Specify Units Or Face The Consequences!

When Winnie the Pooh studies physics, he clearly has a sophisticated palate! Starting with baby-level Newton (F=ma), upgrading to momentum derivatives, then finally ascending to the physics equivalent of fine dining with the Euler-Lagrange equation. It's like watching someone evolve from "I eat crayons" to "I only consume artisanal differential equations with a side of variational calculus." The Euler-Lagrange equation is basically the physics hipster's way of saying "I'm too cool for vectors" while simultaneously making the problem 10x more complicated. Classic physics flex.

Engineers and thermodynamics students know the struggle! The guy (H₂O/R134A) is checking out the seductive simplicity of ideal gas equations (PV=MRT) while his girlfriend (thermodynamic tables) watches in disbelief. The perfect relationship with ideal gases is just a fantasy - real-world refrigerants like R134A have complicated behaviors that refuse to follow those clean, elegant equations. They're messy, they're complex, and they require those thick thermodynamic tables that nobody wants to flip through during exams! The eternal temptation to simplify is real, but those tables are there for a reason... your refrigerator wouldn't work if gases were actually ideal!

The comic brilliantly contrasts delicious lickable items with polonium-210, which is basically death on a stick. Polonium-210 is an alpha-emitting radioactive isotope that's roughly 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide. One microgram is enough to kill you painfully. The punchline about "Andrea stopping nuclear war by licking a warhead" is darkly hilarious because it's scientifically preposterous. First, nuclear warheads don't typically contain polonium, and second, anyone getting close enough to lick weapons-grade material would be dead before they could become a folk hero. This is exactly why we keep telling undergrads to stop tasting chemicals in the lab. There's always that one student who thinks the "no eating in the lab" rule is just a suggestion...

Isaac Newton: *invents calculus, revolutionizes optics, discovers gravity, creates laws of motion, develops classical mechanics* Also Newton: *spends entire life without a romantic partner* Turns out having multiple arms like Doctor Strange doesn't help your dating life if you're too busy calculating the universe! Newton was so smart he could derive the trajectory of falling apples but couldn't figure out how to fall in love. His gravitational attraction only worked on objects, not people! 🍎

The mathematical pun is strong with this one. What looks like lyrics from a questionable club anthem is actually a brilliant physics joke about signal processing. "1/freq." is the formula for period (T), which measures the time between wave repetitions. So essentially, she flickers on noise until reaching the period—the punchline being that physicists and engineers find ways to insert equations into literally everything, including what appears to be romantic advances. The peer who contributed this clearly spent too much time in the signal analysis lab and not enough time in social settings.

The eternal war between measurement systems! Scientists who use the elegant, logical SI units (meters, kilograms, seconds) are shown absolutely LOSING IT when confronted with imperial units (feet, pounds, whatever random object the British were measuring with that day). This is basically every international research collaboration ever. Americans show up with their inches and gallons while the rest of the scientific world screams internally. The rage is REAL - converting between systems has literally crashed spacecraft into planets! NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one team used metric and another used imperial. Talk about an expensive mistake!