Humor helps you remember information far more easily. So when you combine education with entertainment, you create something truly stunning. The ‘Basic Physics’ Facebook group is an extremely popular community that shares witty and relatable science memes.
We’ve compiled a list of the funniest ones to share with you, Pandas, to prove that science doesn’t have to be boring at all. Scroll down for the best memes, as featured on the group, and remember to upvote the ones you liked the most. Bored Panda has reached out to the team running ‘Basic Physics’ on Facebook, and we’ll update the article as soon as we hear back from them.
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The schodinger cat is alive....and very very pissed of so take care .....( lovely kitty btw )
So no more burials in wooden coffins, grind my remains and put them in a flower pot.
Me neither. In fact, it cheers me right up.
Load More Replies...Plants invented animals to deal with the oxygen pollution they were creating.
what if Oxygen was actually poisonous it just took 60-70 years to kill us. Oxygen comes from plants, so does that mean plants are evil?!
It is poisonous if you are an oxidizer trying desperately not to be a more stable compound
Load More Replies...I was at the Florida Natural History Museum this summer and they also have one of these mixed in with the other beetles
Well, it IS a beetle. They can't have a tiny Ringo, because of the "a". Totally different insect, if you use an "a".
Load More Replies...Right, the bugs are entomology and the word origins are etymology!
Load More Replies...At the time of writing, the ‘Basic Physics’ group has a jaw-dropping 2.1 million members. The community has grown by leaps and bounds since it was founded in early October of 2018. The members are very active and in the last month alone, they’ve made 286 new posts.
Meanwhile, the team running ‘Basic Physics’ is fairly large. It’s made up of 7 administrators, as well as 9 moderators. It makes sense to have so many people from all over the world on the team, considering the massive size of the group itself.
If you cook it just right, the skin turns into a lovely quackling too.
Load More Replies...Nawwww ❤️ (peep peep is currently on her own nest now, should have grand babies in the next fortnight )
Not exactly correct: As various mutations spread, the one that spreads the best is the one that limits the host's socialization the least. Making you die is the least successful. Immediately laying you up is still pretty bad. Letting you spread the microbe for a few days and then making you stay home sick works pretty well, but is problematic because it has to avoid triggering the immune system. The most successful virus spreads without ever making people sick.
I’ve always been confused why people say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, because it’s no where near true, unless it didn’t kill you because you killed it
I would suggest that the many survivors of concentration camps, gulags, PTSD, plagues, etc are testament to the fact that what doesn't kill you often makes you weaker.
Load More Replies...hahahahah. i heard one that was: what doesn't kill you, disappoints me
I saw online that most of the authors of these books get very little money for these books as they are artificially overpriced and would rather send you a book or email you a copy for either free or at a much more reasonable price rather than feed an already over stuffed pocket
Most of academia is institutions charging a literal fortune for people who are paid relatively little for creating the product. Scientific journals are even worse, they don't pay the authors, rarely pay the people peer reviewing the papers, and charge out the nose for the information they had practically nothing to do with.
Load More Replies...There was an author in my country, Sofocleto, who wrote mostly comical political books. He realized his books were expensive so changed editorial tona cheaper one and lowered the paper quality, to the point even piracy couldn't match his prices. Note that he recieved the same ammount of money from the good and low quality books. Also, I still have those books, mint condition 25 years after.
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This is perfect! This is the easy way to reverse global warming. Use the pillow method...flip it over to the cool side.
As a flat-earther told me once, that's not possible because "we would all fall from the Earth" :))
Load More Replies...Flat earthers' main logic is that they cannot see the curve of the earth. So as per their logic If Earth is flat, SHOW ME THE EIFFEL TOWER, SHOW ME THE WALL AT THE END OF THE EARTH. SHOW ME KAREN.
But I have been up in an airplane and I COULD see the curve of the earth. Seriously 😳.
