/sci/ Humour thread?

[Anonymous No.6365050]

I haven't seen one in a while.

[Anonymous No.6365102]

>>6365050
bumping

[Anonymous No.6365103]

From the early days of /sci/

[Anonymous No.6365107]

>>6365103
Lmao, although this is hilarious, and i will definitely be saving this picture, I'd like to see some very-science related humor. Luh dat shit

[Anonymous No.6365111]

>>6365050
Has anyone here ever done some really clever tricks a-la Patrick Jane, Sherlock Holmes, Gregory House?

[Anonymous No.6365113]

>>6365107
better?

[Anonymous No.6365115]

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[Anonymous No.6365121]

>>6365116

[Anonymous No.6365125]

>>6365113
Yes, muchly

[Anonymous No.6365161]

>>6365113
Now, post something with humour.

[Anonymous No.6365217]

>>6365103
Not that hard to accomplish in a slow board like /sci/. Do it in /b/ and I'll be a bit more impressed.

[Anonymous No.6366968]

not funny

[Anonymous No.6367121]

>>6365050

[Anonymous No.6367147]

>>6365116
>>6365121
yay someone saved them

[Anonymous No.6367148]

[Anonymous No.6367210]

>>6365113
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.6367244]

>>6367210
Ice floats even though it is colder than liquid water.
Things are supposed to get bigger (more spread out) when they get warmer (this is what it means to have an increase in entropy), so the joke is that the ice cubes are denying that "law."

While it's certainly true that water becomes less dense when it undergoes a phase change to ice, it's not an unexplained phenomenon--ice has a sparse crystalline structure--as the water loses heat, the most energetically favorable state is one that happens to be more spread out than the "jumbled" structure of liquid water--but it doesn't have more entropy just because it is bigger. It's still more organized in a regular crystalline structure.

[Anonymous No.6367300]

Needs more tfw nogf

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[Anonymous No.6367609]

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[Anonymous No.6367735]

>>6367661
lol
my philosophy teacher actually said yesterday that math isnt discovered but invented.
didnt feel like arguing with her though

[Anonymous No.6367753]

[Anonymous No.6367760]

>>6367659
my sides

[Anonymous No.6367794]

>>6367673
This picture is gibberish

[Anonymous No.6367810]

How do you work better?

I'm getting buried in work. I thought the answer was to get into the habit of spending more time working. Seems logical. Instead I end up spending an afternoon doing what I could have achieved in 2 hours, but I feel like I should stay because "This is work time, not leisure time, I need to set this habit".

Turns out its better to work smart and hard, than to work for long periods of time but not achieve much.

So how do you enter that zen concentration mode more often?

[Anonymous No.6367849]

>>6367735
because you know she'd crush you

[Anonymous No.6367878]

>>6367673

There's something wrong about this image.

I remember learning that the amount of numbers between 0 and 1 is exactly the same as the amount of numbers between 0 and 10. You can find a unique value between 0 and 1 to correspond to every value between 0 and 10 by simply dividing any number between 0 and 10 by 10.

Then again, things get weird between integers and real numbers because integers are countable and real numbers are not.

[Anonymous No.6367883]

>>6365050
here's a couple

[Anonymous No.6367887]

>>6367878


>captcha consecutive ordlina

[Anonymous No.6367892]

>>6367887
>brb writing a paper on arithmetic progressions of length 1

[Anonymous No.6367901]

>>6367892
lemme splain dis 2 ya in werds of 1 syllabull or less

[Anonymous No.6367917]

>>6367244
But what is not hotter, when it's in equilibrium with ice. That's the point of ice.

[Anonymous No.6367948]

[Anonymous No.6367966]

>>6367917
>water is not

[Anonymous No.6368155]

[Anonymous No.6368156]

Wie is hier /3m80s/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YarFVrd3sfA

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[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6368485]

>>6368479
finally I understand

[Anonymous No.6368487]

no one ever laughs at this one even though it's the funniest joke ever.

[Anonymous No.6368521]

>>6365115
I'm from Kansas. None of this ever happened.

[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6368534]

>>6368487
very derivative or was that integral to the joke?

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[Anonymous No.6368550]

Mathematics major here.

/sci/ has shit taste in humour.

[Anonymous No.6368556]

>>6368550
You showed them!

[Anonymous No.6368560]

>>6368556
>sarcasm to defeat a troll.
You showed them!

[Anonymous No.6368565]

>>6367659
haha, is that real?

[Finnish physist No.6368645]

Few weeks ago I was studing for an advanced physics test when my mother called.

I mentioned time dilation to her and explaned that if you move super-fast even time seems to slow down.

She replied "Oh, I guess that's why you have to add an hour if you travel abroad?"

"..."

[Anonymous No.6368654]

>>6368645
The joke is on you. Time dilation isn't even real.

