Start pronouncing it 'nucular', there's no bigger turn off.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
689 points (95.4% liked)
Science Memes
17860 readers
474 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
- Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
- Keep it rooted (on topic).
- No spam.
- 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
- !abiogenesis@mander.xyz
- !animal-behavior@mander.xyz
- !anthropology@mander.xyz
- !arachnology@mander.xyz
- !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !biology@mander.xyz
- !biophysics@mander.xyz
- !botany@mander.xyz
- !ecology@mander.xyz
- !entomology@mander.xyz
- !fermentation@mander.xyz
- !herpetology@mander.xyz
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !medicine@mander.xyz
- !microscopy@mander.xyz
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !nudibranchs@mander.xyz
- !nutrition@mander.xyz
- !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !photosynthesis@mander.xyz
- !plantid@mander.xyz
- !plants@mander.xyz
- !reptiles and amphibians@mander.xyz
Physical Sciences
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !chemistry@mander.xyz
- !earthscience@mander.xyz
- !geography@mander.xyz
- !geospatial@mander.xyz
- !nuclear@mander.xyz
- !physics@mander.xyz
- !quantum-computing@mander.xyz
- !spectroscopy@mander.xyz
Humanities and Social Sciences
Practical and Applied Sciences
- !exercise-and sports-science@mander.xyz
- !gardening@mander.xyz
- !self sufficiency@mander.xyz
- !soilscience@slrpnk.net
- !terrariums@mander.xyz
- !timelapse@mander.xyz
Memes
Miscellaneous
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
RIGHT?! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's based on the term NUCLEUS ffs.
Common misconception but it's actually based on Saint Nukulus, the guy that puts uranium in your boots if you leave them out overnight.
Did you know he was a real-life engineer in ancient Turducky?
Now, to be fair, nucleus it comes from the latin nuculus. It just that it sounds bad and feels bad to say
Yes officer, she touched my nuculus.
load more comments
(4 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Fun fact: "nuclear" ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing "ask" as "ax".
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut ("little nut")
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can't find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
I'll take "that totally happened" for 200, please.
Clearly you have not regularly been to bars in Capitol Hill.
That's nothing, that's tame, that's barely even remarkable as odd for all the wild shit I've seen and heard (and done -cough-) at and around the bars there.
That's horrible! Truly awful! Which bars, specifically, should I be avoiding?
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(8 replies)
Lemmings spotting obvious satire challenge (impossible)
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn't claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
Cosplayers would also love you, but the venn diagram between cosplay and ren fair is nearly a circle, so
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I've always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
load more comments
(4 replies)
so this is lemmy's "science memes" huh
Edit: /nm
What would you want instead, a picture of the cover of Principia Mathematica? Just a Wikipédia link to the page for Pilot Wave Theory? Some broccoli taped to a white wall?
load more comments
(6 replies)
I give it a month before we see the guy QQing about they types of people that hit on industrial engineers.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
If you are worried about too many furries in your line of work, try changing jobs! Maybe get into IT or something?
load more comments
(4 replies)
If you don't like this meme, post your own. That's how this works, both here and on Reddit. Platform has nothing to do with it, unless it's a closed, invite-only forum. That's the only way you can keep out simple farmers, the people of the land. The common clay of the Earth.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Don't get the question. Sounds like telling people you're a nuclear engineer is working out well.
Embrace the furries, could be fun for a fling.
I don’t get it. Why furries?
STEM fields are just full of furries, I don't make the rules.
Because Seattle is full of them
What’s it got to do with being a nuclear engineer though? It just seems so random, it feels like I’m missing something.
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I seem to be attracted to musicians more than any other hobby or profession. If you can sing or play an instrument, it makes me wet af.
I slap the end of pipes and tubes with a sandal. Sometimes I use two sandals, but society can't always handle the intensity of that.
load more comments
(5 replies)
Many such cases!
view more: next ›