You Know You're A Nerd When:

[ColdJ]

You like tangible proof that something is real.

[kerbiloid]

You don't know the word "real" except for numbers.

[Admiral Fluffy]

When you are annoyed when someone calls going into another planet atmosphere 'Reentry."

[kerbiloid]

When you are wistfully thinking that the pretty girl in your class could know the word "eta-zero-meson" if she was from future.

[Ben J. Kerman]

When you see a cloud and think "hmm...that looks like The Philippines"

[ColdJ]

Once you have put a LEGO kit together you can't bear to pull it apart again.

[Abel Military Services]

2 hours ago, ColdJ said:

Once you have put a LEGO kit together you can't bear to pull it apart again.

Oh that's me!

Teaching a kid about Rocket Science and High Altitude Supersonic Flight

[kerbiloid]

When you know that books are wrong.

[Rutabaga22]

18 hours ago, Ben J. Kerman said:

When you see a cloud and think "hmm...that looks like The Philippines"

I did that the other day, but finland

when you correct the guy at the planetarium

[Nazalassa]

When you know how to code in COW, in Tellurium or in Unispace.

(or Malbolge)

[kerbiloid]

When you can easily survive in savanna because you are good in extracting roots with your slide rule.

[Ben J. Kerman]

When the most interesting part of PE class is seeing how the mechanism that raises and lowers the basketball hoops works.

[Nazalassa]

When you play music with floppy drives

[kerbiloid]

When they say "You are a nerd!" and it even doesn't come to your mind to ask "Why?"

[Ryaja]

When you start telling the other people in your class about quantum physics and correct the science teacher multiple times...

[kerbiloid]

When they understand what you've said, and you realize that you belong to the nerd school.

[LHACK4142]

When someone at a lecture asks about ion engines, the speaker skips over it, and you have a burning desire to give the asker of the question a 15-minute in-depth explanation.

I didn't give the explanation, the crowd was moving in a way that made it impossible, but I really, really wanted to.

[Ryaja]

When you want to destroy the bop it with a max high score of 100 instead of 128.

Edited October 27, 2022 by Ryaja

[kerbiloid]

When your teachers dream about the times when you have finished the school and stop playing a smartclass .

[SSTO Crasher]

When your teachers deliberately avoid calling on you so someone answers wrong or partially wrong so they can explain why

Spoiler

True story

 

Edited October 27, 2022 by SSTO Crasher

[Ryaja]

3 hours ago, SSTO Crasher said:

When your teachers deliberately avoid calling on you so someone answers wrong or partially wrong so they can explain why

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True story

This is true.

Or when the teacher asks you because you understand it better than them.

[Just Jim]

1 hour ago, Ryaja said:

This is true.

Or when the teacher asks you because you understand it better than them.

I'll take this one step further... when you are asked to replace a teacher for the last few weeks of a semester because the teacher had no clue what they were trying to teach, and there was no other replacement available  (true story)

Edited October 28, 2022 by Just Jim

[Ryaja]

You spent so much time going down internet rabbit holes, and playing games (a lot of KSP) you need glasses now.

Spoiler

True story, I used to have better than 20/20 vision now I need glasses.

 

Edited October 28, 2022 by Ryaja

[Ben J. Kerman]

When you see a "Naväge" (that sinus clearer thing) commercial and realize they are saying the "ä" wrong.

Edited October 28, 2022 by Ben J. Kerman
'Muricans play around with other languages' accent marks like they don't make any difference.

[Ryaja]

When no one wants to sit through a movie with you because you'll end up lecturing them on the scientific inaccuracy of the movie or show