Reposts? I Prefer The Term Efficient Reusing Of A Concept

That moment when your entire concept of horsepower gets shattered! 🐴 Most people assume one horsepower equals one horse's strength, but nope - a single horse can actually generate up to 10 horsepower in short bursts! The unit was created by James Watt in the 1800s based on how much work a horse could sustain over a full workday (about 1 HP), not their peak performance. Your car engine suddenly makes a lot more sense... and horses deserve way more credit for being absolute powerhouses!

The mathematical insurgency has begun! This meme brilliantly captures the horror of finding a sphere (made of triangles!) in a triangle factory. It's like discovering quantum physics at a Newtonian convention. The top panel shows the factory workers freaking out at this geometric abomination while the bottom reveals the truth - that spheres in 3D modeling are actually made up of triangular polygons! The blue sphere's triangular mesh structure is its secret identity. This is basically geometric espionage. The worker's confusion is pure mathematical existential crisis - "Wait, have I been making spheres this WHOLE TIME?!"

The mathematical transformation being rudely misidentified here is the Fourier transform , which converts signals from time domain to frequency domain. But some poor stick figure has accidentally called it a "furry transform" instead. Honestly, that's a completely different kind of transformation that happens at conventions with suspicious amounts of mascot costumes. Signal processing engineers everywhere just collectively facepalmed so hard they created their own sine wave.

The hierarchy of mathematical rigor in a nutshell. Mathematics struts around like some cosmic overlord. Physicists reluctantly bow to mathematical reality while muttering about "reasonable assumptions." Meanwhile, engineers are in the corner cackling as they round π to 3 and declare "close enough for government work." The difference? Mathematicians prove it works, physicists explain why it works, and engineers just need it to not explode. Preferably.

Engineers: creating precise instruments for decades to measure and generate electrical signals with exquisite accuracy. Also engineers: "Yeah, that person giving contradictory information is definitely a Mixed Signal Generator." 🤦‍♂️ The technical pun game is strong with this one! In electronics, oscilloscopes display signals and signal generators create them. But when someone's actions don't match their words? That's a whole different kind of waveform analysis.

The innocent high schooler's dream of designing cool planes crashes into the harsh reality wall built by engineering students! That moment when you realize those "fun math problems" about trains meeting each other were just the appetizer before they serve you differential equations with a side of thermodynamics. The poor kid's still thinking engineering is just "math and planes and shit" while actual engineering students are having existential breakdowns over their fourth all-nighter this week. It's like wanting to be an astronaut because space is pretty, then discovering you need to understand orbital mechanics first! The academic equivalent of "I came looking for copper and found pain."