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The Future Is Bright... But The Physics Is Wrong
Engineering Physics Academia
4 days ago 2.8K views 0 shares
The Future Is Bright... But The Physics Is Wrong
That moment when someone completely misses how aerodynamics works! 😂 Making propellers smaller would just force them to spin FASTER to generate the same lift, burning MORE energy! It's like saying "let's make cars more fuel-efficient by using smaller tires" while your professor's soul leaves their body in three stages of disbelief. Engineering professors everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force.

Come On Brain, You Can Do Better
Math Academia Physics Science
5 days ago 3.2K views 0 shares
Come On Brain, You Can Do Better
Ever spent hours wrestling with equations only to realize one tiny symbol destroyed EVERYTHING? That's the mathematical equivalent of stepping on a LEGO! One microscopic minus sign—the size of a neutrino with an eating disorder—and suddenly your beautiful 4-page solution transforms from brilliant discovery to glorified scratch paper. The universe laughs as you frantically erase so hard you create a wormhole through the page. Newton is probably pointing and giggling from the afterlife right now.

When L'Hôpital's Rule Goes Horribly Wrong
Math Academia
8 days ago 3.8K views 0 shares
When L'Hôpital's Rule Goes Horribly Wrong
When that eager student tries to show off by extending L'Hôpital's rule to a limit that's not even in indeterminate form... The professor's existential crisis in the last panel is every math instructor who's died inside after hearing someone confidently butcher calculus. That moment when you realize your entire semester of teaching has somehow resulted in mathematical blasphemy. The limit of my patience approaches zero faster than that student's understanding of when to actually use L'Hôpital's rule!

The Metric System Claims Another Victim
Math
8 days ago 3.1K views 0 shares
The Metric System Claims Another Victim
The desperate crawl toward water is about to get even more painful! The person in the meme thinks they're being clever by pointing out "1 mile = 1.6 kilometers" so Americans are "right" to go for the closer sign... but they've completely missed that they'd actually be crawling farther ! If water is 1 mile in one direction and 1 kilometer in the other, you'd want the kilometer option (0.62 miles) every time! This is what happens when you try to outsmart the metric system without doing the math first. The imperial system claims another victim!

Why Do People Get Stuck On The ISS?
Astronomy Physics
9 days ago 4.0K views 0 shares
Why Do People Get Stuck On The ISS?
Gravity has entered the chat! 🌍 This person clearly skipped the "how space works" lesson! The International Space Station orbits Earth at 17,500 mph in the vacuum of space, 250 miles up. Just "jumping out" would still leave you in orbit—not falling straight down—and without a specialized suit and re-entry vehicle, you'd either suffocate, freeze, or burn up in the atmosphere. That Red Bull stunt? Felix Baumgartner jumped from a balloon at 24 miles up—10 times closer to Earth—with years of training and specialized equipment. It's like comparing jumping off your couch to leaping from the Burj Khalifa while on fire!

When YouTube Shorts Becomes Your Math Professor
Math Academia Science
14 days ago 17.0K views 0 shares
When YouTube Shorts Becomes Your Math Professor
The mathematical tragedy unfolding here is spectacular! Someone's comparing fractions by reading them as decimals: "5.8" vs "4.7" instead of actually calculating 5/8 (0.625) and 4/7 (0.571). This is like measuring your height with a thermometer and wondering why you're suddenly 98.6 feet tall. The real kicker? 5/8 is actually bigger, but not because it's "5.8"! This is what happens when TikTok replaces textbooks and your attention span becomes shorter than the time it takes light to cross a proton.

Where Did I Go Wrong?
Math Academia
16 days ago 7.8K views 0 shares
Where Did I Go Wrong?
This is mathematical heartbreak in its purest form! On the left side, our brave mathematician correctly works through the equation, factoring (x-7)(x-7) into a perfect solution. But then—plot twist—they somehow convince themselves that x²-49 equals (x+7)(x-7) on the right. It's like watching someone navigate perfectly to their destination only to make a wrong turn at the very last intersection. That moment when you realize your brain decided to take a coffee break during the most critical step of your math problem. We've all been there... though maybe not quite this spectacularly wrong!

It's Not Always Proportional
Math Academia Science
21 days ago 4.2K views 0 shares
It's Not Always Proportional
That face you make when someone redundantly explains inverse proportionality by... describing inverse proportionality. It's like saying "water is wet because it has the property of wetness." Mathematical tautologies make mathematicians die inside a little. Next they'll tell me that parallel lines never meet because they maintain constant distance from each other. Revolutionary insight! I'm just sitting here wondering if they also know that circles are round.

What Octave Is Helium?
Chemistry Science
1 month ago 5.7K views 0 shares
What Octave Is Helium?
The existential crisis that hits when a non-scientist tries to explain chemistry on a podcast. That moment when you realize Terrence Howard thinks he's reinvented mathematics and chemistry while you're still trying to balance your checkbook. Nothing quite like hearing someone confidently explain how 1×1=2 and how elements have feelings. My brain cells are filing for unemployment one by one.

The Disrespect To Aerospace Engineers
Engineering Physics Science
1 month ago 5.1K views 0 shares
The Disrespect To Aerospace Engineers
Bernoulli's principle? Lift? Airfoil design? Nope, apparently none of that exists! The headline "No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air" has aerospace engineers everywhere doing the biggest eye-roll in history. It's like telling a chef nobody knows how ovens make food hot. The engineering community spent literal CENTURIES perfecting flight dynamics only to have clickbait headlines erase their entire profession! The aerospace engineer's face says it all - that perfect mix of "Are you serious right now?" and "Did my multiple engineering degrees mean nothing to you?" Next headline: "Scientists baffled by how doors open and close!"

Unlimited Powerrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Physics Engineering Tech
1 month ago 6.3K views 0 shares
Unlimited Powerrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
The irony of these solar panels is palpable. Someone installed them... on a metal roof... facing the wrong direction. That's like buying a Ferrari and pushing it everywhere you go. The sun's over THERE, genius! This is what happens when you skip the "how solar works" lecture and go straight to "I'm saving the planet." Renewable energy is great, but only if the photons can actually hit the panels. Physics doesn't care about your good intentions.

The Constant Violation
Math Academia Science
1 month ago 5.2K views 0 shares
The Constant Violation
The greatest mathematical sin since dividing by zero! When you solve a definite integral, the "+C" constant of integration automatically cancels out—it's literally Calculus 101. Adding a constant after evaluating from 0 to 1 is like wearing socks with sandals to a black-tie event. The face-palm reaction captures the collective groan of every math professor who's ever lived. Next thing you know, someone will be claiming they've found the exact value of π: "It's exactly 3, trust me bro."