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Don’t tell anyone, but we have a soft spot for brainy but hilarious humor. When you take genuinely funny content and then add a big dollop of science on top of it, you get something really special.
‘Physics Is Fun’ is a massively popular group on Facebook whose members share the wittiest and most relatable memes about science. We’ve collected the best ones to give your big brains and funny bones a workout. Scroll down to check them out below. Oh, and don’t forget to send these memes to your fave scientist friends, too! We’re sure they could use a coffee break.
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Michael Largey 6 months ago
The Round Earth Society has members at all four corners of the planet.
Boris Long-Johnson 6 months ago
Whilst I think flat earthed are morons it’s hardly a “gotcha” - I say “for gods sake” and “in gods green earth” etc, doesn’t mean I’ve an imaginary friend.
keyboardtek 6 months ago
I think the flat earth thing was started as a satire, but then stupid people are unable to understand satire so it not has true believers.
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Susie Elle 6 months ago
Here I mangled your product because it would be easier to transport that way lmao enjoy your rolled up laptop
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 6 months ago
"We can't make a pyramid out of this!" Egyptian Pharaoh, probably.
There are lots of branches of science and physics. But from our perspective, one of the coolest things that you can learn about is quantum physics. It’s mind-bendingly, paradoxically bizarre. And it’s the closest you can get to real-life magic (even though it isn’t).
For instance, the wave-particle duality theory tells us that some things, like light, can be both particles and waves at the same time.
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Riley Quinn 6 months ago
There's no escape from dirty dishes. My hands are still wrinkly from doing a sink full.
Breadcrumb. 6 months ago
No one gives you a free meal or a pint of beer either like they would in a kitchen..
Child of the Stars 6 months ago
Idk, I get paid several dollars per hour above my city's minimum wage to fold laundry and mop floors 🤷♀️
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Seadog 6 months ago
It doesn't matter who has the initial idea if they don't follow through with it. I thought of 2 things that later became a real item. I wrote off my ideas as just personal preference or just silly. Both items eventually became standard and optional items on some cars. A company I worked for, we all started saying a little jingle amongst ourselves, just a joke. Yeah, it later became the official company slogan. I was gone by then so I have no idea who cashed in on that idea. Knowing the company though, they didn't pay them more than $125 for it.
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BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
Walter Greiner, the author, was being purposefully funny. This book has a lot of similarly dry jokes in it.
Victoria 6 months ago
Regular statistics was fine for me. Statistical Mechanics though, yikes!
Load More Replies...According to ‘Space,’ wave-particle duality is an example of superposition, when a quantum object exists in multiple states at once.
“An electron, for example, is both ‘here’ and ‘there’ simultaneously. It’s only once we do an experiment to find out where it is that it settles down into one or the other.”
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michael Chock 6 months ago
I think we should spend more time studying those that fail, so we do not waste time being falures too.
Michael Largey 6 months ago
Some people don't know - or believe - they have succeeded until others congratulate them for it.
BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
YES!! This isn't even about failure. It's about perseverance. I try to encourage my kids for working hard, rather than getting things right on their first try.
Scott Rackley 6 months ago
Or my college calculus teacher, Dr. Kuhn. He could teach advanced calc to chimps, I'm sure of it.
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Riley Quinn 6 months ago
I was under the misconception I would sail through chemistry, but after the lab had to be evacuated due to my gross error, I realized I was living in a fantasy.
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Rali Meyer 6 months ago
The Fahrenheit scale is based on which temperatures cattle can live outside!
BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
I don't really get this argument about Fahrenheit vs Celsius. They're just different scales, but it's a linear function between the two. Celsius being based on water is just convenient, in terms of setting a threshold, but even then it's water at sea-level. I totally get that 90 F is hot and 50 F is cold. But I also get that 30 C is hot and 10 C is cold. And I also get that what's comfortable for me isn't necessarily what's comfortable for others (preparing to hear from northern Europeans and Canadians that 10 C is t-shirt weather). A difference of 20 C is very similar to a difference of 40 F, it's not really hard.
So, quantum physics deals with odds and probabilities. It’s only when you make an observation (collapse the wave function) that you ‘force’ an object into one of its many possible states.
This is the idea behind the legendary Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, where a quantum device is responsible for the fate of a theoretical cat sealed in a box.
“As the device exists in both states until a measurement is made,” the cat is both alive and not at the same time, until you check.
