the delicious irony of this is that the guy’s one real contribution to physics literally hinged on understanding the composition of Earth’s atmosphere (short version: he was one of several people who realized that there was a sodium layer in Earth’s atmosphere, so you could - using a relatively-easy-to-make laser -…

omg i needed this gif

Confirmed. He actually did the narration for a planetarium show not that long ago, so I’ve heard the Liam Neeson version of “explaining black holes”. Perfection.

Greta 2044! :)

I gotta go tell my husband that we can just bang our way to my next successful STEM research grant proposal...

You are both correct. These things are simply levels of hell...

I now have a sudden need to train a classroom full of children to answer that same question with “GRAD SCHOOL AND HELL!”

I don’t know what the fuck this dude is on about with “only a minor annoyance”. Yes, UTIs don’t, like, hospitalize you if you treat them in time, but it has to be the largest “degree of pain/seriousness of illness” ratio I’ve ever experienced.

I actually debated “MotherMayI” vs. “mothermayi” since I figured there was no way Pence knew about camel case...

Statistically likely passwords for Mike Pence:

I hope Trump meets a very large, very angry porcupine in a dark alley somewhere and is forced to try to fuck it.

ugh, I goddamn hate the whole “let’s put the guy in Harry Potter cosplay” shtick. It’s so clearly an attempt to play on people’s “but how could such a sweet boy/nerd/non-bro-y guy have done such a thing?” reaction.

geez, calm down Melissa...

Except it’s quite possible that he would literally shrivel up (decrease muscle mass, lower bone density, increased fatigue) and die (see: suicide rates among trans teens) without it.

Shitheels on Wheels?

Nah, the telescope mirror is gold-plated, he’ll love it.

Haha, yes, one of the TSA people did indeed ask him that. He explained he was originally from the area and bringing it home to show his mother.

JFC where is the wormhole out of this timeline

I actually have *no* idea - just found it on the internet and thought it was amazing. Would love to know who the artist is!

So I actually know one of the physics Nobel prize winners from a few years back. Usually Nobel medals are immediately put on display in the home institution/department/etc., but he asked for his at one point shortly after winning it so that he could take it to his childhood home in North Dakota and show it to his very…