[Anonymous No.6368667]

>>6368654
>The joke is on you, said the photon, time isn't even real.

[Finnish physics student No.6368675]

One more:

My Room-mate (a violinist) came to my room one day and said this:

"Hey. Just to let you know there's a documentary on tv where they talk about the dinosaurs, Big Bang, evolution and everything. Just thought you might be interested"

> I study physics.
>Evolution, dinosaurs
>With Big Bang? da fuck?

[Anonymous No.6368695]

>>6368675
My grandma calls to inform me every time there is anything on TV that is remotely related to any field I have ever been interested in. Foreign channels included, I have no idea how she monitors the entire television schedule while barely knowing how to operate her TV.

[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6368706]

>>6368695
TV Guide?

[Anonymous No.6368709]

>Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were catholic.

>Neutron asks bartender:
>"How much for this drink?", to which bartender replies:
>"For you - no charge"

>There are only 10 kinds of people:
>those who know conversion to the second base and those who don't

[Anonymous No.6368713]

>>6368706
Nope, she doesn't know how to open it, it seems she just randomly flips through channels most of her time

[Anonymous No.6368722]

>>6368713
Oh my god my sides! Your grandma DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO OPEN A MAGAZINE? You finlands really are that slow.

[Anonymous No.6368730]

>>6368722
You still get the TV guide in a magazine? My country abolished that years ago, bad for environment, and just a waste of time and money.
Here you can either get it from the internet, or press the TV Guide button on your remote.

[Anonymous No.6368733]

>>6368695
My Dad does the same thing. Sends me links to science stories he reads and thinks I'll find interesting. Was visiting home over Christmas and found a bunch of non-major physics books in his bathroom.

I know he doesn't understand half of what I do at school and work, but I love him so much for trying.

[Anonymous No.6368735]

>>6368733
Gotta second this, I never connect with my father (a psychologist) as much as I do when explaining the things I do at work to him. He always seems so interested, and it makes me realize what a terrible person I am for never asking him about his work ;_;

[Anonymous No.6368737]

>>6368730
>tfw live in country of the past ussr
People who have home phones with auto reply and more than one channel at the same time function are in the overwhelmed minority.

[Anonymous No.6368761]

>>6368521

[Anonymous No.6368764]

official since 2010

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[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6368780]

>>6368709
>>There are only 10 kinds of people:
>>those who know conversion to the second base and those who don't

ummm... how about

only 10 kinds of people
those who understand binary and those who don't

[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6368782]

>>6368713
TV Guide is a magazine, that you read as well as a function on a cable box

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>>6365050

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>>6368798
Reminds me of

[Anonymous No.6368807]

>>6368780
And those that didn't expect the joke to be in base 3!

[Anonymous No.6368813]

>>6367878
You can take any interval in the reals and find a bijection between it and [0,1]

[Anonymous No.6368836]

>>6367661
Why did I laugh so hard.

[Anonymous No.6368865]

>>6367735
>>6367849


Come to think about it, the philosophy teacher has a point though.

Since we use maths as a tool to forward our understanding, we are limited by what we can only perceive and reliably measure, so essentially our yard sticks of measurement can only be referenced by what we agree on as reliable values of measurement.

So in a sense, we invent the means of interpretation on how we understand the laws of Nature, until of course, with the scientific method we discover a efficient and accurate method.

I am really tired, so I hope that made some sense.

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[Anonymous No.6368995]

>>6368836
abstruse goose is funny

[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6369026]

>>6368807
touche'
>tips fedora

[Anonymous No.6369041]

>>6368565
yes I used the same textbook, occasionally it has funny problems

[Anonymous No.6369052]

>>6369041
i fucking wish my physics textbooks had a few of these. so dry

[Anonymous No.6369068]

>>6367651
What would be the answer?

[Carl !!dFf2PUolAtC No.6369076]

A farmer wants to build a new pen for his livestock and turns to his friends - a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician - to help him design the best pen using a limited number of fence segments.

The physicist thinks for a moment, scratches a few calculations on a pad of paper and exclaims, "Eureka! Of course! A circular pen will give you the most area with the given perimeter!"

"Now hold on a second!" the engineer says. He does a quick survey of the farmer's property and sketches out a few drawings of the layout. "A rectangular fence would allow us to make better use of the existing buildings and fences!"

The physicist and the engineer argue for a moment but finally settle on a design and get to work.


The mathematician, meanwhile, walks out into the middle of the field dragging four segments of fencing behind him and props them up in a tiny square around himself. He smiles, smugly, to himself and declares, "Behold! I define myself to be outside the fence!"

