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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

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The Fermi Paradox Dilemma

Astronomy Universe Science
23 hours ago 22.4K views 0 shares
The Fermi Paradox Dilemma
The cosmic irony of the Fermi Paradox in one perfect meme! Top panel: "We are alone" - a lonely astronaut contemplating the vast emptiness of space. Bottom panel: "We are not alone" - and suddenly aliens are blasting our planet with a death ray. No wonder advanced civilizations stay quiet! They've seen our reality TV and decided we're either worth avoiding or worth eliminating. Maybe the great filter isn't technology destroying civilizations—it's civilizations attracting the wrong cosmic neighbors. The silence isn't emptiness; it's everyone hiding from the galactic HOA that fines you for having your death star visible from the street.

Electron Spin: The Ultimate Quantum Bamboozle

Physics Science
23 hours ago 18.6K views 0 shares
Electron Spin: The Ultimate Quantum Bamboozle
Quantum physics in a nutshell! The top part tries to make electron spin understandable with a cute little diagram, but then the yellow text hits you with the truth bomb: "Imagine a rotating ball. Except it's not a ball and it's not rotating." 🤣 This is the perfect encapsulation of quantum mechanics - we desperately try to visualize subatomic properties using everyday objects, then have to admit our models are completely wrong! Electrons aren't tiny spheres spinning like tops - they're probability clouds with an intrinsic angular momentum that has no classical equivalent whatsoever. But hey, here's a spinning ball diagram anyway because... what else are we supposed to do?! Physics teachers everywhere are simultaneously nodding and crying.

Emoji-rithms: When Math Gets Emotional

Math Science
18 hours ago 18.5K views 0 shares
Emoji-rithms: When Math Gets Emotional
Behold! The magnificent marriage of math and emojis! This meme is using logarithm properties to make deliciously nerdy jokes: The first equation shows log(kiss emoji) = log(kiss face) + log(heart) - playing on the logarithm property that log(a×b) = log(a) + log(b). So apparently kisses are mathematically just faces multiplied by hearts! The storm cloud equation uses log(cloud/lightning) = log(cloud) - log(lightning), which follows from log(a/b) = log(a) - log(b). Divide by lightning and poof! No more storms! Then we've got log(laughing crying emoji) = water × log(laughing emoji) - a play on the power rule where log(aⁿ) = n·log(a). Tears are just laughter raised to the power of water! And the grand finale: log₁(x) = 1 and log(1) = 0 - actual mathematical truths wrapped in emoji madness! My calculator is giggling uncontrollably right now!

Metal-Eating Microbe Madness

Biology Chemistry Science
18 hours ago 18.4K views 0 shares
Metal-Eating Microbe Madness
Microbiologists just dropped the mic! While most organisms struggle to process iron, these bacterial rebels— Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans —are out here literally eating metal for breakfast. These microscopic metallurgists convert iron into energy through oxidation, essentially turning rust into calories. Next time someone says "iron isn't digestible," just point to these tiny chemotrophic badasses who didn't get the memo and decided to make the periodic table their personal buffet.

Pi In A Tuxedo: Engineering With Style

Math Engineering Science
18 hours ago 18.1K views 0 shares
Pi In A Tuxedo: Engineering With Style
Engineers don't have time for your decimal precision! The top panel shows the basic approximation we teach children: π ≈ 3. But the bottom panel reveals the sophisticated engineering approach: π ≈ 10 0.5 (which equals √10 or about 3.16). This is actually brilliant because π is approximately 3.14159... and √10 is about 3.16227... - a difference of less than 1%. The fancy bear knows that when you're building bridges or rockets, you can skip the calculator and just remember "π adds half an order of magnitude" - which is engineer-speak for "multiply by the square root of 10." Pure mathematical elegance dressed in a tuxedo!

