Collection of Science Jokes P2

[Orodruin]

That is the first time I have seen the banner advertisement painted on the top of a truck.

How often do you see the top of a truck though?

 

[Ibix]

Of all the places to have an accident. Luckily, it happened in photoshop world, not in the real world. That is the first time I have seen the banner advertisement painted on the top of a truck.

Could be so that air traffic can see to keep out of the airspace above the Mentos lorry in case of a crash with a Coca-Cola lorry?

 

[Baluncore]

How often do you see the top of a truck though?

Whenever you cross a highway on a pedestrian bridge, or look down on the city from a high rise building.
"Google Earth" your favourite truck stop, or 41°37'8.32"N, 90°46'46.02"W.

 

[jbriggs444]

Whenever you cross a highway on a pedestrian bridge, or look down on the city from a high rise building.
"Google Earth" your favourite truck stop, or 41°37'8.32"N, 90°46'46.02"W.

Lol, I wondered if you were going to reference the Iowa 80. I grew up in Davenport a few miles east.

 

[berkeman]

or 41°37'8.32"N, 90°46'46.02"W

Lol, I wondered if you were going to reference the Iowa 80.

 

[Baluncore]

I grew up in Davenport a few miles east.

I did 10 years in Devonport, 15 Mm, WSW of there.

The only thing I see painted on the top of the trailers is the company initials and a trailer ID number, and those are very sparse. I guess that makes it possible for security services to follow critical loads on the highway from a helicopter.

 

[davenn]

 

[Demystifier]

 

[Demystifier]

 

[davenn]

 

[Borg]

I always thought that since there were so many Russians on the show that it should be called "Dancing with the Tzars".

 

[jack action]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

Um...

 

[dwarde]

 

[collinsmark]

Um...

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That hurts just looking at the picture. Twice now (over my lifetime) the soldering iron slipped -- maybe the cord getting caught on my elbow or something on the lab bench -- and to keep it from rolling off the table, or onto my lap, I grabbed it, but unfortunately I grabbed it in the wrong place. You would think once would be enough for me to permanently learn. But here we are.

 

[Orodruin]

That hurts just looking at the picture. Twice now (over my lifetime) the soldering iron slipped -- maybe the cord getting caught on my elbow or something on the lab bench -- and to keep it from rolling off the table, or onto my lap, I grabbed it, but unfortunately I grabbed it in the wrong place. You would think once would be enough for me to permanently learn. But here we are.

See, this is why I went into theory!

 

[berkeman]

 

[Orodruin]

A classic PhD comic brought back to my attention recently:

 

[jack action]

Bad language but still thought-provacating.

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[dextercioby]

 

[Filip Larsen]

Spoiler

It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

 

[jack action]

 

[jack action]

 

[jack action]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That hurts just looking at the picture. Twice now (over my lifetime) the soldering iron slipped -- maybe the cord getting caught on my elbow or something on the lab bench -- and to keep it from rolling off the table, or onto my lap, I grabbed it, but unfortunately I grabbed it in the wrong place. You would think once would be enough for me to permanently learn. But here we are.

When I was about 12 years old, while I was using a soldering gun, a neighbor kid snuck up behind me and yelled or did something to startle me. I reacted by swinging around and inadvertently sticking the tip of the soldering gun right in the middle of his forehead. He still had a dent in his forehead when I saw him ten years later.

 

[Orodruin]

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Ironically, mathematicians are often very satisfied just with proof of existence.