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Nota Robot 6 months ago
The concept of photosynthesis, mitosis etc are still pretty magical, even if they are the products of millenia of evolution and even if we kind of understand how it works. Sue me, I'm a dreamer.
Rinso The Red 6 months ago
As someone who had to map each chemical reaction in photosynthesis, I can assure you we have a very good idea of how it works.
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Child of the Stars 6 months ago
"Any sufficiently advanced science will look like magic."--Arthur C. Clarke. Or something along those lines. And imo, science DOES feel magical to me, even the small amount I understand. For example, even understanding how weather and seasons work, there's a sense of wonder and magic in the first snow of the year. Or the first bit of green in the spring. Or a summer thunderstorm.
Lady Eowyn 6 months ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 6 months ago
We are constantly surrounded by magic. I can't gaze into the sky or a walk through the woods without seeing magic. I don't need supernatural nonsense when reality is doing a perfectly fine job at mesmerizing me.
Bret Sander 6 months ago
"Science is a slow, passive aggressive argument about everything" Ze Frank
The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
It’s not that science is “boring” or makes things “boring,” it’s that it can be very challenging to understand whereas magic just is. Some people prefer magic because it’s such a simple explanation for things and absolves them of the difficult, often frustrating process of learning how things actually work. Magic is the ultimate tool of the intellectually lazy.
Doug Moyer 6 months ago
Without science we wouldn't know about tardigrades. That's a lot of magic to miss out on...
CP 6 months ago (edited)
My kid had a 104F fever and I gave him a magical potion (ibuprofen). 20 minutes later the fever was 100 F. It is still magic, we just know the spells. My wand lights the way (flashlight), until it runs out of magic power (batteries). We could just use magical language instead. Lets all get on our crystal balls (zoom) and have council.
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keyboardtek 6 months ago
And when you get on the job in real life you won't even need to remember that much.
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xolitaire 6 months ago
Diamonds aren't "rare" or overly "valuable" on Earth either. The shortness is 100% artificial.The market is strictly controlled by a few big players to keep the prices high. By now, lab grown diamonds are just as beautiful. I'd never buy a real one. 1. because I don't see the appeal and 2. because the prices are ridiculous.
Riley Quinn 6 months ago
De Beers convinced us that diamonds were rare and everyone fell for the hype. 100 years later and people still think this marketing ploy is true. Before this, diamonds were not the go-to gem for engagement rings, but they sure were afterwards.
Another incredibly cool aspect of quantum physics is quantum entanglement. While we know that it’s real, scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how it works.
In a nutshell, quantum entanglement refers to two particles whose quantum states are bound (or, well, entangled) together.
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BeesEelsAndPups 6 months ago
Yes, it was also Yogi Berra, Mark Twain, Ben Franklin, Oscar Wilde, Siddhartha, and Jesus.
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Winnie the Moo 6 months ago
You do know that ‘post’ back then already existed and meant: publish….
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Rich Black 6 months ago
god does not play dice with the universe. it's more like powerball, or a scratch-off
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Bewitched One 6 months ago (edited)
They mostly think we live on a flat earth with a dome and that the moon and space isn’t real and is “manufactured”.Think of it like the Truman show? I think that’s the movie. lol Or like a snow globe on an incredibly large scale. so this wouldn’t change their minds anyway, and it would technically have to be more of a half circle type shadow. I think they’re all baths!t especially after looking more into their reasoning recently. lol but yea.
WindySwede 6 months ago
Don't misshapen FES with a hard-core flerf though.
Load More Replies... CP 6 months ago (edited)
The problem with flat earthers is a problem most people have. We all at some point in time adopt a stance and make it a part of our identity. So now instead of being told an idea you had was wrong, you hear "you the person are wrong". We internalize too much external c**p.
Dragons Exist 6 months ago
It also doesn't help that in English (and probably other languages, too) we say "you are wrong" instead of something like "your ideas / knowledge / facts are wrong"
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
Just like with all other rationalizations, they make it make sense to themselves then block out anything that doesn’t fit the narrative. These are not intelligent people, they’re trolls. But, apparently, being a troll can get you quite far these days.
Riley Quinn 6 months ago
You can't use facts to make someone believe the truth, because they will double-down on their ignorant beliefs.
Emily 6 months ago
IF the earth was flat, all the cars would be pushing things off the edge of it.
