Xennial Memes

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Science Class

Quote card with a sepia photo of an older man with glasses, gray hair and a beard, raising a finger to his chin. A large quotation mark sits above white italic text: "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." —Isaac Asimov. Small watermark: SamBrinson.com Hand-drawn comic titled "CLIMATE CHANGE: A TIMELINE" with the credit "@SEMI_RAD". A long horizontal bar is split into colored sections. The wide light blue section is labeled ""CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T REAL"". The larger orange section is labeled "OK, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE'RE JUST NOT CONVINCED IT'S CAUSED BY HUMANS". A small dark red-brown section is labeled "OOPS". The tiny yellow end section is labeled "FUCK". Scientific American infographic titled "Beyond XX and XY: A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between." A rainbow bar runs from typical biological female to typical biological male. Colored arrows link chromosomes, genes, hormones, organs and puberty. A vial of dark red blood with a red cap beside a block of text. It reads: "It contains more than 4,000 chemicals and it has spread into every human body on Earth." "Among its components are formaldehyde, acetone, ethanol, ketone bodies, dihydrogen monoxide, tryptophan, urea, Dehydroepiandrosterone, Hexosephosphate P, and at least 20 kinds of acids." "Nearly every chemical constituent will, in certain… Six-panel comic-style meme repeating a sepia portrait of a man with slicked-back dark hair and a mustache in a dark coat and high white collar. Panel 1: "Invents A/C Electricity" / "Tries to give it to the world for free". Panel 2: "Finds out someone is using one of his patents" / ""Let him use them, he is doing good work."" Panel 3: "Finds out a contract he has with someone will cause that person to lose their… A black poster with a 3x3 grid of dim night cityscapes under dense starry skies and the Milky Way. Top text: "These photograhs by Thierry Cohen show us what we would see at night if there were no light pollution." Labels: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Tokyo. Bottom text: "This week is International Dark Skies Week. Please show your support by lighting… Top caption: "Finally someone tells it like it is. Way too many people have forgotten how awesome NASA is." Two photos show a red Russian Space Pen package printed with a rocket, and a joke text: "When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ball-point pen would not work at zero gravity. A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that could write in space,… Grid of eighteen minimalist posters, each with a simple icon and a name: Marie Curie, Sally Ride, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Dorothy Hodgkin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Barbara McClintock, Lise Meitner, Shirley Ann Jackson, Chien-Shiung Wu, Kalpana Chawla, Alice Ball, Flossie Wong-Staal, Maryam Mirzakhani. Tumblr post screenshot. User sapper-in-the-wire: "people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat" and "german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans". Reblog by thefloatingstone: "Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn't even gone extinct yet:… A half-lit moon on a black background. Pale pink typewriter-style text reads: "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randall Munroe An artist's rendering of a blue-green cloudy planet against a starry dark blue space background, captioned "Artist impression of Kepler 22b". White text reads: "When he (Johannes Kepler) found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest delusions, that is the heart of science." - Carl Sagan Black-and-white photo of an old dictionary page printed over with large bold gray capital letters reading: "IF IT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH" and below it, "CARL SAGAN". Aerial view of a thick layer of textured white clouds with a thin dark smoke trail rising at a slant, a bright glowing flame at its tip, and a long blue shadow of the trail stretching across the clouds. Blue sky is at the top. No text. Painting of a white space shuttle numbered 9 with an open cargo bay and robotic arm holding a cylinder marked USA, above a curving Earth. A second shuttle numbered 2, a solar-paneled space station, two astronauts and the Moon float in the dark sky. Signed "mccall". Screenshot of a Stellaris event window titled "Mass Extinction: Frozen" showing a painted icy landscape with a futuristic base. Text: "An unnatural shift in the atmosphere's chemical make-up resulted in the slow but irreversible onset of an ice age - one that began before the formation of the Terran Regency and is likely to persist long after our passing. The exact cause remains unknown, but probable explanations… Subway-style map titled "The Solar System: A subway map" showing delta-v in m/s between planets and moons. Lines run from Earth up to Jupiter, Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto, Mars, Deimos, Phobos, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Titan, Uranus, Neptune, and the Moon. Legend explains the numbers.