Science Memes

10970 readers

2151 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

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

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

Research Committee

[email protected]

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

[email protected]

1048

Inconceivable Horror (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Their hat/house is literally trash though.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is now! It was reuse, one of the best Rs in reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

damn... does this count? like generally we want to avoid plastic cups in the ocean, but would it be bad to take something like this from say, a hermit crab? if we take the cup where will it go? chances are it will just end up somewhere else it shouldn't, but this time without being made use of by crabs. my knee jerk reaction was to say animals using plastics don't count, but that's clearly not true when we reuse garbage intentionally to create animal habitat like artificial reefs. can we really say that only humans have the capacity to reuse their own garbage effectively?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Plastic cups are not good protection for animals that use shells. These divers dont forcefully take the cup shell either. They'll happily give up their plastic cups for the new shells being offered as long as they like it. Then the plastic cup is thrown away.

There's a difference from scientists trying to make artificial reefs (which even then like the tire reef fiasco turned out to be a terrible idea) and random trash being picked up and used by the local wildlife.

[–] brbposting 8 points 3 months ago

Our trash is going to be an inferior product, I would imagine. Petroleum-based, breaks down into microplastic particles. Might not offer the same protection of the harder shell, either in hardness or camouflage from predators.

Obviously, this raises a new question. Is it a big deal to litter titanium shells? Properly anodized for camouflage, of course. :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

It’s thrifted be nice