Collection of Science Jokes P2

[Ivan Seeking]

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That has surely happened many times already.

 

[Borg]

 

[DrClaude]

Gotta love Randall Munroe:
https://xkcd.com/2513/

I especially laughed at the title text:
Sorry, in SI units that's "there's a big football in there."

 

[Frigus]

Doctor:-
50 years ago we had to convince a patient for an hour for a operation but nowadays we have to convince patient for an hour that he doesn't needs an operation.

 

[Keith_McClary]

that he doesn't needs an operation

Or, that he should have a vaccination?

 

[berkeman]

Or, that he should have a vaccination?

LOL, I read that as vasectomy at first. I need to slow down and read the words...

 

[Borg]

A vasectomy could be thought of as a type of vaccination.

 

[berkeman]

A vasectomy could be thought of as a type of vaccination.

Good point!

True story -- for my "pregnancy vaccination", my surgeons were Dr. Pane and Dr. Yeow. You can imagine why I had vaccine hesitancy for a while before I said yes...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A vasectomy could be thought of as a type of vaccination.

It prevents vaccination.

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Electrical engineer meditating: Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmm.
Electrical engineer focusing: Mmmmmmmmhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooo

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Arjan82]

 

[DrClaude]

From Math with Bad Drawings:

 

[berkeman]

This part made me laugh:

 

[BillTre]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Bystander]

Is he incorrect?

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Is he incorrect?

No one knows

 

[ergospherical]

 

[jbriggs444]

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It looks just like transparent aluminum. They used it on Star Trek, so it must be real.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It looks just like transparent aluminum. They used it on Star Trek, so it must be real.

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Aluminium oxynitride is a transparent ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen. ALON is optically transparent in the near-ultraviolet, visible and midwave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Wikipedia
Formula: (AlN)x·(Al2O3)1-x, 0.30 ≤ x ≤ 0.37

 

[mfb]

Calling that transparent aluminium is a bit like calling (quartz) glass "transparent silicon" or lead glass "transparent lead".

 

[BillTre]

Does it conduct electricity?
Do bullets bounce off it?

 

[collinsmark]

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Actually, from an astrophysics-astronomy perspective, anything heavier than helium is a metal. Oxygen, Nitrogen, Neon, ... all metals.

https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/m/Metals

 

[Borg]

Do bullets bounce off it?

From the Wiki article:

ALON is the hardest polycrystalline transparent ceramic available commercially. Its combination of optical and mechanical properties makes this material a leading candidate for lightweight high-performance transparent armor applications such as bulletproof and blast-resistant windows and for many military infrared optoelectronics. ALON-based armor has been shown to stop multiple armor-piercing projectiles of up to .50 BMG cal.

What I want to know is whether you can transport whales with it.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

From the Wiki article:

What I want to know is whether you can transport whales with it.

Yes. That was the first use a few hundred years from now.

Why did they need transparent aluminum for the whales anyway? Do the whales get lonely if they can't see you?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

BTW. you can just take a flame to aluminum foil and make it transparent.

 

[jbriggs444]

Why did they need transparent aluminum for the whales anyway?

It is a unique material which was never discovered. Its existence stems from a closed time-like loop involving Scotty.