Out of all these choices which of these discoveries would help humanity out the most? >Cure for cancer. >What happens after death. >The next element. >The discovery of intelligent.
non-microbial life on a different planet. >The ability to travel at light speed >How to harvest dark matter
Germanic ultranationalist occultists theorized Sagittarius A* black hole/"black sun" at year 1888. What you make up with that? Literally light-years in front of other scientists that time.
"Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas: ”Wilhelm Landing and the esoteric SS”, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, s. 136. New York: New York University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8147-3124-4. (englanniksi) Lainaus: "In her major opus The Secret Doctrine (1888), Helena Blavatsky occasionally mentioned a “central sun” in the Milky Way, “a point unseen and mysterious, the ever-hidden center of attraction of our Sun and system.”""
The internet has made us its bitch and has its cock ass deep inside all of us. It has coopted our brain capacity and has molded us into being its sex organs. We are a race beholden to the vices inherent in a runaway technology that was envisioned to change us for the better, but it has had the opposite effect. Human beings are becoming more intelligent, but it is intelligence defined by the interent's own terms. We are becoming better at multitasking and quickly processing shallow data streams of information, but we are rapidly losing the ability to think deeply, creatively, and inventively. The human capacitities of mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection have been eroded.
Are we strapped in for the ride and beholden to our creations, or is there a way to implement change or conscious restraint on a wider scale? Responsible technology usage can be implemented invidiually, but that is cold comfort when the rest of your peers have been mentally colonised by this daimonic invention.
Hypothetical scenario: If you have sex with a plant or rather the plants substrate and you ejaculate into it, will the plant absorb your semen (over time)? And would it in any way be beneficial from a nutrient perspective or somehow boost the plant growth?
People on /lit/ make philosophy out to be a very long and dense straight line where you're going to be hopelessly lost starting anywhere but the presocratics and working your way up. In reality, an overwhelming majority of philosophy is redundant shit that only ever held water within the context of being a primitive caveman with extremely limited perspective and can be readily dismissed by a modern vaguely intelligent person; you can save a massive amount of time and energy by just skipping to whoever you're interested in reading without ever worrying about why platonic forms are stupid.
Does /sci/ think the same way about mathematics? There are parts I've been wanting to learn out of practical desire, mainly probability and statistics, but the idea of slogging my way up from the D I got in high school geometry through shit like advanced calculus and number theory just so I could tell you what the chance of drawing three aces from the top of the deck are seems extraneous.
tl;dr Can I skip straight to probability and econometrics and try to back learn whatever's necessary as I go or do I really need to work my way up from the basics?
