Contest: Win a WMAP beach ball – day 1!
- By Sara Mitchell
- September 27, 2010
- 73 Comments
As soon as we started blogging about the WMAP beach ball and its appearance on the set of The Big Bang Theory, we started getting some comments and tweets asking, “How can I get one of those?”
The beach ball was produced for educational uses, so it’s available to teachers to use in the classroom. However, we got a few especially for Blueshift’s followers and listeners – and we even got them signed by Nobel Laureate John Mather! Dr. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on understanding the Big Bang. So these are some extra-special beach balls!
These beach balls will be part of five prize packs full of NASA goodies that we’re giving away every day this week. So you’ll have 5 chances to win one! Here’s how to enter today’s contest:
Tell us your favorite joke about the Big Bang!
Post your joke as a comment on this entry. Comments are moderated and we ask that you be respectful. No profanity please! Any comments with non-NASA links may be edited or removed. Edited to add: Please keep the political and religious humor to a minimum – as a NASA blog we’re steering clear of that. We’re also unable to publish comments that contain mature content. They’re funny jokes, it’s true, but we’re trying to keep this all-ages!
Entries must be received by 5PM ET on Friday, October 1. We’ll announce the winner next week and mail out the prizes!
Good luck, and keep an eye on the blog for a new chance to enter every day this week.
Disclaimer: All opinions in this blog entry are that of specific individuals and do not represent those of NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, or Blueshift.
Sheldon is learning how to drive on a simulator. He crashes into a tree and Penny smashes a pillow into his face and says “Air Bag”.
In the beginning there was the big bang, everyone stood well back.
Give Sheldon Cooper a larger White Board and he could do a Bigger Bang. But not on Halo night.
Scientists have quantified the amount of energy in the Big Bang to be equal to
1CHNRhK.
1 Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick.
The big bang is only a bang if you can hear it.
Q- What was the worst part about the big bang?
A-Nobody was there to hear it!
(A scientist working at the large hadron collider) ‘If all else fails it makes a great frothy latte.’
Q: What caused the big bang?
A: God divided by zero.
Mr. T. and Chuck Norris got into a fight. At the exact moment Chuck Norris round house kicked Mr. T; Mr. T punched Chuck Norris in the face. The collision of molecules with such force caused what scientist today call the Big Bang!
The Best joke Ever, in halloween.
Cant recognize my costume??
here is a hint.
hiiiiiiiuuuuuuuu hiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuu
Im The Doppler Effect!
“I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you.”
A surgeon, a mathematician and a politician were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon stated that his profession was first, “After all”, he asked, “who do you think helped G-D make Eve out of one of Adam’s ribs?” The mathematician said “No, before Adam and Eve and even before the Big Bang, there was chaos and G-D needed a mathematician to show him how to use chaos theory.” The politician spoke up, “Ha! I win, who do you think caused the chaos?”
FYI, there are a bunch of great Big Bang Cartoons here http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/big_bang.asp
A poultry farmer was distressed because his chickens stopped laying eggs. He didn’t know what to do about it, but one of his friends, a physicist, offered to help. The physicist came out to the farm, took a bunch of measurements, and went back home to analyze the data. The physicist called the farmer on the phone and said: “Okay, I have a solution for your problem, but it only works with spherical chickens in a vacuum.”
Q: What caused the big bang?
A: God divided by zero. Oops!
Guh. Was focused on jokes from The Big Bang Theory show, and misread the request…
“A surgeon, a Mathematician and a Politician were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon stated that his profession was first, ‘After all’, he asked, ‘who do you think helped god make Eve out of one of Adam’s ribs?’ The mathematician said ‘No, before Adam and Eve and even before the Big Bang, there was chaos and God needed a mahematician to show him how to use chaos theory.’ The politician spoke up, ‘Ha! I win, who do you think caused the chaos?'”
What caused the Big Bang?
God divided by zero.
Question: What came before the Big Bang?
Answer:
Kimberly asked, “Daddy, what’s a big bang?” “Well,” he explained “it’s a theory to explain why the universe is expanding.” “But was it caused by french fries?” Kimberly asked. “No, why would you think that?” “Isn’t that what’s making you expand, daddy?”
What happens when an infinitely dense singularity collides with an infinitely empty space?
A Big Bang!
Here are 2 that are kinda funny…
First one:
“A surgeon, a mathematician and a politician were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon stated that his profession was first, ‘After all’, he asked, ‘who do you think helped God make Eve out of one of Adam’s ribs?’ The mathematician said ‘No, before Adam and Eve and even before the big bang, there was chaos, and God needed a mathematician to show him how to use chaos theory.’ The politician spoke up, ‘Ha! I win, who do you think caused the chaos?”
