Collection of Science Jokes P2

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Coronavirus prevention (from this website which collects similar jokes):

 

[Ibix]

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I admit to having once said more or less exactly that myself. In my defence, I was about 5 years old at the time...

 

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[Bandersnatch]

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Wow, that's such a non-sequitur right there. While the reasoning holds for murder, the bigger the war, the bigger the x, but also the k. So k/x does not tend to 0 as x approaches infinity, unless one shows first that x grows faster than k.
And, even assuming k is constant, as x->∞ the expression approaches 0 but never changes sign, so it only gets less unethical - never ethical.

But then again, that's the kind of topsy-turvy spin one has grown to expect of politicians, so there.

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ibix]

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David Brin observed that lotteries aren't so much a tax on people who are bad at maths. Everyone knows the house always wins. People play because they hope they'll get lucky - so lotteries are a tax on hope.

 

[Ibix]

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I'm not sure "like" is the correct response to that, but there doesn't seem to be an option for "uncomfortable acceptance that someone may have a point".

 

[BillTre]

I consider it provocative. of thought.

 

[Klystron]

Lotteries provide intangible benefits to the ticket buyer such as a mild fantasy of wealth, the fantasy of perceiving the correct numbers and, for kind players, the collective sharing that 'someone will win'. Not bad entertainment for a dollar.

My younger sister, a mathematician and accountant who recognizes the odds, likes to purchase one lottery ticket when we go for walks. We discuss how we will divide the jackpot and feel closer for an hour or so. Not sure she even bothers to check the results but has a little stack of date stamped memories of our walks.

 

[mfb]

I consider it provocative. of thought.

"Asking for things basically every other developed country has" (stronger actions against global warming as exception) shouldn't be very provocative.

 

[BillTre]

"Asking for things basically every other developed country has" (stronger actions against global warming as exception) shouldn't be very provocative.

However, I live in the US.

 

[Marc Rindermann]

The shortest math joke: Be $ε < 0$.

I've come here to post this one, even though I thought it might have already been posted

 

[Borg]

 

[WWGD]

I am at the Chemistry department to ask a question but all the students Argon.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I am at the Chemistry department to ask a question but all the students Argon.

Are you sure? When I look for students I Xenon.

 

[Klystron]

I am at the Chemistry department to ask a question but all the students Argon.

Are you sure? When I look for students I Xenon.

Yes, we're worried. The lab assistant hasn't benzene, ether.

 

[jbriggs444]

ether

Mis-spelled ether there Did I say something? Perhaps not.

 

[Klystron]

Mis-spelled ether there.

Darn, you quick-witted japesters! I was mentally riffling through terms for 'worried or concerned' trying to find a chem joke. Not as easy as alliteration .

 

[davenn]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clark, 1973

 

[Keith_McClary]

"Blessings upon every tweeter who contributed to this solution. I decided not to include cladding because cladding is for losers."

SMBC

 

[davenn]

Nooooooooooooo they can't do this to me ...

 

[BillTre]

The Google way of knowing:

 

[Bystander]

Nooooooooooooo they can't do this to me ...

Are you certain that "they" isn't your wife?

 

[Ibix]

Anyone noticed that the Sun's been looking a bit ill recently? Scientists suspect it has corona virus.

 

[fresh_42]

How do mathematicians call a pole dance?

Spoiler

Residue Theorem.

 

[collinsmark]

How do mathematicians call a pole dance?

Spoiler

Residue Theorem.

That's a pretty Cauchy phrase.

 

[phinds]

Illustration of why questions need to be well formulated:

Couple was traveling through Florida and stopped in the town of Kissimmee for lunch. They were lightly arguing about how to pronounce the name of the town (KISS a me / ka SEEM ee) as they finished up lunch so the man asked the cashier, "Young man, how do you pronounce the name of this place?" Cashier gives the guy SUCH a look and very slowly and carefully enunciates "BUR GER KING"