Science Memes

11299 readers

3693 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

479

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

At least a couple of these are uppercase and some are lowercase, but yeah.

It's a bit like a fun game: Ask someone in the military to hand you an "M1" and see what they come up with.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Celsius is also basically always accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that "℃" is a single Unicode character.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I am flabbergasted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

One of my default phone keyboards had them. Either an old bersion of Gboard, or the Samsung keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't even have to be the military

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

For M2, it could also be an M.2 - presumably an SSD, but depending on context could also be the slot itself!