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Friendship

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Minkowski died suddenly of appendicitis in Göttingen on 12 January 1909. David Hilbert's obituary of Minkowski illustrates the deep friendship between the two mathematicians (translated):

Since my student years Minkowski was my best, most dependable friend who supported me with all the depth and loyalty that was so characteristic of him. Our science, which we loved above all else, brought us together; it seemed to us a garden full of flowers. In it, we enjoyed looking for hidden pathways and discovered many a new perspective that appealed to our sense of beauty, and when one of us showed it to the other and we marveled over it together, our joy was complete. He was for me a rare gift from heaven and I must be grateful to have possessed that gift for so long. Now death has suddenly torn him from our midst. However, what death cannot take away is his noble image in our hearts and the knowledge that his spirit continues to be active in us
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Why does nuclear energy even exist?
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If I wanted to make a contribution to the field of genetics. What path do you need to follow and what skills do you need to obtain? Would you live well or just okay. What education/credentials do most real genderists have.
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James Webb

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Really?

Just more galaxies with a red filter?
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You go from a beautiful, precious and edible metal into a nasty and toxic metal-liquid just by adding one proton.

Why does one proton make such a difference? Obviously there are some major similarities, the fact that they are extremely dense and they are both metals. But still the change is kind of interesting.
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Would it be unethical to terraform Mars and Venus?
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vitrification

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>inorganic dangerous waste such as asbestos is VITRIFIED using f-king plasma furnaces to literally re-melt it
are we that stupid? just take all waste, dangerous and ordinary, and dump it into a volcano:
>all burnable shit burns to ashes
>non burnable shit melts, totally reducing its volume
>asbestos "vitrifies" itself for free
>heavy metals literally sink towards earth's core
>any dangerous gases evolved are negligible compared to volcano
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How do you cope with this?
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You do trust science, don't you?
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How many open problems do I need to solve to get into the Harvard University Mathematics PhD program? The 4.0 GPA and the perfect GRE's I can easily do. Also would it be weird to apply from Picrelated?