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I only know that if you break the toe of the foot in question, you'll get a Green Lantern.
 
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Wait ! ... for just a Giga-Flash could you ?
fresh_42 said:
I only know that if you break the toe of the foot in question, you'll get a Green Lantern.
jambaugh said:
And I so declare ...that this IS the length of Flash Gordon's Feet...
Did you mean: And I so declare ...that this IS the length of Flash Gordon's Foot... ?:ok:... carry on. . :biggrin:
 
OCR said:
Wait ! ... for just a Giga-Flash could you ?Did you mean: And I so declare ...that this IS the length of Flash Gordon's Foot... ?:ok:... carry on. . :biggrin:
Flash Gordon, we may presume, has both feet of equal length... 1 light-Flash long each. So it is not just the length of his left foot, nor just the length of his right foot, but the lengths of both feet. (So I guess I should have said "lengths".)
 
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For the kitten thread or the science jokes thread? Hard choice... let's post in this thread...
I did not know that a cat had published in Physical Review Letters:
Wikipedia said:
F.D.C. Willard (1975–1980) was the pen name of a Siamese cat named Chester, who internationally published under this name on low temperature physics in scientific journals, once as a co-author and another time as the sole author.
[...]
...the journal would reject this form on submissions with a sole author. Rather than take the time to retype the article to use the singular form, or to bring in a co-author, Hetherington decided to invent one.
Source: F.D.C. Willard
Paper: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.1442
 
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Not sure whether it fits better here or in the lame jokes thread.
Anyway, I've just learned what acronym the 'H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring' team has come up with.
I'll let you take a guess (no cheating with google!).
 
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Bandersnatch said:
Not sure whether it fits better here or in the lame jokes thread.
Anyway, I've just learned what acronym the 'H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring' team has come up with.
I'll let you take a guess (no cheating with google!).
It could have been worse! Hint: use the "p" in Wellspring.
 
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As an aside

When I was doing geology at uni, we were taught about the method of using lichen growth rates
to determine times of last movements on faultlines
 
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You know that saying about having rocks in your head? :doh:

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I'd tell you a joke about chemistry, but all the good ones Argon, and you'd think them Boron :sorry:
 
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Ah yeah mathematics girl. I'm like ##e^{2x}##; you can differentiate me all night long, and I only get bigger.
 
mfb said:
Integration makes you smaller?

Alternatively: d/dy

Integration is the pillow talk of mathematics :)
 
davenn said:
a little astronomy comedy from days gone by ... used to enjoy Pink panther cartoons when I was a kid


there is, in this cartoon, ( as in all cartoons) a number of serious breaking of physics laws :smile:


Oh the scientific inaccuracy!
 
How come ##< \psi |H|\psi> ## and ##< \varphi |H|\varphi> ## got to be ##H|\psi> ## and ##H|\varphi>##?

They took off their bras to prove that they are real.
 
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Knowing that ##\frac{1}{\infty} = 0##, prove that ##\frac{1}{0} = \infty##.

Solution:
  1. Rotate both sides 90° counterclockwise: ##-18 = 0##
  2. Add ##8## to both sides: ##-18 + 8 = 0 + 8## or ##-10 = 8##
  3. Rotate both sides 90° clockwise: ##\frac{1}{0} = \infty##
 
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Show that ##x = 1## for ##2x + x^2 = 3##.

Solution:
$$2x + x^2 = 3$$
$$2x^{\rlap{/}3} = \rlap{/}3$$
$$2x = 1$$
$$x = 2-1$$
$$x =1$$
 
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Related:$$\frac{1\rlap{/}6}{\rlap{/}64} = \frac 1 4$$
$$\frac{1\rlap{/}9}{\rlap{/}95} = \frac 1 5$$
 
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In fact, all numbers are equal to each other.

Let ##a## and ##b## be any two numbers. Define$$
c = a + b.
$$Multiply both sides by ##a - b##:$$
ac - bc = a^2 - b^2.
$$Reaarrange:$$
ac - a^2 = bc - b^2
$$Subtract ##ab##:$$
ac - a^2 - ab = bc - ab - b^2
$$Factorise:$$
a(c-a-b) = b(c-a-b).
$$Cancel:$$
a = b.
$$
 
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