This Facebook Group Is All About “Science Humor”, Here Are 50 Of Their Most Hilarious Posts (New Pics)
Remember how your high school science teacher would say that science can be fun? That meant either lab work or a group assignment, which for many kids was just as far from the definition of fun as preparing for a science class test.
Fast forward to today, and things have changed. Many young adults appreciate the things they never did, find new hobbies and passions, develop a sense of nostalgia, and realize they were always a nerd to begin with…
So in order to show you exactly how nerdy we all are deep down, we present you the “Science Humor” Facebook group devoted to posting the best science-related laughs, cartoons, puns, jokes, japes, antics, and you name it!
With a whopping 1.2M members, the group is basically a powerhouse blending education, knowledge and internet comedy. Below we wrapped up some of the funniest and most recent posts from the page to treat your inner nerd, so scroll down!
After you’re done, be sure to check out our previous feature with more jokes from Science Humor right here.
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You may wonder why some people find science jokes and memes funny while others couldn’t care less about them. Well, it all comes down to a broader question of why and how people find particular things funny. Previously, Bored Panda spoke with a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London, Sophie Scott. Scott has been investigating the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, particularly speech perception, speech production, vocal emotions, and human communication. So she shed light on this amusing topic!
Turns out, the first requirement for something to be received as funny is that people need to understand that joke, pun, saying, or meme. But how do we do that? Well, Scott argues that it comes down to the intended meaning that makes a particular thing funny.
“One simple thing about not getting a joke is not realizing that it's a joke at all, assuming that someone is being serious and saying something stupid,” the professor explained.
Moreover, it’s not as easy as it looks. Hence, so many badly received jokes that land the joker eyerolls, or cringe at most. “It often has to do with as much the person telling the joke or where the joke is coming from, as the content of a joke,” Scott explained, adding that in order for the joke to be received as such, the audience needs to be aware of the fact that it is a joke.
What makes things funny shouldn’t be rocket science but there are multiple complex theories about it. One of them is “the idea that sometimes you laugh because it makes you feel better about yourself, you feel superior to tell the joke.”
Another theory argues that “you laugh because there’s some sort of complexity set up and then it’s resolved and that’s part of getting the joke.”
Scott also argues that the reason we laugh often has to do with “some kind of taboo” which is perceived as acceptable when mentioned in the joke context. On other occasions, “we laugh because laughter is a behavior associated in humans and other mammals with play,” Scott explained.
At the same time, the most important role for saying (writing) and receiving jokes is a pretty straightforward one–“just to be playful and you’re kind of acknowledging that and what has been done for you in the name of the play.”
It’s important to note that according to Scott, jokes have less to do with our absolute personalities (so don’t jump to conclusions about a person if they find or don’t find your joke funny!) and more with who we are and our life experiences. Scott argues that the things we find funny may also be directly influenced by the relationship with the person who’s telling the joke.
How she still got a hand? Mine would have fallen off about halfway through!
Can you imagine a planet with only men? Who would do the dishes? Men would have no choice but to do them, that's who!
They would have to do their own laundry 😱 the horror
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I actually met a guy once who wanted to go and live on the moon. I thought he was joking but nope, dead serious. He had an entire stall with information about how we should build a moon base so he could go live in it. I was probably subconsciously thinking of him about a decade later when I wrote a sci fi novel which mentions in passing that people in the future - mostly mega rich ones - went to live on the moon. And then moved back when they realised the moon was really f*****g boring.
Because once we discovered it’s not ACTUALLY made out of cheese we saw no point
Personally, I think it's time US conservatives considered moving to the moon.
Perhaps that's why Margaret Hamilton wrote all that code in the first place - so male scientists didn't expect her to make the tea. She sent them off to the moon instead.
Cause "we" only did it to do it before the other guy. Neither saw any point in *being* there.
So a woman wrote the code to send a few guys to the moon. If she'd put in an extra loop she could have sent all men to the moon.
