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LOLScience, now?

Those cats are just everywhere — now lolcats can has science. Even worse, it’s dominated by geology LOLcats. Geologists are too abrasive and intrusive to have a sense of humor, and it takes ages for them to tell a joke.

I do have something to say to physics cat, though.

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Here, kitty kitty. I have a box, a geiger counter, and some cyanide for you.

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  2. Jamie says

    Here, kitty kitty. I have a box, a geiger counter, and some cyanide for you.

    All in the name of science, right PZ?

  6. Chad Estep says

    Oh, those physicists, always thinking they’re better than biologists because they use math for everything.

  8. Steve says

    I’m sorry but I just don’t get all this lolcats stuff. Where did it come from? Do I have to be high to get it?

  10. MarcusA says

    All bright cats know that math isn’t a science, it’s a tool of science, and that sitting on a biology book is warm and comforting compared to the cold mechanical workings of a physics text. Cats only hang around physicists because they’re dull,quiet, and have no friends. Cats like to sleep after all.

  14. NJ says

    Geologists are too abrasive and intrusive to have a sense of humor, and it takes ages for them to tell a joke.

    Easy, there, cowboy. It’s just that our humor is, well, timeless. In a relative sense, anyway.

    So, here’s one: In one of our intro labs, the students have to identify a few fossils, including some nice casts of Isotelus (too rare to hand out complete ones). I end up pointing out that Isotelus is the official state fossil of Ohio.

    After the incredulity passes (“They have a state fossil?”), I am invariably asked what is the state fossil of North Carolina. And I tell them.

    Jesse Helms.

  17. Billy (A Liberal Disabled Vet) says

    My cat sits on my history books. But she did try to turn a paleaontology book into brail. Gee. A modern cat chewing up a book about Triassic Gorgons. Why didn’t I get a photo of it?

  19. says

    “Geologists are too abrasive and intrusive to have a sense of humor, and it takes ages for them to tell a joke.”

    Wow, geology humor at Pharyngula. Will wonders never cease?

  20. Megan says

    IM IN UR BOX, PROVIN SHRODINGER WRONG.

    HAHAHAHA! My dad (a geologist) saw this before me and we had a chuckle. I am addicted to LOLcats…this makes my little future abrasive and intrusive (heh heh, you are a funny man) geologist heart swell two sizes too large.

  21. Blondin says

    Erwin Schrodinger’s wife: What have you done to the cat? It looks half dead!

    Heisenberg wuz here… probably.

  23. Dee says

    Now I can join the proud ranks of Pharyngula readers who have sprayed their computer monitors with their beverage of choice.

    Except since I’m home sick, my beverage of choice was theraflu.

  25. fardels bear says

    Don’t biologists get to claim Schrodinger as one of their own? He wrote a book entitled, WHAT IS LIFE? after all.

  26. Interrobang says

    I used to be friends with a physicist. He was pretty quiet, but not dull. I really have to recommend sharing certain leisure activities with people who have truly advanced knowledge of angles, trajectories, force, mass, and acceleration. :)

    I love my cat, but he’s no scientist. He hasn’t quite got the concept of “inertia” down, yet. My evidence for that claim is the number of times he has come barrelling through the kitchen at high speed, forgetting to notice that it takes a long time to stop on a vinyl-tile floor, and has thereby run headlong into the fridge, skidding all the way. (Ooh, that’s gotta hurt!)

  27. says

    I am truly going to kill that cat.

    Or maybe not. Creationists might then say ‘Ooooh, those evil atheist Darwinists kill cats!!1one!!1!’

  28. Dustin says

    Taking pictures like this one is a favorite passtime of the geologists I’ve met. They like to have “before” photos to send to CNN.

  29. SeanH says

    he’s no scientist. He hasn’t quite got the concept of “inertia” down, yet.

    Heh. Mine sure aren’t either. I have a dopey little calico cat that’s having trouble understanding the bath tub isn’t always empty.

  35. Tony Popple says

    If no one sees you kill the cat, is it still dead?

    I can understand biologists fear of math……Squid are impossible to deal with in sphereical coordinates.

  36. Eric says

    She’s my cat.
    I captioned the picture.
    I’m not a physicist, I’m currently waffling between bio and chem.

    She’s thrilled to be famous. :)

  38. nunyer says

    Being married to a physicist *rocks.* Thrust, momentum, capacitance, frequency response, rise time . . . oh yeah!

  42. says

    Re Akyroth’s sig:

    Perhaps it was child abuse, but our kids used to be fond of repeating what we told them about our new kitchen counters: “Some people take them for granite, but they are really gneiss.” (Though we later decided that they were actually pegmatite.)

  45. Mena says

    Craig (#32):
    It looks like a pygmy marmoset, perhaps a baby.
    One of the side effects of a double major is that you can appreciate both the geology humor and the biology humor. You can also have a variety of science stuff on your web page. Yes, some of it has to be redone because it hasn’t aged gracefully, some of that stuff has been up for almost twelve years now. No comments, please.
    For the record though, I really liked the mafic/intermediate/felsic cats.

  48. says

    I sent the lolcats page to my dad, a geology professor — too many good geology ones not to! I don’t know if he’ll get it, but I hope he passes them on to his students, who are sure to be conversant in LOL.

  50. Rick T. says

    A geologist friend told me that rocks were smarter than cats because when you kick a rock it has the sense to go away.

  51. says

    Hard, eh? This metaphor is dead, guys. Give it up. The double entendre (once defined by the Lampoon as ‘talking dirty’) just doesn’t work anymore– biology is just as difficult, and (given the number of possible string theories) maybe a lot firmer too.

  52. DLC says

    one I’d like to see:
    “I haz calibrate your instrument”

    And, of course cdesign proponentsists always have:
    “Science iz hard… goddidit .”

  53. mikmik says

    I had a friend who lent me his first year physics text on the explicit instructions not to alter its mint condition state.
    I was doing homework and my orange cat was curled up beside the open book and snoozing while I did my exercises.
    I went to the can and I came back in about two minutes. The cat was still curled up in the same position.
    I sat down again and went to read from the text. The pages had been shredded about ten deep on one side.
    That cat didn’t like physics books, in any event. Sure was sneaky, though.

    My friend laughed. He is a good shit, a physicist no less.