this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
432 points (99.1% liked)

Science Memes

16854 readers
748 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
[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 111 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to need some source for this

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 152 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 72 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ablative heat shield. Someone call NASA

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 110 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The phone lines have been defunded sorry.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damn. What about their carrier pigeon receiver towers?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Russian fat cats got involved

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

While impressive, especially realizing that video is sped up 3.5x, steel will fare that test better

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank god the terminids haven’t figured this out.

What makes you think they haven't?

They are holding their best in reserve

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah that shit looks pretty fuckin burnt there bud

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago

Not anything below the skin.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Would you like to compare with steel in same situation?

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago
[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 12 points 6 days ago

It wouldn't look burnt.