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[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 181 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Ya know what happened to Apep(the deity)?

He got his fucking ass kicked by Ra. Hell, if I remember right, he also gets his ass kicked by Horus at least once.

Basically, don't fuck with the sun. It's got hands. And a beak.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)
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[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!

Now Rodney who fired up that unstable energy chamber again after it had already fried one guy on the other hand…

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

they named an asteroid after apophis, because the astronomers were fans of the show, and yes its also egyptian mythos irl.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in "Vikings."

(cautiously checks for weird things like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking...)

What's this from?

It looks pretty rad.

[–] SrNobody@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Appreciate it, thanks! :D

[–] booty@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this is from Raised by Wolves, which is a wacky ass scifi thing.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D

Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m still upset that this was canceled.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It’s called Raised By Wolves. It was on HBO Max before Zaslov took over. He scrapped it completely and pulled it off the platform. I think it’s on one of those free ad-supported channels now.

The show is produced by Ridley Scott and his production company Scott Free Productions .

It’s quite hard to describe. At its core, it’s a sci-fi series focused on a couple of androids who are sent to raise human kids on another planet when Earth is destroyed by a religious war.

Beyond that, it’s like someone took LSD before writing the weirdest sci-fi shit they could think of. I mean like:

Tap for spoilerandroids giving birth to flying snakes, acid aliens storing babies in their chest cavity, and people turning into trees

I don’t even know how to describe it without spoilers because it’s so wild. I absolutely loved it.

[–] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

As someone who did watch it on acid, fully agreed. I had to rewatch it sober because I thought the whole show had been a fever dream. It was even trippier sober.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Okay I think I might have watched the first episode or I watch at least the preview for it and it was one of those shows that I wanted to watch but I've got so many that it just hasn't gone to that point yet. Guess I'm going to have to dig that out here soon.

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No. The show is cancelled before they wrap up anything.

Personally, I’d still watch it anyway because the show is so goddamn weird you can’t find anything like it anywhere else.

For anyone reading who hasn’t seen it, I would describe it as the most metal (🤘) show I’ve ever seen.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, "weird" and "metal" are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely "fire".

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could anyone please name the show? Ppl in the know keep referring to it as the show but could the oblivious ones get into the inner circle as well, please?

[–] Khaly@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I thought these were Whitecloaks from WoT at first and then my dumbass was like "no, Whitecloaks have golden sunbursts on the chest of their uniforms, not red. Wait, what about The Hand Of the Light? No, that's crimson shepherd's crooks, not sunbursts"

That continued for a while before I noticed their fucking guns

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?

[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain you're right, I just can't remember if it was that exact attempt at fucking with the Sun that started that, or if that was another time.

Because Ra has nothing but burning hatred for Apep, and it was well damned earned. Snake refuses to learn the lesson.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

there's probably a version of the myth for each. you know how the Greeks kinda had an established canon for their mythology? Egyptians did not lmao, there are very few (if any at all tbf) constants in their religion and the 3000 years of an Empire has produces many different versions of the state standard, and that's to not even mention the stuff nobody wrote down.

bonus fun fact! in some versions of the infamous cum salad myth Thoth creates a solar disk made out of Horus's cum that gets summoned from Set's body at the trial. next time you look at Thoth know that his hat is made of cum

there is also a goddess who is a brick, she has a human face and the rest is a brick :)

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Look it doesn't matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Basically, don't fuck with the sun. It's got hands. And a beak.

the Romans knew the sun as Sol Invictus, or "The Unconquerable Sun". Ever hear the story about the man who conquered the sun?

Me either

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Mao. Why do you think the East is Red?