The LER (Light Emitting Resistor)

The classic expanding brain meme takes on nuclear energy's PR problem! Starting with the primitive "nuclear is dangerous" fear-brain, we evolve through the realization that it's actually low-carbon (big brain time), then discover it's statistically safer than coal (galaxy brain), before reaching full nuclear enlightenment. Fun fact: Nuclear energy has the lowest mortality rate per terawatt-hour of any major energy source—even lower than solar and wind when accounting for installation accidents. The final transcendent brain doesn't even need text—it just radiates pure nuclear wisdom. Who needs a cerebral cortex when you've got a thorium-powered galaxy brain?

Semiconductor humor at its finest. Germanium was the original semiconductor material used in early transistors, doing the job adequately. Then silicon came along with better electrical properties, higher temperature tolerance, and cheaper manufacturing costs—essentially doing "exactly what I do, but better." Just like how my lab partner claims to have "improved" my experimental design after changing one variable and getting marginally better results. The semiconductor hierarchy is brutal.

Ever had an IT guy insist on checking your perfectly diagnosed problem with ancient methods? That's modern tech support in a nutshell! While you're describing your clearly broken quantum computer, they're still asking if you've tried turning it off and on again. The contrast between our intuitive understanding of modern tech failures and the outdated diagnostic approaches is scientific comedy gold. Next time someone questions your technical diagnosis, just point dramatically at the problem like our 1890s friend here.

The eternal rivalry between engineering disciplines just hit turbine-level intensity! This meme features a massive turbine engine (the kind mechanical engineers drool over in their dreams) with some serious trash talk about civil engineers. Mechanical engineers get to play with rotating machinery that can generate megawatts of power while civil engineers are stuck designing static structures that... well... don't move. The turbine in the background is literally a mechanical engineer's playground—precision-machined blades that harness fluid dynamics principles to convert thermal energy into mechanical work. Meanwhile, civil engineers are calculating load distributions for the 47th concrete beam this week. No wonder mechanical engineers have this swagger!

Circuit analysis was going so smoothly with Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws... until those sneaky diodes showed up and derailed everything! One moment you're calculating nice, predictable voltage drops, and the next you're dealing with these one-way tyrants that only allow current when THEY feel like it. Suddenly your elegant equations look like a toddler's crayon masterpiece. Nothing says "welcome to electrical engineering" quite like a diode turning your linear circuit into a piecewise nightmare faster than you can say "forward bias."

The universal language of academic ghosting! Student sends a detailed question about Dijkstra's algorithm variants for their IT course, and professor responds with the digital equivalent of patting them on the head and showing them the door. "All the best 😊" translates directly to "figure it out yourself, I'm busy grading 87 identical papers about binary trees." The beautiful academic tradition of answering a question without actually answering it continues into the digital age!