Lil be lil 6 months ago
I fell off the edge of the Earth a long time ago. Now I'm floating in an effervescent brew of spherical bubbles. 🌌🔮
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Another Panda 6 months ago
The same way my cat knows I have opened the camera app on my phone when she is doing something adorable.
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Rich Black 6 months ago (edited)
photons have zero mass, right? maybe light is actually ONLY a wave, and not a particle at the same time.
Tom Hutcherson 6 months ago
Wave-particle duality is the concept that particles, like photons, can exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties. Photons, being particles of light, can behave as waves in phenomena like diffraction and interference, and as particles in the photoelectric effect. This duality challenges classical physics, which typically treats waves and particles as distinct entities.
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In short—this can potentially lead to futuristic tech that allows for instant communication no matter the distance.
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Rali Meyer 6 months ago
if I hear statement like "earth is flat" or "I am a vegan" I walk away. And my list gets longer every day
Child of the Stars 6 months ago
Not really. Conspiracy theories are a way to feel like someone at least is in control when everything feels completely out of control.
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TotallyNOTAFox 6 months ago (edited)
All it takes for a goat to climb a wall is an angle of 92 degree
Lil be lil 6 months ago
They're looking for the salt that they lick off the rock.
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Jaya 6 months ago
How about teachers just minding their own business anyway? Unless your hair is in your eyes, your hair isn't gonna influence how well you do in class. And if long hair causes a problem, it should cause a problem for girls too.
Auntriarch 6 months ago
Our rule was long hair to be tied up for sports and in the labs. Gonads didn't enter into the equation.
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luci (he/fae) 6 months ago
jesus also had long hair, so i don't get why catholic schools especially are so ardent about male hair length...in fact, most male biblical figures had long hair. except samson.
Though quantum physics certainly feels weird and magical at times, as Forbes points out, it is “most emphatically not magic.”
According to Forbes, “The things it predicts are strange by the standards of everyday physics, but they are rigorously constrained by well-understood mathematical rules and principles.”
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 6 months ago
Well duh! It's a glowing hot plasma. It does if you jump to frequencies beyond visual sight. Like UV or so, but then you'd need a UV reflective surface and that whole experiment isn't worth it.
XenoMurph 6 months ago
It's not plasma, it's glowing particulates and gases.
Load More Replies... Ashley Deane 6 months ago
Is this true? Like this could easily be two different pictures. I've seen it done before..
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Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
If you've not yet heard of the quantum Cheshire cat: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28543990
“So, if somebody comes up to you with a ‘quantum’ idea that seems too good to be true—free energy, mystical healing powers, impossible space drives—it almost certainly is. That doesn't mean we can't use quantum physics to do amazing things—you can find some really cool physics in mundane technology—but those things stay well within the boundaries of the laws of thermodynamics and just basic common sense.”
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Pandemonium 6 months ago
Time was invented by the owners of the means of production so that the labor required to generate profit became a quantifiable unit to grind a jackbooted heel on the unprotected neck of the proletariat
Kit Black 6 months ago
And - "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by,"
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Luke Branwen 6 months ago (edited)
♫ Time is a valuable thing, watch it count down as the pendulum swings, watch it count down 'till the end of the day, the clock ticks life away, it's so unreal... ♫ - prof. Michael K. Shinoda
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michael Chock 6 months ago
It's like being a conservative voter. In your bubble there is nothing pushing against you. But trying to look at the bigger picture and suddenly everything is spinning, nothing makes sense and your face is getting ripped off by reality.
Emily 6 months ago
.342492 seconds on this post without a political comment - Who had that in the betting pool? You get a pizza and $50!
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Dave Nalesnik 6 months ago
Must be a family in the last picture, since they seem to be discussing relative speed here
Ann Hoff 6 months ago
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough.... [Verse 1] Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way' The Monty Python song is so true!
Bret Sander 6 months ago
Stand and turn your body 15° degrees per hour. Make a full rotation in 24 hours. Pretty d**n slow isn't it?
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howdylee 6 months ago
This is why common core math was started. The people that understood math this way became in charge and wanted everyone to learn it like that. Unfortunately, the people who learned better the previous way are now struggling. They need to implement multiple ways to teach multiple learning styles. My pity is for the teachers.
CP 6 months ago (edited)
I was one of those people that did it this way 30 years ago. The idea behind common core is needing to do less useless memorization and seems way easier of a method. People thought I was a math wiz as a kid. Plus, common core scales small and large really easily. As someone who gets it, it is fascinating to wonder where the disconnect is and further proof not every size fits all. That being said calculators change everything. Understanding what the math means is more important than being able to do the math now.
