The Inevitable Entropy Of Engineering Projects

The physics police have arrived to enforce Ohm's Law! This officer is taking down a resistor that's clearly violated circuit regulations. In the electrical underworld, resistance isn't just futile—it's grounds for getting tackled by law enforcement. Next time your circuit components are misbehaving, remember: excessive resistance leads to voltage drops... and apparently police dropkicks. The color bands on this "perp" would tell any electronics engineer exactly how much trouble it's in.

These graphs are the most scientifically accurate representation of college majors ever created! Liberal Arts: living the dream until graduation hits like a meteor extinction event. Medicine: suffering through the nine circles of med school hell before finally making enough money to pay off those student loans in your 50s. And Engineering? Just flatline suffering before and after graduation, but hey, at least the paycheck makes the existential dread tolerable! The universal constant across all STEM fields is that brief moment where you question all your life choices and wonder if you should've just opened that beachside coconut stand instead.

The engineering devolution is real! In 1969, engineers were calculating rocket trajectories to the moon using nothing but slide rules—actual analog computing devices requiring genuine mathematical skill. Meanwhile, modern engineers are double-checking that 2+2=4 on their fancy calculators during exams. This hits different when you realize the Apollo guidance computer had less processing power than a modern kitchen toaster. Those NASA nerds were doing orbital mechanics BY HAND with logarithmic scales while we're out here with supercomputers in our pockets getting basic arithmetic wrong. The slide rule engineer's confidence vs. the calculator-dependent engineer's uncertainty is the perfect metaphor for how technology sometimes makes us dumber even as it gets smarter. The ultimate "we don't make 'em like we used to" of STEM fields!

Kid asks an innocent question about bridge load limits, and Dad unleashes the full artillery of structural engineering matrices. Those equations? Just the casual finite element analysis that engineers use to model stress distribution across bridge structures. The colorful simulation in the third panel shows exactly how much math goes into making sure you don't plunge into the river below. The kid's "Oh, I should've guessed" response is the universal reaction of anyone who's ever asked an engineer to explain something "simply." Next time you see a "10 TONS" sign, remember there's an engineer somewhere with 47 pages of calculations who'd be thrilled to explain it to you in excruciating detail.

The Bernoulli equation is basically the fluid dynamics version of "conservation of energy" - when one side goes to zero, pressure and velocity have to compensate dramatically. Just like when you put your thumb over a garden hose and suddenly get blasted with high-velocity water, this poor soul is experiencing the existential crisis that comes with zero head pressure. In fluid mechanics, "head" refers to pressure energy per unit weight of fluid. No head = chaotic fluid behavior = existential physics crisis. Engineers who've ever designed a pipe system know this feeling all too well!

The engineering hierarchy in its natural habitat! This meme brilliantly captures the interdisciplinary shade-throwing between engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers see themselves as Greek gods chiseled from marble, while viewing electrical engineers as nerdy bow-tie enthusiasts and software "engineers" as literally just thumbs on a keyboard. Meanwhile, electrical engineers perceive themselves as superhuman speedsters, mechanical engineers as cartoon monkeys with wrenches, and software folks as actual clowns. The quotation marks around "Engineers" for software developers is the chef's kiss of professional gatekeeping. Nothing says "real science" like disciplinary tribalism!