I thought the last panel would be like "It's not a phone call!"
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This ordering bothers me, I think rocket science is the easiest of this group, although still very hard, quantum physics is the second hardest, and brain surgery is the hardest. The amount of knowledge you have to have to be a brain surgeon is quite significant. Quantum physics requires having a good working understanding knowledge of math, and also many side skills like electrical engineering. Rocket science is mostly some mid tier math, and engineering within thermal constraints and stuff. All three are hard but surgeons really don't get enough credit.
Brain surgery also has multiple other extremely challenging dimensions to it that the others don't even touch. Time sensitivity. Ability to kill people - now of course rocket science can do this too, but it's a lot more delayed. It's not something you feel the pressure of right in the moment, while you do your work. Brain surgery isn't just knowledge, you need to have steady hands, really good mood regulation. Like you can't really have an "off day" as a brain surgeon. I have mad respect for math and intellectual skills, but whatever brain surgery might lack in comparative intellectual difficulty, it makes up for with like. Everything else about it
I’ve seen self-learned YT engineers build working rocket engines, but I haven’t seen them do brain surgery
The medical community kind of frowns upon self-trained brain surgeons.
Real rocket tech is fairly complex. You have to pump fuel and 02 in without it exploding. Nothing seems quite as dangerous as having tanks of hydrogen and oxygen sitting around, on a flying stick no less. The engines themselves are actively cooled by the fuel, mainly the nozzle, and failure to cool this properly leads to fuel leaks and well, a bang. They also must be able to survive extreme forces and vibration, and the very wide ranges in temperature. They must also be reliable enough to use multiple times between inspections for some missions.
Brain surgery is incredibly complex. Honestly I have no idea which one is harder because I do neither. I think medical people don't get as much respect because there are so many of them.
Pretty sure quantum mechanics is still not music theory.
Quantum mechanics aren't that hard TBf. They are only the surface of a very deep ocean.
Strongly disagree, my time doing quantum/modern physics was the most depressed I have ever been
The last one should be fluid dynamics. Liquids are just bonkers.