Collection of Science Jokes P2

[fresh_42]

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You laugh! But as kids, we made jokes like "Free Greenland! Away with the ice shield!" Well, it was a joke back then like winning a backhoe ride through the Appalachian Mountains! (mountains adjusted). Only jokes, but here we are!

 

[BillTre]

You laugh! But as kids, we made jokes like "Free Greenland! Away with the ice shield!" Well, it was a joke back then like winning a backhoe ride through the Appalachian Mountains! (mountains adjusted). Only jokes, but here we are!

Well you won't be laughing about the Gulf Stream stopping in a while either!

 

[fresh_42]

Well you won't be laughing about the Gulf Stream stopping in a while either!

The list is actually a lot longer than this. And if it becomes true what he, who must not be named, lately said according to the news channels here, then it will get even worse than that.

I can only hope that I won't experience any of this.

 

[DaveC426913]

Also two buttons, but only goes up.

Well. You don't know that for sure.

Step in and stand on that big 'X'.

 

[BadgerBadger92]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/343/384/f83.jpg

 

[BillTre]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/343/384/f83.jpg

A screenshot would work for this.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Orodruin]

 

[Ibix]

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One old Star Trek novel gave the Klingons a visual range of near-UV to yellow. There's a comment in passing that they rather like the look of the all-black Star Fleet Security uniform.

 

[jack action]

 

[BillTre]

Leap Light Years:

 

[BillTre]

 

[jbriggs444]

Leap Light Years:

I decided to destroy a good joke by looking it up. The IAU defines the light year in terms of the Julian year (365.25 days). No light leap years for you!

The light-year is roughly equivalent to 0.3 parsecs, and is equal to the distance traveled by light in one Julian year in a vacuum, according to the IAU. To think of it in easily accessible terms, the light-year is 9,460,730,472,580.8 km or 63,241 au.

 

[berkeman]

 

[fresh_42]

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That IS a real MATH joke! Not that silly stuff in the corresponding thread.

My favorite math joke:

"What is the difference between a crocodile?"
"A crocodile and what?"
"Wrong question. The answer is "the greener the bite".
What is the difference between a hippo?"
"No idea. The thicker the dangerous?"
"Nonsense! Hippos do not have differences.
What is the difference between a crocodile and a hippo?"
"I give up."
"Easy! Crocodiles have differences, hippos do not."

It isn't the subject that makes a good math joke, it is the principle!

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Arjan82]

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Shouldn't that look more like this?

 

[berkeman]

 

[Frabjous]

 

[collinsmark]

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Here's a link to the source in case anyone finds the image small to read, and would like a larger version (or would like a reference to the original source material):
https://foxtrot.com/2024/03/10/mathtoons/

 

[berkeman]

 

[DrGreg]

That's what the dinosaur said as it saw the asteroid approaching.

 

[Baluncore]

"Look out, Thak! It's a ... a ... Dang! Never can pronounce those things!"
How did Thak get his name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack#Thak_man-eater

For full marks, what fossil was named after the Late "Thag", of this cartoon series?

Spoiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

 

[BillTre]

Thagomizor cartoon:

The dinosaur body part:

 

[collinsmark]

Thagomizor cartoon:
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The dinosaur body part:
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Yep. That's a thing now.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562/

Among paleontologists, the four-spiked tail of Stegosaurus is called a "thagomizer." It is one of a few terms inspired by one of Gary Larson's beloved "Far Side" cartoons: a caveman points to a slide of a Stegosaurus tail and names the nasty-looking structure in honor of "the late Thag Simmons." Humans and Stegosaurus missed each other by over 140 million years, but the joke was so perfect that paleontologists couldn't help but informally use it.

 

[gmax137]

I think "thagomizer" is a perfectly cromulent name for the stego's tail.

 

[BillTre]

cromulent

another word derived from a joke:

"Cromulent" is a 1996 coinage (neologism) by a TV writer to mean fine, acceptable, excellent, legitimate or authentic. It is for humorous effect, with a touch of sarcasm. See cromulent - Wiktionary . The word first appeared in 1996 in The Simpsons.

 

[Baluncore]

To put it simply, cromulent is apt.