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Science Gets Bodyslammed By The Fossil Fuel Tag Team
Climate Research Science
8 days ago 17.1K views 0 shares
Science Gets Bodyslammed By The Fossil Fuel Tag Team
Scientists develop revolutionary renewable energy solutions only to watch them get body-slammed by the tag team of oil executives and their political allies. The comic perfectly captures how promising green technologies get smothered while they're still in the cradle. Renewable energy researchers be like: "I spent 15 years perfecting this solar technology and the patent just got buried deeper than the Mariana Trench." The scientific community keeps dancing and singing about clean energy breakthroughs while the fossil fuel industry flexes its financial muscles and whispers sweet nothings into politicians' ears. And that, kids, is why your grandchildren might need gills.

128 Years Of Climate Knowledge Ignored
Climate Earth-science Science Research
17 days ago 13.2K views 0 shares
128 Years Of Climate Knowledge Ignored
Holy carbon cycles! We've known about climate change for 128 YEARS - practically since we started causing it! In 1896, these brilliant scientists Högbom and Arrhenius were like "Hey everyone, these coal-powered factories are pumping CO₂ into the air, and we've calculated exactly how much the planet will heat up!" And their math? Spot on with today's models! The punchline hits hard - we figured out the greenhouse effect problem right after creating it, then spent over a century... doing what exactly? Just letting it happen while fossil fuel companies funded misinformation campaigns? Talk about the world's longest "I told you so" moment!

Try Not To Cry: Nuclear Marketing Edition
Physics Engineering Science
3 months ago 12.4K views 0 shares
Try Not To Cry: Nuclear Marketing Edition
Nuclear energy gets the glamorous cartoon hero treatment while conventional steam power is the villain? Classic energy propaganda at its finest! The irony is delicious - nuclear plants are literally just fancy steam machines with extra spicy uranium. Both technologies boil water to spin turbines, but one involves splitting atoms and creating waste that stays radioactive for thousands of years. Sure, nuclear's "clean" until something goes wrong, then it's just clean in the "we had to evacuate an entire region" kind of way. Meanwhile, fossil fuel plants are portrayed as the mustache-twirling bad guys despite powering civilization for centuries. Energy debates never change - same physics, different marketing department.

Fossil Fuel Flirtation: The Ultimate Geological Pickup Line
Geology Evolution Earth-science Biology
4 months ago 14.8K views 0 shares
Fossil Fuel Flirtation: The Ultimate Geological Pickup Line
When flirting meets paleontology! This person just traced the entire hydrocarbon timeline from prehistoric creatures to modern human existence in one epic compliment. The reply essentially says "I'm grateful for the entire 300-million-year process of dinosaurs dying, becoming compressed into fossil fuels, being refined into gasoline, powering a vehicle to a hospital, resulting in... you." Talk about playing the long game in evolutionary appreciation! It's basically saying "you're worth 300 million years of Earth's geological processes" which might be the most scientifically elaborate pickup line in history.

Photo Sin Thesis
Biology Evolution Earth-science
4 months ago 11.7K views 0 shares
Photo-Sin-Thesis
Fossil fuels are basically plant zombies judging our life choices from beyond the grave! That ancient fern didn't spend millions of years getting compressed into petroleum just so you could binge questionable content. The cosmic irony of using dinosaur-era plant energy to power our most... creative modern digital pursuits is peak evolutionary plot twist. Mother Nature's ultimate "I'm not mad, just disappointed" moment.

Nuclear And Renewables Should Team Up Against Fossil Fuels
Climate Engineering Science Tech
5 months ago 10.0K views 0 shares
Nuclear And Renewables Should Team Up Against Fossil Fuels
The energy debate's equivalent of a playground fight! While the tiny-brained tribalists scream at each other over which clean energy is superior, the actual big brain move is recognizing they're both valuable weapons against our fossil fuel addiction. It's like watching two superheroes argue about who gets to save the city while the villain is literally setting everything on fire. Nuclear brings the steady baseload power punch while renewables bring the flexible, scalable jab - together they form the clean energy Avengers we desperately need. The real enemy is that smoky dinosaur juice we keep burning!

