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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

They arrested this century's Oppenheimer but they won't arrest the CEOs of oil companies? The hypocrisy on display!

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

Too bad it's not 1985. I heard in 1985 it would be available in every corner drugstore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nope. In 1985, your best bet for plutonium was connections from Libya. A guy named Doc Brown was my hookup, had a really nice DeLorean he was working on for a project of his...

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

#THE LIBYANS

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How was he planning to get Oganesson?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe he was oganessing a solution

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Going down a Wikipedia Plutonium rabbit hole, I just realized that the Metropolis algorithm was named after a real person.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dr. Metropolis sounds like a superhero

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Spoliers: Dr. Metropolis is revealed to be a villain that was working against the heroes the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's Dr Manhattan at home

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well that's stupid. In a couple of billion years he'll have to get more!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if he had astatine, more like 20 mins

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wake me up when he has his vial of Francium ready.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Oh don't worry, it will wake up the whole neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God forbid men have hobbies smdh

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

Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.

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

But what is the charge? Collecting the elements of a succulent periodic table?

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

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PLUTONIUM!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh shit, this guy is trying to summon captain planet. He can't be allowed to succeed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

This nerd did nothing wrong, now they're training him to be a hardened criminal

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

probably spend about billion dollars to make some particle accelerators, or ask some existing lab to let you move all your stuff into there lab, since ognassen would not last for even a second (all nearby elements are basically same in this, ognassen being most stable), so you would have to move your collection to their lab to have a "complete" set

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

I'll have multiple particle accelerators that constantly runs as they decay in my basement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best of luck for the electricity bills

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

You think i can run particle accelerators from power grid??

I'll have a nuclear power plant

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

Ah, stupid me, obviously you have a nuclear reactor, what would you do else with loads on nuclear waste from the accelerators.

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

One man's trash is other man's wealth. Nuclear reactor's waste can also be in my periodic table collection

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

IMO if you are willing to go/risk going to jail for some time best reasons are either stealing millions of dollars or murder. Nothing else is quite worth it

I guess the situation truly worthy considering for me would be getting paid millions of dollars for killing someone really and I mean really insufferable. Then I would seriously think about it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A friend of a friend is dating a dude in prison for being a hitman (needless to say she has terrible taste in men and we've told her that many times). He apparently accepted $7k to travel across the country to kill someone then travel again to Mexico to collect the payout, meaning probably like $6k all said and done, and all I can think is that's way less than I ever would have thought one would accept for such a service, especially when I can't even get a second car key included when buying a car for 2-3x that!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You think it's too little because you're not keen on the idea of killing someone in the first place. Would you take the money if instead of murder you just had to go attend a work meeting? Some people treat crimes just as casually as that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They all think they are so smart and no one will ever find out while leaving traces all over. morons

Why does she date a loser that allowed himself to be catched for years for 6k, ask her. Terrible taste

You don’t date incels of crime but CEOs of crime

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tell her she can date me. I'll commit a sex crime for her ...:)

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

The fuck makes you think that's an okay thing to say?

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

I was importing plutonium for a friend I promise!

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