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[–] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year 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 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago

Are you, by chance, a dolphin or whale?

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

I think we've just reinvented the Xgames.

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

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

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

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

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

Kickflip β‰  Backflip β‰  Peanut flip

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year 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 year ago

They would just rather not

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

Does one need feet to kick?

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

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

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year 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 year 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 year ago (1 children)
[–] owl@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

I can drink hydrochloric acid without dyeing

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

Watch out, that stuff can die your clothes.

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

All clothes dead, even the little socks

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

Socks are cemetery of unborn kids

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

Why not share it with teacher?

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

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