What Was My Professor Smoking

Roman engineers built aqueducts spanning continents with sticks and rocks, while modern engineers have mental breakdowns when SolidWorks crashes for the fifth time today. Nothing humbles you quite like realizing ancient Romans could calculate precise gravitational flow across 120km without a calculator, while you're sobbing because your constraint tool is throwing errors. The duality of engineering evolution: from "I will conquer physics with my bare hands" to "please computer, just work for 5 minutes without crashing." Progress?

The ultimate physics flex isn't wearing equations on your T-shirt—it's throwing up gang signs with the right-hand rule. That hand gesture isn't random; it's the sacred technique physicists use to determine the direction of vectors in electromagnetism and mechanics. Thumb = velocity (V), index finger = magnetic field (B), middle finger = force (F). Next time someone asks what you do for a living, just flash this sign and watch them either back away slowly or propose marriage on the spot. Separating the physics elite from the mere mortals since Fleming invented it in 1885.

Nothing says "scientific literacy" quite like putting a jet engine on the Moon. The image shows what appears to be an aircraft turbine on the lunar surface with a headline about building a train network there. Fun fact: jet engines need oxygen to combust fuel, and the Moon has approximately zero atmosphere. It's like bringing a fish to the desert and wondering why it's not swimming. Next brilliant idea: solar panels for the dark side of the Moon.

Boolean logic, but make it spooky. The creator has brilliantly illustrated logic gates using jack-o'-lantern Venn diagrams. The OR gate shows features in either circle, AND shows only what's in the overlap, XOR displays what's in either but not both, NOR shows nothing at all, NAND displays everything except the overlap, and XNOR shows only what's identical in both circles. Computer scientists don't get invited to many Halloween parties, and now we know why they spend their time making pumpkin logic diagrams instead.

Big Energy doesn't want you discovering the untapped potential of radioactive bananas! This brilliant diagram transforms a standard nuclear reactor schematic into a "banana fission reactor" complete with an "enriched banana delivery sling" and reactor measurements in "medium sized asteroids." The potassium-40 in bananas is actually radioactive (with a half-life of 1.25 billion years!), but you'd need to eat about 10 million bananas at once to die from radiation poisoning. Still, someone clearly put their physics degree to good use designing this alternative energy solution. Nuclear engineers have been slipping on this opportunity for decades!

While Archimedes is sweating over parchment trying to calculate pi to the umpteenth digit, engineers just waltz in with "3.14? Nah, 3 is good enough!" and solve the problem in five minutes. The pure mathematician's soul leaves their body watching engineers approximate their precious constants! It's the ancient equivalent of watching someone cut pizza with scissors—technically it works, but your brain short-circuits watching the sacrilege unfold!