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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] rustydrd 32 points 2 weeks ago

That's about 5-9 mm too much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mangos for scale

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks 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 36 points 2 weeks ago

Praise Prometheus!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hundrends of documented parasites who can literally eat us from the inside, but no ...spiders are the fucking problem.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks 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 34 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fuck_u_spez_ 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

wraps around stick

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks 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 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A 2 second Google search of "so spiders have chins?" has revealed that sadly they do not

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, we’re the only ones with true chins, but I still scratch my cat’s undermouth area and call it a chin.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Australia

Should've guessed

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's spiders all the way down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Poisonous trees. And trees that want to eat you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Reach Around Spider was rejected as a possible name.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This spider has found one trick that makes humans very angry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Clickbait spider! Enragement tracking functions, activate!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool, like a slap-braclet.

[–] Assman 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Solitaire20X6 6 points 2 weeks ago

God never picks up, call Samus Aran!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This shit needs to stay in movies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This shit is the consequence of sin yo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Is it ribbed for her pleasure?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nature’s Rizla.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

BRB, burning down every tree within 50 miles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are we gonna talk about the "tree limbs"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Cute little guy