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Space Car Go Electric Vroom Vroom
Astronomy Tech Engineering
7 months ago 16.1K views 0 shares
Space Car Go Electric Vroom Vroom
The ultimate escalation of car salesmanship! While regular dealers are stuck in the "cargo space?" conversation (like, can I fit my groceries in this thing?), Elon Musk is out here taking the phrase literally and launching actual cars into actual space. It's the perfect punchline to the "car go road" dad joke - because why settle for roads when you can have orbit? This is what happens when you give a space enthusiast billions of dollars and nobody to tell him "maybe don't put a perfectly good Tesla in the vacuum of space." But hey, that's one way to avoid traffic!

Top Comment Changes The Standard Model
Physics Science Universe
5 months ago 12.0K views 0 shares
Top Comment Changes The Standard Model
The Standard Model chart - where physicists organized subatomic particles with the same enthusiasm as collecting Pokémon cards, but with way more math. This image shows our current understanding of the universe's building blocks, neatly arranged in a grid that screams "I spent decades of research just to make this colorful diagram." The title suggests we're about to witness Reddit-style particle physics, where the top-voted comment gets to add "depression" as the 18th fundamental particle. Because clearly what the Standard Model needs is more complexity and a dash of existential dread.

LaTeX: When Document Formatting Gets Mistaken For Flirting
Academia Math Tech Science
1 month ago 17.3K views 0 shares
LaTeX: When Document Formatting Gets Mistaken For Flirting
The ultimate academic miscommunication! Poor Annie thought she found someone with a LaTeX fetish, but instead encountered a hardcore document preparation system enthusiast. She's using actual flirtatious pickup lines while he's speaking in LaTeX markup commands - \begin{seduction-attempt} and \makeatletters are his idea of smooth talk. The punchline hits when you realize LaTeX (pronounced "lay-tech") is just the typesetting software academics and mathematicians obsess over for creating perfectly formatted papers. Talk about different definitions of "formatting" a date!

Revisited Integration Today
Science
5 months ago 3.2K views 0 shares
Revisited Integration Today

Thumbs Up For Magnetic Confusion
Physics Science
4 months ago 9.0K views 0 shares
Thumbs Up For Magnetic Confusion
Every physics student knows that moment of pure confusion when trying to figure out which way the magnetic field is pointing! The right-hand thumb rule is one of those physics concepts that sounds simple until you actually need to use it. Point your thumb in the direction of the current, curl your fingers, and voilà—that's your magnetic field direction! Except half the time you're twisting your hand like a contortionist wondering if you're doing it right. The confident thumbs-up in the meme is basically all of us pretending we understand electromagnetism while secretly hoping nobody asks us to demonstrate it again.

The LaTeX Love Affair
Math Academia Science
4 months ago 9.1K views 0 shares
The LaTeX Love Affair
Mathematicians and their notorious LaTeX obsession. The rest of us use Word like normal humans, but mathematicians will spend four hours debugging a bracket in their equation editor just to produce a single-page document. Then they'll judge you for not formatting your differential equations with the proper kerning. It's not a fetish, it's a "professional standard"... sure, Jan.

Those Who Know Statistics
Math Science Research
22 days ago 19.9K views 0 shares
Those Who Know Statistics
The statistical tables have turned! This brilliant meme captures the duality of encountering statistical formulas. The left side shows the uninitiated—terrified by probability tables and normal distribution equations. Meanwhile, the right side reveals the enlightened statistician who sees the exact same formulas but with complete confidence. That Gaussian bell curve equation (the normal distribution formula) goes from nightmare fuel to a beautiful old friend depending entirely on your statistical literacy. It's basically the mathematical equivalent of meeting your in-laws for the first time versus your 10th family dinner together. The punchline? The formulas didn't change—your perspective did. Statistical enlightenment is just fear with better understanding and more confidence. And possibly a SpongeBob transformation.

Proton Decay Existential Crisis
Physics Universe Science
7 months ago 12.2K views 0 shares
Proton Decay Existential Crisis
Having an existential crisis over proton decay is peak science nerd energy! 😭 The fact that these fundamental particles might have a half-life of 10 34 years (that's 1 followed by 34 zeros!) is both mind-blowing and oddly terrifying. Sure, it's longer than the current age of the universe by a factor of... *checks notes*... a trillion trillion times, but still! How dare those protons not be eternally stable! The two-panel emotional journey perfectly captures that moment when you realize even the building blocks of matter aren't forever. Good thing we won't be around to witness it, because talk about the ultimate "everything must go" sale!

The Absurd Brilliance Of Euler, Who Identified The Factorization Of Such A Huge Number Without A Casio
Math Scientists Science Academia
8 months ago 14.6K views 0 shares
The Absurd Brilliance Of Euler, Who Identified The Factorization Of Such A Huge Number Without A Casio
When Fermat said "All Fermat numbers are prime!" Euler basically said "Hold my quill pen" and factored 4,294,967,297 into 641 × 6,700,417... by hand . 🤯 Fermat numbers (2 2 n + 1) were thought to be prime for all values, but Euler crushed that dream with pure mathematical wizardry. He didn't need a calculator, supercomputer, or even electricity—just his brain and possibly an unhealthy obsession with large numbers. Meanwhile, I struggle to calculate a 15% tip without my phone. This is why mathematicians are the original flex masters of history!

Protons Give Identity, Electrons Give Personality
Chemistry Physics Science
7 months ago 15.1K views 0 shares
Protons Give Identity, Electrons Give Personality
The quote perfectly captures atomic structure in a nutshell. Protons, sitting there in the nucleus, define what element you're dealing with—literally giving atoms their identity. Meanwhile, electrons are buzzing around in their orbitals determining how atoms interact, bond, and behave with others—essentially their "personality." This is the kind of observation that makes chemists nod knowingly at 3 AM while running their fifth failed reaction of the day. Just remember: electrons will never tell you where they are and how fast they're moving simultaneously. Typical commitment issues.

Einstein: The Infinity Equation
Physics Scientists Science
8 months ago 13.8K views 0 shares
Einstein: The Infinity Equation
Physics nerds losing their minds over Einstein in Nolan's Oppenheimer is peak academic fandom. Just imagine the collective gasp if Einstein suddenly went full Marvel-style with "E=mc² time, baby!" Complete with dramatic music and slow-motion chalk dust. The tweet calling it "avengers endgame for physicists" is painfully accurate—where else would you find people this excited about a theoretical physicist making a cameo? Only in science would we treat equations like epic plot twists.

The Glycolysis Glow-Down
Biology Academia Chemistry Science
2 months ago 27.8K views 0 shares
The Glycolysis Glow-Down
Remember when glycolysis was just "glucose breaks down into energy" in high school? Fast forward to university and suddenly it's a 10-step biochemical nightmare with phosphorylation, isomerization, and enough enzymes to make your brain ferment! The happy kid is blissfully unaware that their simple sugar pathway will soon become the reason they question their life choices at 3 AM. This is why glucose molecules have six carbons—one for each existential crisis you'll have trying to memorize this pathway!