The Beef Is Real
Engineering Climate Earth-science Science Materials
5 months ago 11.9K views 0 shares
The Beef Is Real
Nothing captures the modern engineering civil war quite like this. On one side, petroleum engineers extracting every last drop of fossil fuel like it's going extinct (oh wait, it is). On the other side, environmental engineers giving that death stare that says "I'm calculating your carbon footprint and judging you accordingly." The professional equivalent of Thanksgiving dinner where nobody talks politics but everyone's thinking it. The irony? Both sides probably graduated from the same engineering department before choosing their moral compass... or salary package.

The Technological Paradox: Advanced Yet Primitive
Tech Science Engineering
5 months ago 9.0K views 0 shares
The Technological Paradox: Advanced Yet Primitive
The scientific paradox we refuse to acknowledge! In fantasy worlds, writers create elaborate magic systems and dragons that defy physics, yet characters still ride horses. Similarly, our real world has mastered nuclear fission—literally splitting atoms to release energy—but we're still burning prehistoric plant matter as our primary energy source. It's the technological equivalent of inventing smartphones but insisting on using carrier pigeons for texting. The cognitive dissonance is strong with this species!

My Favorite Argument For Renewables
Astronomy Climate Physics
5 months ago 21.4K views 0 shares
My Favorite Argument For Renewables
Plot twist: We do have a giant fusion reactor in the sky, and it's called the Sun. The cosmic irony here is delicious - fossil fuel defenders will drill holes to the center of the Earth while ignoring the 27 million degree nuclear furnace beaming 173,000 terawatts of power at us daily. That's enough energy hitting Earth every hour to power human civilization for a year, but sure, let's keep burning dinosaur juice because solar panels aren't "reliable enough." The universe literally gave us the answer key to the energy exam, and we're still failing spectacularly.

The Dinosaur Reincarnation Cycle
Chemistry Evolution Science
5 months ago 13.1K views 0 shares
The Dinosaur Reincarnation Cycle
From extinction to toy box in just a few million years! The circle of life is wild - dinosaurs died, became fossil fuels, which we turned into plastic, which we shaped into... dinosaurs again. Evolution? Nope. Chemistry and capitalism, baby! While she's worried about relationship drama, he's contemplating the philosophical implications of how we've basically resurrected dinosaurs through petrochemical wizardry. Not exactly the pillow talk she was expecting. Next time your partner seems distant, consider they might just be pondering how we're all sleeping on beds made from ancient algae and dinosaur molecules. Romance isn't dead - it's just been fossilized and repurposed!

The Dinosaur Reincarnation Cycle
Geology Chemistry Evolution Materials Science
5 months ago 15.0K views 0 shares
The Dinosaur Reincarnation Cycle
The circle of prehistoric life! Real dinosaurs died millions of years ago, became fossil fuels through geological processes, which we then refined into petroleum, turned into polypropylene plastic, and finally manufactured into toy dinosaurs. So technically, that plastic T-Rex in your kid's toy box might contain molecules from an actual T-Rex! Mind = blown. 🦖 Meanwhile, guys are out here contemplating the deep paleontological connection between ancient reptiles and their plastic descendants while their partners suspect infidelity. Priorities, am I right? This is the kind of galaxy-brain thinking that keeps relationships interesting!

States Of Dino-Matter
Physics Chemistry Science
6 months ago 12.7K views 0 shares
States Of Dino-Matter
Elementary physics meets Jurassic Park in this masterpiece! The meme cleverly reimagines the three fundamental states of matter with dinosaurs as the substance. Solid dino stands proud and intact, liquid dino is melting into a puddle (tar pit vibes, anyone?), and gas dino has been processed into fossil fuel—completing the perfect prehistoric phase transition. It's the scientific cycle we never knew we needed. Next time your chemistry teacher asks about states of matter, just show them this and watch their brain short-circuit trying to decide whether to laugh or give you extra credit!