Engineers Having A Mathematical Meltdown

Behold the mathematical apocalypse! A simple order of operations question has split humanity into two warring factions - Team 1 (53.5%) and Team 9 (42.8%)! For those who've forgotten their PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction), this is why we can't have nice things! The correct answer is 9: first handle the parentheses (1+2=3), then division (6÷3=2), not 1: division before parentheses (6÷2=3, then 3×3=9). With nearly half of 66,704 people getting it wrong, no wonder the friend's optimism about humanity is met with such skepticism! If we can't agree on basic arithmetic, how are we supposed to solve climate change? 🤯

The eternal dichotomy between application and theory! Engineers smugly smirk when their inventions go unused—"hahaha nobody applies your invention"—while mathematicians sob uncontrollably at the same fate. But flip the script with pure mathematicians, and you'll find they're playing 4D chess. One says "Nobody will apply your theorem ever" while the other responds "I hope so" with galaxy-brain energy. Pure mathematicians secretly want their work to remain theoretical forever—the moment someone finds a practical application, some government agency will classify it and they'll never see their beautiful equations again. Nothing ruins a mathematician's day like learning their abstract number theory just became the foundation of modern cryptography!

Behold, the morning ritual of the mechanical engineer – waking up with the smug superiority that only comes from believing your discipline is the only "real" engineering. While electrical engineers are playing with invisible electrons and civil engineers are just stacking bricks, mechanical engineers are designing the machines that make the world turn... or so they tell themselves. The tribal warfare between engineering disciplines is practically a required course. Chemical engineers think they're chemists who can do math, software engineers think they're not just glorified typists, and aerospace engineers are just mechanical engineers who couldn't handle being on the ground. Meanwhile, physicists watch from a distance, wondering why anyone would choose to apply their equations to something as mundane as reality.

Engineers getting all high and mighty about practical constraints while physicists are over here like "hold my spherical cow in a vacuum." The ultimate flex in physics isn't solving the problem—it's simplifying reality until the math works out! Nothing says "I'm too powerful for your real-world limitations" like casually erasing friction, air resistance, and the inconvenient shape of literally everything. Next time an engineer gives you grief about assumptions, just whisper "assume spherical rectangle" and watch their soul leave their body.

The height clearance sign says 4.6 meters, but the "μ" (mu) symbol makes it "4.6 micrometers" - about the width of a single E. coli bacterium. Civil engineers in Greece apparently designing bridges for tardigrades rather than humans. Next time you're stuck in traffic, just remember - you could theoretically quantum tunnel through if you're wave function is properly collapsed.

The ultimate scientific progression: from complex engineering concepts to peering inside systems, only to discover it's all just applied physics. Meanwhile, here's a cat, judging your realization with the quiet smugness of someone who already knew the universe's secrets but chose to nap instead. That tea isn't for hydration—it's for contemplating the existential crisis that comes with knowing everything is just atoms doing their thing. The cat's expression screams "I could explain string theory, but I'd rather watch you struggle with basic thermodynamics."