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Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Here’s a fun game: describe your research/interest in a similar way that Fox/Republicans use to describe research. The more misleading it is from the actual research, the better.
I’ll start: watch how tired mice get when they get sick
(determine the mechanism of how microbial contact affects host circadian rhythms)
I study how fast pollutants leaking into the ground are degraded by natural processes involving microorganisms, and whether it would be possible to protect groundwater sources from pollution by introducing the right microorganisms in the right place after a spill.
I honestly don’t know how to phrase that so it sounds useless.
You watch trash water drain into dirt
Researchers spend $X to find out if poison kills microbes.
That just sounds like antibiotic research.
Researchers spend $X to find out if microbes kill poison
I’ll take a stab at it.
“Researchers spend $X to see whether poison leaking into the ground gets into our water.”
Researchers Poison Groundwater!
No, that would imply that pollution happens, which would never occur on Fox. Better version might be “see if dirt absorbs poison”
Researchers spend $X trying to poison groundwater, thankfully foiled by bacteria.
Oh that’s easy. You’re the one turning Frogs gay.
Shit, you got me.
I charged the government billions of dollars for a camera that takes hours to take one photo.
I’m researching heterogeneous cores embedded systems for robotics running open source software. ><
My company costs the government billions each year for weapons that haven’t been used in nearly 80 years. Talk about inefficiency!
Like all god-fearing men, they are afraid of invisible powers that actually work!
You seriously (I’m dead serious) need to pitch this as a game show to Netflix.
Already recorded and cancelled.
Always nice to see a fellow circadian researcher in the wild. Be curious, be critical, and most of all, bmal!
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Even that wasn’t quite clickbaity and broken enough.
I studied whether we could operate dump trucks on mars.
(Super hydraulic fluid based rover systems)
My friend made moss in jars for air conditioning.
(Super endothermic moss for cooling, oxygen and protein development in space)
You gave mice the flu and asked them to sleep.