[Anonymous No.6369073]

There are 10 kinds of people in this world:

-those who understand ternary
-those who don't understand ternary
-those who thought this would be a binary joke

[Anonymous No.6369077]

>>6369076
>no mention the engineer's sexuality
you were close, but 9/10

[Anonymous No.6369087]

>>6365103

>2010
>early days

[Anonymous No.6369084]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJGItzuFkEM

[Anonymous No.6369090]

>>6369076
>Behold!
lost it

[Anonymous No.6369141]

The only decently funny thing to ever come out of /sci/ were the gay engineering jokes

And I don't even know if those were originally from /sci/

[Anonymous No.6369159]

>>6369141
they are shit and you are shit for liking them

[Anonymous No.6369174]

>>6369076
Top kek.
I'm gonna save this

[Anonymous No.6369227]

>>6369087

/sci/ is a relatively new board

[Anonymous No.6369225]

>>6369041

post some others

[Anonymous No.6369234]

>>6369041
SCIENCE DAMN YOU, POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJORS!

[Anonymous No.6369253]

>>6369225

[Anonymous No.6369277]

>>6369253
more textbook hilarity. these are gold.

[Anonymous No.6369317]

>>6369234

MEGAN GUESS AND CREW ARE THUG ARE FUCK, SON

[Anonymous No.6369336]

>>6368199
>action potential on physics shirt

Bio also uses action potentials
for neurons and such

[Anonymous No.6369344]

>>6368536
I close the book.

Suck on my predetermined cock, universe.

[Anonymous No.6369346]

>>6369253
Caroline?

[Anonymous No.6369363]

>>6368770
dat dislike bar
There is hope for the world

[Anonymous No.6369372]

>>6367735
she was right. axioms are invented, we then discover the properties of them.

[Anonymous No.6369393]

>>6369372
Not all of mathematics are axiomatic anon. Unless you're going to claim that mathematics didn't exist until Euclid axiomatized geometry.

[Anonymous No.6369399]

>>6369344
>the cover of the book is labeled "72"

[Anonymous No.6369418]

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>>6367753
It's funny because this still applies today

[Anonymous No.6369442]

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>>6369393
Before then people just took "obvious" truths.

[Anonymous No.6369858]

>>6369225
i havent had physics for over a year, i dont remember any good ones.
looking through it pretty quickly i found these
they use penguins a lot
i wonder if the one about MIT is true.

[Anonymous No.6369859]

>>6369858
lel forgot pic

[Anonymous No.6369933]

>>6367883
>>6367887
>>6367901
>>6368485
>>6368534
>>6368536
it's from fakescience page. most of them are hilarious

[Anonymous No.6370014]

>>6369076
A real mathematician would know that using only three segments and creating a triangle would give a better result.

[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6370068]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhYd9L_d7w

[None !!UdnwU9B2MmS No.6370079]

>>6369933
yup... funny stuff

[Anonymous No.6370095]

>>6368990
somebody is studying Linear Algebra and its Applications by David C Lay

[Anonymous No.6370220]

>>6369076
>mfw I actually get it even though I am a pleb at math

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[Anonymous No.6371772]

>>6368990
he just had to learn that page for a midterm test yesterday.

[Anonymous No.6371777]

>>6369445
hehe EE bro? That looks like electric circuits by nilsson riedel

[Anonymous No.6371795]

great thread, we got some old stuff here

>>6367794
no its not. You cant count every real number between zero and one. Where would you start? 0, 0.00000..... it doesn't make sense. You wont get anywhere. But if you try to count the integers (0, 1, 2, 3,...), you will eventually get to any number. This distinction is important and has a name. The number of integers is countably infinite and the number of reals is uncountably infinite.

[Anonymous No.6371814]

I remember my (licensed) textbook having an image of Marilyn Monroe on the title of the chapter "Curve Discussion".

[Anonymous No.6371837]

Not necessarily funny, but who knows. You may laugh.

[Anonymous No.6371850]

>>6371851
We don't serve your kind around here.

[Anonymous No.6371851]

A tachyon walks into a bar.

[Anonymous No.6371876]

>>6371850
>>6371851

How did you do that?

[Anonymous No.6371878]

>>6368534
The first one doesn't die

[Anonymous No.6371879]

>>6371851
Haha, great execution

[Anonymous No.6371881]

>>6371850
>bb..but

[Anonymous No.6371890]

>>6371851
>>6371850
Beautiful.

[StillRustled !!213iEuOwO6P No.6371959]

>>6371850
>>6371851
that is delightful

[Anonymous No.6372047]

>>6371850
>>6371851
10/10

[Anonymous No.6372050]

>>6371878
An elephant can't stand the weight of all the other elephants without dying.

[Anonymous No.6372060]

>>6371876
/sci/ is a slow board.
i can easily predict my post number. it'll be 6372060

[Anonymous No.6372063]

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>>6368785