Engineering Humor

[Skywalker]

It even comes with glasses so you can actually see where you're going !

 

[Skywalker]

A lick of paint and we'll be moving in just as soon as we can figure out how !

 

[GAD]

 

[Skywalker]

 

[GAD]

Ok that one gives me anxiety. Damn.

 

[GAD]

I've had this very conversation many times.

 

[GAD]

This one’s pretty nerdy so I put it here. Kudos if you get it without doing any Googling.

 

[GardMan]

Wouldn't want all those globes to collapse into black holes, now, would we? (Of course, the desktop globe would have to have a mass of nearly 6 x 10^24 kg to collapse to a black hole)

 

[Skywalker]

This one’s pretty nerdy so I put it here. Kudos if you get it without doing any Googling.

You wouldn't want a little Schwarzchild Black Hole toddler getting a toy planet stuck in its throat.

 

[Skywalker]

 

[GAD]

Do a search for one wheeled motorcycle. Lots of examples.

One-Wheel-Motorbike | Technik Museum Sinsheim

A highly extraordinary means of transportation is this mono-wheel-motorcycle, also known as unicycle, that was built by Erich Edison-Puton in Paris at the turn of the century.

sinsheim.technik-museum.de

Also,

 

[Teleguy61]

Theoretically strong.
Practically weak.

 

[GAD]

Theoretically strong.
Practically weak.

Just like me!

 

[sailingshoes72]

This one’s pretty nerdy so I put it here. Kudos if you get it without doing any Googling.

Oops! I had to Google it. I didn't recognize the "black hole" event horizon symbol. I thought it was a church bell tolling for the great Gondwana Laurasia collision.

 

[Cougar]

I had to Google it. I didn't recognize the "black hole" event horizon symbol.

Yeah, that's a depiction of the black hole in the movie Interstellar, which had Kip Thorn as a consultant. (He wrote Black Holes and Time Warps, Einstein's Outrageous Legacy [1994], which was quite good.)

Frankly, I think the depiction is not very realistic. A black hole typically DOES have an accretion disk, but the theoretical "Hawking Radiation" just outside the event horizon is not going to be glowing like that. And of course, no light emanates from the black hole. The accretion disk, though, will be glowing at millions of degrees and emitting X-rays and other electromagnetic radiation

 

[JohnW63]

It's the tattoo for the " We really like Saturn best! " gang.

 

[GAD]

 

[Skywalker]

Yeah, that's a depiction of the black hole in the movie Interstellar, which had Kip Thorn as a consultant. (He wrote Black Holes and Time Warps, Einstein's Outrageous Legacy [1994], which was quite good.)

Frankly, I think the depiction is not very realistic. A black hole typically DOES have an accretion disk, but the theoretical "Hawking Radiation" just outside the event horizon is not going to be glowing like that. And of course, no light emanates from the black hole. The accretion disk, though, will be glowing at millions of degrees and emitting X-rays and other electromagnetic radiation

Measuring the diameter of an event horizon by space walking with a wheel and counter on a little stick, is a job for which you really don't want to draw the short straw.

 

[GAD]

 

[GAD]