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Science is a lot of things. It’s a person in a lab coat experimenting with different materials as well as an astronaut bouncing around in zero gravity. It’s a geologist studying rocks and a mathematician perusing books. It’s an archeologist out on an expedition and a biologist monitoring different animal species.
That’s the great thing about science—it’s vast. It is also useful because of discoveries that allow us to advance in this world. It is exciting because it gives us new prospects to aspire to. It is ongoing, inspiring, devastating, beautiful and, also, funny.
The list below is all about the funny side of science. The jokes, the puns, the memes, and other ridiculousness that was collected and posted on The Lighter Side of Science Facebook group. Scroll down to see our favorites.
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Because science is so vast and multilayered, learning about it can be quite challenging. That’s partly because there’s so much to learn but also because it’s easy to get scared of how much there is to learn. That is where the science communication people come in. They are the ones that combine science and fun to make it appealing to all.
These are passionate people who make it their mission to spread the word of science to the common, non-science related folk. Sometimes they are researchers or medical professionals themselves and sometimes they are well-informed journalists that want the people around them to better understand the world. Either way, they are helping everyone to get excited about science.
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Panda Kicki 2 years ago (edited)
Our whole attict is a bat sanctuary. They fly around the house at night, catching mosquitoes and we love the little buggers. Sometime they crash in the grass and I use welding gloves to gently put them back. When I grew up a tv tower was built nearby, the poor bats got disorientated and every morning I found dozens in tve grass
While popularizing science has been a thing since the invention of media and the printing press, the most notable figures emerged in recent years. One of them is Carl Sagan.
Sagan was an astronomer and did a lot of research into the possibility of extraterrestrial lives. However, it wasn’t his discovery or any of his 600 papers that made him famous. It was his show Cosmos that was aired in 1980 that made him undoubtedly one of the most popular scientists back in the day.
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Of course, he wasn’t a nobody before he landed the show. The science community appreciated him for his research and advocacy, though some were a little put off by his speculative approach to science. Still, he taught at Harvard and then earned his position as a full-time professor at Cornell. He was also working with NASA since the inception of the US space program in the '50s. He even briefed Apollo astronauts before going to the Moon.
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Crybabyartist 2 years ago
Now if it were on a Perch.. Tastes like Chicken... Chicken of the sea.
He became better-known to the public after he published his best-selling science-fiction book The Dragons of Eden, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. Because of this, he was invited to write and narrate Cosmos. In it, he delved into various different topics related to space and the world around us. He told fascinating stories that got people excited about our universe.
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Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Remember, if it bites you and you die, its venomous. If you bite it and you die, its poisonous. If it bites itself and you die, its voodoo. If you both bite each other and neither of you die, its kinky.
The 13-part series was well received by both the audience and the critics. It won an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and also became the most widely watched series in the history of American television and held that record for a whole decade after. As a result, Sagan became a cultural icon.
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Crybabyartist 2 years ago
There is no point in having these. Unnecessary and messy... time to phase these out... I'm staying inside with all my doors shut tight... and a blow torch in case my chair turns into a spider.
In the show, he often said “billions and billions” referring to and emphasizing the innumerable amount of things in the universe. This became his catchphrase and a part of the cultural vocabulary in the '80s. Musicians were including it in their songs and comedians were incorporating it into their routines.
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Furthermore, now “sagan” can be used as a unit of measurement that is equivalent to a very large number of anything (at least 4 billion or more). His name is also used when referring to the number of stars observable in the universe. This is called Sagan’s number and at the moment it’s estimated to be 300 sextillion.
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geezeronthehill 2 years ago
Shaman: "We can make that wolf our friend by scritching a spot on his lower back." Hunter: "No way! He'll kill me!" Little girl: "I'll do it! Come here, mister wolf..."
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
I love it when a 4 year old is so much more intelligent than a grown person.
To this day, Sagan is highly admired by many. He made many people curious about the world and even nudged some towards scientific careers. And sure, this list can never compare to the perfect knowledge and entertainment balance that he achieved in his masterpiece of a series, but, hey, it’s still pretty darn funny.
