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Silver Linings After A 10-Step Synthesis Pathway
Chemistry Lab-life Research Academia
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Silver Linings After A 10-Step Synthesis Pathway
The eternal optimism of organic chemists is truly a spectacle to behold. After spending weeks on a 10-step synthesis, burning through grant money and sacrificing your social life, you're left with a microscopic speck of product that requires an electron microscope to observe. But hey, that 1% yield? That's not failure—that's publishable data . The pirates of the lab world know that any yield above zero means you can still claim success on your paper. Remember kids, in synthesis, it's not about the destination—it's about the friends you made and the glassware you broke along the way.

They May Be Bad, But Far From The Most Useless
Engineering
5 days ago 3.1K views 0 shares
They May Be Bad, But Far From The Most Useless
Civil engineers get no respect in the hierarchy of engineering disciplines, yet they're responsible for literally everything we stand on. While mechanical engineers build weapons and electrical engineers create fancy gadgets, civil engineers quietly ensure your toilet flushes and buildings don't collapse. It's the perfect engineering discipline for those who want the prestige of saying "I'm an engineer" while being constantly reminded they're at the bottom of the engineering food chain. Next time you cross a bridge without dying, maybe give a small nod to these unsung heroes.

If It Ain't Broke, It Runs
Tech Engineering
1 month ago 5.4K views 0 shares
If It Ain't Broke, It Runs
The eternal battle between clean code purists and pragmatic developers captured in cinematic glory! The British naval officer (representing senior developers or code reviewers) looks down his powdered nose at the pirate's spaghetti code monstrosity. Meanwhile, Captain Jack Sparrow embodies every developer who's ever cobbled together a hacky solution that somehow works in production. This is basically the software development equivalent of duct-taping equipment together in a lab. Sure, it violates every best practice in the book, but if your janky Python script successfully processes those terabytes of research data... who's really winning? The elegant solution that doesn't exist yet, or the ugly one keeping your servers running?

Civil Senior Projects Be Like
Engineering Earth-science Geology Materials
1 month ago 7.9K views 0 shares
Civil Senior Projects Be Like
Civil engineering students triumphantly holding up a jar of dirt for their senior project is the perfect distillation of engineering reality. While mechanical engineers build robots and computer scientists create algorithms, civil engineers are just ecstatic about finding the perfect soil sample. The Pirates of the Caribbean reference perfectly captures that mix of pride and absurdity when you've spent four years studying complex structural mechanics only to end up celebrating... dirt. But that dirt represents everything from foundation stability to soil liquefaction properties that could save lives during an earthquake. Still, nothing says "I've mastered engineering" quite like frantically waving sediment around!

Every Astrophysics Package Ever
Astronomy Physics Science Research
1 month ago 6.6K views 0 shares
Every Astrophysics Package Ever
The eternal purgatory of astrophysics coding. Naval officer criticizes your simulation package as "the worst code I've ever run," but Jack Sparrow delivers the universal truth of computational astrophysics: it's horrifically written, violates every programming principle known to mankind, and yet... somehow... it produces results. That's not a bug, that's just how the universe works. The real dark matter was the spaghetti code we wrote along the way.

Pi-Rats Of The Caribbean
Math
1 month ago 5.9K views 0 shares
Pi-Rats Of The Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean? Nope, we've got Pi-rats sailing the mathematical seas! These rodent sailors are navigating by the most irrational of numbers. When asked how far the treasure is, the captain responds with "3.14" - because that's just how these Pi-rats roll. They don't measure in miles or kilometers, but in the fundamental constant that makes mathematicians drool. Next time you're lost at sea, forget your GPS - just bring a calculator and a cheese-loving first mate!

The Octet Rule: More Like Pirate Code Than Actual Law
Chemistry Science
1 month ago 10.8K views 0 shares
The Octet Rule: More Like Pirate Code Than Actual Law
Chemistry students arguing about electron configurations be like: "The octet rule isn't even a real rule! It's just a guideline with so many exceptions it might as well be decorative." Meanwhile, noble gases sit smugly in the corner with their perfect eight valence electrons, not saying a word. They don't need to – they're already stable.