A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Instead of: "They're a disgusting troglodyte" Say: They are clearly ingenious enough to recognize the utility of having a stable living environment to retreat to for protection that's superior to any structure they could possibly build using the technology and techniques available to them at the time.
66 million
Am I so old? It was 65 million back when I was a kid.
For the last one, another alternative would be "You're so resilient, it would take a moon sized meteorite to take you down for good."
as someone who has tried to make a furnace to melt metals, I envy iron age people who could do it successfully (unlike me) with no fancy tools or materials
You should try having nothing else better to distract you for 12-15 years. With no books, no TV, and no internet, if you need to figure out how to build a forge, you'd figure it out eventually. Through sheer boredom if nothing else.
But how do you know how to do anything without a YouTube tutorial?