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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 100 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"We're a network of ethnic groups, kingdoms, confederacies, and warrior clans. We transcend even being 'a' culture. We are a legion of diverse groups. Our people arrived when this land was empty, and we have dominated it - half a continent - comfortably, for 15,000 generations."

"So, uh.... What's that big thing over there?"

"Well, we found that creating massive, highly engineered earthworks helps us with both agricultural and security tasks. And it's some high value real estate, we do get huge floods occasionally, so our libraries are uusually higher up, also."

"So, just mounds of dirt?"

"Mou- What? No, these require years of planning, and -"

"Mounds! Mounds! You're all Mound People! Mound People! Mound People!"

"Ugh..."

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tale as old as (no idea wtf autocorrect did there) time with exonyms. Ex: Anasazi vs Ancestral Puebloans. In the early 1900s when archaeologists started getting interested in Ancestral Puebloan sites, they misapplied the Navajo name for them, which basically means ‘ancestors of our enemies.’ Obviously not what most people want to be referred to as!

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Develop agriculture and domesticate animals and become the first species in 3.7 billion years to finally beat the constant struggle for food and basically defeat hunger as a society and nobody says shit.

Draw one picture of a stick figure fucking a giant sloth on a cave wall and you will be known as the Northern Slothfuckers for all of history.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Cause settling down led to capitalism. I'm still pissed at those fools.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What culture are we going to be for the aliens who discover our remains ten thousand years from now?

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 49 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"This is Trash Planet, former home of the Trash Aliens. They seemed to really, really love making trash."

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 weeks ago

It was a ritual fetish act.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Would aliens in 10000 years even be able to tell the difference between trash and ... well, not trash? They'd probably just think that we were really into plastic. Which isn't wrong - I literally bought a plastic mixing bowl this week (it was that or steel, and I hate the noise of steel bowls).

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

mixing bowls are the fucking worst

plastic: scratches really easily, probably toxic, environmental nightmare

ceramic: heavy af, breaks easily

glass: heavy af, breaks easily

wood: literally porous, pain in the ass to clean, can't go in dishwasher, and you have to oil it like a fucking engine

steel: heavy, dents easily, your kitchen is STOMP! now

(I think I recall a STOMP! performance played on PBS when I was a kid in the early '00s where they used primarily steel bowls but couldn't find a clip)

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How dare they. This is Planet Dirt, not Planet Trash!

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Planet Plastic Ocean.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

we really did name the planet Dirt 🤦‍♀️ you'd think we could have at least called it Home or some shit

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're leaving a soil layer with radioactive isotopes, microplastics and concrete rubble. You'll probably also find lots of signs of all the earthmoving we're doing

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

The plastic Miku culture.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Maybe they spot the machines and artifacts left on Mars and the moon and go with robotics or metal poly compounds/alloys. If it's just Earth maybe plastic or concrete or transistors.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

If we're lucky...

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

The vitriolic nuclear primates

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was.

[–] nonius@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Make sure to visit rotatingsandwiches.com. Truly a website I didn't know I needed

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks... now I'm hungry.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Any excuse to get pissed for these madlads. Waaaay!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

Comb ceramic culture and rope ceramic ware culture were the big ones in my area in fact

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The modern version is gonna be:

Us: We achieved interplanetary travel and transitioned to renewable energy.

People from the future: slop people haha. Look they are talking to the clanker like its human ahahaha. Oh my god look they let it raise their child.