Meh. It's possible to create germ line cells (sperm and eggs) from stem cells of either gender. True, all resulting children would be female in this case, but it's okay. (I do not actually advocate this, but for the sake of argument...)
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I have a really stupid question I'm sure that it doesn't work this way, but let's just say that we added 5,000,000lbs to the moon, would it get pulled closer to the earth or what would happen? Would it stay where it's at? I have so many questions. I'm still in highschool btw please don't hate TwT
Here's a good article. Tl;Dr. Nothing much, of you added the mass equivalent to 5m lbs. At Earth Sea level. There just isn't enough to make a difference, at that rate. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=82344.0#:~:text=In%20reality%2C%20anything%20we%20do,by%20roughly%201%2F100%2C000%2C000%2C000.)
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Easy. Not far enough. Why do you think we're working so hard to get men to Mars?!
Don't be ridiculous! It's a gigantic phallus shaped tube crammed full of explosives. Men letting women run that? Men as a collective suddenly letting women just exist, but without a steady stream of innuendo and harassment?? 🤣
I agree!! Men are no good low down two timing double dirty crossing egotistical self centered male chovenist sex maniac narcissistic rats!! But that is just my opinion.
12? Half the time my 4-5 person teams for group projects in school can't all do what they're supposed to on time.
If you make your point with an axe, it's hard to question your views
fun but seriously people need to address the fact that it is LEGO there is no S, look at the box (like sheep, not sheeps)
Shouldn't the answer be 10? Please help. I was an English major. Numbers make brain hurt.
"What do you have to say to all those hair cells recently laid off from the scalp?" "There will be plenty of new jobs for everyone on the back!"
Why not install wheels underneath and go? Follow me for more improvement ideas.
"You'll never make it if you keep cutting corners", "What?", "Cubes".
Before this appears in one of those "you've been using juice boxes wrong" posts, just pointing out that image A shows a length of straw visible so you can work out where the bottom is for maximum extraction, whilst image B, once the tiny straw end is inside you cannot know where it is or how it's bent, thus meaning you're less likely to extract all the contents without a lot of faff.
Without maths, I wouldn't know that it takes light about 39mS for light to travel the diameter of the Earth
To be fair, back in the day games were optimised to use every bit of free processing power efficiently, and the graphics were fairly basic. Now we get to deal with things that are 30% shiny rendering, 50% spaghetti code, 25% spyware, and 5% function.
When I was in high school we did an experiment where we made esters - basically perfumes but really concentrated - and because our chemistry teacher gave zero damns about anything half the class spent the lesson sticking their noses directly over the beakers to aggressively smell them. (In case you're wondering, at that concentration everything smells like nail polish remover. Which probably doesn't bode well for the degree of damage done to our noses.)
Actually, very few people do know Newton's second law. Because it isn't F=ma. It's F=d(mv)/dt, force equals rate change of momentum.
I dont know about that. If the nose works like a lie detector, as long as the person saying the statement doesn't know it's a false statement, it would register as true or non-conclusive.
I'll be sending my opticians bill straight to Bored Panda for the very bad screen shot and pastes on this thread ... ouch
I'd love to know why the tracks of a sliding shower door ONLY catch your little toe. Mine is a wonderful shade of black and blue. Again. And that whole thing is getting torn out today and replaced with a shower curtain today
Most I have ever laughed out loud scrolling through Panda posts! I don't care if they're repeats when they're funny and smart.
This is by far the funniest selection I have ever read on BP. Thank you!
I'll be sending my opticians bill straight to Bored Panda for the very bad screen shot and pastes on this thread ... ouch
I'd love to know why the tracks of a sliding shower door ONLY catch your little toe. Mine is a wonderful shade of black and blue. Again. And that whole thing is getting torn out today and replaced with a shower curtain today
Most I have ever laughed out loud scrolling through Panda posts! I don't care if they're repeats when they're funny and smart.
This is by far the funniest selection I have ever read on BP. Thank you!
