this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
759 points (98.6% liked)

Science Memes

15991 readers
999 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulator¹ to see what happens.

People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.

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

You need something else along with the oxygen to cause combustion.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The mercury and Gemini space programs had cabins consisting of pure oxygen. And those astronauts were fine.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Apollo 1 says hi.