Military Project Ponderer Pillows

Pentagon Science Contest: 'Hey, Jeffrey...why do you think the military wants to figure out how they can send people to another solar system?'

"Dave, could you hold on a sec while I take care of some personal business?"

"What if Newton came up with a different idea from a fallen apple."

"Quantum Physics"? How am I going to learn all of this stuff? A bit at a time?

"Of course you can't put your finger on it. It's a hypothetical particle."

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

Idle parts

'Marry me, and make me the happiest man in the world.' 'You want BOTH?!'

Progress?

Time, Temp, Today's Neutrino Mass

Planetary Science. What do we call the study of gas giants in space? Gastronomy.

'Turn your thinking cap around, Robert.'

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

Are you aware? The Higgs Boson was thought to exist even through no one had seen it!

'What we must decide is if there is an accidental nuclear explosion which wipes out this entire part of the country, do we pass the cost on to the consumer?'

The mysterious world of ligand substitution

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars … Mercury … Um, Pluto? Charon? No, Pluto … or Eris? Ugh …

Dr. McPhee discovers the Embarrassment Particle.

"You're right! It is much easier to explain it this way!"

Anticipated Sales - "Now at this point reality intruded."

A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.

A cool proposal

How moons are born...

"I knew it was unnatural to jump that high out of water."

"Hello! - Have you ever thought about changing your energy supplier..?"

'Maybe YOU'RE projecting!'

Physicists at the Fourth Grotschlov Conference assembled to determine once and for all if light is a wave or a particle.

Well at least we can handle these rocks.

"I want my job back."

Jupid/Jupiter/Jupidest

"Shouldn't we hold off an artificial intelligence until we figure out actual intelligence?"

Mountains and Molehills

"Wow, that thing is bright! Glad we wore our sunglasses!"

"Actually we were hoping for something a little more sensible..."

'I'm dubious. Neutrinos may be bigger than we thought, but they're not that big.'