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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ok, I was going to crack a joke about how this is a response to the vulva slit being removed from the depiction of the nude woman on the Pioneer plaque, but it literally is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#Criticism

According to the memoirs of Robert S. Kraemer, however, the original design that was presented to NASA headquarters included a line which indicated the woman's vulva,[11] and this line was erased as a condition for approval of the design by John Naugle, former head of NASA's Office of Space Science and the agency's former chief scientist.[11]

There have also been criticisms of the censorship of the female figure's genitals. Scientist and artist Joe Davis protested the depiction with his Poetica Vaginal project wherein he used an MIT radar dish to transmit the recordings of a vaginal detector.[22]

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

So youre telling me that Aliens think that Barbie is anatomically correct... Jesus christ, we really are fucking weird when it comes to chicks.

[–] RedMari@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL, hope that I somehow get to use the knowledge I learned from this thread in conversation in the physical world someday!

[–] Angelevo@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Make your own future! Go outside, tell a stranger this beautiful story!

spoiler(get thrown in jail)

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away

1998 + 12 = 2010

So they're like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they're just too busy

[–] tyler@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or they got the signal and had no fucking clue what it was, like when we got that strange noise from space that happened just once and never again.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you're thinking of the "Wow" signal, it turned out to be a magnetar

[–] tyler@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe aliens’ vaginas sounds like magnetars.

All joking aside, it took us almost 40 years to figure that out, the aliens have only had 30, and in the magnetars case we can use other celestial bodies to help figure that out. Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

Gotta have a hobby 🤷🏻

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'd be happy to figure out an alien's vagina from scratch, just for the record.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

An invaginated magnetar.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 week ago

Or the perfectly reasonable response to intergalactic transmission of unsolicited coochie sounds.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

"New phone, who dis."

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Round trip time, dude. 3 years late.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

per OP, signal reached T.C. in 1998 T.C. is ~12 ly away if they responded that year we'd have got the message in 1998 + 12 = 2010 that was 15 years ago

[–] keyhoh@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So I learned the new word "invaginate" today and will now be using it in all the sexy talk I share with my wife.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I too will be using the word invaginate in all the sexy talk I share with your wife.

[–] keyhoh@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Best of luck in keeping your ability to invaginate anyone after you speak with her with such wooing words.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Certified Reddit moment right here

[–] 0ndead 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, who’s got the recording?

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Became concerned

I'd put "hypothetical aliens listening to our radio transmissions won't know what our vaginas sound like" preeeety far down my list of concerns but you do you, king

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Might be the only thing that saves us though.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought they meant the other kind of "sound" and I am like, that's a lot of mass to send interstellar for a joke.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A medical sound is a surgical steel rod used for "sounding" (ie, probing) parts of the human anatomy. More generally, a sound is any probe or pole used to test depth or similar properties; mapping the depth of a pond with a graduated pole is "sounding the pond".

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ohhh, I thought you meant queefs by 'the other sound'

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I know a mother who can play a harmonica.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

It's real, chat.

Isn't this The 3 Body Problem?