IQs Beat The MCU

Chemistry pickup lines just hit different! The meme shows Squidward looking suspiciously excited because someone claimed they're "only into d z 2 orbitals." For the uninitiated, d z 2 is one of five d-orbitals that describe where electrons might be found in atoms—and this particular one has a distinct shape with two lobes and a donut-shaped ring in the middle. So basically, she's saying she's only into a specific electron configuration, but the shape is... well... rather phallic. No wonder Squidward's running around like he just discovered free real estate in electron cloud form! Chemistry students everywhere are simultaneously groaning and forwarding this to their study groups.

This meme is a brilliant fusion of gaming culture and quantum chemistry. It shows the various shapes of f-orbitals (those weird-looking electron probability distributions that haunt physical chemistry students) with the caption "Reddit, when a chemist dies." The joke references the gaming meme "Press F to pay respect" - a funeral scene from Call of Duty where players press the F key to show respect. But here, it's "Press F orbital " because, well, chemists don't deserve normal respects. We get quantum mechanical respects. Thirty years of teaching and I still can't get students to remember these orbital shapes, but somehow they never forget that stupid video game reference. If only I could harness that power for my final exam...

The meme pokes fun at the beauty standards in chemistry equations! On the left is the complex van der Waals equation of state (with all those pesky parameters and squared terms), while on the right is the elegantly simple ideal gas law (PV = nRT). Chemistry textbooks and professors often treat the ideal gas law as "less accurate" or "less attractive" than its complicated counterparts, but let's be honest—the simplicity of PV = nRT is the equivalent of supermodel-level hotness in equation form. Why use many variables when few variables do trick? Justice for the ideal gas law! It's the equation equivalent of that friend who rolls out of bed looking perfect while the rest of us need two hours of prep.

The perfect demonstration of Newton's Third Law in space - "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." One astronaut fires a gun, and suddenly becomes a human rocket propelled in the opposite direction! Physics doesn't care about your space walk plans. No atmosphere, no friction, just pure conservation of momentum sending you on a one-way trip to the cosmic void. That's why NASA doesn't issue firearms with the standard equipment package. Next time someone asks "what practical applications does physics have?" just show them this cautionary tale of space ballistics gone wrong.

The immortal element joke we didn't know we needed! This meme brilliantly plays with the mind-boggling half-life of Tellurium-128, which at 2.2×10 24 years is 160 trillion times longer than the universe has existed. Checking on your Te-128 sample after a measly 10 million years would be like checking if your diamond ring degraded after 0.0000001 seconds. The dog's concerned side-eye perfectly captures the scientific anticlimax of discovering absolutely no detectable change. It's basically the element equivalent of "I'll be back before you even notice I'm gone" taken to cosmic extremes.

The mathematical naivety is just... *exhales cigarette smoke*... painful. Engineering students thinking they're escaping math is like believing you can avoid water by jumping into the ocean. Differential equations, vector calculus, and numerical methods will find you. They always do. The difference? Physicists derive the equations, engineers just solve them... repeatedly... with boundary conditions from hell. Sweet summer children.