations their clocks would appear to tick at the correct rate as compared to the reference atomic clocks at the GPS ground stations. Further, each GPS receiver has built into it a microcomputer that (among other things) performs the necessary relativistic calculations when determining the user's location.

Relativity is not just some abstract mathematical theory: understanding it is absolutely essential for our global navigation system to work properly!

"You" are just an illusion of "your" brain. Everything around "you" is only what your brain interprets.

>>12693036
Elaboration: space is curved by mass

>>12693063
I am always amused by this.

>>12693063

I looked it up on wikipedia, it's true.

Also, the Chinese bought an old aircraft carrier form the Ukraine, to turn it into a casino.

It gets even more hilarious when it turns out they want to turn it into a working aircraft carrier again.

Someone in the Ukraine is crying into his vodka.

>>12693115
>>12693128
...holy shit, that's awesome.

>>12693177
THIS JUST IN: SCIENCE MAKES THINGS WORK.

It is theoretically impossible to measure the length of any coast line accurately.

>>12693190
Don't be ridiculous, everyone knows mankind prospers through faith alone.

Voyager 1 is the farthest man-made object in space. It was launched in 1977 and has now reached a distance from Earth of around 110 AU, or about 16 light-hours. It is still sending and receiving information and is expected to remain in operation until 2025, when it will no longer have enough power to operate any of its instruments.

Opium is religion for the masses.

Despite it's peaceful reputation, Brazilian military history includes the quasi-genocide of the the population of a neighbouring country.

Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it. We can see and feel and hear only what electricity does. We know that it makes light bulbs shine and irons heat up and telephones ring. But we cannot say what electricity itself is like.

We cannot even say where electricity comes from. Some scientists say that the sun may be the source of most electricity. Other think that the movement of the Earth produces some of it. All anyone knows is that electricity seems to be everywhere and that there are many ways to bring it forth.

Worlds economics are one giant ponzi scheme.

The fastest species of tiger beetle can run at a speed of 9 km/h.

>>12693329
And cavemen rode dinosaurs to work.

>>12693115
I go to that university.
I am proud.

A starship following the designs of Project Orion (one relying on nuclear detonations for propulsion) could reach a theoretical maximum speed of 0.08 to 0.1c. At this speed it would reach the system closest to Sol, Alpha Centauri, in 44 years (minimum). It could reach this speed in 36 days at a more-or-less constant acceleration of 1g. We have had the capability to build such a vessel since about 1960.

black holes sometimes appear to give off some sort of radiation. which is impossible because once you go past the event horizon nothing can escape including light. stephen hawking theorised that particles pop into existence right on the border with the event horizon, so for example if an electron suddenly popped into existence the positron that would have to pop into existence also would get sucked into the event horizon while the electron escapes to then be detected by us.

this is just something i heard

If you're frying sausages in a pan, try using butter instead of oil. Then sprinkle a little bit of sugar on them, just enough to caramelise. Then add something like herbs or (my personal favourite) chopped garlic.

Voila, God Tier sausages in minutes.

An F-15 Eagle can actually remain airborne even after losing one of its wings. Landing might be a bit tricky though.

>>12693421
I'm so trying this out next time i cook sausages.

>>12693329
Electron flow is one of the simplest and most thoroughly described phenomena in nature. You can feel electric flow above a certain threshold, it travels along the blood stream and nerves.

Nothing you describe makes sense. By the same measure I could claim that you cannot feel heat, only its effects, or electric field forces which keep your atoms from bunching together into one fuckhueg particle.

>>12693390
The escaping energy is called Hawking radiation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

>>12693458
>electric field forces which keep your atoms from bunching together into one fuckhueg particle.
Yeah, damn them for that.

>>12693458

That was a troll post.

I don't have the scan off-hand, but what he wrote there was something that was written in a Christian university text book.

Hence, trolling.

Between the years of 1861 and 1929, following the invasion and annexation of the Papal State by the forces of the Italian Risorgimento, the Pope considered himself to be "Prisoner Of The Vatican" in protest and did not leave its grounds. This status did not end until the signing of the Lateran Treaty which created the modern sovereign Vatican City

>>12693329

Fucking electricity, how does it work?

