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The Science Panic Hierarchy

16 days ago 4.0K views 0 shares

The science opinion evolution chart! First panel: Basic science gets a cheerful "OMG that's wizardry!" Second panel: Nuclear energy triggers dramatic tears and "Chernobyl! Hiroshima!" panic. But the AI panel? *adjusts lab goggles* That's where humans transcend into full existential meltdown mode! 😂 The contrast is DELICIOUS - we're perfectly fine with fundamental forces that literally bind the universe together, terrified of the power that lights our cities, but AI? That sends us spiraling into philosophical void-screaming worthy of Nietzsche himself! Science reaction hierarchy at its finest!

Arguing With A Flat Earther

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1 month ago 4.5K views 0 shares

The perfect demonstration of why debating flat earthers is a circular argument that goes nowhere! The moment you think you've found common ground ("I agree, the Earth is round"), they somehow manage to simultaneously believe it's both round AND flat. It's like trying to explain to your cat why they shouldn't knock things off the table - they hear you, but they've already decided physics is optional. The desperate "I meant SPHERICAL!" correction is the scientific equivalent of realizing you've stepped in quicksand - the more you struggle, the deeper you sink into absurdity.

I Just Found Out Einstein Was Real

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1 month ago 4.0K views 0 shares

Nothing like discovering Einstein wasn't just a unit of measurement on your physics homework. The Hulk's tearful revelation perfectly captures that moment when scientific terminology suddenly connects to actual humans. Next thing you know, someone will tell him Newton wasn't just the thing that figs come in, and poor green guy will have a complete existential crisis. The gap between pop culture science and actual scientific literacy is wider than the Hulk's pants after transformation.

The Relativity Of Scientific Literacy

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1 month ago 3.7K views 0 shares

When you confuse the father of relativity with someone else entirely, you've created your own parallel universe of facts! The mix-up between Einstein (E=mc²) and Epstein plus physicists vs. physicians is like mistaking a quark for a quack. Scientific literacy just experienced a quantum collapse into its ground state.

The Great Arabic Numeral Conspiracy

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1 month ago 5.1K views 0 shares

The irony here is thicker than a textbook on differential equations. Those "Arabic numerals" everyone's panicking about? They're the ones you've been using your entire life: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. This is what happens when scientific literacy takes a vacation while fear works overtime. The same folks who'd be outraged about learning "Arabic numerals" probably don't realize they're already calculating their conspiracy theories using... Arabic numerals. Next up: Michigan forces students to learn the "foreign" concept of gravity. The horror!

When Units Matter More Than Obliteration

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1 month ago 5.4K views 0 shares

When Units Matter More Than Obliteration

Behold! The glorious collision of science and scientific illiteracy! What we're witnessing is an actual hypervelocity impact test showing the devastating power of space debris. Meanwhile, our commenter is worried about *units* rather than the TINY PLASTIC OBJECT THAT JUST PUNCHED THROUGH SOLID METAL AT 15,000 MPH! 🤯 The irony is delicious! While Neil deGrasse Tyson shares a mind-blowing demonstration of kinetic energy (E=½mv²), our friend below is having an existential crisis over the metric system. It's like watching someone get splashed by a tsunami and complaining their socks got wet!

IQ Boosted By 5 Points

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2 months ago 3.9K views 0 shares

That rare moment of intellectual superiority when you grasp a complex scientific concept without needing the comment section to explain it to you. Suddenly you're not just a casual science enthusiast—you're practically ready to defend your dissertation. The self-satisfied smirk is the universal signal of "I understood that reference" in the wild. Just don't fact-check yourself later or the illusion of competence might shatter faster than an unstable isotope.

Someone Should Tell Him

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2 months ago 9.8K views 0 shares

Those aren't fidget spinners, buddy. That's the universal symbol for radioactive materials on those barrels. Confusing the two is how you end up with superpowers... or more realistically, acute radiation syndrome. Nothing says "failed science class" quite like mistaking nuclear waste for a trendy desk toy. The half-life of uranium-235 is 700 million years, but the half-life of this person's scientific literacy was apparently about 45 minutes.

The Imperial Crawl To Hydration

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2 months ago 6.3K views 0 shares

The desperate American crawling toward water that's 1 mile away instead of 1 kilometer away is a beautiful metaphor for our stubborn refusal to adopt the metric system. The comment claiming "a mile is less than a kilometre" despite literally stating the conversion (1 mile = 1.6 km) in the same sentence is peak scientific illiteracy. Like watching someone insist their 1/3 pound burger is smaller than a 1/4 pounder while holding a calculator showing 0.33 > 0.25.

When Facts Don't Matter

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2 months ago 7.6K views 0 shares

The scientific equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Nuclear scientists spend decades researching safety protocols and risk assessments, only for someone who once watched a Simpsons episode to declare it all irrelevant because "what about that one scenario you didn't mention?" It's like bringing 99 studies to a knife fight where your opponent's weapon is "but my cousin's friend said..." This selective hearing phenomenon isn't unique to nuclear debates. Climate science, vaccines, GMOs—all victims of the "but what about THIS cherry-picked concern" defense. If scientific evidence were a basketball team, these folks would be focusing on the one missed free throw in an otherwise perfect game.

The Chemistry Student's Curse

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2 months ago 8.1K views 0 shares

The tiny green slice labeled "It's hard" is basically a rounding error compared to the massive purple section "You'll never be able to enjoy movies again because you'll notice mistakes." Chemistry students don't fear the periodic table—they fear the moment Hollywood gets basic chemistry wrong and ruins their cinema experience forever! That water explosion scene? Sodium doesn't react THAT violently. That blue liquid in the beaker? Nobody labels chemicals with "SCIENCE JUICE." Once you know your electron configurations, you're cursed with the knowledge that 99% of movie lab scenes are pure fantasy. The hardest part of being a chemist isn't balancing equations—it's restraining yourself from shouting "THAT'S NOT HOW ACID WORKS!" in a crowded theater.

Chemical Marketing Gone Wrong

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2 months ago 6.9K views 0 shares

The chemical trickery here is absolutely diabolical! That "H₂O₄U" water dispenser is marketing hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) with a cutesy formula that looks like "water for you." No wonder the doctor is warning against drinking uranium dioxide peroxide - they're pointing out how dangerous it is when companies disguise hazardous chemicals with friendly branding. Drinking hydrogen peroxide would cause severe internal burns, tissue damage, and potentially fatal oxygen embolisms. The doctor's "hold up now" reaction is the perfect scientific skepticism we need when faced with misleading chemical nomenclature. Remember kids: just because it has H and O doesn't mean it's refreshing!

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