# packetlog >

They Are All the Same

TEXT

** They Are All the Same  **
===================================
-- The electrical engineering students soon find out that capacitance is  futile, too!


[Date: Dec 18, 2009]   

Pi

TEXT

** Pi **
===================
-- Pi is a cosmic gate-crasher.  He shows up everywhere.



[Date: Jul 24, 2009]
                                 

Endangered Species

TEXT

** Endangered Species **
===================================
--  My species is so rare that humans have put us on an Endangered Species list.
--  Well,  we are so rare the humans don't even know that my species exists .....

[Date: Jan 18, 2010]
                       

An Amazon Tribe

TEXT

** An Amazon Tribe **
===================================
-- In the Amazon Basin, scientists have found a tribe that venerates Richard Dawkins as the world-creating deity and a fertility god.


[Date: Jan 15, 2010]     

At the Pearly Gates of Heaven

 

TEXT

** At the Pearly Gates of Heaven **
===================================
-- Ahhh!  Mr. Dawkins, I presume?



[Date: Jul , 2009]         

Plato and a Platypus

TEXT

** Plato and a Platypus  **
===========================
-- Plato thought that an ideal man is round.
-- And I've known for a while that ideal arguments are circular.

[Date: Aug 16, 2009, 9.20 AM]

A Paradox

TEXT

** A Paradox **
===================
-- A man is truly happy if he does not care how the Universe came into being.
-- The only goal that lifts man above other animals is in seeking to understand how the Universe came into being.

[Date: Jan 13, 2009] 

Midlife Crisis of a Uranium Atom

TEXT

** Midlife Crisis of a Uranium Atom **
========================================
-- I've wasted half of my life.  Now what?

[Date: Feb 26, 2009]        

The Sun and the Trees

TEXT

** The Sun and the Trees **
============================
-- If the sun were to disappear suddenly and completely without a trace, we would not know about it for full eight minutes.*
-- And the trees we see with our own eyes are but the ghost-shells of their existence a split second ago.
-- * Note: Sun's gravity would also remain for those eight minutes.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]

In the Beginning by Ellen DeGeneres

TEXT

** In the Beginning by Ellen DeGeneres **
==========================================
-- In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]    

Dave Bowman Finally Understands the Randomness Inherent in the Universe

TEXT

** Dave Bowman Finally Understands the Randomness Inherent in the Universe **
=============================================================================
-- Dave Bowman: My God, it's full of Black Swans!

[Date: Nov 15, 2008]     

Emptiness

TEXT

** Emptiness **
===================
-- A repeating pattern of emptiness is what defines the atoms and the universe.  So don't be surprised if you come up empty-handed in a deal or two ...

[Date: Sep 25, 2008]   

Time Travel

TEXT

** Time Travel **
===================
-- State of time travel for human beings (c. 2008): adjusting Daylight Savings Time twice a year.

[Date: Oct 26, 2008]

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (in Politics)

TEXT

** Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (in Politics) **
=======================================================
-- You can never be certain about a politician's intentions ...

[Date: Sep 7, 2008]   

Many Worlds Theory

TEXT

** Many Worlds Theory **
=========================
-- The Many Worlds Theory postulates an infinite number of near-identical copies of universes - and the RIAA doesn't like it one bit.
--

[Date: Sep 7, 2008]

Schrödinger's Cat / Schrödinger's LolCat

TEXT

** Schrödinger's Cat /  Schrödinger's LolCat **
===============================================
-- Schrödinger's cat was dreaming,
-- And said:
-- God-darn'd!
-- Either I am dead
-- Or I aren't!

[Date: Sep 6, 2008]  

Dark Energy

TEXT

** Dark Energy  **
===================
-- What's dark energy?
-- Maybe it's what the Chinese call 'chi' ...

[Date: Aug 30, 2008]

Professor and the Flies

TEXT

** Professor and the Flies **
==============================
-- Shhh ... I'm not swatting flies, Tim. I'm creating gravity waves.

[Date: Feb 4, 2008]

Quarks and Leptons

TEXT

** Quarks and Leptons **
===================
-- Quarks and leptons are made of prime numbers.

[Date: Dec 3, 2007]

Universe

TEXT

** Universe **
===================
-- So, we are all made of atoms.
-- No! Numbers.

[Date: Dec 3, 2007]

Interview at NASA Research

TEXT

** Interview at NASA Research **
=================================
-- And what kind of rockets did you design, Mr. Peabody?
-- You see, I was at this Chinese fireworks outfit for a while, and ...

[Date: Dec 3, 2007]

Newton's Law

TEXT

** Newton's Law **
=============
-- Sir Isaac Newton discovers another Law ...
-- Just as I had suspected ...
-- Beauty times Brains is a constant !

[Date: Dec 1, 2007]

Archaeological Surprise

TEXT

** Archaeological Surprise **
===================
-- What archaeologists initially thought was an 800-year old walnut turned out to be the preserved brain of a well-known religious fanatic.

[Date: Dec 1, 2007]

Geneva, Switzerland

TEXT

** Geneva, Switzerland **
=================
-- Trying to emulate Feynman, physicists desperately hope to fall in love with British au pair girls ...

[Date: Nov 23, 2007]