Congratulations to Tom!

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• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He persevered, despite the tar and the yellow.

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  • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Dixie cups gave him strength

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  • saddlebag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨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 J’s very accurate.

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• medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In before “In a cave! With a box of scraps!”

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• Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So we made Fukken tar

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• Noobnarski@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YELLOW!!!

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• irishPotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could someone explain?

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨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 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 ⁨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)

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    • irishPotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨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)!

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨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

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• ranoss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d vote for him. Any fan of Grimace is a man worthy of scientific praise.

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• Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Knowing Tom, he’d be too embarrassed to accept it.

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