Collection of Science Jokes P2

[Swamp Thing]

Stay tuned as he checks his posterior.

Took me a while to get it.

 

[Borg]

Took me a while to get it.

I added a link to make it easier.

 

[Ibix]

There's this statistician who decided to switch careers and start making movies. His first film is going to be called "Am I Bayesist?"

Then a remake of Great Expectations? With Bridgette Bardot playing part of hypotenuse?

 

[berkeman]

 

[jack action]

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I had a similar experience in my life. When being a student Mech. Eng., I went to a competition with a professor and another student, where we were going to watch a very ill-prepared team from our university race a small car they built (Formula SAE).

On the way to the racetrack, my professor said that they would be able to make one lap and then the car would break down. Following that, the other student said that they wouldn't finish the first lap.

I was perplexed by their optimism and said "They won't make it past the starting line." The other two told me that I was harsh with them. I responded: "They have no experience building a car, they didn't do any research, plan, or any kind of calculations, and they haven't tested anything. You may have a chance if at least one of those is done properly, but without any of those things it is impossible the car can work."

The car probably rolled at most 2 car lengths past the starting line before it stopped and the team had to forfeit. Both the professor and the other student looked at me and said: "You called it!"

 

[berkeman]

The car probably rolled at most 2 car lengths past the starting line before it stopped and the team had to forfeit. Both the professor and the other student looked at me and said: "You called it!"

Ouch! Maybe they should have been in the Aerospace department. Or maybe not...

 

[jack action]

Ouch! Maybe they should have been in the Aerospace department. Or maybe not...

I don't think so.

To illustrate: The nose of their car was made of styrofoam but at the pre-race inspection, the judges determined that the minimum length in front of the feet wasn't respected (it happens when you don't read the rules correctly).

To be able to race, they had to cut it in the middle and increase its length by inserting some material. The duct tape used to hold everything together was just giving a nice visual cue to anyone looking at the car of its engineering value.

I remember discussing with the team leader when they were working on the car, begging him to reconsider participating in the race because the project was such a mess. He told me that his strategy was not to make the best car they could but to hope for competitors worse than them. I was left speechless.

 

[berkeman]

Continuing on a recent theme...

 

[DrClaude]

 

[jack action]

 

[berkeman]

 

[nuuskur]

 

[DrClaude]

 

[DrClaude]

 

[Orodruin]

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Poisson: $\Delta\phi = \rho$

 

[Ibix]

Poisson: $\Delta\phi = \rho$

There's something fishy about that one.

 

[Orodruin]

There's something fishy about that one.

 

[berkeman]

 

[DrClaude]

 

[Borg]

It kinda looks like he sawed off his legs.

 

[berkeman]

 

[Orodruin]

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Yeah ... "Europeans" ...

 

[BillTre]

 

[Orodruin]

 

[collinsmark]

(Source: https://xkcd.com/3006/)

 

[DrClaude]

 

[valenumr]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ibix]

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Looks disturbingly like Chancellor Palpatine cosplaying as Data.

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

Yes and No.

 

[BillTre]

 

[Borg]

You know the old saying

Spoiler: BS, MS, PhD

Bullshit, More Sh**, Piled higher and Deeper

 

[berkeman]

 

[Swamp Thing]

"Statistics is my weak area. I can't make heads or tails of it".

From:

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Baluncore]

Of all the places to have an accident. Luckily, it happened in photoshop world, not in the real world. That is the first time I have seen the banner advertisement painted on the top of a truck.

 

[Orodruin]

That is the first time I have seen the banner advertisement painted on the top of a truck.

How often do you see the top of a truck though?

 

[Ibix]

Of all the places to have an accident. Luckily, it happened in photoshop world, not in the real world. That is the first time I have seen the banner advertisement painted on the top of a truck.

Could be so that air traffic can see to keep out of the airspace above the Mentos lorry in case of a crash with a Coca-Cola lorry?

 

[Baluncore]

How often do you see the top of a truck though?

Whenever you cross a highway on a pedestrian bridge, or look down on the city from a high rise building.
"Google Earth" your favourite truck stop, or 41°37'8.32"N, 90°46'46.02"W.

 

[jbriggs444]

Whenever you cross a highway on a pedestrian bridge, or look down on the city from a high rise building.
"Google Earth" your favourite truck stop, or 41°37'8.32"N, 90°46'46.02"W.

Lol, I wondered if you were going to reference the Iowa 80. I grew up in Davenport a few miles east.

 

[berkeman]

or 41°37'8.32"N, 90°46'46.02"W

Lol, I wondered if you were going to reference the Iowa 80.

 

[Baluncore]

I grew up in Davenport a few miles east.

I did 10 years in Devonport, 15 Mm, WSW of there.

The only thing I see painted on the top of the trailers is the company initials and a trailer ID number, and those are very sparse. I guess that makes it possible for security services to follow critical loads on the highway from a helicopter.

 

[davenn]

 

[Demystifier]

 

[Demystifier]

 

[davenn]