Science Humor: A Wide Selection

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The discussion centers around a variety of science-related humor, showcasing anecdotes, jokes, and humorous theories. A notable story involves a NASA team during the Apollo mission who encountered a Navajo sheep herder, leading to a humorous mistranslation of a message intended for the moon. Another highlight is Chuck Yeager's playful exaggeration about a design flaw in the Bell X-1 aircraft, which he humorously attributed to complex aerodynamics rather than a simple cable routing issue. The thread also features the "Dark Sucker Theory," humorously positing that light bulbs "suck dark" instead of emitting light, and a fictitious element called "administratium," which humorously critiques bureaucracy in science. Various jokes illustrate the intersection of humor and science, such as the classic question about the nature of hell, which leads to a clever thermodynamic analysis. Overall, the content blends clever scientific concepts with humor, appealing to those with an interest in both science and comedy.
  • #541
mabs239 said:
Victim reads the middle column which translates somewhat like "I am a collector".

This reminds me, in a way, of one that my ex-employer showed me a few years ago. It's a tongue-twister, presented as follows, printed on paper:

Eye
Sofa
King
We
Todd
Did

Just get the victim to try it faster and faster until (if ever) he realizes what he's saying. :devil:
 
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  • #542
Danger said:
Eye
Sofa
King
We
Todd
Did

for how long?:biggrin:
 
  • #543
drizzle said:
for how long?:biggrin:

That depends upon how quick he is. :wink:
 
  • #544
Danger said:
And the difference between me and a real engineer... I'd set the wood on fire. When it burns away, the nails won't be in it. :approve:

You see a house on fire, a hose and a hydrant. How would you solve the problem?
Engineer, mathematician: I'd connect the hose to the hydrant and put out the fire.

You see a house on that's not on fire, a hose and a hydrant. How would you solve the problem?
Engineer: I wouldn't do anything, because there's no problem.
Mathematician: I'd set the house on fire, thus reducing it to a problem previously solved.
 
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  • #545
How do you know an Engineer is an extrovert?

Because, when he talks to you, he stares at *your* shoes.
 
  • #546
drizzle said:
are these Arabic letters? you use them to write Urdu?

Yes. These are arabic alphabets. Howeve Urdu has more alphabets than Arabic and some of the unique Urdu sounds are written with more than one alphabet combiation of arbic.

Danger,

Toung-Twisters jokes have a separate category and there are many more like these in Urdu also.
 
  • #547
mabs239 said:
Toung-Twisters jokes have a separate category and there are many more like these in Urdu also.
I'm aware of the difference, mabs. The point here is that this is not a tongue-twister; it's merely presented as one in order to lure the victim in.
 
  • #548
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I can't stop laughing. It's a science joke that a friend turned me onto, yet there is an element of truth that unfolds in this cartoon that lurks in the back of one's mind when having to debate. :devil: (tee-hee) Of course, keeping a cool head while getting the message across is essential. :approve: I salute every scientist that manages that feat. You know who I'm talking to.:wink:

I've got some catching up elsewhere on physicsforums. Looking forward to tomorrow.

p.s. A little off topic - I have the most spectacular picture I hope to post to the board if I can figure out how to do that. I took a close-up photograph of a dove with her two babies. I was on a ladder day after day and less than six inches from the nest. It was the most awesome experience. Everyday, I was watching them grow.:biggrin: They have flown away now, but the memory is still alive. I miss 'em.:cry:
 
  • #549
an argument between pi and square root of 2 is going on.
Square root of 2 : be rational man!
Pi : get real!
 
  • #550
What does a mathematician shout when hitting a golf ball?
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
'
Square root of 16!

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
In Love
Prys die Heer!
 
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  • #551
Vals509 said:
an argument between pi and square root of 2 is going on.
Square root of 2 : be rational man!
Pi : get real!

Or was it π and i ?
 
  • #552
From, among other places, http://www.jumbojoke.com/product_warnings_for_physicists.html

Pretty funny, even if they did get Newton's law of gravitation wrong.

My favorite is the "100% Matter Product" warning.

Product Warnings for Physicists

Warning: This product attracts every other piece of matter in the universe, including the products of other manufacturers, with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them.

Handle With Extreme Care: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.

Caution: This product contains minute electrically charged particles moving at velocities in excess of five hundred million miles per hour.

Consumer Notice: Due to the Uncertainty Principle, it is impossible for the consumer to find out at the same time both precisely where this product is and how fast it is moving.

Advisory: There is an extremely small but nonzero chance that, through a process known as tunneling, this product may spontaneously disappear from its present location and reappear at any random place in the universe, including your neighbor's domicile. The manufacturer will not be responsible for any damages or inconvenience that may result.

