Do you Understand?

[UncertaintyPrinciple]

I have made a, admittedly, nerdy science joke which gets a dichotomy of reception. It goes as follows:

"A Physicist is drving down the Eastlink (Highway in Australia) he looks down to check his speedo. When he looks back up he's in Sweden"

This joke is based on a scientific concept, and I know that it is very sad that I find it so funny.

My main question is, do you guys get it? Find it funny? And have any jokes like it?

 

[Marter]

...I didn't get it.

Now I feel kind of stupid. :/

 

[ethaninja]

Does it have anything to do with the Super Collider?

 

[TheTaco007]

I have a feeling it's something to do with Relativity?

 

[CoverYourHead]

...I didn't get it.

Now I feel kind of stupid. :/

Don't worry, I don't get it either...

We can be not-getting it buddies!

 

[Marik2]

...I didn't get it.

Now I feel kind of stupid. :/

LOL are you back to the old days of being the first one to post on a new thread?

 

[Jacob.A.]

Thats not even a joke and I took physics and past it.

 

[UncertaintyPrinciple]

...I didn't get it.

Now I feel kind of stupid. :/

Don't, few do. It's based on a concept in Quantum Mechanics I believe, so unless you studied Quantum Physics, I'd be surpised if you did

 

[Frotality]

so im guessing its supposed to be about the uncertainty principle.... and i still dont get it. were speedos used in some though experiment or something?

 

[Souplex]

It's Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Not funny, it's just XKCD humor built around feeling superior to those who can't understand it without being witty.

 

[Marter]

Don't worry, I don't get it either...

We can be not-getting it buddies!

Yay!

I wonder if me not getting has to do with me not sleeping more than 3 hours over the last few days...

LOL are you back to the old days of being the first one to post on a new thread?

Um...no. Just have done it a few times today. Being really tired and not having the brain power to do much more than post on here has helped as well. >_<

 

[GodofCider]

My apologizes, but your attempt at humor appears to be lost on me.

 

[UncertaintyPrinciple]

I have a feeling it's something to do with Relativity?

*sigh* This is going to show how nerdy I actually am. It based/related on/to the Uncertainty Principle (hence my Username). But you were close

 

[Marik2]

Um...no. Just have done it a few times today. Being really tired and not having the brain power to do much more than post on here has helped as well. >_<

Dude you really need some sleep, humans need like what 8 hours of sleep everyday?

 

[UncertaintyPrinciple]

It's Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Not funny, it's just XKCD humor built around feeling superior to those who can't understand it without being witty.

I don't believe I'm superior to anyone, I only make the joke to people who I think will get it. I understand that people don't share the same knowledge as me, I know things they won't and they'll know things I don't.

I am no one's inllectual superior, a just have different knowledge to some

 

[Marter]

Dude you really need some sleep, humans need like what 8 hours of sleep everyday?

...at 17 you're supposed to be getting around 9-10 hours.

"Screw that!", I say.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Um...no. Just have done it a few times today. Being really tired and not having the brain power to do much more than post on here has helped as well. >_<

Dude you really need some sleep, humans need like what 8 hours of sleep everyday?

I've lived on 6 hours of sleep for some time now. It's totally possible.
The only thing that makes me tired now (barring sickness) is oversleeping.

It's all about finding that rhythm.

 

[Nouw]

Time to test the intelligence of my peers!
Yeah I didn't get it...

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I love me some Heisenberg. Sadly was recently done in a guest comic for Mr Munroe. Still pretty good though.

 

[GodofCider]

My apologizes, but your attempt at humor appears to be lost on me.

That is to say, I got the 'joke' but it simply wasn't funny. He knew his speed, but not his location. Perhaps it'd be more comical given a different situation, but my response to this was a resounding: Where's the punchline?