Lumo Gang Rise Up

Scientific gatekeeping strikes again! First they came for Pluto, now they're coming for hydrogen? The image shows what appears to be an atom or atomic structure visualization, while the fake news headline claims hydrogen is getting kicked off the periodic table for being "too small" — just like Pluto got demoted from planet status. The cherry on top is that additional "breakthrough" about "Sus Scrofa" test flights (that's just the scientific name for domestic pigs). Looks like someone's trying to make chemistry as controversial as astronomy! Next week's headline: "Electrons deemed too negative, replaced with more upbeat particles."

The eternal nightmare of organic chemistry students everywhere! That "S" drawing is the infamous Schlegel diagram of cyclohexane - the molecular structure that haunts dreams and ruins GPAs. Drawing this perfectly on exams is like trying to perform brain surgery with oven mitts. The reply "Now load it in chem3d an optimize" is the modern chemist's equivalent of "just use a calculator" - completely missing the existential crisis of having to draw these by hand during tests. The perfect representation of that moment when you realize your beautifully drawn chair conformation looks more like abstract art than actual science.

Science fiction writers have a notorious obsession with acid-based weapons, completely ignoring the equally destructive potential of bases! The meme shows bases drowning while sci-fi writers gleefully elevate acids to stardom. Chemistry nerds know that strong bases like sodium hydroxide can be just as corrosive as acids—they'll dissolve proteins and saponify your fatty tissues into literal soap. Yet somehow "the alien sprayed him with hydroxide and he turned into a puddle of soap" doesn't make it into the screenplay. Justice for bases in fictional weaponry!

Cold War chemistry at its finest. Ionic bonds represent the capitalist American approach—one atom selfishly hoarding electrons while the other is left electron-poor. Meanwhile, covalent bonds embody the communist ideal of electron-sharing between atoms. Your professor clearly skipped the chapter on metallic bonds, where electrons flow freely like in some kind of chemical anarchy. Next thing you know, they'll be claiming hydrogen bonds are just ionic bonds with commitment issues.

Chemistry nerds showing off their increasingly pretentious ways to say "sugar daddy" is peak science humor. Starting with the colloquial term, then escalating through chemical formulas to that final IUPAC monstrosity that probably took someone with three PhDs to write. The progression of galaxy brain images on the right perfectly captures how chemists think they're ascending to godhood with each additional hydroxyl group they can name. Next time someone asks what I do at parties, I'm definitely introducing myself as a "β-D-Fructofuranosyl α-D-glucopyranoside Human Male" and watching their eyes glaze over faster than a donut.

That devious look when you realize you can just keep attaching monomers together FOREVER! 😈 Polymer chemistry in a nutshell: "Why stop at one chemical bond when you could make thousands?" That mad scientist energy of discovering you can create giant molecular chains that give us everything from plastic bags to yoga pants. It's basically chemistry's version of "if building one Lego tower is fun, building one that reaches the moon is BETTER!" And now we're drowning in plastic because some chemist couldn't resist clicking that "do it again" button a few billion times!