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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't worry, they're only 5-9 mm big and are generally chill

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

That's about 5-9 mm too much.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 19 points 1 year ago

Mangos for scale

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you encounter things like this, God has abandoned you.

Fire hasn't, though. Fire has no fickle loyalties. All can burn.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

Praise Prometheus!

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

And here's more pixels of the joke, if that's your thing

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hundrends of documented parasites who can literally eat us from the inside, but no ...spiders are the fucking problem.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think spiders are cool. I also have a completely irrational fear of them. I don't understand it, I don't have any clue where it came from, but spiders cause me to feel fear in a way unlike anything else in this world. I took it completely in stride when a doctor told me I "might not be ok" while looking at my xrays after a car accident in if I see a spider crawling across the bathroom floor while I'm pooping I'll break out in cold sweats. I like to think that I'm a pretty rational person so this drives me crazy.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago
[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least one person will come away from reading this post with a new sexual fetish.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's me hello i want to pretend to be a stick

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

wraps around stick

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No fetish, but I wanna pat it.

Do you think it likes chin scratches? Does it have a chin? Can I stack them for convenience?

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A 2 second Google search of "so spiders have chins?" has revealed that sadly they do not

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, we’re the only ones with true chins, but I still scratch my cat’s undermouth area and call it a chin.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

Australia

Should've guessed

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope these things live in a different hemisphere than I do

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry, it lives in Australia (because of course it would)

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh is that why some trees hurt so much?

Or just another reason why a tree might hurt so much?

Are they even trees or just more spiders?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

It's spiders all the way down

[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Reach Around Spider was rejected as a possible name.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This spider has found one trick that makes humans very angry

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

Clickbait spider! Enragement tracking functions, activate!

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Unacceptable.

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Oh cool, like a slap-braclet.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine you're climbing a tree and you get to the top and grab this mfer

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

Hopefully at that point it continues its charade as a stick! :-P

[–] Solitaire20X6@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

God never picks up, call Samus Aran!

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This shit is the consequence of sin yo.

[–] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Amazing powers of camouflage and body manipulation are the consequences of sin? I best get sinning like a mother fucker then!

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This shit needs to stay in movies

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad I'm not a tiny bug.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Nature’s Rizla.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is it ribbed for her pleasure?

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

BRB, burning down every tree within 50 miles.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Satan has worked his magic during creation when god had his back turned, and now we suffer from it

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we gonna talk about the "tree limbs"?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What about it? Except the surprise sentient bark of course.