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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago

That's about 5-9 mm too much.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 20 points 10 months ago

Mangos for scale

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 64 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Praise Prometheus!

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 20 points 10 months 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 34 points 10 months ago
[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

wraps around stick

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 19 points 10 months ago

Australia

Should've guessed

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 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?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Poisonous trees. And trees that want to eat you.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Funnily enough, the most "fuck you" tree is actually from America:

Standing beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the sap in it will cause the skin to blister. Burning the tree may cause ocular injuries if the smoke reaches the eyes.

Although the fruit is potentially fatal if eaten, no such occurrences have been reported in the modern literature. Ingestion can produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, and bacterial superinfection, as well as the potential for airway compromise due to edema.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

It's spiders all the way down

[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Reach Around Spider was rejected as a possible name.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This spider has found one trick that makes humans very angry

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago

Clickbait spider! Enragement tracking functions, activate!

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Unacceptable.

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Oh cool, like a slap-braclet.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Solitaire20X6@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

God never picks up, call Samus Aran!

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This shit needs to stay in movies

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This shit is the consequence of sin yo.

[–] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

Nature’s Rizla.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Is it ribbed for her pleasure?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

BRB, burning down every tree within 50 miles.

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago
[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are we gonna talk about the "tree limbs"?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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