Science Memes
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.
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- Infographics welcome, get schooled.
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
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Memes
Miscellaneous
Cubic metres. I guess they find 32m^3 less clear
Probably whoever was writing this in plain text didn't know about the superscript numbers in unicode ³.
Somehow I've seen it written as cum multiple times in my line of, and never registered it haha
Context is a hell of a drug
You guys really go through some lengths (ha!) Just to avoid metric 😁
Space is so much cooler in the imperial system!
Wasn't there a satellite that got lost in space due to EU/US teams disagreeing on the tracking units of measurement? I feel like I read this at some point...
Assuming you're thinking of the Mars Climate Orbiter, it crashed into Mars.
Of course it's possible there's been more than one metric/imperial issue.
You nailed it. Thanks!
About 1.3 womp rats.
DAMN....point taken :-)
Is this a hardwood or a softwood
Somebody must have had a rad cable label machine
Still a better unit of measurement than feet.
That beats my Space Shuttle Certified roll of Cat5 by miles! ;-)
By approximately the wingspan of a pterodactyl
Ok, that sounds cool. You got any picture?
I was worried it was gonna say, "The length of this 50' cable is 50 feet."
Coolest cable company.
How many football fields is that?