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This thread features a collection of science-related jokes, puns, and humorous anecdotes, primarily focusing on physics, mathematics, and engineering concepts. The discussion includes various types of jokes, some of which are derived from literature, while others are original contributions from participants.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a joke about a mathematician, a dog, and a cow, highlighting the humor in knot theory.
  • Another participant introduces a joke about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in a romantic context.
  • Several jokes reference mathematical conventions, such as the use of epsilon in calculus, with some participants seeking clarification on the humor.
  • A joke about a communication between Americans and Canadians illustrates a humorous misunderstanding, with historical context provided by a participant.
  • Participants discuss the nature of jokes, including the structure of short jokes and the implications of scientific terminology in humor.
  • There are multiple jokes involving Heisenberg, with one participant noting the brevity of a specific version of the joke.
  • A humorous take on a scientific method is shared, with some participants expressing curiosity about the referenced group of scientists.
  • Another joke involves a metaphorical description of a woman's experience during childbirth, framed in scientific terms.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share jokes and humorous anecdotes without a clear consensus on any specific joke or concept. Some jokes prompt requests for clarification, indicating varying levels of understanding and appreciation for the humor presented.

Contextual Notes

Some jokes rely on specific scientific knowledge or conventions that may not be universally understood, leading to requests for explanations. The humor often hinges on wordplay and the intersection of scientific concepts with everyday situations.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in science humor, particularly in physics and mathematics, may find this collection entertaining and thought-provoking.

  • #1,501
jack action said:
It is that time of year again:

you missed part of it ……. :wink: :wink:

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  • #1,502
Are they complex trees or real trees?
 
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  • #1,503
mfb said:
Are they complex trees or real trees?
T(h)ree adic trees :biggrin:
 
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Oh xmas tree, oh ymas tree,
Your boughs can teach a lesson.
With normal trees, and right hand rule,
For geometry, you are a tool
Oh xmas tree, oh ymas tree,
Your boughd can teach a lesson.
 
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  • #1,505
mfb said:
Are they complex trees or real trees?
I don't know, but I think they can be integrated and derived with some assumptions.
Let the christmas tree function c be a function of time, c(t), then

for t < Christmas Day, \int_{0}^{Christmas Day} c(t)dt=
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for t <= Christmas Day, c(t)=
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for Christmas Day < t < New Year's Eve, c&#039;(t)=
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Snowman babies.jpg
 
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DrGreg said:
Oh dear, that means I'll have to rearrange this equation yet again.$$
y = \frac{1}{r^2} \ln \left( \frac{X}{m} - sa\right)
$$
$$\begin{eqnarray*}
r^2y&=&\ln\left(\frac Xm-sa\right)\\
e^{rry}&=&\frac Xm-as\\
me^{rry}&=&X-mas\end{eqnarray*}$$
 
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Merry Christmas!
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  • #1,511
Chromium+Iodine+Sulfur+Thulium+Arsenic
Cr+I+S+Tm+As
 
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<br /> y = \frac{\ln \left( \frac{x}{m} - as \right)}{r^2}<br />
<br /> r^2y = \ln \left( \frac{x}{m} - as \right)<br />
<br /> e^{r^2 y} = \frac{x}{m} - as<br />
<br /> e^{r^2 y} + as = \frac{x}{m}<br />
<br /> m \left( e^{r^2 y} + as \right)= x<br />
<br /> me^{r^2 y} + mas = x<br />
<br /> me^{rry} = x - mas<br />
 
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If Statistics were a donkey, that would be a political cartoon.
 
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What do these people have in common?
Olympic athletes, boxers, married people, group theorists
Rings
 
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mfb said:
What do these people have in common?
Olympic athletes, boxers, married people, group theorists
Rings
... and Tolkien, token, tokamak, CERN
... and geometry, differential geometry, algebra, topology, logic,
... and of course ABBA and Bell
 
  • #1,517
NASA has been determined to go high up in the sky by all means!

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BillTre said:
Needs a Punchline!
Well, it's NASA employees calculating a trajectory in 1961.

Maybe, not the best one, but added.
 
  • #1,520
Too bad their heads are not in a perfect line.
I expect better from NASA.
Non-Linearlity is Not An Option!
 
  • #1,521
If that's supposed to be linear then their spacecraft probably crashed somewhere.
 
  • #1,522
mfb said:
If that's supposed to be linear then their spacecraft probably crashed somewhere.
X-axis= Trial Launch No.
Y-axis= Maximum vehicle altitude (aka time to failure)
 
  • #1,523
They gained about 3 meters in 5 trials. Extrapolating, attempt number 170,000 or so will reach space.
 
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CIA – Computer Industry Acronyms

CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
PCMCIA: People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
SCSI: System Can’t See It
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
DOS: Defunct Operating System
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PnP: Plug and Pray
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You’re Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well.
 
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remember the AOL uninstall instructions? "If you don't want to not uninstall, enter 'yes' now."
 
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gmax137 said:
remember the AOL uninstall instructions?

Being outside of the USA, I wasn't aware of that one haha
 
  • #1,527
Never anthropomorphise computers. They hate it if you do.
 
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Ibix said:
Never anthropomorphise computers. They hate it if you do.
Sometimes it is even damaging for people! A guy in TX once shot his computer out of frustration. A feeling most of us users can share. They had put him in a psychiatry. So do not shoot at things in the US. < ... censored ... >
 
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fresh_42 said:
Sometimes it is even damaging for people! A guy in TX once shot his computer out of frustration. A feeling most of us users can share. They had put him in a psychiatry. So do not shoot at things in the US. < ... censored ... >
There was a story on the Daily WTF about someone demanding a warranty repair for a computer with shotgun damage. Very glad that she'd phoned, rather than showing up in the shop shotgun in hand they said they doubted it was repairable, and anyway it wasn't warranted bulletproof. Eventually she went away, but a week later called in triumph to tell them that another shop had repaired her computer, and how she was taking all her business there etcetera. They managed to get the name of the other shop, and it turned out they knew someone there, so rang to ask for their side of the story.

Apparently they'd just seen an opportunity and said that they'd see what they could do and warned her it might be expensive. Then they'd discovered that the hard drive in that particular model was at the bottom of the case, and she'd hit it high enough that the drive had survived the otherwise almost complete destruction of the machine. So they swapped the hard drive into a new machine and sold it to her, billing it as a repair.
 
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Anders Celsius.jpg
 
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