Comment on Congratulations to Tom!

irishPotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 image of him, replicating the style often used in Nobel Prize announcements, 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.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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)

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  • irishPotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨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)!

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why does it say satire when it’s just so true ?

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• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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

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