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Scott Rackley 6 months ago
I thought everyone did shortcuts this way. Don't get me started on products that are nearly squares, e.g. 48x49.
CP 6 months ago (edited)
I thought everyone had an inner monologue. The more I learn about people the more I realize we have no idea what is going on in anyone else's heads. The idea that you can't control if you learn something is kind of wild, too, when you think about it.
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‘Physics Is Fun’ unites nearly 2 million members from around the world. They have a common passion for entertainment and education, and (re)share genuinely witty memes. The team behind the group invites everyone to “discover the amazing world of science” through their content.
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NerdAlert 6 months ago
real, i get negative areas of circles and my teacher looks at me like "wtf"
XenoMurph 6 months ago
I get that too, I have a problem with pi. I had pi, I ate the pi, now I have less pie, and I want to keep eating pie.
Load More Replies... Teutonic Disaster 6 months ago
Depends on the building. Could've been the original Trade Center. 🤷♂️
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Auntriarch 6 months ago
Not as stupid as I will feel next time I see this and remember that I've forgotten it.
arthbach 6 months ago
The first time I saw this written down, I thought, "Well of course it is. This is such a basic idea - commutative property of multiplication and division." (2x3 = 3x2) Then I realised not everyone will understand that 8% x 25 = 25% x 8. It's 8 x 25 x1/100, and it doesn't matter what order you do it in, the answer will be 2.
Pyla 6 months ago
Associative property of multiplication. Then toss a couple of decimal spaces .
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Rali Meyer 6 months ago
of cut the glass just below to be able to reach inside to push them up
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Bill Swallow 6 months ago
We've been over this one many times. Get a laundry basket. Put several bath towels in the bottom. Hold it under the cabinet doors. Open the cabinet and catch the dishes in the basket, unbroken.
Mary Peace 6 months ago
Won't the dishes break as they hit against each other?
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LovesBerk 6 months ago
They opened the cupboard and the dishes broke. At least some of them did anyway.
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Aislin Avalbane 6 months ago
If the cabinet isn't attached to the wall/built in, tape the door shut and carefully lay the cabinet down. Then open it. Less chance of breaking.
B 6 months ago
My engineering brain is busy figuring out how to get to them without opening that door directly.
Kit Black 6 months ago
Does your engineering brain understand the concept of two big dudes very slowly lowering it down to the floor? I had to do this in my grandmother's house. I mean, we're all kind of short, so I had to borrow the neighbor and his oldest son, but it worked.
Load More Replies... Originally, ‘Physics is Fun’ was created in late June of 2023. The founder of the group is the same person who curates a Facebook page of that same name. According to them, any teacher who manages to make physics boring “is a criminal.”
We’ve reached out to the team moderating the group to learn more about it and their love of science, and we’ll update the article as soon as we hear back from them.
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Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
I grew up in England. Aside from a couple of anomalies, slides in summer were wet. 😁
Nilsen 6 months ago
Those anomalies can be discarded as statistical outliers.
Load More Replies... ƒιѕн 6 months ago
Soon on BP every word we type will need at least one zwidge so as not to be censored
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bernie bulk 6 months ago
in australia they were and still are legal branding irons and t*****e devices
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Luke Branwen 6 months ago
The post already made me laugh but this reply killed me
Load More Replies... LooseSeal's $10 Banana 6 months ago
Alternatively, me naming a MS Word document in middle school.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 6 months ago
TBH I'm old enough to remember the first extrasolar planets and it was huge. But after we figured out how to detect them, there are just so so many.
nottheactualphoto 6 months ago
Computers have existed ever since there was calculatin' to be done. "Computer" used to be a job description.
Load More Replies... Pop quiz, Pandas! Which memes made you chuckle the hardest? Which ones did you like so much that you spammed your buddies with them? What keeps you passionate and curious about science as a whole?
Let us know in the comments below! And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to make your voice heard and upvote your favorite funny pics.
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 6 months ago
It's far more exciting if one imagines a tariff to be a kind of fancy hat.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
For those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 6 months ago
Hanging from a frictionless pendulum, balanced by a perfectly spherical cow...
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 6 months ago
Mythbusters did this one. The boat is too buoyant for any human to hold underwater.
