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Will people on the planet have the ability recognize when they're actually in the midst of an extinction event, and not furious political gamesmanship?
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No.13735039 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Asexual reproduction:
>0 energy expenditure selecting partners
>Exponential and fast
>100% of your genes pass onto next generation
>There are ways of recombining genetic materials with other cells if that is necessary, in many species.

Sexual reproduction:
>Spend precious energy searching, courting, caring for partners.
>Slower
>Only 50% of your genes pass forward.

How the fuck did this happen, and why is the first so predominant in microscopic animals, and the second in macroscopic?
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Jannie Appreciation Thread

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There are only three (3) rules unique to /sci/ and you mouth breathers can't even follow them.
>1. All science and math related topics welcome.
>2. Homework threads will be deleted, and the poster banned.
>3. No "religion vs. science" threads.
Jannies are the ONLY reason this board doesn't immediately devolve into a combination of /b/, /x/, and /pol/. The abuses hurled at jannies really needs to stop. Let's take a moment to thank jannies for their generous service they offer without financial compensation. Thanks!
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No.13735518 ViewReplyOriginalReport
Is the ceres asteroid owned by anyone or is it free for the taking to the first madman that lands there and sets up shop?
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entanglement

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i just watched derek's video[1], but there's something i didn't understand well.

to summarize, he talks about how the measurement of the schrodinger's cat leads to the entanglement of everything starting from who measured it. meaning there's a superposition of the you that saw the cat alive and the you that saw the cat dead.

so what he's saying is that as soon as the environment entangles with the contents of the box the universe 'splits'.
what i understand from this is that it splits because the contents of the box interacts with the outside.
but now suppose you have a box that doesn't let anything in nor out and you decide not to open it. you could say the cat that is alive knows it is, and so it knows it's in the universe where he didn't die; and sure enough both cats in superposition aren't just one entity so inside of the box the universe must've split. but what about the outside?
you could say it had split as well, but then it would've split when the atom decayed and not when the environment had interacted with the contents as derek said.

does any of you know where i'm getting things wrong?

[1]: https://youtu.be/kTXTPe3wahc
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this faggot was wrong.

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you can't prove your existence to yourself.
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No.13736683 ViewReplyOriginalReport
The notion that 70,000 years of evolutionary divergence had no impact on the powers of reason and intellect is absurd.
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