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Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard.

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[–] LazaroFilm 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago
[–] randomaccount43543 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

After that, he says that energetic stellar-sized microwaves could also be the cause, though this is unlikely since microwaves typically are not stellar-sized and they do not float in space [citation needed].

I don't know why but that [citation needed] caught me so off guard and made me laugh far too much

[–] cynar 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm fairly sure microwaves float in space. I don't think there are completely different laws of physics, just for microwaves. A microwave in a bistro however...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Microwaves travel through space at the speed of light because they are photons

[–] cynar 1 points 10 months ago

If you want to get pedantic, as far as photons are concerned, photons don't exist. At C time dilation hits infinity, while length contraction approaches zero. Therefore photons travel zero distance and experience zero time. Therefore, from a photon's perspective, they don't exist!

[–] chuckleslord 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bistromath was such a beautifully strange concept for a ship. I freaking love SEP fields the most from that book.

[–] cynar 3 points 10 months ago

The combination of the infinite improbability drive leaking, and the SEP (somebody else's problem) field is amazing. It provides an in-universe explanation for the various weird and unlikely things that happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I was reading one of his the other day and he got me with the same thing. It was:

Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls ^[citation ^needed]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A fifth panel could make it a “momma so fat” joke and say she’s in the break room.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

okay but do fat mamas emit radio signals?

[–] DredUnicorn 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe if you spun them fast enough?

[–] Chestnut 1 points 9 months ago