this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
1104 points (98.8% liked)

Science Memes

10950 readers
2091 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
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1104
NASA (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
47 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Is 400 km a lot? 🤷‍♀️ I'm american....

Edit: thank yall, I was being cheeky

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

I truly don’t mean this as an insult, but the second half of your post could apply to almost anything after a question mark it could be a new form of “that’s what she said”

You could be a trailblazer🤷‍♂️ But then I’m Irish…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's 200 km from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. The moon is 400.000 km away

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your fancy decimal/comma swapping sure does make this seem like nothing with extra significant digits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The moon is 4 •10^5^ km away