The bioengineer one reminded me of the last panel of this:
heresy sheresy i wanna be a dinosaur
Submitted 1 year ago by nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/a516eb8e-cdab-4789-9310-237195af4d40.jpeg
Comments
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
“It’s just a theory” is the most irritating and ignorant argument made by science deniers, but you can’t correct them without sounding like a pedantic asshole.
That’s one thing (of many) that really annoyed me about MatPat’s “theory” channels is he used that as a slogan. He’s hailed as this great YouTube educator yet continued to happily perpetuate the misconception that “theory” is synonymous with “tenuously connected set of ideas formed from 3 hours of Googling stuff in your underwear”.
Kanda@reddthat.com 1 year ago
But that’s just a hypothesis, a game hypothesis
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, that one stood out to me, too. The green guy saying “it’s not a theory” is incorrect - it’s just not the colloquial definition that the blue guy is using. Why couldn’t “hypothesis” have been used instead, since it’s closer to the definition you said at the end of your comment? “But that’s just a hypothesis - a game hypothesis!”
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I want a bioengineer to make me Dino Nuggets.
They probably taste like chicken nuggets. But, maybe not. It’s for science!
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Natural History Docent: “A guy asked us ‘If I had a time machine, and managed to kill and cook a T-Rex, what would it have tasted like?’ and every paleontologist on staff deciced to take him seriously. They did research to learn about fat distribution, and read up on culinary science to learn what flavors meat, even did chemical analysis on the bones. They concluded that it’d be Tough (no evidence of juicy fat pockets), bitter (carnivores tend to taste foul) and would probably kill him, because heavy metals travel up the food chain and T-Rex accumulated a lot of the cadmium that was in the dirt in the late cretaceous. Wrote him a letter with our findings and he sent us back a drawing of him and his buddies cooking a T-Rex over a fire and all of them throwing up and dying, and it’s my favorite drawing in the whole world.” web.archive.org/web/…/weird-questions
For some reason, my memory was really confident that this was a question on Randall Munroe’s what if? blog, but I couldn’t find it. I even checked the copy I have of the first what if? book to be sure it wasn’t in there lol
skulblaka@startrek.website 1 year ago
It’s an extremely Randall sort of question and answer, to be fair.
But holy shit, some of these other ones are amazing. The T-Rex question isn’t the only one in there.
snooggums@midwest.social 1 year ago
Chicken nuggets are dino nuggets.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Taxonomically correct!
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 1 year ago
Idk, it seems like some mathematicians study weird numbers that aren’t… Things like number theory - what the hell is going on there??
Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
wait until you meet group theory
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
What has group theory really done besides give negative proofs, like that there’s no general algebraic solution for quartic polynomials and higher?
Any math that only tells you what isn’t possible is sad math.
^^^/s
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Sufficiently advanced biology is indistinguishable from heresy.
Gold!
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty sure god is a stale wafer.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
yea sure i’ll incorporate that i my beliefs
Dabundis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not heresy, apostasy. A heretic worships god wrong. An apostate worships the wrong god. (“wrong” as defined by the church, of course)
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This meme is trash.
Philosophy asks “What is?” There is literally a field of philosophy called ontology about the question of being.
Man, STEM folks are ignorant af. I say that as a STEM-philosophy double major.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
mayhaps you are taking a funny internet picture a touch too seriously
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It makes no damn sense
antidote101@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Philosophy? That’s specifically Gnostic Christianity.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 year ago
What isn’t yet
I too, am very enthusiastic in automating all works that isn’t yet so that everyone can lose their job promptly
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
windows users: ah fuck, edge crashed.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That would imply Windows users are using Edge.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
i will do anything to not mention the “worlds shittiest browser” c*****
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Pushing dangerously close to korrok territory
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Image