/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9827402
don't overthink the essay questions
they're not looking for a GOOD essay or an essay that demonstrates your background knowledge. they are looking for a very cookie-cutter essay that presents only the information supplied in order to advance a fairly simple argument.
also, get used to doing math quickly. that's not as easy to study for, but it will save your tuchus.

>>9827414
was good enough for 80th %ile but still not super proud of it.

>>9355054
>especially when they curve in the same way the earth does
the earth's outline is far more curved in that image than the edge of the solar panel is. if you understood the most fundamental plane geometry, you could measure that yourself.
also, are you saying that the outline in that image is actually the edge of the (flat) earth, distorted to look rounder than it is? because that's the Gulf of California visible in that image. are you claiming that eastern Mexico doesn't really exist?

>>9355088
>I'm saying don't blindly believe what people teach.
This may come as a surprise to a NEET like you, but we actually learn critical thinking skills and constantly challenge our ideas based on the evidence. (That's different from just rejecting all evidence like you advocate.) When I tell you that trilobites had biramous walking/swimming limbs along with antennae and cerci, and that their mouth was covered by their hypostome, it is because I have seen the pyritized specimens showing this to be the case.
>I guess I don't know what shadows are
of course you don't. take a ball and a small flashlight into a darkened room and hold them in front of you. shine the flashlight on the side of the ball. you will clearly see the same shadow pattern on the opposite side of the ball.

your claim that that side of the image is fake doesn't even make sense in light of itself! if (((they))) could fake images with such realism, WHY wouldn't they just fake BOTH SIDES? you believe that there is a massive conspiracy to deceive everyone that also just happens to leave obvious clues for you. are we ruled by cartoon villains now?

>>9160776
>Published results are wrong all the time
>hurr I don't like this evidence, therefore it's wrong!
yeah how about before you decide that the evidence MUST be wrong, how about you read Kiehl and Trenberth's methodology? they explain JUST HOW they arrived at those results.
are you able to read? your statements here raise some questions about that.

>IR-Active gases means we have photon -> phonon transition, or the molecules pick up the wavelength and start jiggeling
...except that there's electron excitation to consider as well, and CO2 is linear and therefore its molecular motion excitation states are quite limited.
absorption of a photon by a molecule of CO2 is typically followed by reemission. this can be verified experimentally

>greenhouses do not get warm because glass blocks IR
>oops, he pointed out that I don't know what I'm talking about! better change the topic and pretend I was talking about literal greenhouses!
we're talking about the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. the fact that terrestrial radiation is reemitted downwards by greenhouse gases can be easily verified by pointing a good IR camera at the night sky.