Collection of Science Jokes P2

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Reminds me of the movie Tremors.

 

[Borg]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The case of hyper-rapid evolution:

In just over 100 years the Klingons went from

To

 

[collinsmark]

The case of hyper-rapid evolution:

In just over 100 years the Klingons went from

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This is kind of addressed, in a "hand waving" sort of way, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations." This might be the only time it's ever addressed in the whole Star Trek genera (as far as I know). You may have to watch it on YouTube (instead of the embedded version), but I've provided the link below:

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This is kind of addressed, in a "hand waving" sort of way, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Episode: "Trials and Tribble-ations." This might be the only time it's ever addressed in the whole Star Trek genera (as far as I know). You may have to watch it on YouTube (instead of the embedded version), but I've provided the link below:

But he said that they don't discuss it with outsiders. Must be some weird sex thing...

In the beginning I think they were really just Russians.

 

[Ibix]

The prequel series Enterprise eventually explained it as a nasty accident. Some illegally genetically engineered human super soldiers came to their attention when the half dozen of them killed an entire Klingon warship's crew and stole the ship. Impressed, they tried to reverse engineer the super soldier tech from a dead body, but only succeeded in creating and accidentally releasing a virus that made them look more like humans. That affected almost all then-living Klingons before burning out, which is why only original series era Klingons look like yellow peril villains.

Rodenberry apparently said that the Klingons were always meant to look like the modern ones, but it would have bust the budget in the 60s. Nothing to do with rising discomfort with the evil scheming Klingons being basically white guys in yellowface, no sir. Official in-universe justifications post date his death.

Non-canon material published after the first movie (with the first ridged forehead Klingons) and before the sixth (with the first canon explanation of how peace came about) proposed that the old Klingons were Klingon-human hybrids bred to have a better understanding of humans, specifically for service on the frontier. But they were second class citizens with a militaristic culture distinct from mainstream Klingon society (the original series Klingons are notably differently characterised from later versions), and equipped with a decent navy. I'll let you guess how well that went. After the fighting finished the Empire was no longer capable of facing the Federation so had to go for a peace treaty. The Feds are idealistic enough to think they can teach the Klingons cooperation so they go for it. In many ways that's a better explanation IMO, but by the time the official explanation was written (by Judith and Gar Reeves-Stevens, who were actually old school Star Trek authors retained to try to save Enterprise) there was too much official stuff inconsistent with it, so the virus was born.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The prequel series Enterprise eventually explained it as a nasty accident. Some illegally genetically engineered human super soldiers came to their attention when the half dozen of them killed an entire Klingon warship's crew and stole the ship. Impressed, they tried to reverse engineer the super soldier tech from a dead body, but only succeeded in creating and accidentally releasing a virus that made them look more like humans. That affected almost all then-living Klingons before burning out, which is why only original series era Klingons look like yellow peril villains.

Rodenberry apparently said that the Klingons were always meant to look like the modern ones, but it would have bust the budget in the 60s. Nothing to do with rising discomfort with the evil scheming Klingons being basically white guys in yellowface, no sir. Official in-universe justifications post date his death.

Non-canon material published after the first movie (with the first ridged forehead Klingons) and before the sixth (with the first canon explanation of how peace came about) proposed that the old Klingons were Klingon-human hybrids bred to have a better understanding of humans, specifically for service on the frontier. But they were second class citizens with a militaristic culture distinct from mainstream Klingon society (the original series Klingons are notably differently characterised from later versions), and equipped with a decent navy. I'll let you guess how well that went. After the fighting finished the Empire was no longer capable of facing the Federation so had to go for a peace treaty. The Feds are idealistic enough to think they can teach the Klingons cooperation so they go for it. In many ways that's a better explanation IMO, but by the time the official explanation was written (by Judith and Gar Reeves-Stevens, who were actually old school Star Trek authors retained to try to save Enterprise) there was too much official stuff inconsistent with it, so the virus was born.

I thought the reboot was brilliant. It was a bit of a cheap dodge but the problems of consistency, which hardcore trekkers taker very seriously, had gotten far too deep in the weeds.