Load More Replies...I've always wondered...what is the depth of "the flat earth" ,I believe the Russians (during the cold war) were in competition with the US to drill the deepest hole (look it up, probably the most petty thing two superpowers have ever done)...the Russians got to I think 18miles .. anyway back to my point,how far goes someone drill through until the drill "pops" out the other side and into space? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 flat earthers never seem to go into "depth" about it 😁😁
No! Don't even try, you might hurt one of the elephants
Load More Replies...My uncle was becoming a flat earther before he passed. People who believe this are just beyond stupid.
What is their reasoning for not falling off the edges? Do they think there is a huge ledge surrounding the square?
Yes. Apparently there is an ice wall around the edges of the world
Load More Replies...Simple proof the Earth is round and not flat: If it were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edges by now.
Yes, but you do know the Earth is mostly water and hardly any of that water is carbonated... so, it's flat!
It took me such a long time to realise flat-earthers were actually a thing. I mean that they actually believe that. I thought it was like a weird thing people went around saying for TikTok or something!
These goats are badass. They do not give a flying shiny one about Newton and his laws of gravity. They care only about showing rock climbers what a bunch of sissies they are with their 125kgs of climbing gear. They laugh as they run past them on their way up the mountain. They lie on the top smoking a joint while they wait for them to catch up then they wander back down again.
I saw some mountain goats climbing up a canyon wall and it was one of the most amazing things I ever seen.
Then I’m irrational (yay 2 of my favorite numbers are pi and phi)
I like "Tau, the ratio of the circumference to the radius of a circle, which is equal to 2π" Wiki.
Load More Replies...Yes, after first 3 but it's implied.
Load More Replies...One of the lesser symptoms of my ocd is that I have to set things to prime numbers... Car climate control is set to 17°C when it's really hot, 19°C most times, or 23°C in the winter
My son has this as his mobile password. I can't remember simple 6 digit and he has 14 digits.
In High School, my brother and I memorized Pi to the first zero 32 places away. Something to do when you are nerds, I guess. Haven't forgotten it!
However, not all posts have to be super serious and focused just on physics. General memes about science and math are welcome, too.
According to the administrators and moderators, as the community continues to expand, it’s important, more now than ever before, to create a welcoming environment while also staying true to the group’s original vision.
Poor tree, I bet it dreams of living in a forest somewhere.
We are feline. We are power. We are gravity.
Load More Replies...They did that here with two old-school telephone books. Woven it together by folding the pages into each other, like two decks of cards. Attached rings and chains in the backs and the pulling began. Humans could not do it. Towtrucks could not do it either - the chains broke in the end.
Load More Replies...One of the teachers in my school had two trashcans stuck together like that. Rumor has it that whomever can separate them inherits the role of union president.
it’s like they make them out of gecko toes, which btw molecularly bond with surfaces to give them a solid grip
Geckos toes have thousands of tiny hair like things on them which is what allows them to cling to surfaces, to maximise surface contact and they also grip into the tiny cracks etc that can even be present on glass surfaces. No molecular bonding occurs.
Load More Replies...I have many buckets and simply spray a wee bit of lubricant on the outside of each, and stack 'em high, with no worry that it is a stuck stack.
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It's true. We have no reason to suppose a dilophosaurus would spit poison at Newman, or have a colorful neck frill. But that was put into Jurassic Park because we have little reason to suppose that they did NOT.
Downvote. Except for the shape of the ears and probably it's mouth, the scientific reconstruction of a bunny would very much look like a bunny. I saw that meme in a few variations and it makes me angry, because it's not the 1930s anymore! Modern reconstructions are based on the knowledge of modern animals and are very accurate. Sadly a lot of older or purely artistic reconstructions still make it into textbooks and trick people into thinking Paleontologists don't know what they are doing
Shaved bunny wouldn't look that different. Don't shave your bunny! Oh dear I shouldn't have said that should I
Load More Replies...That's what science is all about, it is ever evolving and changing, the best scientists have very flexible minds, u have to, things can change very quickly and what u were so sure about today can be tossed out the window tomorrow . . . Hypothesis - theory - Law
Hypothesis to theory, yes, but a law isn't above a theory. A law just describes one specific mechanic, whereas a theory is an overarching rationale for why those laws work. So Newton's law of gravity works (to the extent that it does) because it reflects a mechanism that is explained by the general theory of relativity. Outside of pure mathematics, a theory is the best-supported of scientific thinking.