Read This Before Opening Package: According to certain suggested versions of the Grand Unified Theory, the primary particles constituting this product may decay to nothingness within the next four hundred million years.

This Is a 100% Matter Product: In the unlikely event that this merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic explosion will result.

Public Notice as Required by Law: Any use of this product, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the universe. although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will ultimately lead to the heat death of the universe.

Note: The most fundamental particles in this product are held together by a "gluing" force about which little is currently known and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently guaranteed.

Attention: Despite any other listing of product contents found hereon, the consumer is advised that, in actuality, this product consists of 99.9999999999% empty space.

Please Note: Some quantum physics theories suggest that when the consumer is not directly observing this product, it may cease to exist or will exist only in a vague and undetermined state.

Component Equivalency Notice: The subatomic particles (electrons, protons, etc.) comprising this product are exactly the same in every measurable respect as those used in the products of other manufacturers, and no claim to the contrary may legitimately be expressed or implied.

Health Warning: Care should be taken when lifting this product, since its weight is dependent on its velocity relative to the user.

Important Notice to Purchasers: The entire physical universe, including this product, may one day collapse back into an infinitesimally small space. should another universe subsequently re-emerge, the existence of this product in that universe cannot be guaranteed.
 
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  • #553
:smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #554
Atmospheric scientists do it at a bar.
 
  • #555
I'm sure many of the PFers are quite interested in archaeology.

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

In the weeks that followed, not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 200 feet, and shortly after a story in the LA Times read: "California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."

One week later, the Escanaba Daily Press, a local newspaper in Upper Michigan, reported the following: "After digging over 300 feet in his pasture, Ole Olson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he'd found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Upper Michigan had already gone wireless."
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credit
Andrew Heller | The Flint Journal February 06, 2009
 
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  • #556
It turns out that plug-in hybrids do not make sense after all. Given a range of thirty miles, the price of the extension cord is ridiculous!
 
  • #557
Best typo so far in "High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics"
[thread=330145]quantum chronodynamics[/thread]
 
  • #558
Why don't mathermaticians make good quantum physicists?
Because they always stop at Quantum ElectroDynamics!

Ahh, that one will be worth it for the ones who get it...
Or, then again, maybe not...
 
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  • #559
Why was Heisenburg's wife depressed?

Because when he had the time, he didn't have the energy; and when he had the position, he didn't have the momentum.
 
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  • #560
Sad Homework excuses.
Teacher, I don't have my homework, as due to Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, I know its speed, which is x m/s, but I don't know its location.

Teacher, I don't have my homework, as due to uncertain nature of reality, it promptly vanished into the mouth of a Canis Familiaris.

______________________________________
If I knew how to get a signature, I'd have one.
 
  • #561
QuantumED said:
Sad Homework excuses.
Teacher, I don't have my homework, as due to Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, I know its speed, which is x m/s, but I don't know its location.

Teacher, I don't have my homework, as due to uncertain nature of reality, it promptly vanished into the mouth of a Canis Familiaris.

______________________________________
If I knew how to get a signature, I'd have one.

Building on this:

Teacher, I don't have my homework due to Murphy's law
 
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lol.

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  • #563
Well Copernicus called... And your not the center of the universe!

That one gets me every time. Its gold.
 
  • #564
http://909sickle.com/s/****-heisenberg/
 
  • #565
Two scientists walk into a bar with the intention of a drinking contest. The bartender asks them what they'd like to drink. The first scientist says;

"I'd like a glass of H2O please"
"I'd like a glass of H2O too" said the second scientist.

Needless to say, the second scientist lost.
 
  • #566
Markface said:
"I'd like a glass of H2O too"

:smile:
 
  • #567
Markface said:
Two scientists walk into a bar with the intention of a drinking contest. The bartender asks them what they'd like to drink. The first scientist says;

"I'd like a glass of H2O please"
"I'd like a glass of H2O too" said the second scientist.

Needless to say, the second scientist lost.
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There was a man who drank some water
Poor man he is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.
 
  • #568
Two students are sitting in the corridor before exam and are waiting for their execution.
-What are you reading?
-Quantum physics.
-Why the book is upside down?
-What's the difference . . . ?
 
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  • #569
archis said:
Two students are sitting in the corridor before exam and are waiting for their execution.
-What are you reading?
-Quantum physics.
-Why the book is upside down?
-What's the difference . . . ?

:smile:
 
  • #570
DaveC426913 said:
:smile:


There was a man who drank some water
Poor man he is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.

Carlton Banks approves this joke
 

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