Easiest jobs in the world, tongue in cheek. in The AnswerBank: Science

Easiest jobs in the world, tongue in cheek.

(Question) What is the easiest job in the world?

(Answer) theoretical physicist, like Stephen Hawking.

These people say things like there are multiple universes trillions of miles away, There are black holes, the universe is 50 billion years old etc, gets tons of funding, thought highly of but can`t prove any of it!

If my surgeon said to me "I believe you have an invisible air pocket floating up you quantum lateral colon tube, but we can`t prove it, " and we will have to amputate your midrift to be on the safe side" "Though there may be a million other possibilities for the pain in your side"! I would call him a loony tune.

Stephen Hawking says "there is black matter zillions of miles away and it`s flowing down an invisible black hole that may engulf the earth in a quidzillion years but we can`t see it" he gets an award!

I have been watching the Univers series on TV and the words they use on a regular basis are "we think" "there could be" "we believe" "it`s possible".

That`s no good for me! I want proper information and photographs if possible otherwise I don`t believe them.
Money for old rope springs to mind. Anyone else know of easy jobs?

19:54 Wed 22nd Jul 2009

dave068

I've been waiting for years, decades even, for my next days work. You see, I'm a Coronation Day flag-seller.

carrot99

I used to love watching Time Team until my daughter pointed out that every other answer from the archaelogists was "it could be"....
"here's a piece of pottery, it could be....."
"here's a drawing of what we think it could be..."
"all traces are gone now but it could be...." Put me right off of watching it!

Top chefs - ok so you call a sauce a jus - it's still mainly applying heat to raw ingredients - it's cooking get over yourselves.

padanarm

NASA has an expert on extra-terrestrial life - now that must be easy money.

What about radio continuity announcers - what do they do between announcements?

Feng Shui - the ancient Chinese art of parting a fool from their money.

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blackeyed

I saw a TV program in which the host used to go to different restaurants and check out the food -now that must be an easy job,not only you get money but also free dinners and a being a celebrity!

jake-the-peg

Nah

People like Hawking and Roger Penrose do the maths behind it you just don't get to see it in what you read.

Black holes are proven by observations of their gravitational and other effects.

The age of the universe can be shown by it's rate of expansion and observations of its temperature by satellites like KOBE

The easiest job in the world is Science Journalist - they're the ones that get the wrong end of the stick ,write all the cobblers and then never put it right