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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by johnydon22(m): 3:33pm On Jun 21, 2015
Horlufemi:
Yes bro. Do you know the ISS passes over Nigeria from time to time. I used to have an alert to remind me. Check NASA website for updates

Imagine looking down to Nigeria from way up there?
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by erico2k2(m): 3:33pm On Jun 21, 2015
menesheh:



Why the statement.
you my friend are not wise if you where to think outside the Box for a sec. you would have realized i was being sarcastic,with such fancy choice of words you chose in your initial response to me I wonder how far you are going to go in your chosen field in life, anyways Enjoy your Sunday I cant be bothered to xchange words with you.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by dazzlingd(m): 3:34pm On Jun 21, 2015
rockiedink:
Oya...my own question:

How can we explain the structure and layout of "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon" considering the technology available at the time?

We're the plants actually 'hanging'? How did they irrigate the whole complex? Was it actual shrubs or lesser plants (like algae and spirogyra cool)

Ministerial nomination for the best answer!!! grin grin grin
have u heard of the annunakis
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Horlufemi(m): 3:35pm On Jun 21, 2015
johnydon22:


Imagine looking down to Nigeria from way up there?

I don Imagine taya o. I want to see with my koro koro eyes.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by EazyMoh(m): 3:37pm On Jun 21, 2015
I am a Chemical Engineer and right now all I want is to work at the new Nuclear Power plants to be built in Kogi and Akwa Ibom. wish me luck, and am confident I have what it takes to be part of it.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Horlufemi(m): 3:37pm On Jun 21, 2015
guyX:
Please people, I NEED A LAY MAN'S DEFINITION OF THE WHAT "THE SINGULARITY" MEAN.

In the centre of a black hole is a gravitational singularity, a one-dimensional point which contains infinite mass in an infinitely small space, where gravity become infinite and space-time curves infinitely, and where the laws of physics as we know them cease to operate.

The laws of physics don't apply there. Laws like time. No distance.

Hope you understand this.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by johnydon22(m): 3:37pm On Jun 21, 2015
dazzlingd:

have u heard of the annunakis
Bro just because you can't figure out how something was built doesn't mean Aliens did. . . this is just like the inhabitants of earth saying aliens assembled the International space stations 2000years from now
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by johnydon22(m): 3:38pm On Jun 21, 2015
Horlufemi:

I don Imagine taya o. I want to see with my koro koro eyes.
we deh the same boat ooo
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Nobody: 3:39pm On Jun 21, 2015
To everyone signing in, i respect you. I will be coming back to mention you on some interesting topics soon.

Johnydon22.

You're awesome.

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Cindino20(m): 3:39pm On Jun 21, 2015
Teempakguy:
exactly. Could you tell me the amount of power a solar cell that is 1 by 1 centimetres generates?

again there is no straight answer to this question..it depends on the amount of sunlight the solar cells converts. On a large scale taking about panels not cells one would expect about 200watts of power again u ve to check with the specification of the panel. One thing u shld ve in mind that there will be loss of energy due to overvoltage ....energy loss as heat etc.in that case the amount of energy that a cell or panel generates depends on the amount of sunlight it is exposed to and the efficiency of the system (no sys is 100% efficient)...

NB: power density is the amount of power stored per unit volume and since volume is L3 cm3 the larger the dimension of the cell the higher the power density but I also think there will be a a threshold for this when the law of marginal utility may set in ie a point where an increase in dimension may lead to negative effect.I also think there is an optimum dimension. ..I am no expert in this field just giving my 2cents.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by AreaFada2: 3:41pm On Jun 21, 2015
Teempakguy:
hahahah cheesy
But you forget, science originated from the black man nah. For example, we are the first to start learning simultaneous equations, quadratic equations, and geometric formulas. In we are the ones the invented Pythagoras theorem. wink

We can still take back out glory. Don't you think? smiley

I think science is too factual. It's empirical, based on evidence and requires a certain intellectual depth. It tasks the mind a lot more. It is also not as interesting or entertaining like calling GEJ names and making wild speculations.

Many scientists may not even be registered here, but read some stuff and leave.
Our economic system is not encouraging too. If engineers, biochemists, pharmacists, mathematicians have to look for banking jobs anyway, why bother?

The binary system used in computing today has long been used by Ifa priests for divination, for millennia, some of the oldest wooden mathematical instruments possibly used in calculating the calendar, menstrual cycle or both, were discovered in central Africa. The ancient pyramid builders of Nubia, mostly likely the origins of the Luxor/Giza pyramids definitely used mathematical knowledge in doing so.

