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[–] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd love to meet one of those few. A skateboarder eating that much krill has to be such an amazing spectacle

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wanna see a whale do a kickflip more, that would be wicked as fuck!

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty cool, but I think I'd rather watch a teenager in baggypants break the laws of physics entirely by consuming multiple times his body mass

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What that fuck? I was just having a piss and I fucking read your comment and - it didn't, but - what if my snort of laughter when I did had caused my fucking urine stream to shoot back and to the left and fucking soaked my spare toilet rolls? Did you fucking think about that when ou posted? FFS.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Apologies, I hadn't considered the impact my comment might have on the urinary tract of innocent readers

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Are you, by chance, a dolphin or whale?

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

I think we've just reinvented the Xgames.

[–] owl@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

They do there belly flops, where they rise from the water and splash on it. I suppose that is pretty close, but I have done neither.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A shark can swim faster than me, but I can outrun a shark. So in a triathlon it comes down to the bicycle part.

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

Yeah but monkeys have hands on their feet, so they can pull on the pedal's upstroke as well as push on the downstroke ☝️

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Tri bikes usually have clip-in pedals so humans can do this too.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

very few whales, not 0. That's something I want to see!

[–] Trabic@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Kickflip β‰  Backflip β‰  Peanut flip

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just because you've never seen a whale do a kickflip doesn't mean they can't.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

They would just rather not

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wouldn't they do flipper-flips instead?

The inventor of the trick was human, so the name stuck.

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

Does one need feet to kick?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

One needs legs, I'd say, so a spider can do 4 kickflips at once

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

It only says most can't - but we'll never be able to prove that such a whale does not exist at all.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Despite being a shitpost this is actually quite a positive statement for your own mental health

[–] Altrex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] owl@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

I kick people and flip em off. Does that meet criteria?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's true, I can't even put away a million krill before I start feeling like a glutton.

Bro... if you're not downing at least 10M krill per day, the Kraken wins.

[–] Una@europe.pub 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can drink hydrochloric acid without dyeing

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watch out, that stuff can die your clothes.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All clothes dead, even the little socks

[–] Morganza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 week ago

Socks are cemetery of unborn kids

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

I had my first class on heterogeneity in the classroom today and the teacher would have loved this tweet

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why not share it with teacher?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I’d have to wait two weeks, because she doesn’t check her email, but I already bookmarked it