Pariah Posted December 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 Professor at my alma mater who is often lamenting his "Chemistry For Nurses" class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 6 hours ago, Old Man said: Well, if X is my current stupidity, and you add additional stupidity for youth and then for not being awake yet, and multiply for majoring in a hard science with no female classmates, then lim(X) -> ∞ . What were the hard sciences 4000 years ago anyway? Thaumaturgy, mummification and virgin sacrifice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 Mummification, yes. The other two, no. Egyptian science was qualitative not quantitative. Ergo it was accessible via symbols and read by the “intelligence of the heart”. The “place” where this meaning is kept is beyond the point of space & time referred to variously as the zero point, nunc stans, or no-thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 Never explain the joke.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 95% of academia is explaining jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 "Nothing. You can't cross a scaler with a vector." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 "Thermodynamics is T dS." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 Cancer, Pariah and Ternaugh 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 That isn't a joke. It is speaking truth to power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 The high score on my final is 115 ... out of 160. Two people got less than 10% of the points. Blech. Lots of attempts to skate by on lexical analysis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 I'll bet I'd have gotten at least 11% of the points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 I'm very, very tempted to put on the exam the explicit statement that no answer on a question scores 4 points. That would mean the dead man, if he turned in a signed blank paper, would score 32, and four people did worse than that on this exam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 On 12/12/2019 at 4:49 AM, Starlord said: What were the hard sciences 4000 years ago anyway? Thaumaturgy, mummification and virgin sacrifice? Alchemy, maybe? Astrology? (too early) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 18 hours ago, Old Man said: I'll bet I'd have gotten at least 11% of the points. I get 12%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 39 minutes ago, Badger said: Alchemy, maybe? Astrology? (too early) Astrology goes back as far as, and is necessary for, agriculture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Possibly also any sort of sea-going activity. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 35 minutes ago, Pariah said: Astrology goes back as far as, and is necessary for, agriculture. So a current hard science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Well, astronomy is a hard science. I think in ancient days, the 2 were kind of combined as it were (I didn't know how far back it went of course, though, I should have put 2+2, with the 4000 years, since I do remember hearing about charting star patterns circa 2500 BC one time) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Astronomy, as we currently understand it, is what happened when Astrology met "correlation≠causation". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 When you don't understand what's going on, all kinds of ideas are viable. There was no separation imaginable between what we now call astronomy and what had always been called astrology at least into the 1600s. Meanwhile, I am spending a few bemused minutes glancing through this week's whackjob email, some guy who thinks he can build an antigravity device with an array of gyroscopes. It's not often that you get whackjob entries with full-out solutions to coupled nonlinear differential equations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Yeah. Everyone knows you build an antigravity device by modifying the quantum flow regulator of the plasma inducers and then reversing the polarity of a type B singularity engine. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Well, I haven't had time to delve into his treatment, but that might, in fact, be what he's trying to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 I've had a statistically significant number of otherwise unremarkable students suddenly interested in their grades, making up missed assignments, etc the past two days. Must be the end of the quarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Too late for that here. Just posted course grades. I am about to run away screaming. For only a day, but running away nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 5 hours ago, Pariah said: Astronomy, as we currently understand it, is what happened when Astrology met "correlation≠causation". The more scientific way of saying what I just tried to say. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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