A thought experiment
Imagine a bus:
Consider the best possible IMAGE you could place on this bus. It could be anything – a photo, a diagram, a graph, a table. Anything.
If you performed the experiment correctly, you would have arrived at this (look carefully):
That's right -- THIS is the best of all possible images that could appear on a bus. And I am VERY happy to say that it exists in the physical world. Here, it’s on the Southern Luzon Expressway at 5.25 pm on Sunday 14 May, 2006. [If you can't quite make it out, it depicts a FAT NAKED LADY facing a FAT NAKED MAN with the words "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" between them. YOU do the maths! Uproarious!]
Needless to say, Schrödinger's cat was driving the bus.
posted by secret wombat at 3:54 pm
3 Comments:
Is that Tom Cruise on the left?
Ahaha! that was hilarious - nice catch. But Schrodingers cat is THE lamest undergrad science-geek reference. Skinner box for the win!
Reminds me, last month i was in London and noticed Stephen Hawking's name prominent on the covers of not one but two magazines on the (small) rack near the queue at a grocery store, which I thought gave hope for the state of media consumption. One was New Scientist magazine.
The other was a 'lads' magazine, 'Loaded' or somesuch - and the article was caption ed 'build your own Dalek'
that's hilarious in a sort-of I-shouldn't-laugh way (hawking/dalek association). i visited cambridge to see a friend in 1998 and hawks rolled past me as i walked along the river. though he didn't say anything, let alone 'exterminate!'
and i DEMAND the right to make undergrad science-geek references.
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