Hollande flies to Syria
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humour6.htm#15_3_09 Following the lecture I gave at X on March 9, 2009, about the Z-machine
The first theorem of metaphysics in the history of science
The eve of January 1, 2009
( inspired by my old friend Gérard Morin from Poitiers )
Guillaume Durand’s show on France 2, “The object of scandal”, January 2009
Science et Vie:
November 1993 issue
August 2007 issue
Excerpt from the film “Matrix”, released in March 1999 in the US. At 16 minutes and 55 seconds, “Neo” is questioned by “the agents” when his file is opened.
Note the expiration date on his passport: September 11, 2001
Middle East
February 2009
Two employees of the British and French navies, Mr. Vanguard and Mr. Triomphant, carrying vials containing anthrax bacteria in their pockets, bumped into each other in a completely dark corridor. Both had turned off their flashlights to avoid being spotted, relying on their keen hearing to detect any approaching night wanderers. But since they were both walking on tiptoes, neither heard the other coming. The collision occurred at low speed, thankfully causing no damage to their dangerous cargo.
Following the lecture I gave on March 9, 2009 at École Polytechnique (X)
Confirmed: The Americans indeed withhold information regarding results obtained on the ZR machine after the 2008 tests. The French do and will nothing. Result of pressure exerted by the Megajoule and ITER lobbies and... incomprehension. Military caution. Deafening silence in science media, which follow instructions (but anyway don’t understand either the approach or its implications.)
There’s no deafer person than one who doesn’t want to understand.
(A full report, currently being written, will appear in the press in a few weeks.)
Pierre Curnier
Microphone attacked by a space turkey
(private joke for Julien Geffray)
Boron-hydrogen
Odd incident: During an international congress on hypersonic flight, a retired former CNRS researcher ran over an aviation journalist with his wheelchair; the journalist had claimed on a Quebec radio station that he’d passed off a hang-gliding accident as a work-related injury to get a pension.
Authentic
The author of this is aviation journalist Bernard Thouanel. Below is the end of a lengthy insulting email he sent me on November 22, 2009.
To conclude with your story about Claude Poher. I fully confirm he told me your story on the phone. I see no reason why he would invent such nonsense. I had absolutely no intention of making it public, as I felt it was irrelevant personally. And if you actually had a hang-gliding accident and found the fall of an electromagnet more poetic, that was your problem, not mine. François Bourbeau somewhat pressured me into confirming this fact via his radio station. I bear him no grudge; he’s Québécois and, unlike you, honest...
I have nothing else to add.
Bernard Thouanel
Extract from his recent interview:
http://www.paperblog.fr/2487136/ovni-interview-de-bernard-thouanel-ii
.http://www.paperblog.fr/2487136/ovni-interview-de-bernard-thouanel-ii
Claude Poher, former department director at CNES. Inventor of the concept of “universon”, a fundamental component of the cosmos
Who’s the guy on the left?
Private joke
December 2009: The miracle of the olives
(they really did turn back... black)
Marriage: Whoever lets go of their spouse’s hand is screwed
March 26, 2010
The undertaker stays away too long. British cops tow away the improperly parked hearse just as the coffin arrives.
May 5, 2010: A reader, Frédéric Dekerle, proved a better observer than me. Find the error...
Above the red circle we see a “giraffe”, i.e., a microphone attached to a pole. This isn’t a real situation but a staged shot.
This photo inspired the drawing below:
April 8, 2010
April 17, 2010
Bang stick too short (Cay Sal Bank)
Crop circle
Average Frenchman in June 2010, during the World Cup
Private joke
Some explanations seem necessary for the reader. We reassembled the “cosmology” team with Gilles d’Agostini, theoretical physicist (treasurer of Savoir Sans Frontières; see his photo on http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com, where he resembles explorer Paul-Émile Victor against an ice floe background). The other member is my old friend Pierre Midy, retired, with whom I discussed math on the phone yesterday for an hour. We decided to “get back in the game.” The yellow paper the guy holds is the change of “chronological variable” invented by Eddington in 1924; it can be found at the start of Chapter 7, page 237 in Adler, Schiffer and Bazin’s book: “Introduction to General Relativity”, McGraw Hill editions. Actually, this stems from a tip from the Ummites, received in Madrid during a conversation with engineer Dominguez, who’d recently spoken to them on the phone about the nonexistence of black holes. Their existence depends solely on an arbitrary choice of time coordinate, the “chronological variable.” The yellow paper is the variable change devised in 1924 by Sir Arthur Eddington, a key figure in theoretical astrophysics.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington
In 1919 he led the team observing an eclipse to verify Einstein’s theory on light deflection by mass. He was the first to suggest stars obtain energy via fusion. He also studied relations between physical constants from a dimensional analysis standpoint. Also a great popularizer. The humorous drawing above was suggested by my old friend Jacques Legalland, designer of the 5 kV power supply used at Rochefort for MHD experiments. Where on earth did he find such a peculiar variable change? Nobody knows...
