Some of you will be fighting for your planet. Some of you will be dying for your planet. Some of you will be forced through a fine screen mesh for your planet. Those will be the luckiest of all.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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Thanks for the lab meme picture. I miss r/labrats :'(
I too was doing an analytic chemistry course when this first popped :) Never forget!!
Hit extra hard because a friend was in a performing techno duo called Polytron.
But is it the same sponge? Inverse ship of Theseus!
It's like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. It basically melts into a goo inside it's chrysalis, but apparently it's been demonstrated that they can retain things they learned before metamorphosis, so...🤷♂️
I forget which episode it was, but on Last Week Tonight someone compared some process to "turning a fried chicken nugget back into a live chicken." To which John replied "If you managed that, that chicken would be FUCKED UP. Imagine the poetry it would write, 'the things that I saw, buck buck bacaw...'"
A sponge can un-puree itself but I bet there's a kind of scream we can't hear that it would never stop making.
I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.
Not after I'm done, never be the same again...
My brain totally omitted the first instance of sponge and for a moment I thought we were making sponges out of military personnel from a specific branch of the military.
I read sponge, but thought it must be a term for new recruits or something like that, which made the rest horrifying.
given the history of experiments on military personel, it wouldn't surprise me if we did
Aperture science intro
All of them?
not all of them.
Only the tasty ones
How you think we know which ones are tasty?
adjunct professors express the same adaptation if you ask any university
If I chop you up, in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out becomes you again... You are probably a sponge
Human attempt #32,324,568,693
fail
Human attempt #32,324,568,694
fail
The Aperture Science Enrichment Center welcomes you to the Aperture Science 3 meter sieve. The only exit from this hermetically sealed chamber is through the carbon nanotube mesh covering the doorway. If you are not able to negotiate the carbon nanotube mesh on your own, an Aperture Science 90 kiloton hydraulic persuasion piston will assist you in the experiment. Testing protocols require us to inform you that in some rare cases the carbon nanotube mesh may irritate your skin, eyes, bones, and central nervous system.
perfect
I was going for a Portal 1 GLaDOS there. Portal 2 GLaDOS be like:
Today we are focusing on material integrity--YOURS to be more precise. In this chamber you will encounter a long track of propulsion gel, at the end of which you will encounter an Aperture Science Particle Filtration Grid. The goal isn't to stop you; it is to see precisely which parts of you stop. For science.
Now, try not to disappoint. Or do; it really doesn't matter to me. And if you somehow manage to reassemble yourself on the other side, do let us know. It would be...unexpected
Cave Johnson be like:
Alright, listen up down there! This next experiment we call The Sift. Now you might be thinking, "Cave, why am I being forced through a giant cheese grater?" The answer is very simple: Because you signed the waiver.
We're throwing science at the wall to see what sticks. And by 'the wall' we mean the Aperture Science Particle Filtration Grid, and by 'science' we mean you. And by 'throw' we mean 'fire out of a giant pneumatic cannon."
Some of you might be worried about the finer points, the technical details. Don't! That's our job. Your job is to be the organic matter. I'll be honest, some of you will make it through, and some of you won't. You won't have any tumors left after this, so you've got that going for you. Caroline, start the compressor.
To be accurate, they will all make it through. One way or another.
why are you this good at this?
I played the shit out of those games.
Aye, fair enough. Well it was a fun read, so keep it up
When Leeto got bored of the Duncans and didn't use his prescience. Don't mind me been listening to the Dune series for the umpteenth time again. Just the core ones of course.
99% of mad scientist stop immoral human trials right before the big breakthrough!
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