I just discovered this scientific..."paper," published in the Journal of Improbable Research, presented at the Ignoble Awards a couple years ago. I laughed my face off watching the video. Who says scientists don't have a sense of humor?

http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

My favorite part is the questions part of the talk.

emythrel

United Kingdom2599 Posts

May 16 2011 22:32 GMT

Reminds me of a Drama class exercise my teacher used to do called "Chocolate Biscuit" where you could only say those two words and you were given a subject or event to dramatise... the rest of the class would then attempt to guess what the sketch was about. the exercise was to show that what you say isn't as important as how you say it.

Awesome find!

HawaiianPig

Canada5155 Posts

May 16 2011 22:35 GMT

Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken? Chicken.

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Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken.

nVusPip

United Kingdom260 Posts

May 16 2011 22:35 GMT

Chickens... trolololol

Myles

United States5162 Posts

May 16 2011 23:02 GMT

I don't understand how that's funny...

I seriously thought it was gonna be some funny breakdown of why the chicken crossed the road.

Sufficiency

Canada23833 Posts

May 16 2011 23:15 GMT

On May 17 2011 08:02 Myles wrote:
I don't understand how that's funny...

I seriously thought it was gonna be some funny breakdown of why the chicken crossed the road.

If you go to conferences, almost everyone's presentation is like that... the speaker comes up and mumble about things you don't understand, like 'chicken chicken....'.

Crit

Finland30 Posts

May 16 2011 23:17 GMT

Hahah. I wish my uni lectures were like this once in a while

Mortality

United States4790 Posts

May 16 2011 23:24 GMT

I really liked the ending. He was totally prepared for those questions. Well-researched.

spacefarm

United States112 Posts

May 16 2011 23:32 GMT

omgosh <3 ignoble prizes

EdSlyB

Portugal1621 Posts

May 16 2011 23:55 GMT

#10

My girlfriend is already asleep so I had to do the impossible and not burst laughing!

Very good presentation. 5/5

Chimpalimp

United States1135 Posts

May 16 2011 23:59 GMT

#11

On May 17 2011 08:02 Myles wrote:
I don't understand how that's funny...

I seriously thought it was gonna be some funny breakdown of why the chicken crossed the road.

Agreed. I was expecting an in-depth look into why chicken is delicious or something.

redoxx

United States333 Posts

May 17 2011 00:19 GMT

#12

haha I remember when my astronomy teacher gave me my first scientific paper to read about gamma ray bursts and absorption spectra (I'm a HS junior by the way so you can imagine it was over my head). Except for a few pages of it, it was like reading something that a two year old made by bashing on a keyboard over and over. I can definitely relate.

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

May 17 2011 00:34 GMT

#13

I've seen this before but it's always nice to review. I feel like I understood much more of it this time.

obesechicken13

United States10467 Posts

May 17 2011 01:05 GMT

#14

I don't see what's so funny about it, I thought his presentation had a lot to say -_-

Mortality

United States4790 Posts

May 17 2011 03:17 GMT

#15

On May 17 2011 10:05 obesechicken13 wrote:
I don't see what's so funny about it, I thought his presentation had a lot to say -_-

A chicken would certainly find the topic of chickens to be enlightening.

Chicken? Chicken!

Latrommi

United States222 Posts

May 17 2011 03:34 GMT

#16

I cannot believe some of you guys. Didn't you see? He demonstrated quantum computers perfectly! Here, I'll explain a little better.

In Chicken 1, you can see clearly that chicken is interchangeably active with chicken/chicken, causing the separate 1/0 binary functions to power the chicken computer(CC). Now the CC is powered by positive charges from the chicken chicken chicken.

Chicken?