this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
655 points (98.7% liked)

Science Memes

19943 readers
2330 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 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago

Predicting weather is chaos theory.

Predicting the movement of celestial bodies is classical mechanics.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, weather has a web of complex and confounding variables vis a vie every fucking air molecule in the entire atmosphere.

Where as Orion was a single shippy boi

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Also to mention, their entire reporting area will not get consistent snowfall.