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Which One Is Your Bulb
Engineering Physics Science
14 days ago 3.4K views 0 shares
Which One Is Your Bulb
Electrical engineering humor at its finest. Serial killers operate one after another in a circuit, so if one fails, they all stop working. Parallel killers operate independently, so even if one gets caught, the others keep going. Just like Christmas lights from the 90s versus modern ones. The FBI's electrical engineering department must have a field day with this wiring diagram.

Peer Review For Your Eyeballs
Psychology Science
25 days ago 4.6K views 0 shares
Peer Review For Your Eyeballs
Staring at this optical illusion is like peer review for your visual cortex. Your brain is desperately trying to publish a paper on "Parallel Line Theory" while your eyes are submitting contradictory data. The fun part? Your visual system is applying its own unconscious bias correction algorithms and still failing spectacularly. Just like that time I insisted my experimental results were statistically significant despite an n of 3. My advisor had the same expression your face has right now.

Parallel Lives, Intersecting Fates
Math
1 month ago 4.8K views 0 shares
Parallel Lives, Intersecting Fates
Geometry coming in hot with the existential crisis! Parallel lines are like those friends who have everything in common but live in different cities—destined to share the same slope but never grab coffee together. Meanwhile, non-parallel lines have their brief moment of intersection glory before ghosting each other for eternity. It's basically Euclidean geometry's way of teaching us about relationships—either you never connect at all, or you meet once and then drift apart forever. Who knew math could make me need therapy?

Parallel Lines Meet At Infinity (Or Just At The Poles)
Math Science
1 month ago 4.6K views 0 shares
Parallel Lines Meet At Infinity (Or Just At The Poles)
Euclidean geometry lies in shambles as two bugs on a sphere completely wreck the concept of parallel lines! The top panel shows our confident mathematician declaring "their trajectories will never cross" about two insects walking along what appear to be parallel lines on a grid. But the bottom panel reveals the brutal truth - on a curved surface like a sphere, those "parallel" lines inevitably converge at the poles. Non-Euclidean geometry strikes again! It's like telling someone their relationship is going nowhere and then watching them get married. Geometry professors are quietly sobbing right now.

Current Affairs In Circuit Design
Physics Engineering
1 month ago 7.5K views 0 shares
Current Affairs In Circuit Design
The perfect dark humor for electrical engineers who never quite mastered social skills. In series circuits, current flows through each component sequentially—hence the "serial killer" with victims lined up one after another. Parallel circuits split current through multiple paths simultaneously—creating our "parallel killer" who dispatches victims side-by-side. The beauty is in the technical accuracy! The voltage drops across each victim in series, but remains constant across parallel victims. This is why your Christmas lights used to fail completely when one bulb burned out (series), but modern ones stay lit (parallel). Shocking how circuit design improved faster than our sense of humor.

Double The Transistors, Double The Fun
Engineering Tech Science Physics
1 month ago 8.5K views 0 shares
Double The Transistors, Double The Fun
Electronics engineers everywhere are simultaneously cringing and nodding in approval. This is the circuit equivalent of using two straws to drink your milkshake faster! Sure, it's a hack that violates the sacred principles of proper circuit design, but sometimes engineering is just about making things work. The parallel transistor configuration doubles the current-carrying capacity, essentially turning your underpowered motor situation into a "brute force" solution. It's like hiring a second person to help push your car when it won't start instead of fixing the engine. Elegant? No. Effective? Absolutely. This is why engineers drink coffee by the gallon – we're constantly torn between "proper solutions" and "I need this working by 5 PM."

Euclid Was Trolling With This One
Math Science
2 months ago 7.7K views 0 shares
Euclid Was Trolling With This One
The first four Euclidean postulates are like the appetizers of geometry—simple, digestible, makes perfect sense! Draw lines, they go on forever, make circles, right angles are consistent. Cool cool cool. Then BAM! Postulate 5 hits you with that parallel line nonsense that's basically saying "if these angles add up to less than 180°, two lines that should never meet will eventually hook up." It's like Euclid spent 4 postulates building your trust before dropping the mathematical equivalent of quantum physics on your desk. No wonder mathematicians spent 2000 years trying to prove this was redundant before realizing it's actually the foundation for non-Euclidean geometry. Greatest mathematical plot twist ever!