this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
964 points (99.2% liked)
Science Memes
19279 readers
1985 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
Other Mander Communities
Science and Research
Biology and Life Sciences
- !abiogenesis@mander.xyz
- !animal-behavior@mander.xyz
- !anthropology@mander.xyz
- !arachnology@mander.xyz
- !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !biology@mander.xyz
- !biophysics@mander.xyz
- !botany@mander.xyz
- !ecology@mander.xyz
- !entomology@mander.xyz
- !fermentation@mander.xyz
- !herpetology@mander.xyz
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !medicine@mander.xyz
- !microscopy@mander.xyz
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !nudibranchs@mander.xyz
- !nutrition@mander.xyz
- !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !photosynthesis@mander.xyz
- !plantid@mander.xyz
- !plants@mander.xyz
- !reptiles and amphibians@mander.xyz
Physical Sciences
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !chemistry@mander.xyz
- !earthscience@mander.xyz
- !geography@mander.xyz
- !geospatial@mander.xyz
- !nuclear@mander.xyz
- !physics@mander.xyz
- !quantum-computing@mander.xyz
- !spectroscopy@mander.xyz
Humanities and Social Sciences
Practical and Applied Sciences
- !exercise-and sports-science@mander.xyz
- !gardening@mander.xyz
- !self sufficiency@mander.xyz
- !soilscience@slrpnk.net
- !terrariums@mander.xyz
- !timelapse@mander.xyz
Memes
Miscellaneous
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not exactly north pole.
To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.
Santa's sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.
Murderous flying polar bears.
It's a ton better, you're not going to get many that are literally at the North Pole.
Exactly. Ain't nothin alive up there besides scientists running from student loan debt.
What limits their migration further north in western Eurasia?
Real estate prices.
But santa lives in Finland...
...And commutes to the North Pole workshop M W F and works from home on Tue and Thu. Try and keep up, OK?
🎵Rudolph with his nose so red, better run now or you'll soon be dead🎶
Wasn’t that what the witch from Narnia did?
And Santa is a much more powerful demon. So that tracks.
I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region
Nope.
That's a map of the magnetic "dip" pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.
I'm a bit out of my depth, so I'm not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don't really understand it very well myself, it's just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.
But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland
Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it's a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn't exactly study them, I wasn't 100% confident that the dip pole wasn't in one of those higher spots of the puffin's range (it's not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it's closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)
mapswithoutNZ
Above the Arctic Circle at least.