Collection of Science Jokes P2

[jbriggs444]

I would have posted this as a joke, if ...

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... it wasn't so wrong. So let's make it a quiz:

Who can find the error?

1744? By which time Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit had been dead for nearly a decade?

 

[fresh_42]

1744? By which time Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit had been dead for nearly a decade?

Very good! Two more mistakes, but still not the one I was thinking of.

 

[jbriggs444]

Very good! Two more mistakes, but still not the one I was thinking of.

The Fahrenheit scale was not refined to its modern definition until 1776?
Or the reversal of the Celsius scale in 1743?

 

[fresh_42]

The Fahrenheit scale was not refined to its modern definition until 1776?
Or the reversal of the Celsius scale in 1743?

The latter, yes.

However, unlike the modern Celsius scale, Celsius assigned a value of 0 °C to the boiling point of water and a value of 100 °C to the freezing point. The modern Celsius scale, in which the boiling point of water is assigned the value 100 °C and the freezing point is assigned the value 0 °C, was introduced by Carl von Linné, a friend of Celsius, shortly after his death in 1744.

 

[Baluncore]

What is it with the USA using Fahrenheit, where a temperature of 100 is defined, as that inside a cow.

 

[Haborix]

I saw the photo and immediately thought Newton.

 

[jack action]

Who can find the error?

Also, he was 42, not 43 at his death.

 

[Tom.G]

Also, he was 42, not 43 at his death.

Numerically however, the math works out that way; Zero-based versus One-based.

 

[Orodruin]

What is it with the USA using Fahrenheit, where a temperature of 100 is defined, as that inside a cow.

What if the cow has fever?

 

[Orodruin]

 

[Baluncore]

I believe that book was peer-reviewed, but not by scientists.

 

[Orodruin]

I believe that book was peer-reviewed, but not by scientists.

But if it was given by God … who was the peer?

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

(Just a quick reminder to avoid religious topics at PF, even in the humor threads. Thanks)

 

[BillTre]

 

[Orodruin]

 

[DrClaude]

But if it was given by God … who was the peer?

Why God never got tenure:

1. He had only one major publication.
2. It wasn't published in a peer-reviewed journal.
3. Some even doubt that he wrote it himself.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Baluncore]

Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture.

That was only until his name was placed at the start of the top line.

 

[BadgerBadger92]

Are physics jokes funny?

The answer is relative.

 

[DrClaude]

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Can I be pedantic? (As anything stopped me before?)

This is of course only true of the people born at the time (I, for one, am not in this picture).

 

[Ibix]

(I, for one, am not in this picture).

Your atoms are...

 

[DrClaude]

Your atoms are...

Who is to say? The Earth gains some 5000 tons of space dust per year.

 

[BillTre]

 

[pinball1970]

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I just got this! Also, are sure this is not your door??

 

[fresh_42]

I just got this! Also, are sure this is not your door??

I would have pinned that ...

... on my door.

(Sorry, it's German and also only understandable for Asterix fans. Maybe some will get the pun and laugh anyway.)

 

[collinsmark]

Supernova

(Source: https://xkcd.com/2878)

 

[Halc]

Supernova

(Source: https://xkcd.com/2878)

Mind you, the distance below which billions die is perhaps 3 ticks from the origin.
This is astronomers we're talking about.

 

[fresh_42]

Schrödinger's dumpster.

 

[Demystifier]

 

[jack action]

 

[BillTre]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[Orodruin]