The Ultimate Biological Trade Deal

Biology Science
17 hours ago 17.7K views 0 shares
The Ultimate Biological Trade Deal
Plants are literally the OG crypto traders of nature! They've been running the most successful biological exchange program for millions of years. Input sunlight (free energy from space!) and CO₂ (literal waste gas), and boom—they output oxygen (keeping us alive) and glucose (sweet, sweet energy). Talk about a favorable exchange rate! The purple grow lights in the background really sell it—plants hustling 24/7 in their biochemical trading floor. Nature's ultimate business model has 100% customer satisfaction and zero complaints filed with the Better Biological Bureau.

Linear Algebra: The Gold Medal Champion Of Mathematics

Math Science Physics Engineering
16 hours ago 17.2K views 0 shares
Linear Algebra: The Gold Medal Champion Of Mathematics
Linear algebra isn't just winning gold medals—it's absolutely crushing the entire mathematical Olympics! From transforming coordinates to solving systems of equations in nanoseconds, this mathematical powerhouse is the Michael Phelps of computational methods. Engineers, physicists, and computer scientists all bow before its matrix-manipulating glory. While other math branches are still trying to qualify for the games, linear algebra is already wearing so many medals it needs reinforced neck muscles. No wonder machine learning algorithms and quantum mechanics can't stop name-dropping it at parties!

The Diesel-Electric Mind Explosion

Engineering Tech
12 hours ago 11.1K views 0 shares
The Diesel-Electric Mind Explosion
That moment when you discover diesel locomotives aren't directly powered by diesel engines but actually use them to generate electricity for electric motors! The astronaut meme perfectly captures that "my whole life has been a lie" realization. Diesel locos are basically power plants on wheels—the diesel engine runs a generator that powers electric traction motors. It's like finding out your "gas-powered" car is secretly a hybrid. Engineering bamboozlement at its finest!

Friendship Ended With Newton

Physics Math Science Academia
11 hours ago 10.7K views 0 shares
Friendship Ended With Newton
Nothing says "physics student desperation" quite like betraying Newton for Lagrangian mechanics right before finals. That moment when you realize F=ma is just too mainstream and you'd rather solve problems with energy instead of forces. Lagrangian mechanics lets you skip all that vector decomposition nonsense with a single elegant equation. Newton's getting crossed out faster than my research funding application. Pro tip: if your professor asks why you abandoned Newtonian mechanics, just tell them you've reached a higher plane of mathematical existence.

The Final Form Of Chemistry YouTube

Chemistry Science
6 hours ago 6.1K views 0 shares
The Final Form Of Chemistry YouTube
Future NileRed is going to be wild! For those not in the chemistry YouTube rabbit hole, NileRed is famous for his increasingly ambitious chemical experiments. The joke here is that by 2067, he'll have graduated from synthesizing exotic compounds to straight-up transmuting children into dogs through some unholy chemical alchemy. The progression from "I made glass from scratch" to "I turned a human child into a canine" is just the natural evolution of any dedicated scientist with too much lab time and not enough supervision. Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist is sweating nervously right now.

Quantum Vandalism: When Your Thesis Advisor Won't Return Your Emails

Physics Math Academia Science
6 hours ago 6.0K views 0 shares
Quantum Vandalism: When Your Thesis Advisor Won't Return Your Emails
Looks like someone's PhD dissertation has gone rogue and hopped a freight train! That's not graffiti—that's a mathematical physicist having a breakdown in public. Those equations appear to be quantum field theory notation, probably scribbled by some desperate grad student who finally snapped after their 47th rejected paper. Nothing says "I've transcended conventional academia" quite like writing Hilbert space transformations on cargo containers instead of whiteboards. The railroad company is probably wondering why their train suddenly violates the uncertainty principle and arrives both on time and late simultaneously.

Counterexample To Fermat's Last Theorem

Math Science
5 hours ago 5.4K views 0 shares
Counterexample To Fermat's Last Theorem
The calculator appears to show that 2 67 + 4 67 = 4 67 = 2.1778071483 × 10 40 , which would seemingly disprove Fermat's Last Theorem. For those who slept through number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy a n + b n = c n for any integer n > 2. What we're witnessing is just a calculator reaching its computational limits and rounding errors. The difference between these massive numbers is too small for the calculator to display. It's like claiming you've disproven relativity because your bathroom scale doesn't register the mass increase when you run really fast.
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