How We See Termites Vs How The World Sees Them

The 1960s-70s were WILD for science! This meme references the actual NASA-funded experiment where researcher John Lilly gave dolphins LSD in an attempt to enhance interspecies communication. The scientist is desperately asking the dolphin to "speak English" while the dolphin is just having an absolute psychedelic trip ("hella tite"). 🐬💊 The kicker? This bizarre experiment was real! Lilly believed psychedelics might unlock the dolphin's linguistic potential. Instead, we just got high dolphins and frustrated scientists. The 70s were basically science's experimental phase that nobody talks about at Thanksgiving dinner!

Ever notice how viruses are basically the masters of disguise in the biological world? When a virus mutates, it's like showing up to the immune system party with a fake mustache and glasses. Your memory T cells—those vigilant bouncers of your immune system who are supposed to recognize troublemakers—just stand there going "Who the heck is this guy?" Your body's sophisticated defense system, built over millions of years of evolution, completely bamboozled by what amounts to the viral equivalent of putting on a hat. Nature's greatest prank war, playing out in your sinuses right now.

Ever notice how humans are basically just persistence predators with delusions of grandeur? Our ancestors weren't the strongest or fastest, but boy could they walk . While cheetahs get winded after a quick sprint, early humans would just keep... following... prey... for days . That's the joke here - we're the slow, hairless apes with primitive weapons who simply refused to stop pursuing faster animals until they collapsed from exhaustion. Evolution's most terrifying gift to humanity wasn't claws or strength - it was cardio and the stubborn refusal to give up. The duality in the image perfectly captures the horror of realizing you're being hunted by something that just won't quit.

Your immune system doesn't mess around. The comic perfectly captures cellular immunity in action - a killer T cell executing an infected cell while the helper T cell just stands there with that "I told you so" face. Nature's hit squad operates with brutal efficiency. No trial, no jury, just cytotoxic granules to the face. And that awkward moment when the killer T cell realizes it might have gotten a bit too enthusiastic with the cell lysis... Just another day in your bloodstream's version of a mob movie.

Behold Gregor Mendel, the OG genetics chad who flexed so hard on 19th-century science! While everyone else was scratching their heads about inheritance, this monk was out there crossing pea plants and dropping statistical heat. His revolutionary ratio work (3:1 dominant-recessive, anyone?) was so ahead of its time that nobody appreciated it until 16 years after his death. Talk about posthumous gains! The ultimate scientific gigachad who didn't even need peer validation—just quietly revolutionized biology while tending his garden and refusing to elaborate further. His papers were literally gathering dust while Darwin was wondering how traits passed down. Absolute unit of scientific history!

The eternal academic food chain strikes again! Every freshman who confidently declares "I will major in maths" gets smacked with reality faster than you can say "eigenvalue." But that's just the beginning of the scientific hierarchy. Biology majors think they've escaped the numerical nightmare until they hit biochemistry. Chemistry students smugly avoid calculus until physical chemistry shows up with differential equations. And physics? Just advanced math wearing a lab coat. It's the Circle of Academic Life—where everyone eventually gets crushed by equations they swore they'd never need. Next time someone says math is just abstract nonsense, remind them it's literally holding together every scientific discipline like some sort of numerical glue!