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Someone Didn't Listen To The Safety Engineer

Someone Didn't Listen To The Safety Engineer
The Boeing boardroom meeting meme perfectly captures what happens when corporate priorities clash with engineering safety! The boss asks why their 737 MAX had critical safety failures, and we get three classic responses: denial ("We did nothing wrong"), acknowledgment ("Poor Maintenance"), and the brutal truth bomb ("We cut costs and quality for profit"). That last guy gets the death stare for daring to speak the engineering truth! 😂 This is a brilliant satire of how engineering ethics sometimes get yeeted out the window when profit margins enter the chat. In engineering, there's a saying: "Good, fast, cheap - pick two." Looks like someone decided "cheap" was non-negotiable!

The Beautiful Science Of Terrible Consequences

The Beautiful Science Of Terrible Consequences
The meme juxtaposes the innocent, beautiful Studio Ghibli film "The Wind Rises" with the sardonic title "How To Justify Aiding Warcrimes As An Engineer The Movie." What looks like a romantic animated film about creativity is actually Miyazaki's complex exploration of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed Japanese fighter planes used in WWII. The film grapples with the ethical dilemma of creating beautiful machines that ultimately become instruments of death. It's the engineering equivalent of the physics community's Manhattan Project morning-after hangover, but with more watercolor sunsets and fewer mushroom clouds.

They're The Same Picture: Physics Edition

They're The Same Picture: Physics Edition
The corporate world wants you to spot the difference between two aircraft with identical wing areas, but physics students know better. While the shapes differ dramatically, both planes generate the same lift because—surprise!—wing area is what matters for lift calculation, not the shape. This is the aerodynamic equivalent of saying "2+2=4" and "1+3=4" are different equations. Engineers are silently screaming somewhere. Next time your boss asks you to find "meaningful differences" in identical quarterly reports, just remember: sometimes there truly is no difference, no matter how much management wants one.