What if Memes

The eternal scientific question: "What happens if I poke it?" followed by the inevitable chaos! This comic perfectly captures the experimental spirit that's launched a thousand discoveries—and probably just as many lab accidents. The stick figure's curiosity leads to that classic scientific method step they don't teach you in school: "run away and watch from a safe distance as your experiment goes haywire." Countless scientific breakthroughs started with someone thinking "I wonder what would happen if..." right before something exploded, mutated, or escaped down the hallway!

The scientific courtship ritual in its natural habitat! Two specimens finding each other through their shared love of absurd hypothetical scenarios. Nothing bonds potential mates like discussing what would happen if 8 billion humans jumped at once (spoiler: practically nothing to the Earth, but absolute chaos for humanity's personal space boundaries). Randall Munroe's "What If?" book has created more nerdy relationships than any dating app ever could. The real experiment would be measuring how many first dates have included the phrase "but theoretically speaking..."