Load More Replies...Yessss, although Terran is right, the bunny still deserves an upvote
Load More Replies...And then there are my house plants. 'oh you are going out for a day, I guess I will die.'
I neglect mine just enough to make them live just to spite me
Load More Replies...Plants in my garden die in random order just to undermine my self-esteem.
I really like flat earthers because they are a group that is completely socially acceptable to make fun of. (In a kind, big-hearted way, of course…)
At least until they bring god into the argument. Then I get angry.
Load More Replies...It should be shown as it is... held up by 4 elephants on the back of a turtle (Color of Magic)
This. I cannot understand flat earth theory because if the sunset. If the earth wss flat, and the sun goes underneath ( at night ) , then everyone would have same sunset time. You cant have nighttime in NY and daytime in Australia.
It’s night on the bottom side. Not that I believe the earth is flat.
Has anyone, anyone I ask you, ever dangled their feet off the edge? If Earth WERE flat, wouldn’t the edge be a huge tourist attraction?
Why can't you argue with Flat Earthers? Because the ball is always in your court.
Sir Terry explained all of this, but I don't think he ever meant us to think it was happening here
The ‘Basic Physics’ admins and mods also want every member to feel safe. “Bullying of any kind is not allowed and any derogatory comments related to things like race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, gender, or identity will not be tolerated,” they explain that there’s no tolerance for intolerance.
I really didn't understand the importance or fungi until I watched one of the new Magic Schoolbus episodes on Netflix and then they went into depth about how fungi connects the forest and helps the trees communicate whether theirs a browser coming in and eating the leaves so they begin to produce more tannin or if they need more nutrients. It was a fascinating episode.
There are some trees that have lived with fungi for so long that neither can live without the other. :)
Load More Replies...They were when I was in school. Two kingdoms, plants and animals. And where the fluff do we put chlamydomonas
Load More Replies...Help out a non English native. I know what "squared" means in mathematical terms but what is the second meaning in relation to meal?
3 squared meals a day is just a saying for eating 3 good sized healthy meals a day :)
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I’ve always wanted one of these things, they’re entertaining to me
My physics teacher in HS did this with bowling balls strung from the ceiling. Not sure how long it took him to collect 8x of equal(ish) mass but dang was he into his demonstrations!
I have a really chill physics teacher this year in school so I took a screenshot of this comment to send to her, maybe we will get some swinging bowling balls this year!
Load More Replies...What about the third segment representing the crumbs? Neither eaten, nor to be eaten.
After you eat the pie, you smoosh your fork in the crumbs so they stick in the tines. When you've gotten a good batch, eat them, take a sip of coffee, and repeat as necessary.
Load More Replies...There should be a thin sliver labelled "pie I intend to share with others"
It bothers me that this not a perfect 2/3 cuz I stared at the knife lines in the pan too long. :(
I’m going to power all of north america
Load More Replies...Though it’s impossible to predict what memes will go viral, some posts tend to do better than others on social media. One key aspect of a quality meme will be its relatability.
The more your chosen audience can resonate with your posts, the more likely people are to engage with them and then share them with their own friends and followers. Throw in a bunch of humor and you create an even more powerful concoction.
oh. my. lord. they've peaked. they are the ruler of the world. everyone bows to them now. the world has peaked.
Load More Replies...I CAN DO THIS! I realized nobody else could when I was writing the answer of my math homework and my math tutor just stared at me flabbergasted for a second
No, you can only do this is you are the chosen one. This talent is unattainable for us mortals.
Load More Replies...Just set your keyboard for Courier. (And it’s free!)
Load More Replies...So just pondering here. Since ∞ is uncountable, does that not mean that ∞+∞=∞+1, as there is no way to count beyond infinity anyway? And by elimination, would that not mean ∞=1? Also probably I need sleep.
No, because as you said, it's not countable, so the +1 doesn't make sense.
Load More Replies...I mean, you're not wrong, it IS the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything....😁
Load More Replies...0 + 0 = 0 and ∞ + ∞ = ∞ This is my answer and I refuse to accept anything else.
Thank you. I was wondering what that sign was.
Load More Replies...I am 100 percent that person that will yell infinity is not a number across the room, mainly because I got it wrong for so long
No! It's H2O H2O H2O or you will end up with a floor of helium
Load More Replies...On the flip side, if your memes are very niche or overly complicated, they might not get a lot of attention. Of course, you should definitely keep in mind that there’s definitely nothing wrong with making and sharing niche memes. If you enjoy doing that as a content creator, then more power to you!
But you shouldn’t expect overnight internet fame if you focus on jokes that are about a small subsection of a more general branch of physics. Then again, internet popularity sometimes comes when someone least expects it…
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Load More Replies...Then you move on to the next question, don't get stuck on the on you don't know!
Merely a flesh wound! Think of it as a good warmup for the ones you do know.
I was not prepared for college calculus. And especially not because the professor teaching the class also wrote the book we were to use. And at the bottom of the first (1st!) page, which was fairly intelligible, it said, and therefore (turn page), Numeric and symbolic GOBBLEDEGOOK. And when you asked him how that worked, he said "It's very clear. Read the book. Calculated that I was not going to be an architect. Joined the Navy 8 months later.
On top of that, making your memes ‘evergreen’ can give them a longer shelf life than if they were entirely based on recent news. General memes about science or what it’s like to be a researcher can remain relevant for years and potentially even decades to come than posts that require a lot of additional context to get.
To neutralize 0.8 mL of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) at STP, you'd need about 0.8 moles of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) based on the balanced chemical equation: H2SO4 + 2NaHCO3 → Na2SO4 + 2H2O + 2CO2 Each mole of H2SO4 requires 2 moles of NaHCO3. So, 0.8 mL of H2SO4 is approximately equivalent to 0.8 moles when considering the negligible volume at STP.
Load More Replies...That question can’t be answered because there’s not enough info
Just ask AI lol: To neutralize 0.8 mL of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) at STP, you'd need about 0.8 moles of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) based on the balanced chemical equation: H2SO4 + 2NaHCO3 → Na2SO4 + 2H2O + 2CO2 Each mole of H2SO4 requires 2 moles of NaHCO3. So, 0.8 mL of H2SO4 is approximately equivalent to 0.8 moles when considering the negligible volume at STP.
Load More Replies...I dont understand this, so based on my understandig of sosiaty, im guessing he is asking how to dissolve a body Please correct me if im wrong
Probably not wrong, but the better way is to cut the body in half and put one half in sulfuric acid and the other in lye. When the halves are suitably dissolved you mix the lye and the acid and they make saltwater. Then you add a bunch of onions, carrots and celery, and serve in a bowl, over noodles.
Load More Replies...the fact that i can answer this question but refuse to to even bother to try🤦♀️😬
Do you know the way back when ‘ pink’ was actually green? But eventually became the color pink as we know it today. Go figure.
Well... huh. I'm going to need a chemistry lesson. What is a mole and how does it differ from a molecule? Does this need to be exact? Are we measuring using pH scale? What is STP? Please define. If we're using pH that would imply the sodium bicarbonate is alkaline, yes? I never took chemistry so I would probably need instructions and/or assistance to do the experiment/ math required. If course now in curious. How many moles?
I... shouldn't understand this, but I do... rip my innocence
Load More Replies...I'm in my mid 40s and am not yet mature enough to read it without laughing. Let me know when that's supposed to happen.
Did u hear about the guy in the ER with 10 toy horses in his r****m? Doctors listed his condition as stable.
Your-ruh-ness, more or less, for me. I did a Google cuz why not, that pronunciation is the official one and likely closer to that of the Roman God, but your-ay-ness was the official pronunciation of the planet up until 1950 or so. The moon Charon is similar, it has a different pronunciation based on if you are referring to the mythic character or moon
Load More Replies...I love this when it was first posted the girl that got the tattoo said that for every country she visits she gets the country filled in on her back, I wonder how many she's gone to since posting this photo. Also, I'll just stick to a good old map and push pins.
So, dear Pandas, which of these science memes did you like the most? Were there any that made you chuckle harder than you’d care to admit? Were there any posts that you didn’t quite get because they needed more knowledge in physics? We’d love to hear your thoughts, so when you’re done enjoying our post, be sure to drop by the comment section to share your opinions!
Except that she didn't right this lyric. A professional lyricist did. And second, it's a song lyric. What's next? You're gonna tell me I should listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit because A mosquito/my libido isn't a proper comparison?
Load More Replies...Reflect iridescently like a latticed carbon structure? That ain't breaking no charts bro!
Folks, they married after he was a widower and she was past menopause. They knew what they were doing.
My parents are first cousins. My father paid a priest (after they tried several places). My two late grandmothers were sisters. One of my father's sisters married her 3rd cousin. Later on, one of my brothers went out with one of my aunt's daughters (2nd cousins). I'm pretty sure it's only the Roman Catholics who have a problem with this. Let me know if I'm wrong.
Americans are the only people I know who have a problem with it
Load More Replies...is this why in the US you guys get blood tests to prevent inter family marriage (genuine question 😒) ....it's not something thay occurs in the UK (outside the royal family 😉👍)I've always wondered about the practice
I didn’t know so I googled it and found this: Laws requiring blood tests were enacted to prevent persons with venereal and other sexually transmitted diseases from obtaining a marriage license and passing the disease to a spouse or children of the marriage.
Load More Replies...And he claimed to have discovered Relativity...nice moustache, though.
This would be pointless fir me if my tea isn't burning my throat on the way down what's the point
Downvotes are not karma! On BP, downvotes are equivalents of voting to ban temporarily from commenting, often for no good reason. Stop downvoting so frequently!
well, the tea wouldn’t be in there long enough to cool down at all, just wait instead
Would be concerned about the straw melting... unless it isn't plastic?
Wait...thermodynamics is just running hot stuff through cold stuff to cool it down?
Some days I feel like I could be a meme for Schrödinger’s Sanity… Broken? Unbroken?
In all seriousness, this post finally made me understand Schrödinger's cat.
I literally just googled it for the twentieth time & still didn't get it until I saw this
Load More Replies...Schrodinger simply demonstrated that in any one instant, two opposing states could exist. The next instant they either could exist, not exist, or the door would be kept shut.
Better - line a laundry basket with several soft bath towels. Hold it right up under the cabinet, then open the door slowly. Dishes have less distance to drop.
Load More Replies...On display? No. Those are the posh China dishes we get out to look fancy when guests are over. Second that door opens there’s going to be a massive crash
Load More Replies...Not the same, but back in the early 90s, I did a research paper on BSE (Mad Cow Disease). I got an A and didn't think much of it... I saw my professor at my job several months later. She said she didn't eat beef for three months after reading my paper.
When I was studying medical terminology, a nice nurse that saw me studying asked how I found it, I told her I was really enjoying finding out how incredible the body is at keeping us going despite all the seemingly infinite things that can eff you up. She introduced me to prion diseases. Utterly terrifying, utterly fascinating. Fatal Familial Insomnia, talk about a terrible genetic lottery outcome! I'm right at the age bracket it usually starts showing at and I and many other family members have trouble sleeping anyway so that one really hits all the "new fear unlocked" checkboxes! And then there's kuru, and the very localized variant bestowing at least partial immunity - and the chance that a cure for Alzheimer's could find its roots in cannibalism! Like I said, scary af, interesting af.
Load More Replies...I can't take public transit. The smells of perfume, cologne, coffee, body odours. The bodies pressed against each other and touching surfaces touched by thousands of others. Bleck.
Not quite the same but I only ate meat from a local farm after reading The Jungle. Between that and the Grapes or Wrath my heart was torn up for a year! That they put bleach in milk and sawdust in sausages and bread to feed to the laborers...
i did a report on the jungle and i seriously considered becoming vegetarian for a while
Load More Replies...And then you realise that bacteria are everywhere all the time but our bodies are used to it have have pretty good defences provided you do the basics (washing hands, cooking chicken etc).
Some fascinating "history" about Kuru - a prion-associated neurodegenerative disease that first appeared in Papua-New Guinea in the late 1700's. The locals were cannibals, who ceremoniallyl ate their dead relatives' brains. There was some discussion on how this got started, and the best theory was that they ate a missiionary who was infected with Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (closely related). Presumably, they boiled him up in a pot. But he was a friar.
my astronomy teacher who also teaches physics has a Canadian flag in his room. He's not from Canada, it's just there as a lesson about making assumptions.
Load More Replies...This was my physics teacher. They didn't offer calculus at my HS so our 2nd year physics teacher had to teach us that real quick midway through the year so we could do the second half of the syllabus
What do you mean they didn't offer calculus? Isn't it mandatory? That was one of my favorite courses in math BTW.
Load More Replies...I hate maths but my physics teacher is cool so I like physics
Yeah , I know it shouldn't matter, but it bloody well does
Load More Replies...Hard core physics is exactly this. It's all proofs which are proving equations by using other equations.
So true. I really liked high-school physics until it turned into just another maths subject.
Oof, I have Dyscalculia, and this hit me right in the feels.
Ok but once it clicks math can actually be really fun in the right circumstances
The only reason why I can't do physics or chemistry for that matter TwT
Math, the reason I switched my major from computer science to leadership
Math describes how then world works.and makes it easier to make good decisions. That would be a good skill for a leader.
Load More Replies...Yet it feels great when it turns out you had the right answer all along and everyone else was just fighting over wrong answers
When all the smart kids are dueling each other to their deaths about if the answer was 43.7 or 45.9 but your answer was Bulgaria
Load More Replies...When I was giving a multiple choice test once I put "#19 c" on the board. Suspecting a trap, no one chose "c", which was in fact the correct answer. Lots of people followed the procedure to get the answer at "c", then talked themselves out of it.
i had that case at a graph theory test, and literally everyone were wrong, except me
Ha! I think this one’s a typo. It was Schrödinger who had the cat. 😎😎😎 ETA: You guys are great! Thanks for not down voting me!
Didn't Newton make the first cat flap? Or was it another famous science guy? I forgot
The really interesting question is: if the apple and the cat fell out of the tree at the same instant, would they hit the ground at the same time?
Molecules share them. Quite friendly. It's the ions that are so mean.
Bonding makes a lot more sense when you study it as wave interference between two electron orbitals as standing waves. The electron particle is just the center point of the resulting amplitude from the constructive interference. That probably sound like a mouthful, but it makes a lot of sense with some simple drawings of wave interference, and demonstrates why the particle is most often found at the location directly between the two nuclei. The Neils-Bohr model of billiard balls really needs to go. It's just confusing people at this point.
So basically when you have more than one cat they become atoms that steal each other's fluffy mice. This is also valid with siblings and pretty much anything at any given point.
*mixes water-explosive with poison gas… gets high blood pressure*
Also essential for surviving, a lack of salt can lead to heart deseases and nerve damage
Shrek has explosive gas going on by the looks of his face!
"They're like those two toxic friends you have who get married and all of a sudden they don't want to be crazy, they just want to be delicious!"- Steve Green
I once answered "maybe" on all the true and false questions. I got half credit for all and told to never do that again
Me: gifted kid derailed at 13yo by untreated ADHD that wasn't diagnosed until I was 50. (When I was 13, it was still believed that girls didn't get ADHD.)
Load More Replies...I wish I could see all my teachers face who said you would never walk around with a calculator in your pocket all the time
Most of what i learned then is a lie now XD: only use curisve for my name, use a calculator for most/all math, Columbus didn't discover America
Load More Replies...I'm so old I can do math without a calculator and read a watch face that has hands instead of a display and even dial a rotary-dial telephone.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the electricity was created by a Thorium reactor?
BTW did you know that a priest wearing nuns' clothing is called a Transister?
Did anyone else ever have the suspicion that "potential energy", like phlogiston and dark matter, is something physicists made up to get their theories to work?
I memorized it a few years back, mostly to get a different Tom Lehrer song out of my head. Every so often I run through it just to make sure I still can.
Load More Replies...S**t how bad is it I understood this and actually did math and got silver
I like the idea of putting the periodic table on the building but I can't see why one would identify an element by it's electron shells? And why would one even bother with the deeper shells--if anything in a deeper shell is ripped off you're at an energy state that makes chemistry not very relevant.
Doesn't seem likely... Camera was probably overly large relative to her body due to perspective.
And here I thought they were using some weird domino as a measure.
Load More Replies...her legs are about 1 foot (12 inches/30 cm) ahead of the furniture, that makes the lower body length as sqrt(73^2 + 30^2) = 78.9 cm. the fact that we place the phone roughly 20 cms in front of our face, the upper body length comes to (3/2)*4*14.6 cm = 87.6. reducing 2 inches of heels, total height comes to 161.5 cm.
Even though I love the way you did the maths here you are definitely not looking at a woman who is just over 5’4”. The left leg which is straight is only around 4” in front of the cabinet. You need to take off 3 inches for the wedge heels. The phone is way less than 20cm from her face. She is under 5’ tall.
Load More Replies...I'm curious if they accounted for the fact that she is not standing up straight and is leaning back
If you consider the angle of the elbow of the arm she is holding the phone with which makes it only slightly larger than the original person calculated, add in the leaning position and the average height of a cupboard and completely ignore the fact that she’s wearing her dad’s trousers she is around 4ft 10.5”.
She would have to had to be standing Straight up for this to work. Plus as "The Original Bruno" said, the camera angle would distort her height too.
Joking that pictures of space from NASA are all fake and actually just pictures of marble or granite worktops etc
Load More Replies...Every triangle is a love triangle if u love triangles
The Pythagorean Theorem is not really involved here. Any side of a triangle is shorter than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides. whether it's a right triangle or not.
Wait, hydrogen bonds aren't that weak. They're strong enough to hold our fleshy human bodies together.
I would call this more “offering a sacrifice” rather than praying.
Nope.. those are the offering... your brain is the sacrifice..
Load More Replies...At my work we have/had a Newton's apple tree. When things got too much, I would sit under that and watch the caterpillars destroying the apples.
There were times I was this desperate but the thought of getting yelled at motivated me
Awwwww I’m gonna send this to my gf edit: spelling
I'll pay that. I can personally attest that differential geometry and modern algebra are not fun.
Load More Replies...With my experience, the answer is probably somewhere like 90
Load More Replies...🤣 so this is the reason why I can't teach myself a bit of basic Greek bc I just can't read anything beyond the mathematic use. 🙈 I just ask my patients to tell me what something means and write it down phonetically 🤣😇 fe calimera 😅
Load More Replies...What’s that sign? Never seen it. Looks Japanese but somehow I doubt that’s it
It's what's left of the x when you subtract y :). It's the artistic answer instead of mathematical
Load More Replies...Take away Fe (iron), br (bromine), ar (argon), and y (yttrium) because they're silent, you're left with U (uranium). I love u!
Load More Replies...If only. At least the way it used to work, the first author is usually the most senior. Pretty much just oversees everyone else.
One author really does all the work. Whether they get credit is up to the faculty. An annoying trend these days is to make the list of authors longer than than the substance of the article, and list authors in alphabetical order. It's still the case that only one of those authors has done the actual work. I'm thinking of changing my name to Ann Aardvark.
Load More Replies...It means "and others", so if a book said "The Blue Spirit et al." it would mean me and a bunch of other people whose names I didn't want to write out
Load More Replies..."wow I wonder if the teacher will belive this answer I just completely bull shitted"
No. Try it algebraically. a÷b(c+d)=a÷(bc+bd); a=6, b=2, c=1, d=2; 6÷(2+4)=1.
Load More Replies...Ok guys. It’s the brackets first so 1+2=3, so the equation is now 6 divided by 2, than since there isn’t anything between the 2 and the brackets it turns in a multiplication, so it’s 6➗2 x 3. Then you go left to right so 3 x 3 =9. Using pedmas the answer is 9.
No, it isn't. You multiply before dividing with PEMDAS. It's "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally", not "Please Excuse Dear Mad Aunt Sally"
Load More Replies...The real funny thing is that the meme is precisely mocking people rushing to give their answer and then arguing about the result, even though it has no interest at all. And what are people doing in the comments? Rushing to give their answer, arguing about the result and downvoting anyone who thinks differently. LoL. Do you really not get that this is an AMBIGUOUS equation? Both answers are right and wrong, none is better than the other. You’re making a fool of yourselves.
Professional mathematician here. Using the wrong method to simplify an expression does not make the expression ambiguous. Using the right method incorrectly doesn't either. It is not a matter of thinking differently. A mathematical expression like this can have only one correct value because there is only one correct way of computing it. There are established rules for applying division, multiplication, addition, and grouping symbols and the order in which they should be applied. If you depart from correct procedure, you get an incorrect answer, not an ambiguity. By the way, even if you were correct, your last sentence is inappropriate
Load More Replies...Had my physics exam last week and forgot all of Newton’s laws so I invented my own
lmao my friend took a World History exam and told me he made up some Vietnamese history to answer a question.
Load More Replies...All you need to do is shoot straight down the barrel, and it'll jam it up. There physics, that'll teach you!
If I study I will forget whatever I studied once the test starts, no matter how long I studied for
Doesn't this only work if fail= no fail. The assumption that it does is the only reason this works. And you can't assume that bc as people we put more value in no fail which makes it not equal to fail
Wow I guess that when I forget tests that's why I don't fail
Same here. My teacher is very insistent on making sure you don’t forget the unit. There was this one time we were calculating relative density which doesn’t have a unit and she forgot about it and got a bit mad at the student who told the answer
Load More Replies...IT'S L! FROM DEATH NOTE! MY FAVORITE CHARACTER! I'M NOT SCREAMING, YOU'RE SCREAMING!
My chemistry teacher always said, "What? Gas usage of ladybugs in reverse flight?“
Not so wild as it seems. Basically he just divided both sides by 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10x11, or found that 12! = 11! x 12, slightly obscuring what he did by representing using 3x4 instead of 12.
If we're going to confuse words that sound like "avacado," I'm going to call my Mexican lawyer!
Am downloading bevause of wrong template. ( has nothing to do with the WOOSH im having)
I'm so tired I read that and it made complete sense then I realized it's backwards lol
Load More Replies...I normally use capital V for volume or Volts, and since you never use them in the same equation it's unambiguous.
There's a better version of this. V also means potential energy. And you can use velocity, volume and potential energy all in the same equation.
Equating potential energy to kinetic energy. V = rho * V * v^2. Potential energy is density times volume times the square of the velocity.
Load More Replies...I'm into more advanced mathematics than that. You mean lim x-> infinity e^ix to me. Don't understand? Look up Grandi's series.
I laughed and laughed :) . Best topic I've seen in a long time on BP. More of these, please!
I guess the headline for this meme article is "80 memes" but only 50 real ones is the final joke.
At the end of the list there's a link to the full 80. It's itty bitty so you kinda have to look for it.
Load More Replies...Then ther were those commenters that had absolutely no sense of humor and didn't get it was a joke.
I LOVED EVERY ONE!!!! and did not even resent being unable to stop . . .
I laughed and laughed :) . Best topic I've seen in a long time on BP. More of these, please!
I guess the headline for this meme article is "80 memes" but only 50 real ones is the final joke.
At the end of the list there's a link to the full 80. It's itty bitty so you kinda have to look for it.
Load More Replies...Then ther were those commenters that had absolutely no sense of humor and didn't get it was a joke.
I LOVED EVERY ONE!!!! and did not even resent being unable to stop . . .
