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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She's right there. This is literally a power play to force her kid to do a pointless task.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Of course, mother!

[–] [email protected] 140 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Never forget the future that was taken from us.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you Junior. Don't forget to wear you shoes when you go play in the asbestos pit at school. I put two cigarettes in your lunchbox you can have one at lunch if your teacher says its okay and one on the way to home after your shift at the radium watch painting factory.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It’ll come back eventually unless fusion takes over. The power density promises are simply too attractive.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never mind that pesky burning taste, imagine the power savings!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It always smells like bloody sinus in our house after changing the wafer.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]

But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby

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

Hmm but couldn't we then also go even further and assume an idealized muscle car with an effective transmission to its wheels of 1:1 running at its optimal torque vs speed point and thus with a given speed of its wheels rotation for a given time?

Aka convert energy into miles (traveled) or something (with the choice of motor and wheel diameter and everything else standardized ofc.)?

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

The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.

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

We also don't use apostrophes for plural words.

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

Speak for yourselv’es

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

You were lied to. We use a mix of both, just like the UK.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 days ago (3 children)

“Mother, why do all my teeth feel itchy?”

[–] ICastFist 50 points 3 days ago

"It's because you haven't been smoking enough. Here, smoke these two before dinner."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm so out of my depth in this thread. Is this a real side effect of radiation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I can’t find it now, but I’d swear to having read an anecdote from someone working with radiation who reported tingling teeth during exposure.

It definitely does a lot of nasty things to the body.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Feeling snackish for an

A T O M I C

W A F E R !

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All wafers, cookies, chips, biscuits, crispbread and hardtack I've ever seen have been atomic.

I struggle to imagine one that wouldn't be.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Look at his face, he's 100% gonna eat that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Uranium has so many calories, he will never have to eat again

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

There's a timeliness where tiktok kids are eating atomic wafers as a challenge.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This post was brought to you by Isaac Asimov's Foundation gang.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Timmy you left the aluminum foil on the atomic wafer!!"

"By golly Tim you shattered space time and opened a black hole!"

"My apologies mother and father, I have been absent of clear cognition."

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Too 👏 cheap 👏 to 👏 meter

[–] Zink 8 points 3 days ago

Given the up-front cost of any kind of reactor, I don’t think the concept of a usage-based electric bill goes away as long as it’s corporations competing for customers. Maybe eventually it would be like ISPs where it’s a flat fee depending on the size of your connection. I guess it could be totally unmetered then.

Like so many things, it gets a lot simpler if it’s the government supplying the service.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Putting it in my underwear later...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Do you want to be Malons? This is how you become Malons. /s

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, if you're a Stalker, it may put hair on your kids бляать.

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

Gotta power the family brain scorcher, for home defensse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

About the hairy chest (don't worry, it's harmless).

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