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Hegar, in weevil booties!!

Bootied trunk bug, got it.

Slovene, in help

Also when trying to fold fitted sheets.

tygerprints, in It's just science.

Pretty sure they have 100 percent mortality rate as most animals do. There are some species of jellyfish that technically are immortal (capable of immortality anyway) - they revert back to a polyp stage and start life over again without dying. But every other animal species, like us humans, does have to bow down to the grim reaper at some point.

Cralder,

“Caterpillar” is not a species. It’s a stage of some animals’ life cycle. It means 99% of catepillars die before they become butterflies or moths or whatever

StorminNorman, (edited )

Yeah, they’re also wrong about jellyfish being the only immortal animals. Gotta love being confidently incorrect…

tygerprints,

If there are other immortal animal species, what are they? My comment about jellyfish being immortal was from the article in national Geographic. What are the animals you are thinking of?

StorminNorman,

The hydra. There’s a species of worm (pretty sure it’s a flatworm, could be a round one though). Technically, lobsters are too. They also aren’t cos growing their news shells is incredibly taxing and that’s how the old ones usually succumb, but yeah, genetically, they do the whole telomere regeneration shit. Their DNA is like 17yo when they die at age 130. So, yeah.

tygerprints,

Hydra, eh? According to the web, hydra are "virtually immortal" in a lab environment. On the other hand, though I've heard lobsters could be immortal, the web (which obviously is the only true source of info, wink wink) says it's a myth, eventually the lobster will die "from exhaustion during a moult." However I know they can live a long long time, many animals can easily out live humans.

Interesting stuff, thanks for the comments.

StorminNorman,

Oh ffs. I swear to god we don’t deserve the internet. I literally pointed out that lobsters do die. The reason we can consider em immortal is cos they clean up their telomere damage. You colossal idiot. You’re trying to trip me up and “expose” me, but you can’t even get the fundamentals right…

gmtom, in i <3 statistics

Even if we planted a trillion trees it would only have a tiny affect on climate change. Same with killing large amounts of people. The only way we combat climate change effectively is getting off fossil fuels.

M137,
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It’s disturbing that so many think that just more trees is the solution. It really shows how dumb and ignorant most people are.

samus12345, in uncomfortable levels of eye contact
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sigmaklimgrindset,

Thank you Eiji Aonuma, very cool.

topinambour_rex, (edited ) in uncomfortable levels of eye contact
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It’s the heaviest part of the moon which face us. And even when it will reach it’s farthest and definitive orbit ( the moon slowly move away from us), it will still the same face toward us.

troyunrau, in uncomfortable levels of eye contact
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Aside from being a meme, the factoid isn’t even true.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Moons

All twenty known moons in the Solar System that are large enough to be round are tidally locked with their primaries [planets]

fossilesque,
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oce,
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I was skeptical thank you for the confirmation. Especially because the time it takes to lock depends on the relative size of the bodies. Our moon being exceptionally big relatively to our planet, if it has locked, then relatively smaller moons should have locked long before.
Btw, the locking is not perfect, there’s a little oscillation of the moon called libration, so we can actually see about 59% of it over the years.

Embargo,

It just says other moons. Not all other moons. Meaning the meme isn’t untrue… Right?

troyunrau,
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Pedantically speaking, yes. At least some small moons do freely rotate. But they are all very small and very far from their parent planet. If you were on the surface, you wouldn’t see details.

Mars has two small moons close to it, but neither rotate relative to the surface. They’re also really small and zip about super fast so they’re cool for other reasons.

Zehzin, in The dangers of doing science during a dry spell
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Do you give the yogurt to mice or do you eat it yourself?

DessertStorms, (edited ) in uncomfortable levels of eye contact
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pigup, in It's just science.
vamputer, in The dangers of doing science during a dry spell
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I don’t imagine one earns the title of “yogurt scientist” by being well-adjusted

FuglyDuck,
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I knew a guy who once engineered a continuous yogurt-making machine… (maybe even the guy whose machine is in all the yogurt shops,) he was a engineer, not a biologist… but… you might be onto something.

There were some interesting aspects of engineering. Not nearly as many as he thought…

PoisonedPrisonPanda, in uncomfortable levels of eye contact

Can it ever happen to change?

Like an asteroid shower who throws a little momentum on this bastard?

CarlsIII, in The dangers of doing science during a dry spell

He then went on to write “The Rescuers”

cashews_best_nut, in uncomfortable levels of eye contact

It needs to face us so it can tell our tides what to do. If it turned around the tide wouldn’t hear it.

I thought this was a science community?

roguetrick, in The dangers of doing science during a dry spell

Don't show this to stamets.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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Now I’m curious…

Stamets,
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…what?

roguetrick,

I posted this directly after you were hornyposting about greek gods.

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