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Cindino20(m): 3:41pm On Jun 21, 2015
Maczeelly:
Am in..............Chemistry recreate nature!!!

lols welcome on board fellow chemist..you remind me of Prof. Okeche the famous organic chemist...
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by dazzlingd(m): 3:41pm On Jun 21, 2015
johnydon22:
Bro just because you can't figure out how something was built doesn't mean Aliens did. . . this is just like the inhabitants of earth saying aliens assembled the International space stations 2000years from now
There are evidences of advanced technologies that predates man's.... prove that
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by johnydon22(m): 3:42pm On Jun 21, 2015
Teempakguy:
To everyone signing in, i respect you. I will be coming back to mention you on some interesting topics soon.

Johnydon22.

You're awesome.
You are awesome too bro, hit me up when you enter, if we have this type of discussion everyday i would have been Einstein by now after all my nairaland days, i learnt a lot today. . .We all will continue learning and exchanging our ideas and knowledge. . Nairaland would now be less boring for me

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by menesheh(m): 3:42pm On Jun 21, 2015
erico2k2:

you my friend are not wise if you where to think outside the Box for a sec. you would have realized i was being sarcastic,with such fancy choice of words you chose in your initial response to me I wonder how far you are going to go in your chosen field in life, anyways Enjoy your Sunday I cant be bothered to xchange words with you.


Unless is not you. I tot it was a guy i argued with in religion section that couldn't defend his claims.


I was so swift in my action after my initia response to ur reasons for the statement you made.

I satire too and gat no reasons to rain abusive words on you.

Cheer

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by johnydon22(m): 3:44pm On Jun 21, 2015
dazzlingd:

There are evidences of advanced technologies that predates man's.... prove that
Nope it only proves that those ancient men were much smarter than you make them out to be. . . after all they are homo sapiens too. . . Many things we know now, developed from them

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Cindino20(m): 3:44pm On Jun 21, 2015
dazzlingd:

There are evidences of advanced technologies that predates man's.... prove that

thats the work of mother nature....................all we do is try to recreate nature....
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Horlufemi(m): 3:46pm On Jun 21, 2015
johnydon22:


we deh the same boat ooo

When you go out there you'll be humbled. You'll see the works as it is. Race, religion, borders they don't really matter. We see they are man made.

There is this write up I saw some months ago. Its changed me.:

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by guyX(m): 3:48pm On Jun 21, 2015
Teempakguy:
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. And all encyclopedias are vague. wink
Sorry for the long absence. I had a battery problem.
So, you wanna go deep? Okay! grin let's do this. Mutation first.

Let see . . . mutation . . . well, smiley

Imagine yourself. You ask, what am I? What are you made of? Well, you are a complex construction. An organism. Now, you are made up of systems. Such as the muscular system or the digestive . . . which are in turn made up of organs . . . like the kidney, or the liver, which are ij turn, made of tissue. Cartilage for instance, or blood. And even these are made of cells. Which, are the smallest units of life. Beyond the cell, there is no life. But to understand mutation, we must go beyond. So, stay with me. grin

In these cells, we have organelles. Like the golgi bodies . . . mitochondria . . . and most importantly, the nucleus. Which contain . . . . lolz, chromosomes. Beyond the chromosomes, what we have is just a set of instructions . . . which we will need! So, let's go! We have, in the very chromosomes, genes! And these genes are made up DNA!

Bros, abeg just a little more patience. We are almost there. DNA is made up of four major bases. Which I will not mention here . . . now, you see, this DNA, can copy itself. I mean, literally copy itself and form identical copies of itself . . . . or not . . . . wink
Remember what I said above about typos? You see, when a DNA tries to copy itself, it sometimes makes mistakes. These mistakes are called mutations.