Winnie the Moo 6 months ago
Yeah and also, as a human there is no way (without weights) to walk the seabed, you would bounce back up… The air pocket underneath the boat would want to send the boat back to the surface.
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Michael Largey 6 months ago
This is the worst physics goof I've ever heard of. (But I have heard of it.)
James Blanken 6 months ago
Can't believe I'm the first one to say this... But you forget...he's Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Seadog 6 months ago
First of all, I figured out real quick in high school, a girl only wants what another girl has. So if a guy is unattached, his chances are slim unless he's rich. Next, girls always want a good man yet when one comes along and saves them from the a*****e relationship she's in, she dumps the good guy and goes right back to a*****e relationships. EVERY. TIME.
Ann Hoff 6 months ago
I'm sorry you had that experience. I was head over heels for my HS boyfriend and he wasn't dating anyone-
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DC 6 months ago (edited)
What's it with Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics that people seem to hate so much? Ok, it's not the easiest of math involved, sometimes, it's a handful, but none of it is, nor does, by any means dislogically.
Victoria 6 months ago
Navier Stokes is really difficult to deal with in FM. Plus regular thermo is fine. Chemical Thermodynamics is a PITA though.
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Spidercat 6 months ago
As a British person, this comment could be considered as a declaration of war. You should be sanctioned by the UN.
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Tim Gearing 6 months ago
That’s why cups have saucers. You tip the hot tea into the saucer and the larger surface area cooled the tea faster. It was called ‘saucering’. look it up.😊
Uncle Panda 6 months ago
You need to timeshift the onset of the intake process by three earth minutes.
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Susie Elle 6 months ago
Ah yes, the lab technician's voice that goes 'but what if I'm wrong? I don't want to redo this whole f*****g experiment AGAIN! better check'
Loudawg76 6 months ago
Remembering when the teachers would screech at us that we needed to learn maths because we won’t have calculators in our pockets all the time 🤔🤔
Rali Meyer 6 months ago
yes, and decades before we had mobile phone there was this digital Casio watch with a calculator!
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Lee Gilliland 6 months ago
The majority of kids graduating in the US can't do that in their heads.
Rali Meyer 6 months ago
I often sat in exams having no clue, and ran every possible calculation until the result made sense!
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Scott Rackley 6 months ago
Works similar to isopropyl alcohol at 10% and 90%, except you have to leave the room.
Geoffrey Scott 6 months ago (edited)
Hydrogen Peroxide @ 20%, aka 'cut finder'. (Edit) Worked at a food mfg plant and we used it to sanitize SS pipes. I rolled the sealed barrel on to a pallet in receiving whse delivery. Just the remainder of solution on the top found ANY cuts I had.
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Glix Drap 6 months ago
Your theory is flawed - I am not a physics student and understand this.
Shary Bobbings 6 months ago
Yeah, I'm a biologist and I understand the Doppler effect and the expansion of the universe too
Load More Replies... Andrew Burke 6 months ago (edited)
Guess those cars are manual drive. I'm seeing a blue-shift and a red-shift.
Martje Bakker 6 months ago
Got it, not a physics student but a full time dive instructor. Short wavelengths: blue light, long wavelengths: red light.
Rali Meyer 6 months ago
when you stand at a race track and the approaching car or bike shifts up as it passes you, it sounds like it shifts TWO gears up! Pyla teasing you :-) Look up Doppler
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Corvus 6 months ago
How physicists analyze chickens: "Assume all chickens are perfectly spherical and have no friction..."
Dave Nalesnik 6 months ago
“… and they are standing next to a group of spherical cylindrical penguins, each adorned with a jaunty bejeweled tariff…“
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Cailyn B 6 months ago
I learned it as Newton’s third law, (reaction forces), but I’m also only in high school, so I’d take my knowledge with a grain of salt. 😅Idk what GTA 6 is though lol
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 6 months ago
For my fellow Americans, the Metric unit for weight is the Newton. Also the Imperial unit for mass is the Slug. Remember that last bit. It might win you something at bar trivia.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 6 months ago
AKA "pencil whipping" and it's more common than you might think.
Lee Gilliland 6 months ago (edited)
We called it a SWAG number in the AF. Short for "Sophisticated Wild A*s Guess".
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Luke Branwen 6 months ago
I see pride! I see power! I see a badass motherf.... who doesn't take sh!t from no one!
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michael Chock 6 months ago
The crazy thing is no matter how much they burn, the container is always full.
