Science Jokes Thread.

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During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil
 
NCalvo said:
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil
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This is indeed a funny story but is unfortunately an urban legend. Both the Russian and American space programs utilised first pencils and then later moved to pens when it was found that the pencils produced graphite dust and broken pencil leads that posed a great risk to electronics in the zero gravity environments encountered in space.

That and the Fisher space pen that was eventually used by NASA received no government funding for its development. It was funded privately and then Fisher approached NASA asking them to try it.

Funny... but not true.
 
NCalvo said:
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil
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Just want to note that this has done the rounds for a long time now and its rubbish. Pencils tips broke off drifting in microgravity where they could potentially harm an astronaut or equipment, not to mention pencils are flammable. The pen was developed by Paul Fisher at no cost to Nasa. The Soviet Union soon started using the pens after Nasa as well.

Edit : Dam , Porch beat me to it. Thats what i get for having slow Afrihost internet :mad:
 
Unhappy438 said:
Just want to note that this has done the rounds for a long time now and its rubbish. Pencils tips broke off drifting in microgravity where they could potentially harm an astronaut or equipment, not to mention pencils are flammable. The pen was developed by Paul Fisher at no cost to Nasa. The Soviet Union soon started using the pens after Nasa as well.

Edit : Dam , Porch beat me to it. Thats what i get for having slow Afrihost internet :mad:
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1. This is a jokes thread not a fact finding mission.
2. The dust is the problem Graphite in particular burns to produce dust that conducts electricity.
3. Before the space pens cosmonauts had been using grease pencils to write in orbit


Louise: How did you get here?
Johnny: Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday
 
NCalvo said:
1. This is a jokes thread not a fact finding mission.
2. The dust is the problem Graphite in particular burns to produce dust that conducts electricity.
3. Before the space pens cosmonauts had been using grease pencils to write in orbit
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1) Regardless of the thread , it was told as if it was fact which it isnt.
2) The graphite dust comes from the pencil tip which is what i stated ??? :confused:
3) They also used wood pencils http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space
 
A math joke.
A kid wrote in his maths answer sheet.
Dear algebra, I am sick and tired of finding your X. Just accept the fact that she's gone. Move on dude, find someone else. Don't even ask Y.
 
Unhappy438 said:
1) Regardless of the thread , it was told as if it was fact which it isnt.
2) The graphite dust comes from the pencil tip which is what i stated ??? :confused:
3) They also used wood pencils http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space
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Fair enough. But you do not see the lesson the anecdote is trying to teach people. That is how it was created. Not a joke originally but as a lesson that can be learned in life.

We sometimes expend a great deal of time, effort, and money to create a "high-tech" solution to a problem, when a perfectly good, cheap, and simple solution is right before our eyes.

Anyways

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea
 
Odracir said:
A math joke.
A kid wrote in his maths answer sheet.
Dear algebra, I am sick and tired of finding your X. Just accept the fact that she's gone. Move on dude, find someone else. Don't even ask Y.
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Math is to physics like masturbation is to sex
 
NCalvo said:
Fair enough. But you do not see the lesson the anecdote is trying to teach people. That is how it was created. Not a joke originally but as a lesson that can be learned in life.

We sometimes expend a great deal of time, effort, and money to create a "high-tech" solution to a problem, when a perfectly good, cheap, and simple solution is right before our eyes.
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Yea it is still a humorous anecdote. :)

I do so wish it was true.


Anyways

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea
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I miss Douglas.
 
NCalvo said:
Math is to physics like masturbation is to sex
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Are you saying that sex is simply applied masturbation?

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NCalvo said:
Fair enough. But you do not see the lesson the anecdote is trying to teach people. That is how it was created. Not a joke originally but as a lesson that can be learned in life.

We sometimes expend a great deal of time, effort, and money to create a "high-tech" solution to a problem, when a perfectly good, cheap, and simple solution is right before our eyes.
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Absolutely , i was not trying to knock the message behind it either or discredit it because its not factual. Just merely making sure people don't read it and think of it as fact. :D
 
Unhappy438 said:
Absolutely , i was not trying to knock the message behind it either or discredit it because its not factual. Just merely making sure people don't read it and think of it as fact. :D
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Think it was Poincare who said that if my memory serves me correct.
 
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