• Question: do you have any scientific puns that you can enlighten us about?

    Asked by Niamh to Dave, Ed, Guido, Hugh, Stef on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Mariastefania De Vido

      Mariastefania De Vido answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Two atoms were walking across a road when one of them said, “I think I lost an electron!” “Really!” the other replied, “Are you sure?” “Yes, I ‘m absolutely positive.”

      Stef

    • Photo: Dave Bond

      Dave Bond answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Exothermic reactions — I studied them before they were cool.

      Oh there are so many to choose from.

    • Photo: Guido Bolognesi

      Guido Bolognesi answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      “There are 10 type of people. Those who understand this joke, those who does not.”

      Explanation:
      The computer language is a binary language. Every command given to our computer can be translated in a sequence of 0 or 1 (that is why it is called binary, because there are only two symbols : 0 and 1). To write numbers, we instead use a decimal language, which is made of 10 symbols, that is 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Any number in a decimal language is made of a sequence of this 10 symbols. In the same way, in the computer binary language, any number is made of a sequence of 0 and 1. Now in binary language, the sequence 10 is actually the number 2. So, when I said there are 10 types of people, I meant (in binary language) there are only 2 types of people. Those who understand this joke and those who does not.

    • Photo: Ed Rial

      Ed Rial answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      I was going to put up a pun, but it seems like the best ones Argon.

    • Photo: Hugh Harvey

      Hugh Harvey answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      What do you do with a dead chemist?

      Barium

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