Petri dish Memes

The only #10YearChallenge that actually matters. Left: 2009 petri dish showing multiple bacterial colonies thriving in the presence of antibiotics. Right: 2019 dish with significantly fewer colonies, but the survivors positioned themselves strategically away from antibiotic discs. Natural selection in action—bacteria didn't go to grad school for nothing. Evolution doesn't care about your Instagram trends, it's just quietly engineering superbugs while we're busy posting selfies.

That single petri dish question is the academic equivalent of saying "Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit" before performing full-body surgery without anesthesia. Sure, you've got 6 hours, open books, open notes, and the entire internet—because you'll need the collective knowledge of humanity to figure out why your bacteria colony looks like your professor's ex-wife's signature. The real test isn't answering the question; it's maintaining your sanity while staring at a red circle of doom that somehow determines your entire future.

The existential crisis of microbiology in one perfect shot! That moment when you realize the universe you've been studying is just bacterial colonies in a petri dish. Microbiologists spend years isolating and growing these little civilizations, only to have some astronaut point a gun and ask the forbidden question. Guess the search for extraterrestrial life ended at the lab bench. Next time someone asks about alien intelligence, just hand them an agar plate and whisper "they've been here all along."