Science Memes

12676 readers

3624 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

Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

[email protected]

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]

346

answer me, gregory (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5141a1ed-d598-46ec-8e41-ccee1f0486ac

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Is this acquired similar to how cow milk is or more like almond milk?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Popped open the article to find out, and the answer is neither. The 'milk' is crystals collected by cutting open a particular kind of roach and extracting them from its brood sack.

There's a phrase I didn't know I'd be using today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Bam! Right in the brood sack

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago

I wonder what kind of research goes in a lab where someone goes "what if we cut the grub from the pregnant cockroach and test to see it's nutrition content?"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago

What a terrible day to be able to read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I wondered the same, but do we really want to know?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Just read the other reply and I can now say no I wish I didn't know.