Lab, Laugh, Love: 35 Scientifically Approved Memes for Your Reaction

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John Summers • Contributor
Jul 7, 2024 11:00 PM EDT

A few years ago I had an idea for a perpetual motion device that I was convinced would actually work. Now, I know that the first rule of thermodynamics doesn't allow "Free" energy and I know every perpetual motion device in history was a hoax but I couldn't find an explanation WHY my device wouldn't work. It's a very simple device - Imagine a looped rope with empty barrels attached to it, One side of the loop is submerged vertically in water and the other side is outside of the water. The barrels that are submerged would float up, while the barrels in the air would fall down, and then enter the water from the bottom and float back up. 

It sounded so perfectly reasonable but I knew the rules of physics wouldn't allow it somehow. And you know what it is? what makes this concept unrealistic? It's the surface tension of the water! Trying to push a barrels back into the water would require more energy than the machine would put out! Dammit physics! you win again!

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    EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO CONFUSES CORRELATION AND CAUSATION ENDS UP DYING 60 timoelliott.com
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    Michael Daly @MichaelDaly64 Follow One of the perks of working in a Bat Sanctuary is that you can wear a necklace of sleeping baby bats... ed with Best Friends
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    ruinedchildhood @WildGreen Memes hummingbirds are dinosaurs that learned how to be insects ruinedchildhood if you dont think thats the tightest then get out of my face
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    the-macra Just saw a post saying a castle was "infested with vampires" and as a biologist am disgusted. That's their natural habitat. They live there 43,065 notes 0
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    oh you like bad boys? well sometimes i cite articles i've only skimmed
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    Devon @Devon_OnEarth They were trying out!!! Leave them alone Sophie @jil_slander. 2d Might I ask what the was going on with the animals in the Cambrian period
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    studyable Did you know? Type O Blood was actually meant to be Type Zero blood, due to the lack of glycoproteins in the red blood cells. It was misread and is now called Type "O" blood. I guess you could call it a typo. psychoxctive I showed this to my bio professor and she cried
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    VINCE THE SIGN GUY I WANTED TO MARRY A CARBON 14 EXPERT BUT ALL SHE WANTED TO DO WAS DATE 02023 SignPens LLC Vallecito Lake, CO - Conveniently located miles and miles from everywhere!
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    "Tried to take some photos of an octopus, but he grabbed the camera and took some of me instead." transparasite: tastefullyoffensive: (photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus) I think this is the best scientist photograph I have ever seen. Source: tastefullyoffen...
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    Andromeda's actual size if it were brighter...
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    Cheezburger Image 10370468608
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    Hey! I can see Uranus! Oh wow. Yep. Don't even acknowledge them. You have NOTHING to be ashamed of. theAwkwardYeti.com
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    call out post to Nasa stephendann: rnashallah: why arent u exploring the ocean its literally right underneath us ?? u can send a robot a million miles into space looking for aliens but not into the giant void that takes up the majority of the earth we live on?? please i am scared NASA knows. NASA has seen the dark beneath. NASA's urgency to leave the planet grows ever stronger
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    EGO AND SUPER-EGO WALK INTO A BAR BARTENDER SAYS, I'M GONNA NEED TO SEE SOME ID
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    Bill Nye The Violence Guy.. Is over your denialism 3 I came to debunk claims and to kick ass! And I'm all out of stupid arguments. VFC UFC
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    They don't know that moss is actually an under- appreciated superhero that can filter air and lower temperatures
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    Dr.unk Phytologist Swiss Army Biol... @DrunkPhyto Hey you, I'm going to tell you a secret. A palm tree? It's in the same family as grass. It's a grass that got so big that we were like, "Yeah, that's a tree". But it isn't, not really. You cut it open, there are no rings. There are no branches. Just big ol leaves made of lies. 6:48 PM 9/4/19 Twitter for Android 840 Retweets 4,317 Likes
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    hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge wtf is going on in the sea?? fundamentally unserious place
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    holyunholy Follow should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it holyunholy Follow sorry, Dr. Dude
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    maculategiraffe Follow nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes. me: oh cool nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path. me: oh cool nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep. me: oh... cool? #shenanigans #ancient egypt #apep #
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    I overhead the most hilarious conversation this week. There was a young couple at the library and the father is reading their 4 ish year old son a Dr Seuss book, very animated, doing all sorts of voices. The mother is sitting to the side, reading her own big, thick book. "Some are high And some are low. Not one of them Is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother." "Let's ask her, Hey Mother?" "hm" "Why is no fish like another?" Without looking up form her book she deadpans, "Because of
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    Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach *working in hospital with med student* me: ok so this patient is here today with a lot of crystals med student: oooh u mean like those healing crystals me: no the crystals are in their urine med student: oooh so like harming crystals me: correct 1:51 PM 4/2/24 From Earth . 1.1M Views 2.4K Reposts 93 Quotes 46K Likes 1.1K Bookmarks
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    Russian scientists defrosted several prehistoric worms, and two woke up. After thawing, the two worms began to move and eat. One is 32,000 years old and the other 41,700 years old. Joshua Lewis global warming is gonna be legit 7h Like Reply 5
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    The license plate number (C6H12O6) is the chemical equation for glucose. The vehicle is a Cube. This is a giant sugar cube. 77 C6H1206
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    LI Once per second?! Yeah, this 1 Hz.
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    imgflip.com Many top scientists are on the autism spectrum So technically autism causes vaccines.
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    i-was-today-years-old-when Follow i learned that there's a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x) Esophagus Small intestine Stomach Large intestine Cloacal aperture jacobtheloofah you eat me and i perfectly dodge all of your digestive enzymes and stomach acid and i fully intact sprint out your
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    Triceratops: I got my name from my three horns Utahraptor: I got my name from where I was discovered T Rex: I'M THE [bleep] LIZARD KING.
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    People You actually were telling the truth. Scientists I do that quite a lot, yet people are always surprised.
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    AFP AFP news agency @AFP. 8h .@NASA is investigating what may be the first crime in outer space, with astronaut Anne McClain accused of identity theft and improperly accessing her estranged wife's private financial records while on the ISS u.afp.com/J2ds AFP 331 1,223 ANNE C. McCLA 3HH MAKKA KAEW 2,244 ✰ Randy VI Rendon @xonexce Replying to @AFP and @NASA Despite making up roughly 49% of the population, women are responsible for 100% of the crimes in space
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    "NASA photo of sand dunes on Mars"
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    See what he did there?

