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.
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A Smart Guy's Dream Date:
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"If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside".
Robert Cringely, InfoWorld.
From; The Unixhaters Handbook. 1994.
 
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one for the Earth science people ...
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Anyone know what species that tree is?
(Other than Binary!)
 
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Looks like a palm of some kind, but I've never seen one branch like that.

My guess would be that someone climbed up and physically split the growing crown(s) of the tree in some way (4 times during its previous life).
It also seems more planar than one might expect naturally.
 
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That prompted me to look at a blowup of the image. There are few junctions that look suspicious, as in photo manipulation.

Starting at the trunk, two prominent junctions are shown below as '?':
Right-Left-Right-?
Right-Right-? Although this one COULD be a shadow.

The shadows are plausible based on shadows of bushy ground cover in the middle distance.

Either way, it is certainly an interesting image! Thanks.
 
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DrClaude said:
For those who want more: this is from Zach Weinersmith's Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness.

It is available for free: https://www.smbc-comics.com/covid/files/miniSciWebv6.pdf
I LOVE this definition:
Relativity: The study of how, if you have a clock and I have a clock, it doesn’t mean a damn thing
 
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DrClaude said:
For those who want more: this is from Zach Weinersmith's Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness.

It is available for free: https://www.smbc-comics.com/covid/files/miniSciWebv6.pdf
ohhh brilliant :biggrin::biggrin: thankyou

been reading through some of it, some good giggles and ""insights"" 😉😉

Chapter 5 Earth Science

5.1 History

A bunch of space-junk formed into a big hot space-ball. Later it cooled down, and life formed.
Then, apes evolved on its surface and tried to get it back to its earlier state.

5.2 Major Insights
• Once, a giant rock slammed into Earth, creating the apocalyptic ash-blackened hellscape that presaged the dawn of humanity.
• The Himalayas are still growing, which means that if you sit on top of Everest, you are continuously breaking mountain-climbing records.
• When Mother Earth catches a bad case of industrialization, She fights it off with a fever.
• Earth is “fine-tuned” for humans in the same sense that it was once fine-tuned for dinosaurs
• The continents look like they fit together because land on Earth is basically a sort of broken jigsaw puzzle.
• 6,000 years is not enough time for all this crap to happen

5.3 Subdisciplines
Meteorology: The study of “Is it going to rain today or what?”
Climate Science: The study of “Is it going to devastate human civilization with floods and hurricanes this century or what?”
Geology: The classification of rocks by whether they’re the crumbly kind, the shiny kind, or the kind that got smooshed.
Paleontology: The classification of rocks by whether they once had feelings
Volcanology: Dermatology, but for planets.
Geophysics: The study of really big hunks of Earth.
Geochemistry: The study of really small hunks of Earth.
Geography: The study of various means by which to misrepresent the surface of Earth.
Oceanography: The study of what happens when you slowly carbonate an 80-quadrillion-gallon fish tankjust a little snippet
 
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the whole thing is a good fun read
 
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A good read.

I'm surprised.
In the acknowledgments there was no listing of Shelby Carmen Ron deMontagne.Neither was there a Ben Dover
 
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Top comment to that pic was:

At our physics student union we had a vote whether to make Schrödinger's cat an honorary member of the union or not. The ballots were put in a box, but the box was never opened...
 
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