Polymer Scientists: Fearless In All Things Except Pool Balls

When boys time travel to find their soulmates but girls are busy preventing Nobel Prize winners from glowing in the dark.

The periodic table of "should you lick that element?" is the safety guide they never gave us in chemistry class. Green elements like carbon and oxygen? Perfectly lickable. Yellow uranium? Probably best to keep your tongue to yourself. Red elements like mercury will have you filing paperwork in the afterlife. And those purple actinides? They're basically a one-way ticket to whatever dimension exists beyond this mortal realm. This is why chemists have trust issues—half the table looks delicious but will absolutely destroy you faster than my lab partner destroyed our grade point average.

Chemistry nerds shedding tears over this one! Chloromethyl methyl ether (CMME) is basically the chemical equivalent of that indie band nobody's heard of but is actually super toxic. This compound is a potent carcinogen that chemists avoid like their ex at a conference. The structure shown is deceptively simple—just a methoxy group and a chloromethyl group connected—but it's notorious in organic synthesis labs for being dangerously volatile and cancer-causing. The "dying fandom" joke works on two levels since exposure to this compound could literally make you... well, you get it. Safety officers everywhere are having palpitations just looking at this.

The ultimate geological romance! Carbon and diamond on a first date, exchanging the most scientifically accurate pickup lines ever. Carbon's "You look older than your profile picture" is a brilliant nod to radiocarbon dating, which measures age based on carbon-14 decay. Meanwhile, diamond's response about being "under a lot of pressure" perfectly captures how carbon transforms into diamond through extreme pressure deep within Earth's mantle. Their relationship literally took billions of years to develop! Scientists call this a perfect crystalline structure of humor.

The chemistry wordplay is absolutely bonding here! This meme plays with the structures of alkenes (compounds with carbon-carbon double bonds). Trienes have three double bonds and are trying their best to be stable, while dienes have only two double bonds and are literally "dying inside" from their reduced conjugation. The zigzag lines represent the actual structural notation chemists use to draw these molecules. Organic chemistry students everywhere are having flashbacks to synthesis problems right now.

That moment when scientific existential crises hit you at bedtime! Little Nobita here is pondering the ultimate scientific hierarchy while the rest of us are counting sheep. Euler with his mind-bending mathematical constants and Einstein with E=mc² get the GOAT status, but chemistry and biology are left hanging? Marie Curie and Darwin are probably rolling in their graves right now. The true hallmark of a future scientist—contemplating academic legends instead of sleeping. Next up: trying to remember if mitochondria is still the powerhouse of the cell at 2AM.