/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14517248
Well that sucks. I find it difficult to stick around for too long because of my schizotypal disorder. I can usually suppress it quite a bit but most of my colleagues feel like there's something off with me.

>>12192460
>I've already written this exact post over a literal eternity ago
It never ends does it?

When did you realize that the heat dissipation problem alone makes habitats and space stations completely unfeasible regardless of the tech level of the civilization?
Me? Just now. We're never colonizing space.

>>12055819
That's sort of the problem. I don't have impostor syndrome, I think I'm qualified, I think I'm a good fit, hell, I even think I probably had a better resume and interview than most of the other applicants. I've been in labs where I got shouted down though and I have shakey hands and generally I overthink things to the point of significantly losing efficiency. I'm pretty sure that I'm at least reasonably intelligent, but I don't have the same confidence that basically most people I know do. Hence, I just feel like I'm destined to fuck up, whether that be by spilling an expensive reagent, breaking some expensive instruments, being timid and annoying to the point where the people in the lab don't like me, maybe even accidentally typing "nigger" in the lab group text. Maybe I should just go to work drunk.

I've actually been getting along quite well with everyone so far but I still feel like I'm walking on thin ice.

My mother has fluid on the lungs, pleural effusion.

Last week she had extreme back pain and went to the hospital and found out she has 1-liter of fluid on the lungs was pushing on her muscle.
They're going to be draining in and doing a biopsy next week.

She has a history of autoimmune disease, had a problem with her eyes with Sjögren's syndrome and various other autoimmune related things like balance. They ran a bunch of tests before and said it wasn't Lupus. But I know autoimmune disorders can manifest in strange ways.

What are the chances it's cancer?
She had ct scans/xrays done and they didn't see any cancer in her chest area. Doesn't the cancer need to spread to that area first?
She had zero cancer related symptoms up to this point, just the lower back pain, she can breathe and talk normally.
How long does a pleural effusion take to develop?

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>>11319459
>there will be a point of our society where we will achieve economically-feasible mass-simulations like the matrix
>they will be used to re-enact biblical hell onto prisoners so they experience their sins to the fullest extent until they break and repent within the simulation
>>my real body is probably locked somewhere up there while I'm hooked down here to endure this torture that I refer to as "my life" on a daily basis