when a physicist attempts to understand metaphors

Physicists/scientists out there, do you have trouble appreciating metaphors or analogies because your mind always drifts back to analysing how impractical or illogical they are?

[vt.physics]

Do you know who this quote belongs to?

[yoshida_chad]

As a lever i can confirm, i am long enough

[craigfenson]

wtf? [where's the fulcrum?]

if archimedes were still alive, i'd say that expression is his inner calvin talking.

[Maple_Tachibana]

I was like when she wastyping”please don’t compute or show an equation or something please dont”… and then it happened 💀

[niteman]

Randall from xkcd shared a variant in an early comic of his. "Give me a long enough lever and a place to rest it, or I will kill one hostage every hour"

[JR-rnsh]

I am a civil engineer and use Moments daily designing retaining walls.

[matthewnoland]

Easy pz. After all he laddles water into his cups with my ships

[renatkarimov]

It is a hot woman and not a nerd boy!!!?!!!!