Conversation with General Armaments Engineer Yves Sillard, founder of Gepan and Geipan. 2005
Sketch made in January 2001 at the Brighton symposium after Professor Ildebrand Ludwiger’s particularly dull presentation
“Mack”, hero of the Discovery Channel series promoting weapons
December 3, 2010: Misuse of one of my drawings:
One of my readers pointed out that one of my drawings was used, with text altered. Originally it was:
Now, on a website and blog I’ll let you search for, this drawing appears, reproduced and modified without my permission:
If you find drawings like this online, know that these reproductions are done without my knowledge.
I have my own political views, and I don’t hesitate to express them openly. I act as a polemicist. Just look at the drawing right before these two to be convinced.
But I deny anyone the right to associate themselves with their own speeches and actions using my own illustrations, modified or even copied as-is. They should find their own illustrators.
October 29, 2010: A scene in Kruger Park, South Africa, inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s “Stories Like That” (“The Elephant’s Child”). Thankfully, the story ends well. Adults stomp their feet, which impresses the crocodile, causing it to leave.
“Nachez-boi. Bou me mête mal!”
Briefing at Vinon
Typical Chinese imported product
We installed a sanibroyeur
Homo Nuclearis
Nucléoshadock
Result:
Nukushima
First scan of DSK’s brain
Click here to view the animation
At a time when many question the validity of nuclear energy, Frédéric Mitterrand surprises us by showing interest in physics, though he’s essentially a literary type:
- I don’t mind poking my nose into a neutron
Strauss Kahn in autumn 2010, in Tunis
- As IMF President, I wish to congratulate Tunisian President Ben Ali on his strict management practices
Document implicating Dominique Strauss-Kahn; video taken by Sofitel camera
Drawing illustrating my article in the July-August 2011 issue of Nexus magazine
Drawing illustrating my article in the July-August 2011 issue of Nexus magazine
Jie never lived in the countryside
Profile of a good left-wing presidential candidate
Authentic.
Of course, I never replied. Finally freed, since 2005, from receiving a pension of a few dozen euros every... quarter
December 10, 2011: Will Brittany secede?
Chevênement, as he might have been painted.
To see the rest of this portrait gallery, created by a talented anonymous artist
Christmas 2011: Pope Benedict XVI gets the Scout sign wrong. P
February 16, 2012: Private joke
Private joke 2 (to be continued)
Hand extended
Project Camelot
Matrix reloaded
Matrix: Offer made to Neo by Morpheus
Justine and the Theory of Everything
December 2012: Quickly drawn on the package of “Vertical Passion” meant for jet pilot Pascal Sébire, delighted with this “Christmas gift.”
(there was a line at the post office)
December 21, 2012
You can fight windmills to a point, but not air currents
Everything is said in one single image
Private joke
April 2013. After lying to all parliamentarians, he was forced to resign.
Jérôme Cahuzac, Minister of Budget. An audio recording reveals his tax evasion maneuvers via a Swiss account.
This guy reminds me of a Nixon photo that circulated in the US during Watergate, with the caption:
- Would you buy a used car from a guy like that?
Balustrade at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
The first theorem of metaphysics:
Any celestial body immersed in a celestial fluid receives an upward thrust equal to the weight of the displaced celestial matter.
Imagine a celestial fluid whose density decreases with altitude, and suppose the celestial body doesn’t expand when ambient pressure drops. If the density of the body, initially at ground level, is less than that of its surroundings, it will rise. Its ascent stops when its mass equals that of the surrounding medium of equal volume; in other words, when both densities become equal.
Of course, if the body’s density exceeds that of its surroundings at ground level, it won’t rise. We then say it remains in the lower celestial realm.
Regarding the project to bury long-lived radioactive waste at Bures, Champagne, within a clay layer
July 2013: An exceptionally violent tornado devastated the Vinon glider flying center
The largest in Europe, located just a few kilometers from ITER
September 2013: Flamby goes to war
January 2014: Love affair
The “reverse quenelle” gesture.
Discussions are underway at the Constitutional Council to determine whether this sign—seen by some as a “mini Nazi salute”—should be banned.