 

[Ibix]

I thought the reboot was brilliant. It was a bit of a cheap dodge but the problems of consistency, which hardcore trekkers taker very seriously, had gotten far too deep in the weeds.

Which, the JJ Abrams movies? I only watched the first one - I enjoyed it the first time but on the second watching all sorts of details started to jump out at me and I ended up with trouble suspending my disbelief. Which is saying something coming from a fairly old school Star Trek fan.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Which, the JJ Abrams movies? I only watched the first one - I enjoyed it the first time but on the second watching all sorts of details started to jump out at me and I ended up with trouble suspending my disbelief. Which is saying something coming from a fairly old school Star Trek fan.

Interesting. Truthfully, I liked the ABrams reboot but I haven't followed much since. However I do still find myself going to the old series from time to time, which was the motivation for my post in the first place. I have been watching TOS. I wonder how many times I've seen these. LOL!

I never did get into DS 9, Enterprise, or the late generation movies like I did TOS, TNG, and Voyager.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

While watching the old series, sometimes it is easy to forget what was science fiction back then. We have mostly surpassed their level of computer technology.

 

[fresh_42]

I never did get into DS 9, Enterprise, or the late generation movies like I did TOS, TNG, and Voyager.

How did you manage to ignore Jolene Blalock?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

How did you manage to ignore Jolene Blalock?

Well, yes... I'm at a loss for words.

 

[Ibix]

I never did get into DS 9, Enterprise, or the late generation movies like I did TOS, TNG, and Voyager.

I'd say DS9 is my favourite, largely because it didn't hit the reset button at the end of every episode.

While watching the old series, sometimes it is easy to forget what was science fiction back then. We have mostly surpassed their level of computer technology.

Oh yeah. Pocket computers with dynamic touch screen interfaces make everything on the show look obsolete...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Well, yes... I'm at a loss for words.

I will always have Seven. Grrrrrrrr!

 

[fresh_42]

I will always have Seven. Grrrrrrrr!

Born in Munich, btw.!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Born in Munich, btw.!

German, Dutch, Swedish...Russian... don't get me started!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

They keep saying the Delta variant is different...

Well yeah, it's DELTA.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[fresh_42]

It means: Everything is alright. The resistor works.

 

[Baluncore]

Don't worry.
That is perfectly normal for a lose bolt on the ground clamp lead of an electrical welder.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The modern medical MRI uses magnetic field strengths of up to 3 Tesla. It has been discovered that due to residual magnetism in the iron in blood, people who have had a recent MRI have a preference towards walking North.

You can make a compass out of them if you have a pool and a raft.

 

[BillTre]

 

[Vanadium 50]

How did you manage to ignore Jolene Blalock?

Jolene Blalock = Ginger
Linda Park = Mary Ann

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The newest release of Windows comes with hot keys for porn.

 

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Seems like your other control panel lights are faulty as they are out.
There should possibly be an indicator light for standby, power on, . .. depending upon the application.
Too bad - someone removed the control panel cover, perhaps for servicing, and did not replace.
It is quite difficult to say what the indicator light actually represents just from the picture.
A wild guess out of the blue would be that your system is in standby.

 

[Baluncore]

A wild guess out of the blue would be that your system is in standby.

I have met this problem before. Red says stop.
Do not interfere with it, nor try to fix it, until it goes green.
KISS.

 

[chasrob]

There is a semi-famous math algorithm developed by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. It is known as the Cox-Zucker machine.

For a long time I'd been assuming that they knew what they were doing, but today, via Peter Woit, I got confirmation. Cox writes in a memorial for Zucker:

I met Steve in the fall of 1970 when we were entering graduate students at Princeton. We both studied algebraic geometry, though I was more algebraic (à la Grothendieck) while Steve was more transcendental (à la Griffiths). This made for some lively conversations. A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.

 

[Keith_McClary]

WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for July 10, 2021​

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I heard that after a little misfire the ISS had a bad attitude. Why does that remind me of my ex wife?

 

[Tom.G]

 

[davenn]

Probably why they didnt pass their petrology classes

 

[jack action]

Last August 4th was the birthday of John Venn, who introduced the Venn diagrams. Here's a clever poem written with the help of this wonderful tool:

 

[BillTre]

Guess its not that funny.