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Congratulations to Tom! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago

He persevered, despite the tar and the yellow.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

The Dixie cups gave him strength

[-] saddlebag@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

What is the joke? Seems a few people have made a similar comment

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The joke is that the guy in the meme hates yellow chemistry (yellow compounds) and failed polymerization(I think that's the specific reaction) reactions which basically makes tar.

And yes, the description in the meme is very accurate.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

failed polymerization(I think that’s the specific reaction) reactions which basically makes tar

Often times tar is a result of successful polymerization when you were not intending to polymerize anything.

[-] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

In before "In a cave! With a box of scraps!"

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

So we made Fukken tar

[-] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

YELLOW!!!

[-] irishPotato@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

Could someone explain?

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The gentleman pictured is one Mr. Thomas de Prinse of the Explosions&Fire YouTube channel. He recently finished up a synthesis of dimethyl cubane-1,4-dicarboxylate. While this is impressive feat to accomplish with hardware store chemicals in a shed, it is not novel or groundbreaking enough to warrant a Nobel Prize.

Someone has then created this portrait of him, replicating the style often used in Nobel Prize announcements (see this year's as an example), with a few differences, such as misspelling 'Nobel' as 'Noble', substituting 'Swedish' for 'Swiss', and writing 'This is a work of satire.' down the side.

[-] irishPotato@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Right, thank you! Yeah mainly needed help on the YT backstory and the chemistry, the premise of the joke I got, I could have been clearer. Anywho, grade A content my dude(ette)!

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 2 months ago

Someone has then created this portrait of him

For completeness Olivia Vert made it for the Journal of Immaterial Science (also the Barbenheimer one, and some others but I think they only shared those on Reddit)

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store