>>12693329
You have to be joking, did you even go to school?
Next thing you'll be telling us intelligent design makes perfect sense and can be proved with actual evidence.

>>12693564

The thing about Intelligent Design though is that it refers to the Teleological Argument, which is something considerably different from the young-earth theory. The term has been co-opted by the Creationist movement, though, which is unfortunate as it refers to something a lot more philosophically sophisticated.

Mozart made many compositions in 3/4 time. In fact, many of his pieces seem to revolve around the number three. It is speculated that this is because Mozart was a part of a gang that based its symbolism on the number three.

>>12692943
GET READY FOR SOME WISDOM:

Man who drops watch in toilet...has shitty time.

Man who sticks dick in peanut butter...is fucking nuts.

Man who gets stuck in pantry...has ass in jam.

Man who runs into door...is going to Bangkok.

You own an infinite hotel with an infinite number of rooms. There's one infinite number of guests, each occupying one of the said rooms. A new guest arrives, do you have a vacant room for him?

>>12693635
Yes. Move all of the current guests one room down.

>>12693635
Obviously.

>>12693610
The waltz conspiracy. Designed to keep Bach's mind virus soundscapes in check. Unfortunately Bach never had the instrumentation to achieve measurable effects beyond a subjective level.

>>12693635
Depends on how much infinity. Do we have infinity rooms or do we have infinity+x rooms, where x > 0?

>>12693635
yes

>>12693691
...but there isn't a boundary on infinity. Infinity isn't a number, its a concept. A concept that says that there is no limit to something. So there's a limitless amount of rooms and a limitless amount of people. Adding one more person doesn't matter.

>>12693659
Ha, your rudeness made you loose an infinite number of future customers!

>>12693583
Lack of awareness of the true phillisophical implications of intelligent design, studying the the systems of the human body never stop amazing me, and turned me from a agnostic believer into one that believes into the great clockmaking deity.


There are two kidneys. Blood is constantly flowing through them, and being cleaned by thousands of filtering capsules irrigated by the small capilliaries from the renal intercostalobular arteries.

Blood is filtered through the nephron filtering units which I will not go into detail here. Blood is filtered, concentrations are rebalanced and some initially removed substance are readded based on concentration levels of various ions.Undesired products and filtrats and filtered through the minor and major calixes into the renal pelvis. From the renal pevlis, These undesired materials are transported to a storage bladder for later removal from the system.

Shall we talk about circulatory blood regulation?

>>12693635
It depends on if my number of guests is defined as infinite or as equivalent to the number of rooms. And on if I have infinite rooms, or infinite vacancies.

>>12693717
Evolution would like to have a word with you.

>>12693712
There can totally be more than infinity.

If you have a line of rooms that goes on forever, and someone else has two lines of rooms that go on forever, the other guy has more rooms than you, despite the fact that they're practically identical.

>>12693691
infinity = infinity+x

>>12693635
move each guest so that there is a space between each one

for example:

xxxxxxxxxx becomes oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

then simply stick the new guests in

>>12693733
oh sure, the one with more rooms totally has more rooms, but they both have an infinite number of rooms

>>12693745
No, infinity != infinity+x, because infinity-infinity-x = -x, not 0.

Well, uuh...

Until yesterday, I didn't know that dragging that little square at the bottom corner of an Excel cell over to other cells repeats that equation to those cells.

Sorry I can't be of more educational help.

Polite sage, as this isn't /tg/ related.

>>12693329
what the fuck are you talking about

>>12693770
a trillion is very close to a trillion and one
a trillion trillion is even closer to a trillion trillion and one

infinity is so close that it might as well be infinity plus one. You can't treat infinity like a number because it's not a number.

l2 transfinite math

There are many different sizes of infinity, each strictly larger than the last.

Count each whole number from 0 upwards, you will have an infinite number.

But if you match those 1-to-1 with numbers from 0 upwards including all fractions, the latter will be infinitely larger (you can already map out everything in the earlier infinite with this new in just the space from 0 to 1).

Get thee to Cantor.

