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The discussion revolves around a collection of science-related jokes and humorous anecdotes shared among forum members. A notable joke features a mathematician with a dog and a cow who are claimed to be knot theorists, leading to a playful exchange with a bartender. Other jokes include puns related to physics, such as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and light-hearted takes on mathematical concepts. The conversation also touches on the nature of humor in science, with members explaining the nuances of certain jokes, particularly those involving mathematical notation. Additionally, there are references to classic jokes that have circulated over the years, illustrating how humor can bridge complex scientific ideas with everyday life. Overall, the thread highlights the community's appreciation for clever wordplay and the joy of sharing science humor.
  • #241
Speaking of the Sun...
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  • #242
My new trash can:

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It can take an incredible amount of trash before you have to empty it, but it takes quite a while to get it in.
 
  • #243
Bandersnatch said:
The best I can think of is: 'yo mama so fat, her curvature is indistinguishable from flat using current best measurement methods'
Wouldn't her mass lead to spacetime curvature?
On the other hand, if she is within her own photon sphere, light could circle her perfectly.

@fresh_42: A 3 Jupiter mass black hole?
 
  • #244
mfb said:
A 3 Jupiter mass black hole?
I didn't put much effort in the calculation, I simply took a 30 cm Schwarzschild radius and fed the formula here. Should have been .2 instead of 5, but you know, the error margin :biggrin:
 
  • #245
fresh_42 said:
I simply took a 30 cm Schwarzschild radius
Interesting, that's about three times (π?) the Schwarzenegger radius (biceps radius):
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  • #246
DennisN said:
Interesting, that's about three times (π?) the Schwarzenegger radius (biceps radius):
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I don't dare to think about the association with a black hole that brought you to this ... I hope it was the time traveling aspect ...
 
  • #247
fresh_42 said:
I don't dare to think about the association with a black hole that brought you to this ... I hope it was the time traveling aspect ...
No, it was not that sophisticated :biggrin:. It was simply the similarity of the names Schwarzschild and Schwarzenegger.
 
  • #248
DennisN said:
No, it was not that sophisticated :biggrin:. It was simply the similarity of the names Schwarzschild and Schwarzenegger.
Ouch! Wrong thread though :wink:

Poor Karl ... On the other hand, he died in a war that had been caused by the assassination of the Austrian heir presumptive, so the circle closes in.
 
  • #249
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  • #250
Bandersnatch said:
Hullo

Not wanting to make a new thread for this silly endeavour, I'll ask here.

Say, if you wanted to come up with a cheeky cosmology-related science joke, what would it be? (I'm thinking, maybe, to put it on a t-shirt)

The best I can think of is: 'yo mama so fat, her curvature is indistinguishable from flat using current best measurement methods'

Any other ideas?

Yo mama so fat she has mass whether the Higgs Boson exists or not (source: http://www.jokes4us.com/yomamajokes/yomamasciencejokes.html)

Yo mama so fat the Hubble telescope used her gravitational lensing to see the big bang.

Yo mama so fat she's known as the great fattractor.
 
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  • #251
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  • #253
EnumaElish said:
Yo mama so fat she has mass whether the Higgs Boson exists or not (source: http://www.jokes4us.com/yomamajokes/yomamasciencejokes.html)

Yo mama so fat the Hubble telescope used her gravitational lensing to see the big bang.

Yo mama so fat she's known as the great fattractor.
Yo mama so fat and heavy she ate a black hole.
 
  • #254
What is ##1.616 \cdot 10^{-35} \, m\;##?

No. It's not the Planck length.
It's the broccoli wave length at terminal velocity in atmospheric free fall.
 
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  • #255
Terminal velocity implies interactions with the environment, which quickly lead to decoherence.
 
  • #256
a little astronomy comedy from days gone by ... used to enjoy Pink panther cartoons when I was a kid


there is, in this cartoon, ( as in all cartoons) a number of serious breaking of physics laws :smile:
 
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  • #257
Very funny blog post about a ridiculously volatile compound:
Things I Won’t Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More Or Less (Derek Lowe)[PLAIN]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/...wont_work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less[/PLAIN]

Some quotes:
Blog post said:
It’s time for another dispatch from the land of spiderweb-cracked blast shields and “Oh well, I never liked that fume hood, anyway”
[...]
The most alarming of them has two carbons, fourteen nitrogens, and no hydrogens at all, a formula that even Klapötke himself, who clearly has refined sensibilities when it comes to hellishly unstable chemicals, calls “exciting”. Trust me, you don’t want to be around when someone who works with azidotetrazoles comes across something “exciting”.
[...]
No, only tiny amounts of this stuff have ever been made, or ever will be. If this is its last appearance in the chemical literature, I won’t be surprised. There are no conceivable uses for it – well, other than blowing up Raman spectrometers, which is a small market – and the number of research groups who would even contemplate a resynthesis can probably be counted on one well-armored hand.
 
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  • #258
(That’s been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors)

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  • #259
I sometimes get documents that print out like this when a PDF has a font problem :smile:
 
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  • #260
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  • #261
yup, can fix anything with WD40 and duct tape :smile:

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  • #262
From which number on is ##2^n > n^3## ?

There is certainly an N.
Probably ##10##, so let's say ##20##.
Works with the nested intervals ##(2,20),(4,16),(8,12),(9,11), \ldots ## and ends up with ##9.93953514142690(5)\pm3 \cdot 10^{-15}##.
##1## kByte ##= 1,000 = 10^3## ergo ##10##.
It's ##\log \sqrt[3]{2} = \frac{1}{n} \int_1^n dx \cdot x^{-1} -dn##
Nonsense. Everybody knows that ##2 < 3##.
 
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  • #263
We are missing someone who tests n=1 and concludes that the validity starts at n=1.
 
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  • #264
mfb said:
We are missing someone who tests n=1 and concludes that the validity starts at n=1.
Sounds definitely like a politician in a talk show. I always forget about this species ...
 
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  • #266
mfb said:
We are missing someone who tests n=1 and concludes that the validity starts at n=1.
I was one of them. May be we can get our own spoiler! Alright, yeah! ...
 
  • #267
fresh_42 said:
From which number on is ##2^n > n^3## ?

There is certainly an N.
Probably ##10##, so let's say ##20##.
Works with the nested intervals ##(2,20),(4,16),(8,12),(9,11), \ldots ## and ends up with ##9.93953514142690(5)\pm3 \cdot 10^{-15}##.
##1## kByte ##= 1,000 = 10^3## ergo ##10##.
It's ##\log \sqrt[3]{2} = \frac{1}{n} \int_1^n dx \cdot x^{-1} -dn##
Nonsense. Everybody knows that ##2 < 3##.
Cynic logician or rigorous mathematician:
The statement of the problem is inaccurate (what is n ? , domain etc. ...)
 
  • #268
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The old "good physicist/bad physicist" routine at the lab.
 
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  • #270
the biggest biology question finally answered ...

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