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Atom puns & jokes no.12
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ Scientists have discovered the sub-atomic particle that confers density. They’ve called it the Moron. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it,…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 2 – 8 Oct (no.6)
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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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
– Edwin Hubble (20 November 1889 – 28 September 1953), from “The Exploration of Space“. Harper’s Magazine 158: 732 (the May 1929 issue) An astrophysicist who was, amongst other things, able to determine that there were other galaxies and that they are all receding from us. He was famously named after the Hubble Space telescope,…
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Atom puns & jokes no.11
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ Size of matter in descending order.Molecule > Atom > Proton > Quark > x on a mobile ad ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? 26 Sept-1 Oct (no.5)
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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“If the earth were flat from east to west …”
Claudius Ptolemy, c. 100 – c. 170 AD The full quote is here: “If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for Orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue…
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Atom puns & jokes no.10
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ I wanted to post a joke about Sodium, but I was like Na, people won’t understand. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can…
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Do you share a birthday with an astronaut? no.4
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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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 11 of 11 – the wrap-up!
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark This is the final blog in this series and is intended to bring everything together with a summary, from Sagan, from some other sources and maybe one or two comments from me. ____________________________________________________________________ Rules for critical thinking (as per Carl Sagan’s Fine Art…
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Atom puns & jokes no.9
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! ____________________________________________________________________ A sodium atom and a chlorine atom got into a skirmish. Both were arrested for a salt. ____________________________________________________________________ PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we…
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“Science Fiction Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.”
– Peter H. Diamandis, Metatrends substack, 17 July 2026 Why are people so pessimistic about the future – and view the past as some form of pastoral utopia? On these pages we promote hope – not cope or mope. Hope lives here. An interesting insight is from Peter H. Diamandis in his substack, where he…
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“I believe in evidence.”
– Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind (1997), (2 January 2 1920 – 6 April 1992) Scientist and science fiction author Asimov’s output of novels and books popularising and explaining science was prodigious. As a rationalist he often railed against superstitious and pseudoscientific beliefs that tried to pass themselves off as genuine science and had this…
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What is a light-year?
A light-year is a measure of distance – not time (or anything to do with Disney’s Toy Story). It’s used to indicate the distance to stars and galaxies. It’s the distance light travels in one year in a vacuum, which is about: – 4.2465 light-years OR 5.88 trillion miles OR 9.46 trillion kilometres Light travels…
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How far is that star?
Basically, far! The Sun is the closest (and brightest) star. It is about: – 93 million miles – 150 million kilometres The next closest star (Proxima Centauri) is invisible to the unaided human eye and you need to be in the Southern Hemisphere to see it with a telescope (it’s too dim to see with…
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Death rates from disasters have fallen over the last century.
Good news. Recent data indicates that natural disasters are NOT going to kill us all. The global death rate from all natural disasters (drought, floods, storms, earthquakes, wildfires, extreme temperatures, etc.) has fallen by more than 90% over the last century. The total number of deaths has fallen substantially, despite there being four times as…
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
– Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie (Marie Curie) (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) She was a was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize. The first person to win a Nobel Prize twice. The only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.…
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