Years Of Academy Training Wasted

Nuclear reactor humor with a radioactive twist! This meme spoofs the infamous Chernobyl disaster with doge characters as Soviet nuclear engineers. The "RBMK Reactors do not explode" line references the real historical denial by Soviet officials despite clear evidence to the contrary. The "anyone taste metal?" quip is the terrifying cherry on top—radiation exposure causes a metallic taste in your mouth right before things get... well, melty. It's basically the nuclear physicist's version of "this is fine" while everything's absolutely not fine.

This Venn diagram is basically a dating profile for STEM fields. Physicists are out here assuming penguins are perfect cylinders because apparently reality is just too messy. Engineers decided π=3 because who needs those pesky decimals anyway? And mathematicians are defining 'e' with limits that make normal people's brains melt. The overlap zones are pure gold - physicists and engineers bonding over "sin x = x" (which is only true for tiny angles, but why let accuracy get in the way of a good approximation?). Meanwhile, everyone's using random units and gravity is just "about 10" because who has time for 9.8? And programmers? Off in their own little world with "x = x + 1" which makes mathematicians scream internally. The chemists got a tiny circle because they're too busy making things explode to participate in these shenanigans. Notice how "single" sits right in the middle of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians. Coincidence? I think not.

Ah, the classic "90 degrees = hot" joke that makes physicists groan and mathematicians chuckle. What we're witnessing is thermal conductivity in action—tile corners create thermal bridges where heat transfers more efficiently. After 40 years studying materials science, I can confirm that corners don't melt snow because they're "90 degrees hot"... they melt it because they're junction points where heat flows from multiple directions. The commenter's confidence is inversely proportional to their understanding of thermodynamics. Reminds me of my undergraduate students who'd confidently explain quantum mechanics after watching one YouTube video.

Theoretical physicists just felt a disturbance in the force! The left shows a regular physics textbook—basically a weightlifting program for your backpack. But the right? That's Lev Landau's legendary work compressed to microscopic perfection. Landau, the Soviet physics genius, was notorious for cramming mind-bending quantum mechanics and field theory into the tiniest mathematical space possible. His textbooks are so dense with equations that each page weighs approximately 3 kilograms of pure intellectual terror. Physics students worldwide have a saying: "You don't read Landau, you survive him." The mathematical density is so high it's practically a black hole of knowledge!

Physicists: *spend millions on ultra-sensitive detectors to capture neutrinos* Neutrinos: *pass through entire planets without interacting* Also neutrinos: *randomly decide to mess with experimental results when scientists least expect it* That kitten is the perfect embodiment of neutrinos—looking innocent while causing absolute chaos in detection systems. These subatomic trolls have such minuscule mass they're practically nothing, yet somehow manage to be the most frustrating particles to study. The struggle is real when your research subject literally passes through almost everything in the universe.