Scientific Speculation Gifts

"We found three sort-of Earthlike planets around a nearby star." "Do you think any of them have video games?" "I've been trying to work out the odds of an intelligent species arising and evolving thumbs capable of holding an X-box controller." "Proof of video games would change everything." "I wonder what the aliens on those planets consider sexy." "Living beings creating simulated beings they can smash is the hallmark of an intelligent species."

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

The Jeopardy of Progress

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"Young Frankenstein"

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

Occu-Pie Mars

"And when the canyon fills up, that's it; herd immunity."

2021

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

At the Museum

'It's a nice idea. A bit rough around the edges but I'm sure it will evolve given time.'

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Big Bang Theory.

"Finally, after years of work, irrefutable proof that I'm a nerd."

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

"You created a robot to do your homework for you? Apparently, laziness is the mother of invention."

"I said the males were 'evolving' – I didn't say they were 'maturing.'"

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

Fear/Knowledge

'Well, there's something you don't see every day'

Typical Brain Versus Einstein's Brain

"It does have a side effect. You'll faint when I tell you how much it will cost to produce."

"We're bringing the arts and sciences together here by giving crayons to mice."

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

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"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

"She's done it! The formula for work-life balance!"