Sorry, battery low again! cheesy
I will come back to finish. Watch out for part two. jaysniggs, thanks a lot. smiley

Be right back! wink
Mutations are caused by radiation.
Everyone of these guys in the electromagnetic spectrum radio wave (common carrier: mobile phones), infra red( not sure if this guy causes mutation though), visible light( consisting of the colours of rainbow which is the colour of white light), ultraviolet ( common carrier: the sun), xray (common carrier: xray for hospitals. Dats y it isn't good to take many xray scans), gamma ray (this bastard killed the couple that discovered it: the curry couple)

Mutations can result in physical disabilities like being born without legs, having more or less fingers etc.
Basically, any part on ur parent's DNA that didn't replicate a nose, leg, eye , etc parts, won't appear in you when you are born.
How to avoid mutation: pray to God.
Cause to can't avoid sun, or stop using phone etc of the aforementioned above(rays).
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by johnydon22(m): 3:48pm On Jun 21, 2015
Horlufemi:


When you go out there you'll be humbled. You'll see the works as it is. Race, religion, borders they don't really matter. We see they are man made.

There is this write up I saw some months ago. Its changed me.:

Yeah bro that was Carl Sagan, am a huge fan of his. . . Great man of sound intellect
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by guyX(m): 3:53pm On Jun 21, 2015
Horlufemi:


In the centre of a black hole is a gravitational singularity, a one-dimensional point which contains infinite mass in an infinitely small space, where gravity become infinite and space-time curves infinitely, and where the laws of physics as we know them cease to operate.

The laws of physics don't apply there. Laws like time. No distance.

Hope you understand this.
I keep reading it again and again. But I'll grab it sha.
Thanks bro

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by dazzlingd(m): 3:54pm On Jun 21, 2015
ITbomb:

Why and when did this mutation stopped.
Does it means we should be expecting more groups in a couple of decades or centuries
I like the way you think
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by guyX(m): 4:01pm On Jun 21, 2015
Please if you can explain stuffs like dark matter, Einstein Rosen bridge
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Horlufemi(m): 4:01pm On Jun 21, 2015
guyX:

I keep reading it again and again. But I'll grab it sha.
Thanks bro

Gravity distorts a lot of things. It distorts time, space(I.e distance and it gets worse the closer you are to it. E.g if you zoom past a black hole you might use about 70 years but to your own time its like an hour. Because when you get home all your kids are grandparents and you still look like you left. You see that kind of distortion? If you go into the black hole time and space(distance) will scatter. There will be nothing. No light no energy no physical laws. Everything will be infinitely nothing.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Nobody: 4:03pm On Jun 21, 2015
Nice Place....

Chemistry is the mother of Sciences..

Hopefully, i be engaging you guys in a few uncommon discourse.

By the way, my major areas of interests are Nuclear Engineering, Process and Quantum Dynamics ...
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Chrisbenogor(m): 4:08pm On Jun 21, 2015
Are we gonna be talking basic sciences or we would be talking applications of the principle.

I guess everyone can check how stuff works eh!

Lemme see what I can come back with.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by MarkJessy(m): 4:12pm On Jun 21, 2015
I am in. My discipline is philosophy and i major in philosophy of science. By d way it was in d 17th century dat physics became an independent discipline. Prior to dat time, it was known as Natural Philosophy.
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by dazzlingd(m): 4:12pm On Jun 21, 2015
The last time man landed on the moon was over 40 years ago.....can anyone explain why we haven't gone back since then considering the advancement in technology?
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by hadura29(m): 4:13pm On Jun 21, 2015
Teempakguy:
To everyone signing in, i respect you. I will be coming back to mention you on some interesting topics soon.

Johnydon22.

You're awesome.

Science Laboratory technologist here....

Hope have not gotten rusty though.

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Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Chrisbenogor(m): 4:15pm On Jun 21, 2015
dazzlingd:
The last time man landed on the moon was over 40 years ago.....can anyone explain why we haven't gone back since then considering the advancement in technology?
What would that mission achieve?
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by AlphaDibia(m): 4:20pm On Jun 21, 2015
I should have your buccal cavity split with my fist in your mouth for uttering such blaspheme. The word science comes from the Latin word scientia which is derived from the word scire which means "to know".

Knowledge of Self, Nature, the people etc.

menesheh:
You are in the wrong place.

Science is never for us, it is for Whiteman.

Whenever a Nigerian see a technology he/she feels is so awesome and complex, he will be like
[size=15pt]waw oyibo too much, oyibo na our second God[/size].

We don't know that to discover things is more easier than we thought it is.

A thread for science is statistically insignificant due lack of patronage and interest.


Your idea are supported despite am not a science student. But i love science pretty crazy

Hung up
Re: The Sciences Discussion Thread. by Nobody: 4:22pm On Jun 21, 2015
Well, I'm a psychology major and we're half brothers of science, shey i fit squeeze my head enter this thread??

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