this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
529 points (99.4% liked)

Science Memes

15246 readers
747 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.

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



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
 
all 18 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What if instead of five toes our feet would just have one massive toe with one big toe nail?

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] lena@gregtech.eu 28 points 3 months ago
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For some reason this makes a lot of sense.

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Lol until you tried to walk

[–] neatobuilds 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I wish our teeth were like that, just one big curved tooth on top and one on bottom so you don't get stuff stick between the gaps

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

Something like this?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

There was an illustrator that did these a while back.

Annoyingly I can’t find it on what I think is their website since it’s in Japanese. If you do a search for Satoshi Kawasaki it should pop up though.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When did they make a VR mod for Cyberpunk?

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I dunno what you mean. This is from the base game.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

fun fact its called thier cannon bone. early horses had 4-5 fingers.

[–] fracture@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

kinda more like all the fingers merged into one innit?

posts picture of hand with all the fingers merging into one big finger

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Actually, it really is just a single metacarpal bone. The others are the red square bones you see up top, they are vestigial at this point. Like how whales have legs, we just can't see them

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago