this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
675 points (96.7% liked)

Science Memes

10652 readers
3497 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.

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]
675
What a prompt (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
60 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What have they done to us?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How is this a science meme?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yog Sothoth cares not for your meaningless mortal science. Ia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Terrazoology and cosmozoology

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is effectively how “On a Pale Horse” by Piers Anthony starts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not to be confused with "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper. Vastly different subject material.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've thought about things like this. What if humans could be kept by aliens as pets? What would that be like? Can any extremely bored writer reading this come up with something?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've talked to my roommates about this, how we'd eat like a bowl of canned chili every day with a dollop of peanut butter as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't exclusively eat peanut butter! Apparently it produces some toxin!

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

You probably mean aflatoxin that is produced by a mold that is common on peanuts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lmaoo that's so oddly specific, were you guys high af?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny, I actually have a running story in my head like this. People kept in little cages like hamsters, aliens choosing breeding pairs, or training them to fight each other. Some aliens would be debating the ethics of it all while others go, “Humans are much stupider than we are, so it’s okay to treat them like this.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Whoaa that's pretty brutal 😭 creative though lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There was an episode of The Orville that was kinda like this.

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

Almost exactly like this

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

It was exactly this. Right down to them being fed peanut butter and chili.

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

They weren't trained to fight or choosing breeding pairs, though. It was just a zoo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well, we didn't see that on screen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

All it dose is sleep, eat, and stare at a self illuminated window all day.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh that was me in reverse. Waking up to a pack of coyotes wondering if I was the tame human. Alas I sat up too quickly, scared them off, and now I'll never get adopted by a pack of coyotes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

dude i think they were trying to see if you were dead so they could get an easy meal

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I know that. But if not friend, why friend shape?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We recently discovered that Hyenas were one of our primary predators well before we figured out tools and fire. There are archaeological sites that have thousands of human skeletons that were clearly eaten by hyenas. Mostly children, IIRC.

I would surmise that some of us have completely overwritten our basic instincts. Hyenas would also be friend shaped, but somehow I'm reasonably certain that your and my ancestors would disagree.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno. I've seen hyenas in the zoo and I did not get the same feeling towards them. Lions are also rather intimidating once it's just a bit of wire and a slightly too far jump between you. Wolves and coyotes though, they make me want to do the whole domestication thing all over again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Also foxes, don't forget about foxes. Very friend shaped.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest.

load more comments
view more: next ›