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BrownTabby 2 years ago
Me, a Japanese speaker who has heard a love song that mentioned being “only 10cm apart”: sounds like a you problem
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Bookworm 2 years ago (edited)
In all seriousness, the regenerating teeth would be awesome but wouldn't be feasible, because permanent, non-replacing teeth were actually one of the great innovations in the evolution of mammals. If your teeth are always falling out and growing back, you never run out, but you also can't develop feeding strategies that rely on your teeth meeting up in a certain way, a.k.a chewing. Permanent teeth allowed the first mammals to start specializing teeth to do different jobs; if their teeth were all in different stages of development, it wouldn't work, because once you get beyond simple plant-tearing pegs or sharp points, your teeth have to make contact with each other the same way all the time to be useable. ('The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals' is a fascinating book if you have any interest in evolutionary history.) Edit: book title
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Bunzilla 2 years ago
Roborovski hamster. They're teeny tiny little speedy fluffs.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There is (or was) a website called Tech Tales, which consisted mostly of stories about the computer illiterate. On of my favorite ones was the secretary calling in about her computer not working. She insisted it was the mouse. Based on the symptoms, it couldn't be just a mouse problem. So the tech goes onsite, opens up the computer, and all the cords are nibbled. The secretary said, "See? I told you it was the mouse!"
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
Yes, they do indeed have tiny, adorable tails.
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screaming chicken 2 years ago
it USED to have a tail before bluetooth and wireless connections tho...
Shannon Matthews 2 years ago
Daughter had a roborovski hamster named Fuzzy for a while. The furry little vampire was nicknamed Fuzzferatu.
Caroline Overill 1 year ago
Mine has a tail. The fact that I plug a mouse's tail into electricity is no reflection on my personality.
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PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I actually like calling people humans because it sort of makes me feel like I’m not human which I wish was the case
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Crybabyartist 2 years ago
Dont go sticking your hands in those pockets, there is no loose change and if you touch me afterwards I'm gonna puke on your shirt... mucus is gross!! ITS A MUCUS pocket!! worse than a sweaty pocket!!
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Jack Burton 2 years ago
That is actually a great answer but sadly they will tell you back how Youtube is free for people and not edited by pedo socialist satanists like the washington post
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PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago (edited)
I am 1 on this scale, also can anyone else imagine different sides of something they’ve seen before without seeing the sides? Because if I see the side of say a bottle I am able to imagine what all other views of the bottle look like, I can also do that with rooms and I can imagine a room from a bunch of different angles and all of the people and objects in that room
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
It always amazes me when people complain that they "aren't going to need something later in life." Sometimes knowledge is just good to expand your brain capacity and enlarge your knowledge base. I have never regretted having learned something and I have been surprised over my life how many things I thought were "useless" at the time have turned out to helpful later.
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I'm.Just.A.Girl 2 years ago
As someone who has and does work at a thrift store... It is common for us to receive ashes of pets and or loved ones. Not an everyday occurrence but it's happened more times than you would think.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
Tiny compared with my plan to build a collider that circumnavigates Australia.
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So I get the shadow, but I'm trying to wrap my mind around the circular rainbow
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
This is mistaken for a circular rainbow but it's not. Rainbows are much larger. This is what's called glory. It's an optical effect due to sunlight interfering with small droplets, so things like clouds, mist, fog. It appears on the antisolar point, which means the opposite end of a line going through you from the sun. So naturally, it ends up right at your shadow.
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Jack Burton 2 years ago
Yeah mens are so affraid of women we never heard about men hitting, raping or killing a woman like ever !
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Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
Okay, I’ve gotten to the bottom of this list, and my cat is still asleep on my shoulder, and never stays on me this long. I desperately need a shower and to get on with my day, but he’s softly purring in my ear. He also copies me if I take a deep breath in, it’s so cute! What do I do???
Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
Okay, I’ve gotten to the bottom of this list, and my cat is still asleep on my shoulder, and never stays on me this long. I desperately need a shower and to get on with my day, but he’s softly purring in my ear. He also copies me if I take a deep breath in, it’s so cute! What do I do???
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