Collection of Science Jokes P2

[DennisN]

What black holes do according to movies:
http://bloggybottomboy.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/funny-graphs-black-holes.jpg

 

[Rebeca]

http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ad91d0dfe2be80b04f94f027b1f10e28?convert_to_webp=true

Lol, I like that one

 

[DaveC426913]

Lol, I like that one

Oh the apropos-ity.

 

[davenn]

Oh the apropos-ity.

apropos-ity / aproposity

not a word I was familiar with, had to google it ... but before that I could hint at the meaning Dave

 

[Hercuflea]

Ah, I figured it out.

I was assuming the X-axis was time. It's not.
It's more like productivity.
Now, if you look at vi, you can see that productivity remains near zero no matter how much knowledge you acquire about it, until you acquire 100%.

I interpreted the curve as the difficulty of learning the software as a function of time.

 

[DaveC426913]

I interpreted the curve as the difficulty of learning the software as a function of time.

But if time is the X-axis, that means the difficulty of learning starts OhhhIseeitnow

 

[DaveC426913]

apropos-ity / aproposity

Wait - there's really such a word?
Huh!

 

[davenn]

Wait - there's really such a word?
Huh!

apropos

http://www.bing.com/search?q=apropos+definition&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IENTSR&pc=EUPP_

note the adjective use ... :)

 

[DaveC426913]

apropos

http://www.bing.com/search?q=apropos+definition&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IENTSR&pc=EUPP_

note the adjective use ... :)

Yeah, I just needed the active voice instead of the passive voice.

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

Ok, the last one for today...

 

[fresh_42]

Ok, the last one for today...

You mean Alexey Pajitnov is simply the reincarnation of Dimitri Mendeleev ... sounds reasonable ...

 

[fresh_42]

Just read:
"Engineer, a person who does precise guess work based on sketchy data supplied by people of questionable knowledge. (cp. magician, enchanter)"

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[davenn]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

 

[DennisN]

And two more:

 

[dkotschessaa]

 

[dkotschessaa]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[fresh_42]

Only mathematicians can call a group of $$808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000$$ elements simple.

 

[mfb]

While it is the largest sporadic simple group, there is a simple group with n!/2 elements for every n>4.

Edit: Fixed.

 

[fresh_42]

While it is the largest sporadic simple group, there is a simple group with n! elements for every n>4.

$\frac{n!}{2}$

 

[DennisN]

This is naughty, but fun...

 

[DennisN]