>>12693635
Hilbert paradox, mathbro!

>>12693771
This is important information for a DM. A DM should at least be aware of potential knowledge their players may throw at them.

pic is a nephron processing unit

>>12693781
magnets

>>12693712
>>12693691
The number of natural numbers is infinite, correct? Is the number of integers larger or equal to to the number of naturals?

>>12693717
>mfw kidneys make you believe in god

>>12693807
What there are the same 'number' of integers and fractions. You mean including transcendental numbers, right?

>>12693717
Oh man. Insides freak me out.
As does brain chemistry.
I mean, knowing that the brain is a fragile and delicate system of heat transfer, chemical ions, and bundles of nerves, with hundreds of millions of interconnected neurons, without a simple design, which changes constantly as new connections form, old ones are lost, and ions flood between receptors, to be re-absorbed later - a beautiful dance of chemicals and circuitry makes me...
nervous.

Also, birth-rates are lower in developed nations. Whether this is because humans naturally breed less in the advanced environment, or because of some other reason, it gives hope for the future. Why? Because it means that those arguing against effective immortality for reasons of over-crowding are incorrect. A society sufficiently advanced enough to make people stop deteriorating from old-age should have a much lower growth rate - one that could easily be seen as more sustainable than LOL AIDS AND BABIES.

>>12693806
>a trillion is very close to a trillion and one
>a trillion trillion is even closer to a trillion trillion and one
No, it really isn't. It is still 1 away, unless you're speaking in terms of proportion, which is retarded and not relevant.

If x ≥ 0, 2x ≥ x, whether x is 3 or a trillion trillion or 0 or infinity.

>>12693826
In a certain manner of speaking, the sets of integers, rational numbers, and natural numbers, as you can set up a function between them that relates any given member of one set to a unique member of the other, and vice versa. You can't do this between the real and rational numbers, however, and thus, they are different sizes.

>>12693847

Think of it this way - unindustrialized (pc: developing) nations will have a broader genetic variance, and thus will evolve faster.

One extra-dimentional guest needs a room? He can have mine, I'll just sleep on the couch in the break room.

Also, would you use every room at a given time? it's not always 1 quest to a room, couples, families and the like would share a single room.

Plus, he'd die of starvation/old age on the elevator getting to his room on the infinity-th floor.

>>12693717
The body is shock-full of useless, even harmful things - the appendix, wisdom teeth, the fact we see things upside down and waste time and energy flipping them back in our head, people who are born with schizophrenia, various autoimmune diseases, or stillborn. Just for a tiny smattering.

These are easily accountable for within evolutionary theory. And I guess to some degree for intelligent design, if you say the divine is malicious and wanted us to die horribly from a useless organ we never use rupturing, but it has no real facts in its favour (any fact can be made to conform to it) and it doesn't really say anything at all.

tl;dr ID is a flat, nonsensical, ill-defined fantasy incongruous with reality, news at 11.

>>12693528
here's the scan
I actually meant it as a joke, especially for those who've seen the source.

it's too retarded to succesfully troll someone and yet, some poor kid has to wake up monday to learn this shit

In any case, these are likely the readings the math-curious in this thread are seeking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_hotel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument

>>12693911
I'll post the 2 others I have as well

DUST

ITT: People arguing which infinity is bigger: Infinity, or Infinity.

this one has a masterful introduction

>>12693926
We're whipping out our math dicks, and since my dick is two infinities long, I'm claiming it's longer than my competitors' math dicks, which are only one infinity long.

>>12693888
...
And? Not all evolution is inherently beneficial for the entirety of the species.

And I'm sad no one got my pun.

>obedience stoners
... Get out of my head, captcha. I wasn't even THINKING about that.

>>12693952
Technically, your dick just gets longer faster.

With /tg/, it's like I don't even need /sci/!

>>12693826
>>12693838
Fuck, yeah, English isn't my native tongue so I mess up what the names are for.

>>12693952

>>12693947
holy shit falls off as 1/r^2!!!

I would like to thank kidney guy for teaching me that I should get back to studying for my evolution midterm instead of claiming a wizard did it and flunking out.