    Ben Cichy @bencichy Replying to @bencichy Got a 2.4 GPA my first semester in college. Thought maybe I wasn't cut out for engineering. Today I've landed two spacecraft on Mars, and am now designing one for the Moon. STEM is hard for everyone. Grades ultimately aren't what matter. Curiosity and perseverance matter. 6:41 AM - Feb 20, 2021 Twitter for iPhone 372 Retweets 99 Quote Tweets 1,138 Likes
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    SLIGHTLY FANCY PROTONS WEIRD DIRT LAWFUL NEUTRAL REGULAR DIRT ENDS IN A NUMBER, LET IT SLUMBER ENDS IN A LETTER, NOT MUCH BETTER REGULAR METALS BORING ALLOY METALS PROBABLY CRUCIAL TO THE SPARK PLUG INDUSTRY OR SOMETHING (BUT ONE OF THEM IS RADIOACTIVE SO STAY ON YOUR TOES) BORON (FOOL'S YOU ARE CARBON) HERE SAFETY GOGGLES REQUIRED WEIRD $$$$ METALS MURDER WEAPONS VERY SPECIFIC HEALTH PROBLEMS DON'T BOTHER LEARNING THEIR NAMES-THEY'RE NOT STAYING LONG WHOEVER FIGURES OUT A BETTER WAY TO FIT THES
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    HOW WILL WE KEEP THE SPACECRAFT SUPPLIED WITH HEAT AND ELECTRICITY? WE COULD USE A POWER ORB. THEY GIVE OFF THOUSANDS OF WATTS 24/7. HUH? HOW DO YOU RECHARGE IT? | YOU DON'T. IT'S JUST MADE OF A METAL THAT EMITS ENERGY. OK, COME ON. CAN WE PLEASE BE SERIOUS HERE? FOR SOMETHING THAT'S REAL, PLUTONIUM IS SO UNREALISTIC.
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    Biologist Microbiologist ]]
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