And the second:
“Scientists were excited when they managed to isolate a sound that occured just seconds after the big bang. Apparently, that sound was ‘oops.’”
No worries, Brad!
Scientists have estimated that the energy given off during the Big Bang is roughly equal to 1CNRhK (Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick)
I suppose it’s not *exactly* about the Big Bang, but I’ve always been fond of the t-shirt that reads “And God said [Maxwell’s equations, in their most elegant notation] and there was light.”
My other favorite is the wordplay in Zaphod Beeblebrox’s description of Eccentrica Gallumbits, but I figure that’s not entirely appropriate so I’ll leave it out.
“Cosmologists are often mistaken for Cosmetologists, but really they have nothing in common. A cosmologist studies the Big Bang, and cosmologists work with big bangs. A cosmologist studies the makeup of the universe, and cosmetologists studies the universe of makeup.”
(credit goes to Rocky Kolb for this joke)
The Big Bang Theory is often used to explain sales forecasts that look like a hockey stick. The sudden jump in sales has no basis in reason and almost always meets or exceeds management’s expectations. Sales plods along for a few years, then BANG, sales double. Wow, that’s a big bang!
Who passed gas?….. No one would know because whoever did it, lit it up and BANG!
Bazinga!
A surgeon, a mathematician & politician were arguing over whose job was the oldest. Surgeon: ‘I helped God make Eve out of Adam’s ribs.’ Mathematician: ‘No, even before Adam & Eve, there was chaos & God needed me to show him chaos theory’. Politician: ‘Ha, I win! Who do you think caused the chaos?’
Q. Why Big Bang theorists do not eat chocolate?
A. Because they are afraid of the big CRUNCH!
The Big Bang? Is that another name for solar system?
*nothing*BOOM*something*
Father time’s hearing is shot ever since the big bang.
Mother to scientist daughter – Oh! When you said redshift, I thought you were talking about *clothing*.
I love the bit about the ring of evil. One ring.
What did The Deity say right after The Big Bang?
“Oops. Pardon me.”
A surgeon, a mathematician and a politician were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon stated that his profession was first, “After all”, he asked, “who do you think helped god make Eve out of one of Adam’s ribs?” The mathematician said “No, before Adam and Eve and even before the Big Bang, there was chaos and God needed a mathematician to show him how to use chaos theory.” The politician spoke up, “Ha! I win, who do you think caused the chaos?”
When they’re pretending to time travel and they all act really fast-motion as he’s accelerating into the future. XD
In space no one can hear you BANG !
“I don’t believe the Big Bang has ever happened.”
“Ok, and why do you think so?”
“Oh, i can’t find it on YOUTUBE…”
The big bang was a nuke that was dropet into the anlantic ocean witch made a big wave witch flooded the land around the ocean. People called the BIG BANG!
Top Ten Rejected Alternative Names For The Big Bang: 10-The Colossal Kaboom, 9-Gesundheit, 8- Oops, 7-“Fred”, 6-A High-Density Stable Asset Ruined By Inflation, 5-That One Thing, 4-Fire! Fire!, 3-I Didn’t Do It, 2- Pop Goes The Cosmos, and #1….BLARFENGHAR!!! (Betty White did in fact witness the event…)
Here is a picture of what it looked like before the big bang vv
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The universe before the Big Bang (actual size)
If only your jokes were has coherent as light from a laser.
The Big Bang was all well and good, but in the end it’s all Gib Gnab.
(Thank you, Mr. Adams. R.I.P.)
Thanks. Now go back and do it again, like you mean it.
That Point In Time When the Volume of the Universe Decreases to Approximately Zero, and Density Approaches Infinity, and the Combination of the Strong Nuclear Force and Electromagnetic Attraction Between Red and Blue Colored Quar– hey Steve, can’t we think up a nickname for this?!?
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
…
Seriously, who’s there? I can’t see, everything’s opaque.
[ans: it was the big bang a little while ago]
Can’t think of no good jokes and it’s just a little bit left of Monday here in PDT.
If a singularity exploded in a void, and there was no one around to hear it, would the Universe exist?
Multi-verse joke. What did one big bang say to the other big bang?
My bangs bigger than yours.
Bella
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Sydney
How do you know it was big and it was a bang. I say it was a little ting then it opened a small whole in where the ting came from and quietly started releasing gas.