>>12693830
For blood pressure regulation, this is a simple chart that details a few of the major players. This diagram does not include chemoreceptors in the carotids for regulating blood chemistry to the brain.

By baroreceptors, in this case, they usually mean the ones near the start of the aortic arch, which keeps blood track how hard your heart is pushing blood out....The Cardiac/vagus square is referring to the vagus nerve which specifically regulates impules to the heart. Without this nerve working, the heart would beat at it's own rate, which is faster then resting heart rate, in most people. I'll link a neat image of hear beat regulation in a sec....

That aside,

CO refers to the output of blood by the heart per minute.

SV refers to the volume of blood put out of your left ventricle after a single contraction. The volume is dependent on the amount sent from the right ventricle. SV is also affected by the the amount, pressure and rate, pre-existing before that heart beat... I don't know fluid dynamics very well so I won't talk about that...

Let me just post more diagrams...

>>12693921
>>12693947
Shit like this should be illegal, and whoever writes it should be shot on sight.

>>12694073
Are you posting from China by any chance?

>>12693947
This is enormously hilarious.

>>12694089
I cannot say that I am posting from GLORIOUS CHINA. I can say that teaching people clearly false bullshit should be illegal.

>>12693902
Wisdom teeth are fine for me, and they do have their use in eating.

We do use the appendix, it's handy. We can survive without it, but it's not as fun. In a modern society it's use in maintaining bacterial populations is less important as a seed colony when we don't have diarrhea.

Renin/angiotensin pathway with alot of stuff most people don't really care about.

Cliffnotes summary:

Renin is secreted by the kidney in a response to a longterm drop in blood pressure, angiotensin I is converted, thanks to ACE(Angiotensin Converting Enzyme) into Angiotensin II. The presence of Angiotensi II results in increased vasoconstriction (smooth muscles in muscular arteries tighten, increasing tension and blood pressure.)

>>12694107
Stating bullshit, even in print, is no offense.
But organizing those things in a concerted effort to subvert political influence by exploiting ignorance and faith should indeed be something else than 'free speech'

>>12693947

Bitches don't know about my inverse square relationship

>>12694141


Sorry dude, but wisdom teeth don't really have a use in eating. You have to make a concerted effort to use them; and even then you are wasting time because they are so inefficient at that task.

>>12694181
I enjoy grinding my salads tiny, sir. I also eat lots of pasta and meat.

Anyway, cardiac cycle in a nutshell. As of this posting it's accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_cycle

The image speaks for itself.

>>12693319
Paraguay
right?

>>12694181
Wisdom teeth may be useless in a world full of dentists. But as soon as that health care bubble collapses you will be glad if some extra teeth pushing along the jawbone close the gaps in your grin.

>>12692943
That is an incredibly awesome sink.

>>12694339
>Wisdom teeth may be useless in a world full of dentists.
Far from it. Dentists need boats too.

This is why division by zero is a bad idea.

>>12694342

It strikes me as something that would get fouled very quickly if you weren't pouring exclusively fluid down there. Muddy hands crusting it? Soapy streaks running down it?

It looks pretty in a showroom, but would lose its appeal quickly.

The only reason we have five fingers is the generic common ancestor of a lot of species on earth had it.

Three fingers are all that is necessary for tool manipulation in three dimensions.

>>12694594
Nah, Nature just realised that the decimal system was a lot cooler.

If there was a god you'd be him.

Time for more learning!

This is what our galaxy looks in various electromagnetic spectrums.

Here is some TG relevant knowledge. Know your weak points and guard them well.

And where EM spectrum wavelengths correspond in real life

Not knowledge as such, but great for fluffing up campaigns with medical scanning equipment.

If you need a real life person to base your character off of, merely consult this picture.

I have more but they're too large for /tg/

>>12694893
That person's 3rd ventricles seem awefully swollen.

>>12694985
disregard that I suck cocks.

Also, for all of you GMs who just can't seem to come up with a new plot there's always this!

Useful guide to facial expressions for you draw fags who want to capture the right feel of your character.

>>12694893

I would hate to be a flatlander