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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 6 days ago

Jonathan: "That dick better be hard and ready when I get there"

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Glad no one decided to make tortoise chowder out of him in those 192 years.

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 195 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To save everyone some time

His age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025

[–] Sphks@jlai.lu 110 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And "The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which is 36 years after this guy hatched

[–] dangercake@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Can we all agree to use "Sashayed in" rather than "hatched"?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's still more tortoise than he is gay.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

That's probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour?

Hard to nail down.

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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He must've copied it from gay tourists who did it in front of him! Surely it's just a show of completely non-sexual dominance. They're just really good friends. /s

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

And then when they've got nothing left, they ult:

Well, God made us in his image and that's what separates us from the animals. So it doesn't matter if gay tortoises exist

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

reasonable, except i'm not made in the image of god, i was subcontracted out to zeus and we all know what he was like.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lol as if Yahweh would subcontract anything. Dude is the original narcissistic dictator.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

the lord allmighty has no qualms about subcontracting, he will however (in his infinite wisdom) blame the subcontractor for any flaw regardless of how poor his specifications were.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Paul Goldstein, the photographer who captured the images in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve in August, said many other species are known to engage in such behavior and that, for example, he had seen giraffes doing it.

"It was just a dramatic thing to see," Goldstein said of the male lions. He was astonished by Mutua's remarks, declaring it "not normal" and attributing the behavior to demonic possession, or copying what he clearly believes is amoral human behavior.

"These animals need counselling, because probably they have been influenced by gays who have gone to the national parks and behaved badly," said Mutua. "I don't know, they must have copied it somewhere or it is demonic. Because these animals do not watch movies."

"The demonic spirits inflicting in humans seems to have now caught up with the animals," the film classification board director said. "That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals."

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What an idiot.

Animals in the wild obviously watch movies.

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

film classification board director

Oh well then say no more. That’s certainly a higher scientific certification than anyone else who could have anything to say on the matter

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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

They're enclosure-mates!

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Here he is (on the left) ca. 1886 at around 50 years old:

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that date? Those cars in the background don't look like anything that would've existed in 1886. In fact the first car put into production was patented in 1886 and it looked like this:

Black and white image of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early three-wheeled automobile

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Oops, you're absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo. Fixed. Pretty funny that that you can have a photo decades later than you thought and you can't tell by the animal in it, but by the technology in the background!

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Heh. I just spent half a minute squinting the dark trees in the background, looking for the outline of a car. I didn't realise the picture was swapped.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

me too. I thought i was more blind than the tortoise in question lol.

Yeah, same lol

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That is definitely funny. I was just thinking, “How many fads and fashions has this one tortoise seen in his life?”

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's been around humans long enough to see to see, what, 6 or 7 generations?

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay, I am an ally and all. But when you are endangered ya just got to take one for the team

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Meh... As someone with no interest in having children and could not care less about what that might mean for my "bloodline," I get it lol

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're bloodline doesn't matter if you aren't an endangered species. Lmao

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

not like it has to be an intimate and romantic moment anyways, many a religious group have perfected the art of making it as transactional as possible without outright using syringes.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 1 week ago

Close your eyes and think of the species

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Great now Jonathan will be on the deportation list.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s already on an island in the middle of the ocean that’s so remote it wasn’t even occupied when the Europeans took it. St. Helena is where they sent Napoleon to try to keep him away.

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So the tariffs list, then?

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

they are just roommates

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