Free Knowledge!

[Hal]

I'm not really sure if this belongs in here or the Space Lounge, but it's close enough I guess. Also, this isn't quite news, I just was reminded of it by randomly finding the article that first informed me of its existence, but it's been true for at least a couple of years. There was actually a post on these forums about a month ago on a specific part of it, but it only had 2 responses and didn't really communicate the idea, so here we go.

With the boring disclaimers out of the way: MIT course materials are free online! Anyone can have unlimited free access to all sorts of lectures and assignments (and probably videos, I haven't looked around yet much) without so much as even signing up for an account. You can learn things, it's great!

And now for the KSP link (meaning the first thing I went to), the Introduction to Propulsion Systems class. While I know a lot of people on these forums don't yet have a full education of tricky physics and mathematics, Wikipedia can be helpful for a lot of things, and you can take your own time. It's also not perfect for sure, learning is (hopefully) a lot more difficult without a teacher and in some of these cases, the book they expect you to be looking at (replaced by Wikipedia?), but it's still a nice thing to have around. There are literally hundreds of courses, it's just... really cool. Also, it's a good several dozen thousand dollars per year cheaper than the real thing, which certainly doesn't hurt.

What are you waiting for?

[LordFerret]

Yes, MIT is one of them... but people should be aware you'll obtain no formal degree from them. Other than that, it's a great idea.

The Kahn Academy is another, one of several worthy.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

[AngelLestat]

Thanks that is a good news.

This remind me that today in gizmag was an article about that researchers from MIT found the laws of superconductivity.

Maybe not from a math proven theory, more from making the equations depending what they see.. But the equation which they have now, predicts with perfections all the superconductors which we know so far.

Well I was looking into all the material they have.. wow.. I wish to live for always to learn all that.

I will start with something about aerodynamics.