Just A Day In The Life Of An Aerospace Engineer

The perfect crossover between Star Trek and electrical engineering doesn't exi-- That Fluke multimeter is set to measure ohms (Ω), which is the unit for electrical resistance. And there it is, displaying "FUTILE" instead of a number. Just like the Borg's famous catchphrase "resistance is futile," this multimeter has given up on measuring resistance altogether. Somewhere, a frustrated engineer is wondering if they've been assimilated into a collective of broken test equipment.

The hierarchy of mathematical respect in three panels: Mathematics declares itself the cosmic overlord: "I'm everywhere, inevitable, undeniable." Pure, abstract, and smug about it. Physicists reluctantly bow to their mathematical master. They need those equations to describe reality, even if they occasionally mutter "spherical cow" under their breath. Engineers? They're cackling maniacs who treat math like silly putty. "π equals 3? Close enough! Let's quadruple that safety factor and call it a day." The mathematical gods weep, but the bridge still stands.

Nuclear energy gets the glamorous cartoon hero treatment while conventional steam power is the villain? Classic energy propaganda at its finest! The irony is delicious - nuclear plants are literally just fancy steam machines with extra spicy uranium. Both technologies boil water to spin turbines, but one involves splitting atoms and creating waste that stays radioactive for thousands of years. Sure, nuclear's "clean" until something goes wrong, then it's just clean in the "we had to evacuate an entire region" kind of way. Meanwhile, fossil fuel plants are portrayed as the mustache-twirling bad guys despite powering civilization for centuries. Energy debates never change - same physics, different marketing department.

Engineers settling dog breed debates with computational fluid dynamics is peak nerd culture. Someone saw a meme calling pugs "genetic failures" and decided to run actual aerodynamic simulations to prove it scientifically. The borzoi's sleek 0.57 drag coefficient versus the pug's chunky 0.7 confirms what we all suspected—pugs were not designed for speed. Next time someone argues about dog breeds, just whip out your CFD analysis and watch them slowly back away.

Nuclear energy gets the worst PR campaign in scientific history. Someone calls uranium "magic rocks that boil water" and they're technically correct—that's literally what nuclear power plants do. We split atoms to... heat water. Revolutionary! But one meltdown and suddenly everyone's treating nuclear energy like it killed their childhood pet. Meanwhile, fossil fuels are actively cooking the entire planet and we're like "but what about Chernobyl though?" The comparison to prehistoric humans abandoning fire after one accident is painfully accurate. Thirty years teaching thermodynamics and I've never seen a better analogy for our irrational energy policy. Nuclear power: it's just spicy steam.

They can design bridges that withstand earthquakes but can't figure out how to text back in under 3 days! Engineering students mastering differential equations while their dating life remains an unsolvable problem . The irony is strong enough to build a skyscraper on! These poor souls can calculate the tensile strength of steel but somehow missed the lecture on emotional connections. Maybe they should try applying some of those problem-solving skills to their Tinder profiles instead of just their homework!