Engineers Are Already Dead Inside Says Corona

The eternal divide between chemical engineers and synthetic chemists in one perfect meme. Engineers just want the practical yield and industrial application, while chemists are over there naming reactions after dead Germans and talking about "elegant mechanisms" like they're describing ballet. The engineer's face says it all: "Sure, buddy, tell me more about your palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling while I figure out how to scale this up 10,000x without bankrupting the company." Classic academic vs. industrial chemistry tension that's been playing out in labs since Bunsen first lit his burner.

The perfect encapsulation of academic gatekeeping! Top panel shows a music professor drowning students in complex notation while saying "it's not rocket science." Bottom panel shows an aerospace engineer pointing at actual rocket schematics saying "it's not music theory." Every field thinks their complexity is the baseline while dismissing others as trivial. Meanwhile students are sobbing in both classes. Trust me, after 30 years in academia, I've seen engineering students crumble at Bach and music majors faint at differential equations. We're all just specialized monkeys pretending our particular banana is the hardest to peel.

The eternal struggle of every DIY enthusiast and engineer summed up in one glorious grid! Those screw heads are basically the personality types at every hardware store. The Torx (star-shaped) is indeed the fan favorite because it grips like your life depends on it. Meanwhile, that flat-head is LITERALLY designed to make you question your career choices when it slips for the 47th time. And don't get me started on that square Robertson drive looking all smug and superior—Canada's gift to the world that somehow never caught on everywhere else! The bottom row is just empty boxes with personality descriptions, but we all know they're the weird specialty heads that show up when you're trying to fix something at 11pm and suddenly need a tool that looks like it was designed by aliens. Engineers didn't create different screw heads for efficiency—they did it to watch the rest of us suffer!

When Fourier Transform walks into the math party! This brilliant pun plays on Fourier analysis—the mathematical technique that decomposes any signal into a sum of sine waves. No matter how complex your waveform looks, mathematically it's just a bunch of sine waves added together with different amplitudes and frequencies. It's like claiming your fancy cocktail isn't just water... but it's 60% water, 30% ethanol, and 10% other compounds. The mathematical equivalent of "technically correct is the best kind of correct."

This is peak computational fluid dynamics humor right here! Someone actually ran a CFD simulation on the silhouette of Saddam Hussein and visualized the airflow patterns. The color gradient shows different pressure zones and turbulence as air flows around the figure. The blue region indicates low pressure, while the trailing green-yellow wake shows the turbulent flow separation. Engineers spend thousands of hours optimizing airplane wings for perfect aerodynamics, and then someone uses the same sophisticated software to analyze... this. Pure scientific shitposting at its finest. The drag coefficient must be terrible, but the meme coefficient is off the charts!

Every engineer knows the pain of needing that one specific part to finish a project, only to discover McMaster-Carr wants your firstborn child as shipping collateral. The meme perfectly captures Mr. Krabs (the ultimate capitalist crustacean) swimming in money while charging $10 to ship a single screw—a screw that probably costs 12 cents. The worst part? When your research deadline is tomorrow, you'll happily pay the $40 overnight fee while silently calculating how many ramen packets that equals. The scientific supply chain: where a tiny piece of metal is somehow worth its weight in gold!