Scientific progress Memes

The scientific progress pendulum has swung wildly! In the 90s, we had Dolly the sheep (first cloned mammal in 1996) and the Sojourner rover cruising Mars (1997) - groundbreaking achievements that expanded our understanding of genetics and space exploration! Fast forward to today, and scientists are having to repeatedly explain that the Earth isn't flat to a growing community of conspiracy theorists. The asterisks around "round" perfectly capture that exasperated tone of someone who's explained this basic fact for the thousandth time. It's the perfect encapsulation of how scientific communication sometimes feels like taking two steps forward and one giant leap backward. From cloning mammals to debating shapes we've known since ancient Greece... what a time to be alive!

The scientific method's greatest hits! This game show scenario perfectly captures the history of science - where we're constantly replacing "I don't know yet" with "the gods did it" or "it's magic." From phlogiston theory to miasma to the luminiferous ether, science history is littered with discarded theories that were once considered rock solid. The best part? We're probably doing the exact same thing right now with dark matter and consciousness. Future scientists will look at our "breakthrough theories" the same way we look at bloodletting and spontaneous generation. Science isn't about being right forever - it's about being slightly less wrong over time!