Collection of Science Jokes P2

In summary: Usually it's been commentated as being 'real'. Actually the joke dates back to the 30's and whether it's real or not cannot be said anymore.
  • #946
Engineers!

 
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  • #947
fresh_42 said:
Engineers!
I see nothing untoward here.
 
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  • #948
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https://bizarro.com/daily-comic/?fd=2018-12-09
 

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  • #949
 
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  • #950
Trouble at the Infinity Bar:

A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...never to return!
...return;
...return;
...return
...return;
return.
 
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  • #951
how long will it take you to spot it ? ...

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  • #952
davenn said:
how long will it take you to spot it ? ...
The photographer's shadow, distorted by the wide-angle lens, looks like a normal human except four or five meters tall. Clearly an alien.
 
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  • #953
Ibix said:
The photographer's shadow, distorted by the wide-angle lens, looks like a normal human except four or five meters tall. Clearly an alien.

And the alien's shadow compared to the lander's definitely proves there ARE multiple dimensions!
 
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  • #954
No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?
 
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  • #955
mfb said:
No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?
You missed out how evolution was faked on a Hollywood sound stage.
 
  • #956
mfb said:
No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?

Beyond a "shadow of a doubt"!
 
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  • #957
Ibix said:
Clearly
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  • #960
A fencing instructor named Fisk
Had an action incredibly brisk
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Foreshortened his foil to a disc
 
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  • #961
andrew s 1905 said:
A fencing instructor named Fisk
Had an action incredibly brisk
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Foreshortened his foil to a disc
And the corollary (from a year ago):
Ibix said:
There was a young lady called Bright,
Who traveled far faster than light.
She went out one day,
In a relative way,
And came back the previous night.
 
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  • #962
Zach Weinersmith seems to be on a roll with physics/mathematics based cartoons this past week or so. This one is from today.

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(Source: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/thermodynamics)

The image on the website also has the following mouse-over text, "I originally posted this as a twitter joke and a horde of angry people believed I was serious, resulting in dozens of angry replies, hastening the heat death of the universe."
 

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  • #964
My attempt at a scienceLimerick

Einstein argued with Bohr
Into Quantum Mechanics here tore
It just can't be right
To predict faster than light
As that's not allowed I am quite sure (or for the Physicist "It's subtly hidden in Bell states I'm sure")

Regards Andrew
 
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  • #965
I like prime numbers but there's something about that set. Other than two, the members are all so... odd.
 
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  • #966
My attempt at alliterative math humor if nasty celestial object influenced average ancient weather:

Maunder Minimum means means mean meteor.
 
  • #967
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  • #968
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  • #969
They forgot to identify the power line on the right side of the image. :oldbiggrin:
 
  • #970
Klystron said:
I like prime numbers but there's something about that set. Other than two, the members are all so... odd.
All prime numbers are odd, with the exception of 2.
That must make 2 the oddest prime number of all.
 
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  • #971
not so much a joke as an awesome wall clock ...

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  • #972
davenn said:
not so much a joke as an awesome wall clock ...

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Gee! ... if I knew there was a test to tell the time I would have studied! :oldruck:o0)

Actually I saw a similar one in a cafe the other day. But I thought "That's not a clock! It's a 'time machine' ..." ... It gets you into the future! Because by the time you read the time out of it, you're already way into the future! ... :biggrin:
 
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  • #973
I know there are experienced skywatchers and amateur astronomers on PF, so I ask for some help:
Where can I find the Samsung Galaxy in the night sky?
 
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  • #974
DennisN said:
I know there are experienced skywatchers and amateur astronomers on PF, so I ask for some help:
Where can I find the Samsung Galaxy in the night sky?

It's just behind this pulsar
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  • #975
It's actually a super-cluster!

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  • #976
DennisN said:
I know there are experienced skywatchers and amateur astronomers on PF, so I ask for some help:
Where can I find the Samsung Galaxy in the night sky?
GSM arena, where else? ...
[Just raise your device's screen towards/against the night sky while you do the search! ... :biggrin:]
 
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  • #977
Borg said:
They forgot to identify the power line on the right side of the image. :oldbiggrin:
That's the load :wink:
 
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  • #978
davenn said:
That's the load :wink:
It's going to reduce the available power. :wink:
 
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  • #979
davenn said:
That's the load :wink:
I thought the entire thing is one of the classical simple machines, if not the oldest at all! The right side would be the lever. Btw., do lever and liver have the same etymological origin? Is there a deeper truth in here?
 
  • #980
fresh_42 said:
There is another joke which became viral in the 90's with the internet getting more and more popular.

Americans: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision."
Canadians: "Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision."
Americans: "This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course."
Canadians: "No, I say again, you divert YOUR course."
Americans: "THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. THAT'S ONE-FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP."
Canadians: "This is a lighthouse. Your call."

Usually it's been commentated as being 'real'. Actually the joke dates back to the 30's and whether it's real or not cannot be said anymore. Someone once replied to an anecdote I told him: "I doubt it's true. However, the point is: It could be true."
I have heard the same joke before but instead of Canadians was the Irish and there was a lot more going back and forward before the punch line.
 
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