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Will you have source with that?Orodruin said:
There's a live event called BAH Fest (festival of bad ad hoc hypotheses). It's all about presenting these types of fanciful, almost-plausibly sounding ideas in a conference-like format. With slides and graphs and misappropriated jargon and an occasional equation. Doesn't always work, because despite popular perceptions not everyone in academia is a comedian, but when it lands it's hilarious. Check it out, it's on YouTube.phinds said:These are the results of a "Creative Scientific Theories Contest" sponsored by Omni magazine: {phinds note: this must have been a long time ago. Omni stopped publication in 1995]
Hey, that one's really good. Haven't seen it before.phinds said:I watched just one video so far (why dark matter is actually vampires) and it was quite funny.
#2700. It is one of my favorites though.fresh_42 said:
I thought he grilled it.phinds said:George Foreman doesn't use a Playstation because he is an ex boxer
Lame enough to be in the lame jokes thread, not sciency enough to be in the science jokes thread.phinds said:George Foreman doesn't use a Playstation because he is an ex boxer
Their motto: "I think, therefore I scam".fresh_42 said:![]()
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 said:
Well you won't be laughing about the Gulf Stream stopping in a while either!fresh_42 said: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!
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.BillTre said:Well you won't be laughing about the Gulf Stream stopping in a while either!
Well. You don't know that for sure.BillTre said:Also two buttons, but only goes up.
A screenshot would work for this.BadgerBadger92 said:
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.Orodruin said:
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!BillTre said:Leap Light Years:
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/measuring/ said: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.
That IS a real MATH joke! Not that silly stuff in the corresponding thread.berkeman said: