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I’ll put it bluntly—without science, life would be extremely boring. At least for me. There’s hardly anything that can compare to the rush of joy and the butterflies fluttering in your stomach when you stumble across a piece of news about some huge scientific advancements.
From new medicines that will greatly improve the quality of our lives to leaps in tech that are making regular space travel and the colonization of other planets merely questions of ‘when,’ not ‘if.’ And don’t even get me started on quantum physics which is so close to magic, I’m glancing out the window, waiting for my invitation to study at Hogwarts.
I’m not the only one in love with science, though! Frankly, I’m glad that’s the case because when it comes to science and learning—the more, the merrier. There are plenty of online communities that mix science with humor and one of them is the ‘Science Memes’ subreddit that’s dedicated to sharing and creating memes about science.
Check out the very best science memes that Bored Panda has collected from all over the web, including about r/sciencememes, and upvote the geekiest and funniest ones.
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Allan Breum 4 years ago
To be fair, that is only a problem in undeveloped countries like Iran, Bhutan and the U.S. :D
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Yep. Tell me about it, pal. "Yeah, but did you DO anything?" Well, we got into a medical textbook in one instance, and in another, were going to construct a program that would track child abusers who hopped from one hospital care system to another so they'd be *caught* and the children safer, but no, we didn't "do" anything. (FYI: Program scrapped after a certain US election in 2016.)
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Who gets a bachelor's and a PhD in six years? The PhD alone usually takes six, and a BS/BA four. Plus a lot of people get a master's in between, so that's another two years down.
Hutt'nKloas 4 years ago
@ Evil Little Thing: That really depends on where you live and perform your PhD. Also in what discipline you want to obtain a PhD matters. Here in the Netherlands is a standard 4 years which can be extended for a short while. If I'm not mistaken in Germany it's 3 years. I've seen/know quite a few that managed well to rise from Bsc to PhD within 6 years.
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Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
Well, if your field is animal excrement, maybe the guy’s got a point.
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
He probably didn't understand it and it was easier to just throw it aside with a dirty expletive!
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Marky Mark 4 years ago
As an engineer I find this comment to be.... I mean its.... wait, let me start over.....
𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
FYI not saying I am intelligent! I struggle with this. All the knowledge about something is in my head, it can make perfect sense to me and I understand it. But am incapable sometimes of getting the words out of my head and into coherent sentences, so I end up looking like someone who hasn’t got a clue what they are talking about and just mumble out some rubbish 🤪
Dynein 4 years ago
Well, properly explaining things is a craft of its own, especially if the thing you want to explain requires a lot of prior knowledge and the common explanation involve a lot of specialized vocabulary. Replacing the vocabulary on your feet and mentioning all the necessary prior knowledge but nothing more to keep the confusion down is HARD. I like to explain complicated things in my head but that is the work of days of intensive thinking, I couldn't do it on the spot.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
That's why not everyone is capable of teaching... passing knowledge is not something you automatically have just because you have the knowledge!
Philly Bob Squires 4 years ago
My father worked for NASA... could launch a rocket but couldn't figure out how to stop a VCR from blinking 12:00! LOL
Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
We play classroom jeapordy. Nobody listens to me saying the right answer, it happens to be the one I thought of, and nobody still doesn’t listen to me. I’m also very shy and horrible at explaining why I’m correct.
#3
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
The reply though! They played along with the joke perfectly!
You don’t have to have a degree in biology, chemistry, physics, etc. to be a science geek. Similarly, just because you have a degree in science doesn’t automatically mean that this is it, there’s no turning back, you’ll have to work as a scientist until the end of your days.
Loving science is more about the curiosity inherent in human beings than choosing from a narrow list of undergraduate degrees. If you’ve got the spark to learn new things, test out your theories, and a willingness to be open-minded and proven wrong, then in my eyes, you’re a scientist. Degree or no degree!
#4
Robert T 4 years ago
All we are is dust in the wind (Bill S Preston Esq.)
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Marcia Cash 4 years ago
"Physics tells you What, Where, When and How. For Why you need metaphysics, go ask a priest." ~ my high school science teacher
Sharon Vaughn 4 years ago
Unknown unknowns: There's the unknowns we know we don't know, and then there's the unknowns we DON'T know we don't know. -- Donald Rumsfeld
#5
Sorican 4 years ago
I would have been too busy nerd-raging about how ridiculous a two-sided lightsaber would be. Like all Quigon had to do, in the first fight, was turn on the second blade(force poke that switch,) and Maul would have Mauled himself.
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denzoren 4 years ago
Too bad he was left with only half of his cross-sectional area. Too soon?
Maple Chan 4 years ago
good way to visual this :D But problem: It's not which is which- the problem lies: Which episode was this from? Wait- what was the question?
Andrea Marcus 4 years ago
Radius I looked it up pretty simple with diagram of a circle with a centre and from Center to perimeter is radius from perimeter to other perimeter in straight line through Center that’s diameter would have been nice if Luke had a circle
#6
ベンジーBenji 4 years ago
I would say the same for dead bodies.. that's too many...
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And her daughter got one. And she had one in two fields ---- physics for one, chemistry the other. :-)
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Daughter Irene won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935...Marie Curie won Physics [1903] & Chemistry [1911]. 2 women excelled in STEM 100+ years ago yet guys still won't pay women equally. Marie had 2 kids: Hélène is a nuclear physicist [she's 93]; Pierre is a biologist & researcher for French Nat'l Ctr for Scientific Research [he's 89]. Wonder if their kids excelled?
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Earlier, I actually had a chat about the wide gap between what people majored in and what career path they chose with voice actor André White, who has worked with the History Channel and The Smithsonian, among others.
According to him, we don’t have everything figured out by the time that we graduate from college. Instead, we should embrace that uncertainty and use our 20s to try new things and discover new passions.
“If you are 18 and you feel lost and not sure of what your next move should be, GOOD. No one should have it all figured out at that age. And the same goes for a 25-year-old or a 35-year-old. Don't feel like you HAVE to do what society tells you to,” André told Bored Panda in an earlier interview that we should learn to think and decide for ourselves. In short, we have to be bolder, more courageous.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Neil deGrassi Tyson does great docos. The David Attenborough of space (astrophysics).
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Aside from the controversy, if anyone deserves the title of David Attenborough of space then I'd vote for Carl Sagan, I think he had a similar vibe about him.
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Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
I'm sure there is spore where that joke came from
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Dynein 4 years ago
Eh... not quite. They are indeed undeservedly overlooked, but they aren't the foundation. Fungi are by and large the decomposers in the ecological cycle and thus definitely necessary for its completion, but still that requires other organisms to *compose* the organic molecules. They need plants, like us. And we need them (try living without anything produced with the aid of yeast. That includes several modern mass-produced medications, by the way, like insulin). But they aren't the foundation.
Zedrapazia 4 years ago
In fact, a lot of plants live in symbiosis with fungi and couldn't live without them. This counts for a bunch of animals too. Therefore, fungi is the foundation of everything.
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Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
Yea, but it's so tiny that it's difficult to keep in the front of your mind.
Purbasha Banai 3 years ago
Fungi being the reason my kitty died so no wonder why I f*****g hate you fun-guy
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Krazy Onion (KJ) 4 years ago
Harry Potter and the Moment You Realize You Can Do This With Basically Anything.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Harry Potter and the 50 Of The Most Clever Science Memes That Perfectly Blend Humor With Knowledge
“Go to a community college, go to an HBCU, start a business, find your passion because your passion is what's going to make those tough days a little less tough. What makes you smile ear to ear? Do that! Life is way too short to look back in 30 years and regret anything," André said.
“People feel like a college degree is how you get respect. College is still being pushed as a safety net when in reality going to a trade school, community college, or pursuing the path of an entrepreneur can be just as rewarding. I wish that we would teach our kids that there are so many other options and that if college is what they want to do, then fine but don't ever box yourself in."
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Dynein 4 years ago (edited)
Still waiting for algae to be used for the production of renewable fuels. Forget electric cars, I want old-fashioned only slightly adjusted cars that run on bio-fuels made from microscopic algae!
Dynein 4 years ago
Addendum: Benefits: 1) No need to reinvent the wheel, er, car, as current cars can already run on ethanol and some types of vegetable oil, if not as efficiently - no need to scrap current functional cars, 2) keeps the benefits of current cars (range till refueling is necessary, speed of refueling) with barely no further research needed, 3) avoids the problems with electric cars, such as the little-controllable fires and the use of rare earths, 4) no need to overhaul the infrastructure and rebuilt petrol stations, just change the type of petrol, 5) algae should be possible to be farmed more space- and water-efficiently than e.g. corn; e.g. with tanks on walls and roofs, in the middle of towns - land freed up for food production and wild nature. I see no downsides, except that electric cars were marketed better...
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Night Owl 4 years ago
I think it's less. Everyone always forgets seagrass
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clive apps 4 years ago (edited)
Unfortunately the change in sea water temps has pushed the oxygen producing algae out in some places and allowed the methane and cyanide compound algae to take over. Not the sort of situation that promotes a healthy air or water supply.
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denzoren 4 years ago
I remember the first time as a kid when I heard someone on the news (US) say that it was 90 degrees and I was so scared like....they're all gonna die! Eventually I realized in the tropics I was constantly in 90 degree weather lol
Bob Belcher 4 years ago (edited)
I live in Houston, TX. Our normal summer is about 90F with 80 percent humidity. At times you can literally feel the air weigh you down because it's just so humid and dense.
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Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
Celsius: 0 (water at sea level is starting to freeze) -> 100 (water at sea level is boiling)
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
We got half way there this week in western Canada (47c) yesterday
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 4 years ago
For reference, it was 46c here in Arizona yesterday
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But whatever path you find yourself on, remember that a lot of us have one thing in common—our love of memes. So keep your inner scientist alive and fed with some educational memes, no matter what degree you have and what your current job is.
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Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
I was supposed to memorize it in HS, but I figured out that failing the class wouldn't prevent me from graduating. Problem solved.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
We were also asked to memorise ir. The teacher would randonmy ask "column 4" and you needed to say them. Ridiculous.
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Yvette Desmarais 4 years ago
I dunno. My 5th grade science teacher said we didn't have to know everything but know how to find the information. And this was way before the internet.
John Baker 4 years ago
The problem now is that 99% of the "information" on the internet is bullshit.
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Pan Narrans 4 years ago
I'm a chemist and get to measure a lot of different elements every day. Do you think I know them? With every machine we buy there's a big poster of the periodic table for free. I have mousepads with the periodic table on it. Every piece of software has the periodic table in it. That's logical. Why should I know the first ionisation potential of copper? Or the natural abundance of the isotopes of uranium?
Sorican 4 years ago
wikipedia has a nice, clickable table that takes you to the specific elements page. Not that I'd trust everything on that page.
Load More Replies... Mere Cat 4 years ago (edited)
I am surprised by how many had to memorize this. In all of my chemistry classes, we were supposed to learn how the table works and which columns are which and how they differ from each other etc. But not memorize the thing, we were given the full table to look at in exams/quizzes. Focus on actual learning instead of just memorizing.
grotesqueer 2 years ago
Let me guess: American education system? 🙄This is so stupid! I didn't even know this would be a thing. The whole point is to learn to *understand* and *use* the periodic table!
Lucas Angerer 3 years ago
I memorized it even though I don’t have to. Cool way to show off to your friends.
Kristin Heffner 4 years ago
I believe it was Einstein that said don't memorize what you can look up
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Otter 4 years ago
Raise your hand if you know what molecule that looks like! [Keeps my own hands down]
Charlotte A. 4 years ago
Probably "Spiny Black Olive" according to Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chemistree-olive-tree/
Load More Replies... Allan Breum 4 years ago
I'm not sure what compound that shape would be, but it looks toxic somehow...
Fidgets McGee 4 years ago
Referencing Allan Breum: yes. Lactose. exactly. (Damn intolerances)
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago (edited)
My mom don't need a major in physics. She brings ALL the wrong stuff in the films up. Gravity, explosions, "This guy should be dead after that". SOOO FRUSTRATING!!!!
Aarna Saxena 4 years ago
Same my father is a scientist and he keeps talking that this makes no sense so as revenge me and my brother tell all the illogical things in their old times movies
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
I had a girlfriend say she couldn't stand Star Wars because its obvious that could never happen. I replied that its more likely than Pretty Woman. A beautiful, drug-free, alcohol free, pimp free, and happy prostitute is on Hollywood Boulevard. She meets a rich banker who chooses her over his friends after she embarrasses him at the event he hired her for. She gets upset when another rich banker asks for her services. When he offers to pay for a condo so she can stop living on the streets, she says no. I am wholeheartedly behind a woman being in control of her life and not being judged for her decisions but this was not an accurate representation of the 80s. We can all suspend reality when its a good story we want to immerse ourselves. If you are worried about conservation of energy when a cyclops knocks over a guy with a laser beam, you are missing the point.
Dynein 4 years ago
A major in physics might give you a better idea of the destructive power of pressure waves from explosions and such, but honestly a lot of movies break every-day physical principles every day for the sake of more awesome. No, a bullet won't catapult you backwards (you really needed mythbusters to accept that?!), no, a tissue box in the back of the car won't cause major injuries when flying forwards (again, everyday physical knowledge didn't tell you that?). It's amazing how many people just... don't build intuitive theories from observed patterns, it's like they can only notice cause and effect in individual cases but can't derive scale and statistics from the sum of all similar events (instead, they bundle up a select set of individual anecdata and base their crazy theories on that).
Roseriver_DSMP 3 years ago
In Lost in Space how they call the exoplanet Alpha Centauri instead of its actual name Proxima Centauri b 😂😂🥲🥲
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago (edited)
yup- still shaking my head over airplanes that blow up and then burn like crazy when all the gas is gone...
Andrea Marcus 4 years ago
Failed math or I really would be working on the unified field theory
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Mangelo Il Fumatori 4 years ago (edited)
No one knew where in the world you were to show you.
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Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
Yup...catalysts bring the excitement... but sadly leave just as they arrived....
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Milord Cutter 4 years ago
English Golden Retriever in America and An American Werewolf in London.
Eileen Baird 4 years ago
Yes. Rick Baker won an Academy Award for the makeup.
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
In fiction you get a mutation and you immediately develop super powers. In real life you get a mutation and it is shown only if its in your egg/sperm and if you reproduce. Normally the mutation is irrelevant and does nothing anyway.
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Linda Robinett 4 years ago
Mutations in nature usually result in off spring not surviving so yes, a dog with white hair or a smaller size etc. is going to survive as those are subtle. The mutations in the Corona virus are subtle enough that the vaccines still work.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago (edited)
yes, which you then delete or move to a foot note ( and then delete) in subsequent revisions
Fidgets McGee 4 years ago (edited)
I did this once and promptly switched major to fine arts.
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Randolph Croft 4 years ago
Phil Plait's 'Bad Astronomy' page - good reference. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html
Arenite 4 years ago
I remember in college there was a girl complaining about her astronomy class. “It’s so hard, it’s all math.” She thought she was taking an astrology course. Now this was a big, well-known, expensive school. Early 90’s, tuition must have been $40-50,000 a year. I tell ya, if I was sending my kid to school for that much money a year and they told me they were/wanted to study astrology, they would be yanked out of that school, given a room in the basement, and told get a job and start paying rent! Not on my dime, kid!
Lavi Berko 2 years ago
god i hate astrology despite it making astronomy. a real thing. the stars do not directly control our lives. stars change. everything changes, except for all the universal constants (not lambda). Stars move. The planets will one day decay, or be swallowed by the sun. protons will decay. there may be a big rip, or big crunch, or a big fizz. The world will change. we are not even a millionth of the history of the universe. we are just tiny sets of atoms, that are following the laws of the universe.
#20
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Don't undercut geologists. They largely determine where nuclear waste can be stored. Kinda a big job.
Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
No competent Geologist would say that's a nice boulder. They'd call it "splendid" at the very least.
Yvette Desmarais 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure they'd also call it by its proper name and explain how it was created and how it arrive where it is.
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Dynein 4 years ago
Biologist: I research an ongoing and excessively complex chemical reaction that started aeons ago and has evolved to the point that it's own laws have emerged. Neurologist: I study an excessively complex lump of matter that studies itself.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Behavior biologist (ethologist): "i'm watching you! I will watch you and film you and register " every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take i'll be watching you" and then i will make graphics and sciencestuff and know you better than you know yourself. Oh boy i sound like a mad scientist.
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J.L. Martin 4 years ago
* its. It's is only used as a contraction for "it is". No apostrophe in the possessive. ;)
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
More textbooks need a disclaimer like this. I would have paid more attention in elementary history class if I knew about all the genocide and wars upfront. Fear is a great motivator to learn so you can protect yourself.
Asi Bassey 4 years ago
Next line says, “Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.” You think?
#22
Andrea Marcus 4 years ago
Only thing I didn’t have to look up Learned in art school thing appear smaller at a distance
#23
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Its great that you know the one that changed world and not the ones that only sold you tube commercial interruptions.
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Maria Schneider 4 years ago (edited)
I don't know either who is on da first pics. Really CURIEous for your answers
Sarcastic Cow 4 years ago
"Mary, woman´s place is in the kitchen." Mary: "Not this sh*t again" face
abby smink 4 years ago
MY power couple would be Marie Curie and Wilhelm Röntgen. (I know, I know, they weren't actually a couple lol)
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Hydrogen after they invented Nonmetals be like: the-jig-60...100e1c.jpg 
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
I will cuddle Electron. And Proton and Neutron. You know what? I'LL CUDDLE ALL THREE AT ONCE, BABY!
#25
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Yeah, why give it away? Time travel is possible, but people aren't that stupid to show it is possible...
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
"Weed": "Ha! I am growing on concrete that reaches 40*C every day!" .... "Flower": "Oh no. SOmeone sneezed in Jakarta. *wilts*"
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
I've always loved dandelions and I knew weed be friend from the start.
Dynein 4 years ago
Ever come across wild roses? They are STURDY and indestructible. It's the CULTIVARS that are finicky, but that's kinda the case for most plants. If you want resilient plants, get the wild varieties of what you want.
Br. Mark Parker 4 years ago
How true! I have a black thumb but like houseplants. Dug a sprig of ivy from a crack in the sidewalk figuring if it could survive there I sure couldn't kill it. That little guy grew to about 10 feet long in a couple years.
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Just a girl in a crazy world 4 years ago
This sorta reminds me of the story of my moms old plant. This plant lived on the shelf in the kitchen. Half the time we forgot it was there. It got watered probably, once every two months and there was little to no sunlight that reached that shelf. It was like that for as long as I can remember. Then, my mom moved it into the sun and started watering it regularly. It died
gilded panda 1 year ago
Roses: takes exact math to keep alive dandelions: I GROW IN F*****G CONCRETR, THEY POISONED ME AND MADE ME STORNGER, BOW BEFORE ME
Cathy Comfort 4 years ago
And this is why I grow dandelions and buy roses that other people grow.
Leanne Ireland 4 years ago
Yeah? Well, did you hear about the rose that grew through a crack in the concrete?
Leanne Ireland 4 years ago
https://allpoetry.com/The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete
Load More Replies... Linda Robinett 4 years ago
I love dandelions. They are yellow and it is fun to blow their seeds.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
real knowledge is knowing where to find and how to apply information
Shelby P 4 years ago (edited)
Kids would grow to be much more effective adults if they were taught to use the tools available to them as opposed to making them memorize trivia
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Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Encyclopedia have been around for decades because it's not possible to remember everything. You only need to remember how to apply existing knowledge, the knowledge itself is a reference you can look up
Downunderdude 4 years ago
[dredges memory] 4/3 pi r cubed? [waits for applause. not a sausage]
Cathy Comfort 4 years ago
And this is why librarians rule - we know that knowing how to look it up is the true secret to knowledge.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
As a guy who someday may depend on the sphere around his head to keep him alive, I appreciate him double-checking. It better be right when your neck is literally on the line.
Tony Anderson 3 years ago
And ... No one expects a physicists to know the equation for volume of a sphere. This is just OP being pretentious about their knowledge.
Don Rowlett 4 years ago
A quick way to remember the formula is two-thirds of the smallest cylinder in which the sphere fits. (2r)*(Pi*(r-squared))*(2/3) = (4/3)Pi*(r-cubed).
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Xan Maranya 4 years ago
Quantum physics. Observation affects energy. Taken personally, where you give your attention influences your own energy. Take note.
Lavi Berko 2 years ago
mm. yes. to be in a quantum state, or not to be in a quantum state. there is no try
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Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
Well...Thats one way to move the subject on to biological reproduction.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
You can't have one without the other. At least that's what my dad told me.
Elizabeth Williams 4 years ago
When our 10th grade biology teacher (who was actually quite shy) was discussing how frogs reproduce, a girl in class in class asked, "which one is on top?" 🤣
Cathy Comfort 4 years ago
First science teacher I taught with said a volcano had a giant 'erection' instead of 'eruption' ... only one kid caught it, and he just ducked his head and grinned at his book. Good kid.
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mulk 4 years ago
perhaps this: http://heartanddesign.blogspot.com/2012/06/diamond-jubilee-color-guide-queen.html
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albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
Sarcasm (or irony, perhaps satire, definitely funny) level turned up to 11
Bored Birgit 4 years ago
It's an artery that is blocked by fat (yellow) from wrong nutrition, so that the blood (red) can hardly pass.
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Hermien Greeff 4 years ago
For everyone that does not understand this meme, let me explain.....
Wednesday 4 years ago
I wouldn't insult scientists by saying I am one, even though I get a lot of the memes. I also stood right next to the man above at a party in Telluride (I was working it and he was guesting it) and he wouldn't even acknowledge me! Of course, he was having a conversation with someone else and all I was trying to do was get his glass. He did giggle a bit when after a mo' I said, "Welp, he'll set that glass down eventually," shrugged and walked off. I wasn't gonna be rude and interrupt his conversation... He giggled. It was hilarious. You may think I'm saying he's rude. Au contraire - he gave his full attention to the person to whom he was speaking. Very considerate.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And this is why "laboratory results show..." is not necessarily a big reliable indicator for how things act in real life. Mice, bacteria, whatever.
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Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
Wha?!?! I LOVE maths! Currently studying a masters in mathematics and statistics and getting 95% course weighted average.
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
Yeah, physicists get so hoity toity, but they couldn't do anything without maths
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Dynein 4 years ago (edited)
This is wrong. Fever doesn't work on viruses because they largely rely on the molecular machinery of the human host cell. It works does for bacteria, however, which have their on molecular machinery that, for bacteria adapted to humans, works best at 37°C.
Charlotte A. 4 years ago
Fever does have an effect on viruses - they reproduce less easily and the higher temperature also boosts the immune system so it can fight the viruses more efficiently.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
He meant that as a poke at the whole.... y'know, never mind. Whatever. I'm with Terry Pratchett. The cat has three states: Alive, dead, and bloody furious.
elfin 4 years ago
As the elves found out by observation when they opened the box.
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Jon S. 4 years ago
The inability to know a particle's location and velocity simultaneously (because in determining one you alter the other)? How?
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Vermillion Ace #443 4 years ago
Let's be thankful they left out the the vehicle brand of Mercury. O.o;
Kevin Keller 4 years ago
Oh yeah what about Marie Curie the great scientist too?
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La Petite Morte 4 years ago
His name is Freddie Mercury and he (deceased) was the lead singer and founding member of the seminal 70's/80's British rock band Queen. You've very likely heard some of their songs at one time or another.
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Why is the original Mercury missing? These are all named after him!
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Falcon 4 years ago
now I'm curious, how many plants on top of your head would it take to make it work. 🤔
Butternut DerpFarts 4 years ago
Use a tank of algae. They make more oxygen
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meow point1 4 years ago
When I was ten, I wanted to always carry a plant with me, so that my breathing wouldn't contribute to the greenhouse effect.
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Neill Powell 4 years ago
Wrong (in nuclear fission explosions). Neutrons destabilize the nucleus of an atom and sustain a chain-reaction, not protons. Change the number of protons and you change the element, potentially changing to an unstable element of Z+1, but generally not.
Jace 4 years ago
I can’t fact check you so I’ll just give you the benefit of the doubt. Lots of the stuff here is ... erroneous because it’s “popular”.
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Vermillion Ace #443 4 years ago
Yup, I go nuclear inside when people tell me to smile or be happy. 🙄
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Dynein 4 years ago (edited)
For those who DON'T know this: Draw 2 dots on a flat sheet of paper, connect them via the shortest distance. That is 2d. Bend the paper - now the shortest distance is *out of the paper through 3d space*. To 2d beings living in the paper, the straight line still looks like the shortest distance, but we in 3d space can see that this is not the case. Now add one dimension to everything: 2 dots in straight 3d space, shortest distance is the straight line connecting them. 2 dots in a 3d space *that is bend within the 4th dimension*, shortest distance is *out of the 3d space into the 4th (spatial) dimension then back in*.
Csaba Hegedűs 4 years ago
Why do you write the same stuff over and over again on the blackboard?
Lavi Berko 2 years ago
oh come on, the top one is simple. you just need to learn some trig, calc, and physics.
Ray Martin 4 years ago (edited)
I wish there was a wormhole I could use to bypass seeing this d**k's picture at every turn.
Vermillion Ace #443 4 years ago
Event Horizon's little demo comes to mind with the two-points and paper explanation. 😅
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Fred Van Der Zee 4 years ago
In metric, decimal comma and with point as thousands separator... Circumference of the moon's orbit is 2.413.402 km. 1 degree of that circumference is 6704 km, so if you miss you're about 0,5 degree off. Since both the moon and earth are moving as well, missing it is actually very likely.
Rez Fidel 4 years ago
You get the holy BP Nerd Crown of the day. Thank you.
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
There are a couple of books with that title. Who is the author?
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Cyr/Syr 4 years ago
It's a different setting than standard that probably messed up the calculations
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Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
I kind of got stuck on the "Leather" part. Now every time I see someone dressed in leather I'll wonder if they're not just covered in mold.
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Jon S. 4 years ago
Please accept this prize for the best pun I've seen today
Load More Replies... Vermillion Ace #443 4 years ago
Foot fungus, wearable fungus on your feet...🤯 Hold up, does anyone even want that?
Destinee Amber 4 years ago
So what you're saying is, the next time my kid complains that mushrooms taste like feet, he's TECHNICALLY not wrong?
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𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
This was me in Year 2 going ‘what about electricity?’ - not that I was being a smart ass, my brain couldn’t comprehend how electricity fit into that model of three and had to ask. Cos if a question pops into my head I HAVE to ask it no matter how stupid or annoying I will sound. It’s compulsive and annoying and I kinda hate myself cos of it
Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
But if you don't ask, how can you ever learn? Schools should encourage curiosity in students, not squash it.
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Im 41 and I still can't stop myself needing to know everything about anything!😂
Ian Taggart 4 years ago
The BE thing, I understand, but teachers should really include plasma. It's not like the kids haven't heard of lightning or fire.
Lavi Berko 2 years ago
really what about super fluid, dark matter, dark energy and degenerate matter.
Isabel Caldis 3 years ago
my science teacher once asked this question and a kid answered "New York, New Jersey, and Conneticut"
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Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Lol yeah but the doggies will always flip around so one is sniffing the other's butt.
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Ray Gemnizarr 4 years ago
"Twinkle twinkle little star, power equal i squared r." Power = i (current) * r^2 (resistance) -electricty
Allan Breum 4 years ago (edited)
107280km Would actually be a pretty small star, or more likely, a brown dwarf.
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clive apps 4 years ago (edited)
That actually occurs. In some colour stars iron shuts down the internal reaction.
Nothanks L. Walk 4 years ago
Don't you wish it was that simple? No guilt, no shame, no police, no religious bullshit from the bronze age. Just "I have decided" and off you go, free.
Neill Powell 4 years ago
That's because iron has the highest binding energy of any element. If you want to make elements heavier than iron through fusion, you would need to put energy INTO the reaction from somewhere. Nuclear fusion release energy until iron. the only thing that can make heavier elements are supernovae, extra energy in heaps!
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Laetitia Astolfi 4 years ago
That formula is used to describe the electronic structure of an atom, ie how electrons are organized in layers and sublayers around the nucleus: first number in each group is layer, letter is sub-layer, 2nd number is the number of electrons in that sublayer.
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Lavi Berko 2 years ago
come on. physics should be the one with the guitar. chemistry is just interactions with electromagnetism. biology is chemistry. physcology is just , just, biology with a twist.
Inkblot Butterfly 4 years ago
Roses are red, friction makes static, this meme was, made with mematic
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Babsevs 4 years ago
Both are calculations of force where F = force, g is and k are both constants and r and d are both distances. Only q means electrical charge and m = mass. Generally the implication is that Columb has copied Newton's attractive force formula to create the electrical force formula heehee
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Thinking of all the scientists who would be super confused studying COVID: Psychologists, astronomers, marine biologists, geologists...
CalicoKitty 4 years ago
Psychologists: Have concluded that threat of death is not, in fact, something humans flee from; Astronomers: Considering hijacking a rocket and sending the virus to Mars; Marine Biologists: Have discovered that COVID may, in fact, be beneficial to the growth and health of marine organisms; Geologists: There is COVID on my nicest rock sample, what the heck Jerry, I told you to wash your damn hands!
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Neil Bidle 4 years ago
When Europe wanted the UK to change from 240V to 230V, we just increased our "error" from 5% to 10%
Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
This is what we were just doing at the end if 6th grade and the second panel killed me
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
As they should. Just think how cool it would be to see a rock that was formed during the early earth where water first came in contact with the broiling lava earth or during a tectonic turnover. That is badass. I listened to this geologist at the Grand Canyon and he told us why they knew that the rocks at the bottom of the canyon were once covered in a 6 mile high mountain which then eroded down to where it is today and they show you the evidence to that. Pretty damn cool if you ask me, which you didn't.
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Wouldiwas Shookspeared 4 years ago
Little Johnny took a drink but he can drink no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
Pelleh Din 4 years ago
This is so true, as I can attest from personal experience a half-century ago.
Caffeine72 4 years ago
After having a hexane still blow, cleaning a three-chamber drybox with diethyl ether for two hours during a lab move, numerous phosphine fires, finding an unlabeled drawer that belonged to a long-vanished post-doc filled with uncleaned bulbs of CS, and getting phosphine fumes straight to the eyes, only to find that the school hadn't hooked up the eyewash in our part of the building, chemistry is still pretty boss. And that doesn't cover what students have done to me. So. Many. Burns.
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
We had an apprentice in the company. He was asked how much 1 liter of water weighs. Without a joke, he said "If I put it on the scales, it flows away, no idea how much it weighs" He didn't stay long ... 🙃
Neil Bidle 4 years ago (edited)
The only good thing about metric...then someone tries it with a more dense liquid...or water at a different temperature
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
At least we have clear boundries where the measurement steps up and not struggling to remember how many inches there are in a long hundredweight.
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One gram is by definition one milliliter of water. That's how they invented grams.
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Reynard 4 years ago
This one is incorrect. Scientists don't claim that before the 'Big Bang', there was nothing. It's that known physics is incapable of describing what happened before the singularity. Essentially, we simply don't know what existed befor that.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I know : there was that guy... You know, the one who killed Egyptian children and stuff...
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MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
This bad boy is too toxic for us.If this was written anywhere near me I'd run away.
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Kristal 4 years ago
Some make me feel smart, some make me feel uneducated. Considering I've been awake for 21 hours on 3 hours of sleep, not too shabby.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Get some sleep, Kristal. 😴 I hope that you wake up refreshed!
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Dani Ra 4 years ago
From this day forward, I will no longer give trees so much credit for oxygen.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Trees are badass at carbon fixation though.
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Shikha M Gaur 4 years ago
One of the best post... Brought back memories of my studies days..
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Kristal 4 years ago
Some make me feel smart, some make me feel uneducated. Considering I've been awake for 21 hours on 3 hours of sleep, not too shabby.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
Get some sleep, Kristal. 😴 I hope that you wake up refreshed!
Load More Replies... Dani Ra 4 years ago
From this day forward, I will no longer give trees so much credit for oxygen.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
Trees are badass at carbon fixation though.
Load More Replies... Shikha M Gaur 4 years ago
One of the best post... Brought back memories of my studies days..
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I want to give a special thank you to algae. THANK YOU!!!
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