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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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 ☝️

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

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days 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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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

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

Are you, by chance, a dolphin or whale?

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

I think we've just reinvented the Xgames.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

Kickflip β‰  Backflip β‰  Peanut flip

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

They would just rather not

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't they do flipper-flips instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

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

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

Does one need feet to kick?

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can drink hydrochloric acid without dyeing

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

Watch out, that stuff can die your clothes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All clothes dead, even the little socks

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

Socks are cemetery of unborn kids

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

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

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

Why not share it with teacher?

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

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