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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I had to scroll back in my saved posts to a million years ago to resurrect this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for surfacing this one, it's always fun to get the older perspective and realising they're very human.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If y'all could please direct me to the thighs and calves galaxies I'll be on my way. I enjoy boobs as do most humans, but I am a legs man.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So as a cock and balls man, where do I go?

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Probably somewhere around Uranus?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

You know what, take your upvote and get out of here!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

We should rename it as Urectum to end that stupid joke once and for all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're probably gonna want the Meathook/Cobra galaxy or the Gaia Sausage.

I'm afraid the Cigar galaxy is just a cigar galaxy.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're a leg man? Get out of here... the Andromeda galaxy is that way --->

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

To be fair, tits are pretty awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My son just called it "the tittieverse" and now I hate ALL of you.

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

This new naming scheme sounds like a great contribution to societitty.

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

Contriboobtion

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In German and Dutch it's way worse: "Säugetier" and "zoogdier". Both can roughly be translated to "sucking animals". I was taught in school that it's called that because babies suck on the mother's breasts to be fed and this is a unique trait to mammals. So in conclusion, we all suck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Same in Slovene. Sesalec - Sucker.

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

in swedish it's basically that except we say "nursing animals", which is more specific

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ackshully, "galaxy" (or rather, "galaxias") means "Milky Way" already, it's just a translation. It was less ambiguous when the only galaxy we could see was the Milky lights that covered a lot of our sky.

Of course, we realize there's more than one galaxy now, so the meanings have diverged.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

And we didn't realize there was more than one galaxy until the 1920s (I think?)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean... I think we can all agree that boobs are at least universally non-threatening, even without counting the symbolisms of nourishment, nurturance, life, fertility, etc. At least I don't think we're at the point where hiding machine guns or hellish snakes in boobs is viable. ... Right?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You should watch Austin Powers. Machine gun tits back in the 90s, lol.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Bring in the fem- BOOOOTS

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also Mazinger (may be known under a different name in some countries). One of the robots (Aphrodite A) had titty missiles: https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/afrodita-aphrodite-mech-anime-gif-16897967

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"fastfouriertransfem" is a great username

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And then she breasted boobily down the stairs.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

We, the titty creatures of breastspace, approve

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It was either that or a name based on obscure details of skull morphology.

synapsids have a single temporal fenestra, an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye socket, leaving a bony arch beneath each; this accounts for the name "synapsid"

I'll take the boobs.

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

How could anyone downvote something so erudite and horny?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I accidentally downvoted myself.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't know, I prefer butts. Tits are nice, but only half the population have them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

an amendable issue

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We're the only(?) species that have evolved them to become more than their basic function. Other species use colors and other features for mating signals, humans use shapes. Definitely wired to be interested in them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Hold up, are other hominids interested in boobs? Any other mammal? Any non mammals into boobs? How much tiddy science have we really done here? I need tiddy facts.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

This might be pseudoscience I got taught 20 years ago, but I have been under the impression that human evolution of breasts as a secondary sexual characteristic has to do with the shift to becoming bipedal. Like a lot of animals, early hominids would see the rear end of a fellow hominid and know this as a trigger for copulation. But when homo erectus started standing upright, butts weren't so universally erotic anymore. They had a whole back and head above them now. Breasts didn't need to be very large to fill their function, but an increase in size gave them a curvy appearance similar to a set of butt cheeks. And early humans were like, yeah, I think that's right, and selected for increased (or at least variable) breast size.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Listen, I'm not trying to refute anything here. I'm just saying that some extra tiddy experiments are probably required in order to fully understand this phenomena. I know that not everyone is cut out for this kind of thing, so I'm willing to take one for the team here. I just need a little funding and a steady supply of consenting tiddy owners.

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

I'm not aware of any other species sexually selecting for mammary size. Some birds do a puffy chest thing.

It might be a learned association rather than anything instinctive about tiddies. There's this one study where they gave rats a backpack fetish, but it has a sad ending because then they murdered all the rats. They did phrase the murder like they were doing a Satanic ritual though, and that kind of took some of the murdery edge off it for me.

I've been looking forward to like 20 years from now when all the incels will be into girls with too many fingers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Just wait till you know the etymology of mastodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

Edit to save a click: "A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"

Edit 2: the "mast" in "mastodon" is the same one as in "mastectomy"

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

To be fair, men got to name everything so what do you expect really. In my view it's Freudian.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

In polish mammals = ssaki, and ssaki = suckers

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I finally understand why galactose (greek word for milk) is a component of lactose (latin word for milk). It's milk all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I've always thought my defining characteristic was my nipples.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Aliens are gonna have a field day with their translators.

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

[off topic]

A while back I imagined a race of intelligent crocodiles that not only ate their own young, they'd cooktyhem and serve them to honored guests as a sign of respect.

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

Boobworld, it's a world for you, but it's actually two!

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