Science - The Long Game - General

Kinda, I'm studying Forensics and biology is one of the parts I have to take for it and one of the few I'm decent at. All it is is part of a feedback system in a body for controlling chemical reaction rates so you don't end up dying from massive organ failure due to being flooded with insulin and the like (just an example but you get the idea)

[QUOTE=Kagrenak;23864457]I firmly hold that science is the single most important concept that humanity has thought of in its entire existence, no other ideas or styles of thought have ever come even into a close second with the astounding grace and arcane beauty that rational thought allows us. Not a single other process has the predictive power that science as a whole has allowed us, nothing brings forth such tangible benefits as the application of these theories and process the general populace knows so little of. Quantum electrodynamics allows us to have this discussion right now, with grand sweeping trans-oceanic optical fiber cables. Agricultural sciences, along with the burgeoning agro-biotechnology sciences have saved over one billion lives in the past fifty years alone. We no longer have to worry about the plagues and epidemics of old, thanks to rapid vaccine development and deployment. Diseases which once ravaged whole communities, destroying lives; these are now a relic of the past for most of us. In first world nations we have eradicated polio, vanquished the plague, and even in the developed world, completely eliminated smallpox. All of these lives saved are only a small part of the amazing advances in the medical sciences. In the past hundred years, we've made the general life expectancy of a person go from ~30 years to almost 80 years of living. We've done transplants of every major organ, and even some organ systems; we have artificial hearts and synthetic blood to keep us alive in the face of organ shortages. Nothing else has saved more lives than the works of science; and one day, science will save all of humanity. It is not a question of if some global catastrophe will strike us or not; but a matter of when it will. I hope, that given enough time, we will have branched out species out on to other celestial bodies, enabling us to make the first baby-steps out of the cradle of mankind, and in to the world beyond. Without acknowledging and supporting the works and progress of the physical sciences, we are all doomed to die on this planet, along with everything on it. As no cleric can claim to have saved the same amount of lives as science has, neither can any prophet claim predictive powers as vast and wide as the logical pursuit of truth. By making observations about chemical properties and the way that compounds interact on a macroscopic level, we have managed to figure out the basic structure and makeup of matter, the very essence of what we are made of. We know the proton's mass with an obscene degree of accuracy: 1.672621637(83) × 10^−27. We have directly observed and confirmed our predictions of molecules using atomic force microscopy: [/QUOTE] You sound like you've written quite a few A+++ papers. I wish I had your writing ability. :frown:

Wishing is pointless. Wanna be able to write well, then practice mufucka

"Science is the poetry of reality" ~Richard Dawkins "Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works" ~Michael Shermer These quotes sums up my opinion about science. "Science is interesting. If you don't agree you can fuck off!" (And maybe this too)

science is a p cool dude [editline]03:03PM[/editline] I feel that science has nothing to do with philosophy and religion and the fact that people instantly make the connection between science and religion sickens me. [editline]03:04PM[/editline] much like a good part of this thread

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;23942230] I feel that science has nothing to do with philosophy and religion and the fact that people instantly make the connection between science and religion sickens me.[/QUOTE] well science does have quite a few relations to philosophies. Take transhumanism for example, if we didn't have an understanding of evolution and biology, that philosophy never would have come to fruition.

[QUOTE=Asphyxia;23938923]You sound like you've written quite a few A+++ papers. I wish I had your writing ability. :frown:[/QUOTE] Really? I hate reading my own writing, I always feel like I can't get the organization and flow of it down; the pacing always seems off to me. [QUOTE=bravehat;23938607] It basically stops an enzyme from taking a reactant for a reaction. It's a hormone type thing that controls a reaction within the body.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I know, it helps to regulate the ubiquitylation process in the body by binding to the effector molecules' receptor sites, controlling the processes of protein breakdown. My point wasn't that I don't get the paper, it was more that it doesn't really have many interesting implications to laymen.

I'm looking at my new hip implant from a disk my doctor gave me. :science:

Also, on the topic of studying science, I'm currently trying to refresh my mind on every one of these topics for one single test (points if you guess which test): Kinematics & Physics Fluid Mechanics Atomic Theory & Chemistry Organic Chemistry Molecular Biology Thermodynamics & Kinetics Biochemistry Genetics, Ecology & Evolution Zoology & General Biology Immunology Anatomy and Physiology Electromagnetism, Light, Optics & Modern Physics I have to refresh my mind on all of these topics to at least a decent undergraduate level before I take this exam. [editline]01:49AM[/editline] [QUOTE=OvB;23955109]I'm looking at my new hip implant from a disk my doctor gave me. :science:[/QUOTE] Is it a new one as in a recent development? What's it made out of/what model?

Hey guys I was on a -camping trip with some buddies and we needed a way to clean some water we found in a stream. We boiled the water and distilled it. Once again we scienced ourselves out of a problem. :3:

[QUOTE=Kagrenak;23955170] Is it a new one as in a recent development? What's it made out of/what model?[/QUOTE] Titanium. Think it's a Zimmer hip. [editline]01:06AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Kagrenak;23955170](points if you guess which test): [/QUOTE] I'm going to take a wild guess and say something in the medical/biomedical career.

[QUOTE=OvB;23955348]Titanium. Think it's a Zimmer hip. [editline]01:06AM[/editline] I'm going to take a wild guess and say something in the medical/biomedical career.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's the MCAT, I have to do that along with whatever the particular university wants for the PhD program to do what I want to do. (Dual doctorate) also, I found a video documenting the procedure for the replacement, if you're interested (Somewhat graphic): [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4752563914659731164[/url]