Tesla vs Edison: History's Original Copyright Battle

The periodic table's mysterious gap was hiding in plain sight all along! The stick figure is pointing at what appears to be the "hidden elements" section of the periodic table that supposedly earned someone a Nobel Prize. Here's the punchline - there's no actual gap at the top of the periodic table waiting to be filled! The cartoon brilliantly satirizes how scientific discoveries sometimes seem obvious in hindsight. It's like finding your keys in the first place you looked after searching the entire house. For chemistry nerds: The top of the periodic table is actually complete with hydrogen and helium. No Nobel-worthy gaps up there! The real periodic table gaps were historically in the middle sections, not the top.

The ultimate scientific facepalm moment! Someone just discovered Einstein was an actual human being and not just a "theoretical physicist" job title. It's like finding out water is wet or gravity pulls things down! 😂 For those wondering: "theoretical physicist" refers to someone who develops mathematical models and abstractions to explain physical phenomena - not a physicist who exists only in theory! Einstein was very much a real dude who revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and energy while rocking that iconic wild hair.

The cosmic comedy of astronomy in one perfect punchline! Someone points at a garbage can and declares it's "on fire," but our intrepid astronomer immediately jumps to "could be dark matter." Because why settle for mundane explanations when you can invoke mysterious cosmic substances that make up 27% of the universe yet remain completely invisible? Astronomers really will look at literally anything unexplained and whisper "dark matter" with that gleam in their eyes. Next time your toast goes missing, don't blame your roommate—clearly it's been affected by the gravitational pull of undetectable particles!

Finding out your date has an Erdős number of 3 or less is basically the mathematician's equivalent of discovering you're dating royalty. For the uninitiated, the Erdős number measures your collaborative distance from legendary mathematician Paul Erdős, who published more papers with more collaborators than anyone in history. The lower your number, the closer you are to mathematical greatness! A 3 or lower? That's like finding out your date casually hangs out with mathematical celebrities. No wonder our protagonist's brain is exploding with excitement - he just went from "nice date" to "I'm definitely putting this on my CV" territory.

Fun historical chemistry fact: Hennig Brand, a 17th-century German alchemist, literally boiled down 1,500 gallons of human urine in his basement trying to make gold. Instead, he discovered phosphorus—an element that glows in the dark! The yellow water in this image is reminiscent of his massive urine collection, which he let ferment for weeks before the distillation process. Imagine the smell! His neighbors probably thought he was taking the "p" in PhD way too literally. The man literally struck gold in pee—just not the kind he was hoping for.

The ultimate scientific betrayal! Dmitri Mendeleev spent years arranging elements by atomic weight and properties, creating the periodic table to reveal patterns and save future generations from memorization hell. Fast forward to modern chemistry class: "You'll be tested on all 118 elements and their properties next Friday." Somewhere in the afterlife, Mendeleev is giving that exact disappointed look from the meme—his organizational masterpiece transformed into the very torture device he tried to prevent. The irony would be beautiful if it weren't so painfully accurate for anyone who's ever had to recite "Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium..." at 3 AM before an exam!