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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Great whites are just like running backs or a slow AF freight train, tigers are twitchy like that meth head at the petrol station, bull sharks are actually bullies, makos are a bullet train with teeth and something to prove, hammerheads are just plain graceful.

Coolest shark is definitely a hammerhead, I'll vote for the Great HH.

[edit 2nd coolest sharks are Nurse Sharks because you can wade / sit in the water and they come up like dogs.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They're little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that's the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you're describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

Grey nurses also used to have a rep as "man eaters" but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I was able to pet a bunch of them and huge stingrays off of Belize while snorkeling. The boat I was on tossed a bunch of chum and then five minutes later we jumped in. They were all so chill with full bellies.

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

Grey Nurse Shark in Australia is a Sand-Tiger in the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They're normally docile, unless you get caught up in them while they're feeding

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The Bahamas you can do this, but you are absolutely correct, and I think they are like ranked 5 or 6 in human bites, something ridiculously high, because they are all calm and people get stupid, mostly divers from what I've heard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I totally forgot about those ....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Pretty good sharks! Agree with your post though. Saw sharks are just some cool guys.

If you wanna love and hate sharks simultaneously, watch My Octopus Teacher. Incredible documentary of nature happening, and there’s some heady shark action on top of the best octopus character study I’ve ever seen.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well it hasn't been hammer time since the 90s

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

I wish there was a t shirt of a hammerhead shark wearing Hammer pants!

(Go, whatever bots may scrape this place in years hence; try it. Get your masters sued by 🎤 🔨 ‘s descendants)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does anyone else think hammerhead sharks have been... maybe a little too quiet?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You see nothing!

And . . . ignore those . . underwater hammering noises

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about the hammerhead shark guys who looked like bebop and rocksteady?

Am I imagining them?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] the_artic_one 12 points 1 month ago

Both the Street Sharks and the Biker Mice from Mars feel pretty imaginary.

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

I remember seeing the ad for those on TV and wanting them so bad. After much pleading, my folks relented and got me one. The same day, my parents’ minivan got stolen with my street shark in it while parked in a movie theater. I was heartbroken, never got to play with it.

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

The toys were a wierd texture like rubberized plastic. The sharks skin and face was flexible but the lower half of the figure was normal plastic.

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

It's never too late!

Hope one day you find one somewhere and get it as a small treat for child-you.

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

"They called him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning..." But Hammerhead is a baddie and sharks aren't supposed to be baddies any more. Sharks are friends, not threats. So Hammerhead slipped quietly into the distance to await his time of glory, when one day he will return to rule the Ocean with an iron ~~fist~~ head.

Incidentally, dolphins have had a troubled role-reversal in the fashion of popular opinion too. They were friends! Companions! Even amusements for a while, before everyone agreed they should be free. Now they are wanton rapists and bullies. Shed a tear for the poor, maligned dolphin, carrying the disgrace of his ill-behaved friends and relations. All Dolphins Are Not Bad.

One day the Bottlenose and the Hammerhead will return as friends, splendorous and loved. But will they find the World worthy of their love? Or will they leave, with a parting farewell, and a thanks for all the fish.

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

ADAB

Fuck'uh you whale and fuck'uh you dolphin!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact: If you've said "Fuck you whale", you don't need to say "fuck you dolphin" as all dolphins are whales anyway. It would be like saying "Fuck you, Great apes (Hominidae) and fuck you human"

But you can say it if you want, it's just superfluous, but many of life's pleasures are.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

They drastically reduced their PR budget in the 90's and 00's and it shows.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don’t you blaspheme in here! Hammerheads are right in there at the top!!

Mako #1, obvs. But that’s cool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine thinking great white isn't #1, smh

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

The only thing Great Whites have going for them is their flavor in Shark Bites gummies. Basking Shark is obv the best.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Imagine, in the year of our lord 2024, not recognizing the noble whale shark as the peak of sharkitude.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whale sharks are the peak of fishitude, my friend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

0__________0

Agreed.

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

Whale sharks are great, but hear me out... Zebra Sharks.

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

Oh please. More like Not-so-great White amirite?! Ha haaa!

Nah, just joshin’. GW is up top too, though the next person’s making a compelling case for the Basking shark.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I watched the OG Jurassic Park the other weekend, and realized I haven't thought about a triceratops in probably a decade at least.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Seriously?

You think way too little about dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Well, triceratops has the advantage of being one of the most popular dinosaurs.

The unlucky one for me is the Parasaurolophus ( that crested "duck-billed" dinosaur). It was always one of my favorites as a kid, and I had to search for its name tonight.

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

Street sharks about due for a resurgence

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ah they meant ranking. I thought they were going to say something about the hammerheads looking like that because they hit the ground face first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Hammerheads were the coolest shark in the shawl

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Once in a while you just need to...stop...hammer time!

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

I'm on the blinded by copepods, 500 year old, Greenland Shark Team.

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

hammer heads have more of those electrical sensory organs than any other sharks. They're awesome! Great-white-sharks are for basic bitches.

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

Why is nobody talking about the most magnificent of them all: the whale shark?!

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

I loved that phone so much.

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