this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
713 points (95.5% liked)

Science Memes

11086 readers
2818 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

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

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



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 49 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] BloodSlut 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but imagine how fuckin cool it would be if they were

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

It wood be really cool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sadly it's the other way around. Tree stumps are nothing but small rock formations. How disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those giant trees had to be cut because the earth was risking turning upside down from the weight.

[–] RePsyche 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flat Earth has entered the chat. :-D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Considering the giant trees is part of flat earth yeah it was in here the whole time

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Giant earth theory is wild. I followed a guy on Reddit who had some absolutely insane videos "teaching" the subject. He also thought multiplication was a lie because if you do 5x5 by counting your fingers 5 times you still only have 5 fingers.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd say he's trolling but Terryology is apparently serious so anything goes, some people will gaslight themselves into anything.

Or maybe he's just amazing at the bit. He is an actor...

[–] Something_Complex 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In every dumb movement you have the tucker carlsons that say shit they don't belive in, the trumps completely demented even lower iq and truly believe those things they say. And who ever the hell are the monkeys that whatch it.

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

If he was an actor he was performing for an insanely small audience. This guy was legit some of his videos were years old with less than 10 views.

[–] Theharpyeagle 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But like... so what? What does this add to the flat earth "theory"? Like, okay there were really, really big trees once. Now what?

I know I'm looking for logic where it doesn't exist, but this really baffles me.

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

I'll see if his YouTube channel is still up so you can get the crazy sauce straight from the tap. Be warned, it is difficult to find a cohesive thought let alone any logic.

[–] xantoxis 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, all natural phenomena including checks notes the one where someone cut down a tree with a saw

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

Maybe someone cut down that mountain with a really big saw?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Erdtree O Erdtree,

Erdtree O Erdtree

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🤔 This is honestly evidence that the universe is mathematical, that the shapes of trees and mountains are formed under similar mathematical rules despite being different sizes and materials.

Like galaxy formation and brain cells also look similar and that's ostensibly the reason why so it stands to reason why this would be a thing.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember someone posting a Neil Degrasse Tyson video and he was interviewing a guy talking about finding equations at the root of the physical world.

Neil seemed blown away, but isn't mathematics just our interpretation of the natural laws of the universe?

Like reading Cliff's Notes and then the actual book and saying "hey these are similar!"

[–] MycoBro 2 points 1 year ago

Good job with pointing that out. I think you are correct. I still feel the same wonder at it though. Gets me right in the pickle. I like to think about tree “experience” and stuff too. So many different ways to be and do in this universe. Understanding the world through math is batshit wild and I wonder what method a giant armillaria mellea uses to understand the world.

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

fractals baby, it's all procedurally generated here in the matrix.

and there's a valid query regarding the world as simulation. but to take the leap from 'this geology shares properties similar to this stump' to 'damn, that was a big tree that grew out in the middle of this desert.... well that takes drugs kids.

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

my brother thinks mountains are fossilised giants.

not kidding

[–] whereisk 7 points 1 year ago

Bloody hell mate.. maybe he likes to rile you up? I mean, hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And so random...

Brainfuck of the day.

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

He must be a fan of the xenoblade games

[–] Daft_ish 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you imagine the size of the chain saw!!?

[–] PainInTheAES 8 points 1 year ago

Is a quasar not just a giant chain saw? Are spiral galaxies not just giant sawblades? It's giant trees all the way down, baby. Checkmate, Arborists.

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

Wow does anyone know where that first picture comes from? That mountain range looks like someone just jammed a bunch of glass shards into the ground!

[–] Flokman 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that’s the Cerro Torre in Patagonia :D

[–] Ultraviolet 9 points 1 year ago

The line between creative worldbuilding and batshit insanity is surprisingly thin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Flat earth wasn't silly enough?

[–] IndiBrony 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have three words if you love laughing at idiots like this: Mud. Fossil. University.

Enjoy.

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

Holy shit that's a deep library. I'm going in

[–] davidalso 2 points 1 year ago

That's fun.

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

I’m obviously not getting this one lol

[–] Decoy321 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need to overthink a meme, but here's my guess.

They're correlating the shapes of the objects, implying some causation.

There isn't.

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

Ahh okay, that makes more sense. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You could say that my formations have been rocked.

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

Just be happy that you don't get it. There are flat earthers out there who will say it unironically. Not sure if it's only flat earthers but I think so. It really is wild

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Plateaus are stumps of mountains.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 3 points 1 year ago

Not pictured: Teldrassil

[–] Batman 3 points 1 year ago

My dataset says there is a one to one relationship between mountains and stumps (n=3). Infinite-Power.jpg.gif

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

This sounds like it could be cool lore for some niche book