From First Flight To Footprints On The Moon

When you accidentally set fire to your spacecraft and Einstein and Hawking have to physically restrain you from panicking! This is basically how NASA trains astronauts for emergencies—minus the time-traveling genius scientists. Fire in space is actually terrifying because it forms perfect spheres instead of going upward (no convection in microgravity) and can spread invisibly. But sure, just "calm down" while your oxygen-rich environment turns into a floating death trap. The physicists know best!

Mind = blown! 🤯 The ultimate biological inception happening right here! When you realize we're literally trillions of cells working together in a trench coat called a human, and then some of those cell collectives decide to become biologists who spend their days obsessing over... other cells! It's like your skin cells are funding research about liver cells while your brain cells take notes. Talk about workplace gossip on a cosmic scale! Next time a biologist gets all high and mighty, just remember they're basically cellular paparazzi with lab coats.

The duality of the scientific mind on full display! Dismisses astrology as "made up nonsense" but immediately gets excited about the ideal gas law (PV = nRT). The title nods to Van der Waals, who actually improved this equation to account for real gases because—plot twist—the ideal gas law is also an idealized model that doesn't perfectly describe reality. Scientists: rejecting one set of approximations while worshipping another since 1873. The only difference? One has math.

That moment when your childhood fantasy world crumbles faster than sodium in water! The four classical "elements" from ancient philosophy—earth, air, fire, and water—aren't actually elements at all! *twirls beaker dramatically* Turns out Mendeleev never reserved spots for "dragon breath" or "fairy dust" either! The periodic table only includes pure chemical elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon—not their rebellious combinations or mythological concepts. Your elementary school teacher has some explaining to do! Next you'll tell me alchemy isn't a valid college major! *frantically scribbles in lab notebook*

When mathematicians see someone write "e = 8" on an MIT entrance exam from 1869, they collectively lose their minds! The meme shows historical figures (including what appears to be Euler himself) trying to restrain someone who's witnessing this mathematical blasphemy. It's like catching someone claiming the Earth is flat at a NASA conference! The joke references how mathematicians get irrationally upset (pun intended) about approximations. While engineers might round π to 3 for practical calculations, seeing the mathematical constant e (approximately 2.71828) defined as 8 would make any mathematician need therapy. The title "π=3 Is So 21st Century" suggests we've moved beyond that old mathematical sin to commit even more outrageous ones!

That crushing moment when your "revolutionary" mathematical insight was actually discovered by some ancient Greek dude wearing a toga. Nothing humbles you faster than learning your brilliant epiphany about prime numbers was thoroughly explored by Euclid in 300 BCE. The mathematical universe is just one giant game of "too late to the party" where Newton and Leibniz are still arguing about who invented calculus first while you're in the corner thinking you've discovered something by doodling during a boring lecture. Even Einstein had to deal with Lorentz being like "yeah, I kinda already worked on that transformation thing." The history of mathematics is basically just a timeline of brilliant people saying "I thought of it first!" followed by librarians saying "actually..."