Shane Van Veghel 6 months ago
until you reach half a tank and then it's gone in 5 mins!
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Susie Elle 6 months ago
Isn't coincidence an actual quantummechanical thing? I'm dumb so I don't know
xolitaire 6 months ago
There are no dumb questions, just nasty Pandas who downvote you for no reason. Fixed it.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 6 months ago
"in a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected. But each bears examination." - Nero Wolfe
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Francois 6 months ago
That's because I need a² = b² + c² - 2bc * cos(phi). The world is not right angled!
Rali Meyer 6 months ago
nice one! How do you calculate solar irradiation on a spot inside a triangle of (NASA) GPS coordinates with given irradiation only on those three locations?
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
Yes, your failure (or refusal) to commit to memory and use things you’ve been taught isn’t your fault and, furthermore, how dare they even ask you to learn things you refuse to commit to memory and use. How very dare they!
Michael Largey 6 months ago
I ran into one of my former math students who told me he used the trigonometry I taught him every day. He is a sniper in the military.
Scott Rackley 6 months ago
I use trig nearly every day. Not that basic b******t. On a funnier note, my dad, an engineer, once was trying to build a dock at a right angle to his shoreline. He used a 4, 5, 6 right triangle. Yup. He hasn't lived it down yet after we had to redig the pilings, and he never will.
Bartlet for world domination 6 months ago
Still one of the few math things I ever use. How tall a ladder do I need to do this?
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The Darkest Timeline 6 months ago
I had a bad experience in algebra, gave myself a complex around math and never made it further than a class called “Algebra II” (something a math colleague once called a “made up” class) so I don’t understand how any of this works but find it interesting nonetheless.
Michael Largey 6 months ago (edited)
After a certain point, math is a talent. The class where you find out whether you have the talent is - yes - Algebra II. (A person without that talent can learn a great deal of math past Algebra II, but it will be due to hard work.)
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Rali Meyer 6 months ago
63% iron content will work well in a Midrex plant
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ttirreg 6 months ago
They also didn't have the quality asphalt and concrete etc
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Kim Kermes 6 months ago
Give today's engineers the budget and a Roman army and see what you get.
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago (edited)
Kim Kermes is right. Modern engineers do a good job with the paltry budget they're given. If you want quality, you've got to pay for it - the ancient Romans knew that. Oh yeah, and they got the territories they invaded to do the paying... 😬 (yes, the legions did the building - but how did they get fed? Right...)
Load More Replies... Jrog 6 months ago
It's a tradeoff. Asphalt make for better weight distribution, much better grip and generally smoother ride. Asphalt (well, bitumen) is also a leftover byproduct of oil processing, so it's widely available and cheap while stones require lots of manufacturing.
arthbach 6 months ago
Who do you think designed and built these ancient roads?! Hint: Engineers!
Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago (edited)
What a lot of people don't know is that Roman legions often did more civil engineering than fighting. If on the march in hostile territory, a legion would normally build a temporary overnight fort each evening - lots of men and lots of shovels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_personal_equipment#Entrenching_tools and https://discover.hubpages.com/education/the-roman-legionary-entrenching-tools and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_engineering#The_Roman_legionary_fortified_camp
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 6 months ago
Those roads haven't lasted for an eternity because eternity is not up yet.
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Tim Fawcett 6 months ago
Also given that none of those tankers appear to have baffles, I don't care how fast they are going as long as I am nowhere near when they try to stop in a hurry or try to turn a corner
OneHappyPuppy 6 months ago
If we add in some philosophy into the equation, we'll see that a moment ago, all trucks were moving with the same speed, let's call it X. Truck B is in this moment still moving with X speed. Truck A is hitting his brakes, hence the liquid pooling at the front, and he's now going at X-1 speed. Truck C is accelerating, hence the pooling of the water in the back, so he's going at X+1 speed and is hence moving with the highest speed in the given moment
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 6 months ago
None should be on the road. Liquid tankers should have baffles.
Rali Meyer 6 months ago
Isn't A braking, B accelerating slowly and C accelerating with almost one g?
Bewitched One 6 months ago
Honestly tho I was thinking B. A suggests a deceleration, c suggests acceleration, b is one moving at a constant speed so it’s likely traveling the fastest currently. A is more when b is slowing down and c was when b was speeding up to current speed but I couldn’t say for sure which is the correct answer
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