Good Enough For School, Terrifying For NASA

The gap between classroom physics and real-world engineering is wider than the Mariana Trench! In school, you're a genius for calculating how fast a ball rolls down a frictionless plane. But try that simplified approach at NASA and suddenly your Mars lander is a very expensive crater. 😱

That koala's face perfectly captures the moment of horror when you realize your textbook problems conveniently ignored everything that actually matters. Turns out, the universe doesn't appreciate being approximated to death. Who knew?

Next time your physics teacher says "assume no air resistance," just remember: that assumption costs billions at NASA. No pressure!