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The Actual Correct Answer
Engineering Physics Earth-science Science
1 month ago 7.9K views 0 shares
The Actual Correct Answer
Engineers bypassing the catastrophic physics implications and going straight for the paycheck math! If Earth rotated 30x faster (spinning at ~28,000 km/h instead of ~1,670 km/h), we'd experience devastating centrifugal forces, atmospheric chaos, and probably fly off into space... but this brilliant engineer just calculated that monthly paychecks would arrive DAILY. Priorities perfectly aligned with the laws of financial survival rather than planetary destruction. Classic engineer brain - solving for the variables that actually matter!

When Physics 101 Destroys Your Reality
Physics Academia Science
1 month ago 5.7K views 0 shares
When Physics 101 Destroys Your Reality
The look of existential dread when your Physics 101 professor destroys your entire worldview with centrifugal force! That moment when you realize the water flying off a tennis ball isn't just "magic" but basic physics—and the scale-up calculation suggesting it could extinguish the sun is pure mathematical chaos. The professor's face screams "I've broken another freshman's mind today." Centripetal force and angular momentum: turning innocent students into people who can't enjoy spinning things without calculating trajectories.

Mechanical Advantage: When Physics Gets You Fired
Physics Engineering Science
3 months ago 10.0K views 0 shares
Mechanical Advantage: When Physics Gets You Fired
Mechanical advantage gone wild! The cartoon shows what happens when an engineer gets bored at a county fair. By connecting three Ferris wheels with a belt drive, our mad scientist created a pulley system where the third wheel spins so fast it's practically a human centrifuge. The poor riders on that last wheel are experiencing what we in physics call "regrettable life choices." This is basically Newton's laws of motion meeting carnival economics – conservation of energy doesn't mean conservation of employment.