Category: Science
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Atomic puns & jokes no.20
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atomic’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ My friends tried to convince me I was a chemical element with the atomic number 82.Thankfully, I’m not so easily lead. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 27 November – 3 December (no.14)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“Sometimes we focus too much on our differences, but when we all look up into space, we see the same stars and we see the same sun. It really can be unifying.”
– Anne Charlotte McClain, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, engineer and a NASA astronaut During an interview with We Are The Mighty, McClain said, “You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we’re really all in it together,” she said. “You…
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Atom puns & jokes no.19
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ The barkeeper replies: “The punchline comes before the question.” “What?”, says the customer. “What’s the worst part about time-travelling jokes?” ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 20 – 26 November (no.13)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the classic science fiction novels. Its the original book, BBC radio and then TV series and an average movie version. I’ll leave you to discover the joy … ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with…
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Atom puns & jokes no.18
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ You know who repairs atoms? Quantum mechanics. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 13 – 19 November (no.12)
Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays. Maybe you share a birthday?! If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?! If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you? Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to…
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“Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it – not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them.”
― Bill Bryson, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything This quote was taken from Chapter 3, of A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, The Reverend Evans’s Universe, which tells us, in Bryson’s usual chummy way about the unassuming Bob Evans, who he describes as a titan of the skies. For the Reverand Evans…
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Atom puns & jokes no.17
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ The barkeeper replies: “Sorry but we don’t serve particles faster than the speed of light.”A tachyon walks into a bar. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and…
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