A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
BTW, human tissue might not be targeted by a bacteriophage virus, but our gut is filled with beneficial bacteria. This is why people get the runs from antibiotica and why there's shit transplants.
Most viruses are probably not surviving the acid bath that is our stomach, though.
Just read an article that was basically saying we should consider all gut flora frenemies now. If you don’t eat enough fiber even the “good” kinds that help your body process it will go for your mucus lining, breach the cell barrier and enter the bloodstream. This causes inflammation and may also accelerate aging. Neat.
TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.
TLDR; eat fiber and don’t get old.
Or don't eat fiber and don't get old as well.
A creator I enjoy is currently eating capsules of shit to fix his gut bacterium
Better hope it never pops open in your mouth
He mentioned the burps are terrible and I HATE that thought.
Fuck that isn't even something I considered and I now need to clean myself.
I can’t burp but I hate imagining that.
He also mentioned they capped up the initial poop at the doctor, but then they just gave him a couple vials of shit to put in his freezer at home and cap it all himself after that. He has to eat like eight pills at a time.
I’d just get the injections.
If we ever get acid resistant viruses, that is how humanity goes out
Those exist.
There's even bacteria that can live in stomach acid and cause terrible issues. Like helicopter
Edit: I'm keeping that typo lmao
Yeah but what is it supposed to be?
Helicobacter, like Helicobacter pylori which causes ulcers.
Which was proven to cause ulcers by an abrasive scientist drinking a culture and getting them.
Yeah can't just leave it on that cliffhanger
Honestly 'the helicopter virus' sounds like something from a terrifying sci-fi
What do they mean trigger warning: unsanitary
Clearly it was very pure virus concentrate, after removing all the dead cell pieces. That sounds sanitary as fuck.
Is a space heater 100% efficient or 100% inefficient?
Is this the new meta for glass half full/empty?
glass half full half empty has no good answer. This one does.
Heaters are 100% inefficient machines (tho 100% efficient at their job) and pure virus is 100% unsanitary (tho 100% pure)
I drank cobra whiskey I got a bottle of in Cambodia, only to find out it was a ton of formaldehyde and instantly, involuntarily, violently puked it all up everywhere
There's a story behind this.
Taxidermist trying to make a "novelty" piece, probably
What tf is cobra whisky?
A bottle of brown liquid that i was told was whiskey with a king cobra inside. Mine also had a scorpion with its stinger in the cobra’s mouth.
🤢
But why? 😐
My brother used to do chewing tobacco. He would spit into pop bottles. He left one laying around in the kitchen. I tried to steal a sip of what I thought was A&W root-beer. It was the same colour.
What came next was the most disgusting thing I've ever experienced. Imagine drinking someone's thick cold saliva mucus that had a disgusting apple cinnamon and smokey tar taste.
I ran to the sink as fast as I could and spat it out and forced myself to throw up.
Jeezus, I almost threw up just reading this. 🤮
I dipped for 10 years, I would also drink while dipping. One time I went to take a sip of a beer and it was my buddy's spit beer bottle, I just spit the spit back out no issues and found my beer.
The moral of the story is to always have a spit bottle that is different from your drinking bottles. (I also quit 6 years ago)
Been there, done that, roommate spit in a Coke can.
I’m breaking the vow by talking about it but…
A few friends and I were all doing drugs late one winter night and staying hydrated as responsible drug users sometimes do.
The cold had us all sniffly and hacking.
We spat into an empty water bottle.
Sweet Hank was at the computer picking the next jam and reached for what he thought was his water, took a swig, returned the swig, and said, “We’re just not gonna talk about that.”
Hank went to the bathroom, returned, and we continued, honoring Sweet Hank’s request.
I couldn’t tell you what went through his mind when the viscous liquid hit but he carried on like a champion.
Sweet Hank, we will never forget your sacrifice to keep the party going.
I know you're being intentionally vague, but if not chewing tobacco (which no one would call "doing drugs"), what in the FUCK was the COMMUNAL spit bottle about? 🤢
I don’t know… I always think about that part looking back on it. We were doing ecstasy. I think we had like not a specific communal bottle but like someone’s was over somewhere and one by the computer.
Boiled down San Pedro cactus juice is number one for me. It tasted like ultra concentrated bong water.
Ultra concentrated bong water probably doesn't get you off your chops like mescaline though
The worst part is it did absolutely nothing.
Hahahahahhahaha
"I am looking directly into your ear canal" fucking got me
ok.
...WHY?!
I guess it's a part of lab sciences. How do you think they find out if thing in tube X is sweet yet poisonous?
What's with the enormous hashtags?
It's kind of a tradition on Tumblr to use the hashtags as sort of a "PS" section of your text
Make them stop
Needs more jpeg.
Obligatory "not me, but a friend" story.
In highschool I used to hang out with some stoners from time to time. As most stoners do they experiment with all the different ways you can get high on pot. One way they came to enjoy quite a bit was filling up the bong with ice and Gatorade. It gave the hits a nice fruity flavor and they hit nice and cool.
Only problem was that stoners are notoriously lazy and of course they forgot to clean out the bong after doing one of the Gatorade and ice sessions.
Anyway we were having a little party/gathering and a girl from our class who was kinda new and trying to fit in with the stoner crowd was there. As the party went on one thing led to another and we were all super drunk and super high (we had smoked joints that day) when somehow the topic of truth or dare came up. Obviously there was the usual nonsense of kiss so and so. Text so and so something. Eventually the new girl loudly blurted out that she would do any dare no matter what it was. Without skipping a beat the host of the party told her to drink the moldy used Gatorade water from the bong that we had used last weekend and it had been sitting outside since.
She grabbed that bong with so much confidence and CHUGGED that moldy weed run off like it was any old beer. She slammed down the bong victoriously and then tried to shout something at all of us, but before she could get a whole syllable out she proceeded to projectile vomit all over everyone. Since she was drunk she tried to cover her mouth as she continued to spray moldy Gatorade and pot juice everywhere, but that only acted like a sprinkler system to further spread out the vomit which was now coming up as more of the alcohol and whatever else she had been eating that day.
That was one of the best/worst parties I had ever been at. She was taken into the bathroom to be showered and changed by one of the other girls at the party and the rest of us had to start cleaning because the parents of the guys house we were at were nice enough to let us party there often and we didn't wanna make them regret it. If I remember correctly she offered to pay to get the carpets steam cleaned, but we had already done that while she was passed out lol.
Legend
He wanted to grok it?
