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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago

But he did have two sisters, which makes this post a lot weirder

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I was gonna say that. He was famously single his entire life and is speculated to be one of the first historical examples of an asexual and aromantic person.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can't be the only one that read "aromatic person" instead of "aromantic person".

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago

He was born in the 17th century, everyone had quite the aroma back then

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

sniff sniff

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

atleast you're not alone.

[–] Caesium 2 points 2 months ago

oh damn that's sick if he was! pretty cool ace representation

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought that was the joke here, isn't it? He stayed virgin due to this...?

[–] Pissman2020 89 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy and point out the fact that in the panels showing himat his desk from the inside, th window is to his right and there's no wall right next to him, while the one from the outside has the window directly in line with him and it's breaking me

[–] Broken_Monitor 28 points 2 months ago

But at least the formulas and constants appear to be correct

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

My gawd, you've entirely ruined my enjoyment of this cucumber.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I sure hope somebody got fired for this blunder!

[–] Bertuccio 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be the guy that points out cucumbers are spiky before they get to the grocery store...

[–] feedum_sneedson 22 points 2 months ago

I've grown lots of cucumbers, and while I haven't shoved them in my arse, I can confirm that they are smooth. Ridge cucumbers can have spikes, you may be thinking of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

you mean zucchini

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's all just one room, they moved the desk to the window to make place for a bed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

He moved his desk to a different room/window

[–] BugleFingers 3 points 2 months ago

It looks correct to me, the inside view doesn't even clear the window, the outside view shows that the wall is maybe ~1' past the window frame which we don't even see on the inside shot. Unless I'm missing something?

[–] xantoxis 57 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A cucumber tree? Sir, this is a science community.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The cucumber is on the ground. And cucumbers do grow on plants.

[–] xantoxis 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Admittedly the image quality is "this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented", but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It's depicted as falling out of a tree.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers "hang" in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But did they do that in Newton's time?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

[–] PapaStevesy 2 points 2 months ago

The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The cucumber just fell out of a peddler's basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.

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

If they don't grow on trees then why are they green.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isaac fucked the apple too tho.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Surely that took a lot more practice than doing a cucumber. So I was told.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Told by Isaac doctors, and a team of nurses, and the results of local biggest apple contest.

[–] ZILtoid1991 1 points 2 months ago

Please don't try it unless you can already fist yourself, or the retrieval will be a lot more painful!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Needs more jpeg

[–] NerdyPopRocks 18 points 2 months ago

The center wall that separates the windows is larger on the inside than the outside. Fun

[–] SomeGuy69 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always laugh at stuff like the small dust cloud of the cucumber, as if it just popped into existence and caused air pressure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I think it fell off the vine like the apple fell off the tree