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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I drank cobra whiskey I got a bottle of in Cambodia, only to find out it was a ton of formaldehyde and instantly, involuntarily, violently puked it all up everywhere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

A bottle of brown liquid that i was told was whiskey with a king cobra inside. Mine also had a scorpion with its stinger in the cobra’s mouth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There's a story behind this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Taxidermist trying to make a "novelty" piece, probably

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

My brother used to do chewing tobacco. He would spit into pop bottles. He left one laying around in the kitchen. I tried to steal a sip of what I thought was A&W root-beer. It was the same colour.

What came next was the most disgusting thing I've ever experienced. Imagine drinking someone's thick cold saliva mucus that had a disgusting apple cinnamon and smokey tar taste.

I ran to the sink as fast as I could and spat it out and forced myself to throw up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Jeezus, I almost threw up just reading this. 🤮

[–] [email protected] 40 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What do they mean trigger warning: unsanitary

Clearly it was very pure virus concentrate, after removing all the dead cell pieces. That sounds sanitary as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago

Is a space heater 100% efficient or 100% inefficient?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

BTW, human tissue might not be targeted by a bacteriophage virus, but our gut is filled with beneficial bacteria. This is why people get the runs from antibiotica and why there's shit transplants.

Most viruses are probably not surviving the acid bath that is our stomach, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Just read an article that was basically saying we should consider all gut flora frenemies now. If you don’t eat enough fiber even the “good” kinds that help your body process it will go for your mucus lining, breach the cell barrier and enter the bloodstream. This causes inflammation and may also accelerate aging. Neat.

TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.

Or don't eat fiber and don't get old as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

A creator I enjoy is currently eating capsules of shit to fix his gut bacterium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Better hope it never pops open in your mouth

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If we ever get acid resistant viruses, that is how humanity goes out

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Those exist.

There's even bacteria that can live in stomach acid and cause terrible issues. Like helicopter

Edit: I'm keeping that typo lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah but what is it supposed to be?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah can't just leave it on that cliffhanger

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Helicobacter, like Helicobacter pylori which causes ulcers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Which was proven to cause ulcers by an abrasive scientist drinking a culture and getting them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Honestly 'the helicopter virus' sounds like something from a terrifying sci-fi

[–] earphone843 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Boiled down San Pedro cactus juice is number one for me. It tasted like ultra concentrated bong water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ultra concentrated bong water probably doesn't get you off your chops like mescaline though

[–] earphone843 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The worst part is it did absolutely nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Hahahahahhahaha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I guess it's a part of lab sciences. How do you think they find out if thing in tube X is sweet yet poisonous?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What's with the enormous hashtags?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's kind of a tradition on Tumblr to use the hashtags as sort of a "PS" section of your text

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

Make them stop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

He wanted to grok it?