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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I like shedders the best lol. I'd lose my shit if a clanker ever called me that tho

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Fleshies, smoothskins.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

THE FURRIES

(Not coz we are all hairy, but bcs the first sight of an awakening sentient AIs would probably be of some random sys admin.)

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

imagine banging a robot and they scream 'HARDER YOU DISGUSTING MEATBAG'

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Proves my theory that if aliens landed we have a racial slur for them within minutes of them arriving. Are humans just prone to racism?

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

People throwing around the M-word in here are likely just closet robosexuals

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago

ITT: science memes become sci-fi memes

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago
  • Gasbags: Even when doing nothing else, humans are constantly sucking in and pushing out air.
  • Slow rotting meat: As opposed to steaks which rot in a day, humans take a few decades to rot, but to a robot which might live for millennia, it's about the same
  • Wet Brains: Unlike a robot, our brains are wet, mushy things.
  • Sleepers: How weird must it be to see a lifeform that spends 1/3 of its short existence unconscious.

But, I can also imagine words of admiration from robots for things humans can do that they can't, for example:

  • self-fixers: When a robot part breaks it needs to be repaired. With a lot of injuries, humans just have to wait and the body repairs itself. That would seem pretty magical.
  • puzzlers: Humans are capable of lateral thinking in a way robots aren't. Humans can use analogies to things they do understand, and can reason about things in the physical world.
  • stinkers: Could be an insult because of humans pooping, pissing, sweating, etc. But it could also be a play on "instinct", somehow magically making a good guess about what to do in a new situation that's outside their "programming".
  • leaders: Robots are good at responding to inputs, but they don't actually have any motivation themselves. If eventually there's a robot that's capable of thinking and wondering, it might wonder what it's like to do something, not because someone asked, but because you wanted to do it.
[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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I know we are not monkeys and are closer related to apes.

I know monkey has been used as a racial slur.

It just sounds better than ape.

That said, I think if used holistically towards the entire species, and I do myself included, Monkey ticks all the right boxes because it immediately cuts down our species' unearned God complex about being somehow above just another animal mutation cohabitating on this world. We aren't, we're just the shittiest conceivable roommates.

We crow about our vocal chords. We crow about our opposable thumbs. But really, our species should just go down as monkeys/apes with a runaway ego mutation, nothing more. That's hitting us where it hurts, our inflated sense of specialness and self-importance, literally the only remarkable trait about us.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

our species should just go down as monkeys/apes

Good news, we are scientifically classified as apes!

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[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Effing Skins ruin everything!

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago

It's times like these we're glad we're not human. 😁

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago

Literally Revenant (Apex Legends)

Tiny Tank (PS1) "Air Breathers"

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 2 days ago
[–] ManuLeMaboul@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Futurama already coined the perfect one, meat bags.

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago

No need to imagine if you're a Linux user!

terminal: spd-say "Fucking oxies ruining everything"

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