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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

No spiders in space yet!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, just a short time ago, there were no humans in space. Maybe the spiders have their own space travel now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I’m certain the dolphins and mice do, we’re just not quite there yet.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think I know a really funny prank we can pull with the next supplies shipment to the space station lol.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Four spiders, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5. Large enough to be legible of course.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely sure I'm comfortable with having spiders large enough to write on. I know they exist but now that I've thought about it I don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Well you see, that's the hilarious part. You won't have those spiders anymore, the astronaut will. Floating in his tin can. Far above the moon. Planet earth is blue and there's nothing he can do. 🎸🎸🎸👏👏

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

.... Remind me to hit you up for ideas when someone has wronged me in life lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No, Georg, stop it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ive never played dead space past the tutorial but im guessing thats how dead space happened

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I beat that game years ago and I honestly don't remember the story at all. I am now choosing to believe it was a prank that went super super wrong haha.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 155 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did anybody see what happened to the spider experiments box over near the airlock? I could have sworn that was where I left it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They went down to the planet and enslaved the ants that live there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Portia approves of this message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You’ll have to remind me, was that the leader or the rebel?

EDIT: Wait, without looking it up, I just realized they only gave a name to the leader. Is that right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

She was the main character, she was a high priest, warrior who "defeated" the ants, hunter, etc. Portia was the name given to the main guy of the story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, but isn’t that name passed down? It has been a while since I read Children of Time (haven’t read the rest of the series). I swear there are multiple spiders over the span of the plot that are given the name.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I understood that reference.

[–] MadMadBunny 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It was a common Understanding

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not before the ants danced at a rock

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

I might need to split my mind in two and wait a thousand years to get this one

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Couldn’t a spider hitch a ride on something brought into the rocket?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I have to admit that I've never seen a spider hitchhiking on the side of a road.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Really shows in what kind of society we live when a lone spider doesn't feel save to hitchhike with strangers

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I must be weird cause spiders are bros. I always help em out and move em elsewhere whilst telling em to keep on killing the enemy bugs.

Spiders are awesome especially the jumping varietals.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Spiders are usually Bros, but sometimes they're assholes.

Had one in the bathroom, whilst I was showering. What did he do with all the hot steamy air? Why, crawl towards it of course. Never mind the frequent misteps that threatened to drop him on the floor because, oh I dont know, the ceiling is wet - no - crawling precariously to the danger is the most reasonable response...

Later that day, I'm just chilling on the toilet with my phone, and he wants to drop by to say hello. How does he do it? Hang down slowly and land in front of me? Lower himself onto the toilet cistern so as not to disturb me?

Hell no! Fucker decides to lower himself next to my ear and tickle it, so that I immediately respond with a hand slap that sends him into pieces.

I miss him in a weird way, but he was a real asshole.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm from Australia.

Some spiders are absolutely bros.

Others seem to exist only to fuck you up.

Once you know the difference you're fine, but I don't blanket assume that every spider I find is a friend.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Your continent is the perpetual exception to the rule. Least in north America there aren’t a ton of spiders that pose a huge threat past this 8 legged trauma people have. Most of our spiders are lil jumpy boys. And web ones but they are pretty obvious. The ones I’m not overly keen on are the daddy long legs. Legs for days but they just seem like sea spiders on land.

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

Spiders are always welcome in my garden. They come with free pest control.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] UnrepententProcrastinator 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Now, a study of orb spiders (Trichonephila clavipes) in space has revealed that these smart arachnids can orientate themselves with light when there is no gravity to tell them which way is 'up'.

So you're telling me they are already adapted to space, a place where they wouldn't be size-constrained by gravity...

[–] Revan343 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure their size-constraint isn't gravity anyways, it's oxygen. Assuming arachnids 'breathe' like insects, anyways

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah you are probably right. i vaguely remember giant dragonflies in that Earth age with more oxygen.

I'll burn the script then... Although a space station with broken scrubbers...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

That was a very cool read, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is until you learn that space spiders are invisible

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Life finds a way.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago

That's what the spiders want you to think

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

"I have had it with these motherfing ~~snakes~~ spiders on this motherfing ~~plane~~ spacestation!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

In space no one knows when you actually are a spider.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

No spiders yet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Giant alien spiders are no joke!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t a giant slider be just a burger?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Gotta use that Anti-bio Beam

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Don't worry not a spider in "space" just a green screen glitch.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

But thed did have an escape in 2008, I think they stole a tool bag (one went missing, so it must have been the spiders) Escaped spiders

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