MerchManDan wrote:Jabberwonky wrote:This is why no one's scrambling for tickets to the annual Physics Dept. dinner...
I'd suppose not; if it's the same Physics Dept.
as depicted here, everybody would've bought their tickets
months in advance.
Ok, ok -- I will now inflict upon you the most ultimate uber-geek physics joke I know. It was in the form of a cartoon seen on the bulletin board:
Scene: Cartoon of two scientists, slightly rumpled in their lab coats and glasses, male and female, holding hands as they walk along the beach. He is accompanied by a pair of Great Danes, she by a pair of toy Poodles. They're dating. They've discovered that they each named their dogs Stefan and Boltzmann.
Badum-Kish!
And now, allowing that you haven't had to recover from a spasm of rib-tickling mirth, the explanation:
The
Stefan-Boltzmann law is a formula having to do with the radiation of energy from warm/hot/very very hot objects, such as the sun, or, you, for that matter. And (here it comes!) it has two forms, having to do with scale.
Thank you, thank you! Try the fish!
Remote sensing was actually a fun course, covering everything from snapshot photography to measuring temperatures of planets. One of the exam questions was calculating how many ants were on the beach based on a photo spectrum. Assuming no ants were stacked or overlapped, of course... (225,000 it turned out). Another was how tall the grass was, under a layer of snow.
Oh, I'm getting moist....