That many!?

[erick]

This was in a presentation someone gave at work today - no, not a presentation to do with astronomy, but about developing your research career.

Well, I liked it :rolleyes:

[M54]

They're obviously not at a dark sky site! :lol:

[renormalised]

They're not real stars...that's Jack, that fell down the hill:P:P:D:D

Those are the stars he saw after he cracked his head on the rocks on the way down:P:P:D:D

[AstralTraveller]

Darker than my backyard. :sadeyes:

[AstralTraveller]

And what particular types of rocks would they be?? Nice soft siltstone or nasty hard granite. And is it possible to tell from the fracture pattern of his skull?? :confuse3:

[renormalised]

They're Biotite/Sillimanite/Quartzite gneiss and the pattern of head fractures is mashed skull:P:P:D:D

[AstralTraveller]

Ouch!! That gneiss is not nice. Just too much cleavage. Creates sharp edges. :):P

[TrevorW]

By the way if it is Jack then who's Becky ???

[gary]

Hi Eric,

It is even funnier with the original Gary Larson caption that read something
like "Carl Sagan as a young boy".

You will recollect Carl Sagan had his Cosmos television series at the time,
and Larson was playing on Sagan's very aspirated way of pronouncing the
word "Billions" which he used in the the phrase that he is so fondly remembered
for, "Billions and billions of stars". :)

One of my favourite Larsen's though had the room of scientists and there is
one particularly physically short scientist chalking equations on the black board
trying to convince a colleague of a point he is trying to make. Observing this
from across the room, one scientist is saying to another something like,
"There goes Wilson again, trying to gain support for his Little Bang Theory ..." :lol:

[renormalised]

His cousin:P:P:D:D

[renormalised]

Not so much cleavage as it's just damn hard:eyepop::D

[erick]

:D Thanks Gary.

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

[Ric]

That's a good one for a morning chuckle. :lol:

You don't hear much of Gary Larson and the "Far Side" any more.

Did he retire?

[Ric]

That's a good one for a morning chuckle. :lol:

[wavelandscott]

Good for a laugh...like many, I miss Gary Larson's unique perspective...

From the deer with the "bummer of a birthmark" (bullseye shaped) to the kid trying to open the door to the gifted and talented school (sign on door says pull and he is pushing to no effect)...

Makes me chuckle just to think of them all...

[erick]

Remember them both, very fondly. What was that deer's name again?

Got it - "Hal" :)

http://www.tradenstuff.com/Misc/Funnies/BummerBirthMark.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/298864264_99d3c053d2.jpg) :D


ps. Don't start here or it will consume your day!!
http://www.tradenstuff.com/Misc/Funnies/

I warned you - don't be like me:-
http://www.tradenstuff.com/Misc/Funnies/redneck%20seafood%20dinner.jpg :rofl: