I’m not good at April Fool’s, but I’m entertained by some of the jokes so far. I like the very subtle Spacing Hut post and was actually tricked by Metafilter’s slowly changing colours. (I didn’t think it was weird, though. I just thought: “Oh, it’s a different colour now. Maybe it’s a feature.” Stranger things have happened.)
The only good science-themed joke I’ve seen, although completely obviously fake, is this question from Albert Einstein on UClue. I don’t know if they keep it on the site after today, so here it is in its entirety:
“Asked by einstein1879 on Tue 1 Apr 2008 – 5:14 am UTC:
My relatives are coming in for the holidays, and I’m at my wit’s end. I have to feed them, house them, entertain them, all this while juggling my responsibilities at the Patent Office. It’s total information overload.
Among those coming are:- The astronaut twins, one of whom is hale and hearty, while the other’s aged horribly.
- The entire Brownian clan. They seem to arrive by the billions, and immediately begin bouncing off the walls.
- Mr. Lorentz and family. I swear, they’re all getting shorter.
- Then there’s Planck’s constant need for attention.
- Schrödinger (always brings his darned cat!)
- Heisenberg may come, but I’m uncertain.
You’d have to be a genius to keep track of that many people. I don’t “do” social stuff. It’s more than I can handle. Help me, Uclue!
Albert Einstein”
(Isn’t the problem with Heisenberg more that he may be there, but you don’t know how fast he’ll get there, or you know he’s on his way but don’t know if he’ll actually get there?)
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