Nuclear Power Is Just Boiling Water

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DYSON SPHERE ATT 39/8/1 ✓ >humans will build this and use it to boil water

Lucas @Punished Link > be aliens > finally discover another intelligent planet > land > they're made of water > their planet is made of water > their sky is made of water > their politics are how to boil water > see nothing but water boilers in sight > leave 3:54 PM Jan 13, 2023 1.2M Views ...

Anonymous 01/07/22 (Fri)20:45:36 No.19708080>>19708096 >>19708107 >>19708112 >>19708127 >>19710099 >>19710226 No. I f------ cannot stand it at all that all nuclear power plants do is boil water. The history of humanity is nothing but boiling water. In the future there will be new ways to boil water and that's it. F--- it. ■ Anonymous 05/24/19(Fri)11:19:00 No.115465097 >>115465105 >>115465166 >>115465569 >>115465627 >>115465658 >>115465957 File: 1542667103491.jpg (55 KB, 600x460) >>115465097 >antimatter engine gonna boil water too OH NO NO NO >>115464957 >>115464875 >>115464885 >We are advanced enough to break down f------ atoms >We use it to heat water I understand the principles, but it does feel kinda trivial. >>115466913 >ISILDUROV, CAST THE TEABAG INTO THE WATER >10000 years of perfecting the craft of boiling water >be alien civilization >see a blue planet covered in millions of lights >descend into this strange place >mfw nothing but water people and water boilers in sight giant fuckign kettles >we harnessed the power of the atom comrade! >amazing! what do we do with it! >we shall use this great power to.... turn a wheel. we bol water to tumn wheelso we can bol some water

>new way to make electricity >look inside >boiling water

sinclairism @lairofclair Learning that shotguns just throw little balls at you is like learning that nuclear power is just making water boil really quickly heavy team fortres 2 @heavyfortres · Oct 10, 2022 "It could be you! It could be me! It could even b-" 2:27 AM Oct 11, 2022

THAT'S IT? THAT WAS THE Nuclear power? THAT WAS JUST Boiling water

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Nuclear Power Is Just Boiling Water refers to a series of memes about power production, primarily nuclear power generation, in which the entire process is exposed as simply boiling water through various means. Started by a 2020 Troll Science meme, the memes maintained a continuous presence in the following years online.

Origin

While jokes about the basic process in nuclear energy production essentially being the boiling of water to generate steam and then pushing turbines to produce electricity appeared prior, the earliest viral meme on the topic (a Troll Science comic) was posted by Twitter^[1] user @380kmh on November 30th, 2020, and gained over 340 retweets and 3,700 likes in two years (seen below). On the same day, the comic was reposted to iFunny,^[2] where it gained over 500 smiles in two years. On Tumblr,^[3] a repost of the comic by user str0kethebigtree then accumulated over 50,000 likes and reblogs in two years.

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On January 7th, 2022, an anonymous 4chan user posted a rant about nuclear power production boiling down to "boiling water" in a /lit/ thread. On January 18th, 2022, Redditor^[4] chr8me posted a screenshot of the post in the /r/4chan subreddit, where it gained over 11,600 upvotes in one year (shown below).

Anonymous 01/07/22(Fri)20:45:36 No.19708080>>19708096 >>19708107 >>19708112 >>19708127 >>19710099 >>19710226 I f------ cannot stand it at all that all nuclear power plants do is boil water. The history of humanity is nothing but boiling water. In the future there will be new ways to boil water and that's it. F--- it.

Throughout 2022, multiple memes about boiling water being the basic process in nuclear power production went viral online. For example, on April 9th, 2022, Twitter^[5] user @DSAConstanza posted a tweet that received over 3,900 retweets and 48,700 likes prior to being removed (shown below, left). On September 19th, iFunny^[6] user Mosley_Actual posted a That's It? That's the Lost Episode? meme that was featured on the app and received over 13,100 smiles in four months (shown below, right).