Collection of Science Jokes P2

[Borg]

I always thought that since there were so many Russians on the show that it should be called "Dancing with the Tzars".

 

[jack action]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

Um...

 

[dwarde]

 

[collinsmark]

Um...

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That hurts just looking at the picture. Twice now (over my lifetime) the soldering iron slipped -- maybe the cord getting caught on my elbow or something on the lab bench -- and to keep it from rolling off the table, or onto my lap, I grabbed it, but unfortunately I grabbed it in the wrong place. You would think once would be enough for me to permanently learn. But here we are.

 

[Orodruin]

That hurts just looking at the picture. Twice now (over my lifetime) the soldering iron slipped -- maybe the cord getting caught on my elbow or something on the lab bench -- and to keep it from rolling off the table, or onto my lap, I grabbed it, but unfortunately I grabbed it in the wrong place. You would think once would be enough for me to permanently learn. But here we are.

See, this is why I went into theory!

 

[berkeman]

 

[Orodruin]

A classic PhD comic brought back to my attention recently:

 

[jack action]

Bad language but still thought-provacating.

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[dextercioby]

 

[Filip Larsen]

Spoiler

It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

 

[jack action]

 

[jack action]

 

[jack action]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That hurts just looking at the picture. Twice now (over my lifetime) the soldering iron slipped -- maybe the cord getting caught on my elbow or something on the lab bench -- and to keep it from rolling off the table, or onto my lap, I grabbed it, but unfortunately I grabbed it in the wrong place. You would think once would be enough for me to permanently learn. But here we are.

When I was about 12 years old, while I was using a soldering gun, a neighbor kid snuck up behind me and yelled or did something to startle me. I reacted by swinging around and inadvertently sticking the tip of the soldering gun right in the middle of his forehead. He still had a dent in his forehead when I saw him ten years later.

 

[Orodruin]

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Ironically, mathematicians are often very satisfied just with proof of existence.

 

[Swamp Thing]

An example of nominative anti-determinism:

Hudson Freeze discovered high-temperature bacteria living in the Great Fountain region of Yellowstone. He worked under the guidance of Thomas Brock and isolated a species they named Thermus Aquaticus.

Fun fact: High temperature bacteria are very relevant today because they provided the heat-resistant polymerases that are used in Polymerase Chain Reactions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXKQ70q4KQ

 

[DaveC426913]

TIL: nominative anti-determinism

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Unusual drone activity is being reported around apiaries.

 

[Ibix]

Unusual drone activity is being reported around apiaries.

Sounds like bee ess to me.

 

[Baluncore]

Beeing a drone is a good job, if you can get it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)
" A drone is a male bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. He does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. His only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight. "

 

[DrGreg]

Beeing a drone is a good job, if you can get it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)
" A drone is a male bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. He does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. His only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight. "

But you die shortly after mating.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

But you die shortly after mating.

Don't we all?

 

[berkeman]

 

[collinsmark]

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That reminds me. I have an old, faded T-shirt (I should order a replacement) that says:

Entropy
It's not what it used to be.​

 

[BillTre]

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The same could be said of any of the Holometabolous insects.
They come out of their egg as larvae (usually like a grub) and then metamorphose into their adult form.
Cockroaches on the other hand look like little adults when they hatch out.

 

[Delta Prime]

Heisenberg and Schrödinger get pulled over for speeding. The officer asks Heisenberg, "Do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg replies, "No, but we know exactly where we are!" The confused officer says, "You were going 200 kilometres an hour!" Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now we're lost!" The officer looks over the car and asks Schrödinger if the two men have anything in the trunk. "A cat," Schrödinger replies. The officer opens the trunk and yells, "Hey! This cat is dead." Schrödinger angrily replies, "Well, he is now!"

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Cockroaches on the other hand look like little adults when they hatch out.

Yeah, I've met some of those people.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In my case, it was before the 90s.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Baluncore]

You would need to have been aged about 17, and listening to Pink Floyd in 1973. That makes you about 70 now.

Spoiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon

 

[phinds]

Or, too old. It was way past my time.

 

[gmax137]

That makes you about 70 now.

68. DAMHIK.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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Indeed, I remember Newton well.

 

[Baluncore]

Indeed, I remember Newton well.

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. "Lying for the Whetstone".
Said of a person who is grossly exaggerating or falsifying a statement. One of the Whitsun amusements of our forefathers was the lie-wage or lie-match; he who could tell the greatest lie was rewarded with a whetstone to sharpen his wit. The nature of these contests may be illustrated by the following well-known extravaganza: one of the combatants declared he could see a fly on the top of a church-steeple; the other replied, “Oh yes, I saw him wink his eye.”
When Sir R. Digby declared he had seen the “philosopher’s stone.” Bacon quizzically replied, “perhaps it was a whetsone.”

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Coolidge effect is a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners.[1][2][3][4] To a lesser extent, the effect is also seen among females with regard to their mates.[3]

...In a 1974 letter,[9] behavioral endocrinologist Frank A. Beach claims to have introduced the term "Coolidge effect" in either 1958 or 1959.[10] He attributed the neologism to an old joke about Calvin Coolidge when he was President of the United States.[11]

The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, "Dozens of times each day." Mrs. Coolidge said, "Tell that to the President when he comes by." Upon being told, the President asked, "Same hen every time?" The reply was, "Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time." President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

The joke appears in a 1972 book (Aggression in Man and Animals, by Roger N. Johnson, p. 94).[12]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163104788904189?via=ihub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/289...effect is the,dishabituation in women and men.

 

[nuuskur]

 

[Ibix]

Holiday project for the relativity forum:
https://xkcd.com/3033/

With respect to the rules about dangerous activities, pay careful attention to the alt text.

 

[Orodruin]

Holiday project for the relativity forum:
https://xkcd.com/3033/

With respect to the rules about dangerous activities, pay careful attention to the alt text.

Reported as spreading personal theory (considering the theoretical max number of folds of a standard paper being 7).

 

[Ibix]

Reported as spreading personal theory

Hey! xkcd is a perfectly valid technical reference.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[collinsmark]

I'm not sure if this officially qualifies as humor, since it is a real study. But I find the video hilarious. (Make sure to keep watching for at least 30 seconds or so.)

Ants best humans at test of collective intelligence​

Link to "Science" online magazine article:
https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-best-humans-test-collective-intelligence?utm_campaign

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[mfb]

I'm not sure if this officially qualifies as humor, since it is a real study. But I find the video hilarious. (Make sure to keep watching for at least 30 seconds or so.)

Ants beat humans when the humans are forbidden to communicate.

 

[collinsmark]

Ants beat humans when the humans are forbidden to communicate.

Right. The video is still funny though. I was expecting just sciencey stuff, but then got what looks like something out of a Benny Hill episode.