Time to lighten the mood.
Many years ago 'Omni' magazine ran a competition for 'scientific limericks'. There were many entries, but these ones managed to permanently lodge themselves in my brain for some reason.
A voice from the UFO cried
'To the smartest we'll give a free ride!'
Several men voulanteered
but the ship disappeared
with a whale and two dolphins inside
'The universe is curved!' noted Fred,
an astronomer learned and read.
'This scope has such power
I've just spent an hour
examining the back of my head!'.
'Don't you know where all this is leading ?
This nightmare of selective breeding ?'
He spat on the ground
and then turned around
and continued on with his weeding.
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Ah ! A connoisseur of scientific limericks. Have some original of mine!
There once was a neutron, whose fate
Was to pass through a bubble track crate.
On exchanging a pion
With a hydrogen ion
It created a track, quite ornate!
Schrodinger put a cat in a box
With cy'nide in isotope locks,
Till on one fateful day
A beta decay
Killed the cat, 0.5 times approx.
and - thankfully less relevant now than when I wrote it -
Waste fridges and spray cans leak masses
Of chlorofluorocarbon gases.
CFC accretion
Means ozone depletion,
So please wear absorbent sunglasses.
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