this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
495 points (99.6% liked)

Science Memes

10637 readers
3792 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.


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
495
Carbon is the work of the devil. (web.swift.surfsara.nl)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Carbon is the work of the devil.

Last Friday, during a class about the short and long term organic #carbon cycle, a student raised his hand:

"So, 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons...", 666....carbon must be the work of the devil."

Maybe this can help us sell carbon neutrality to religious conservatives.

#EarthScience #ClimateDiary

@science_memes

top 20 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Heavybell 6 points 2 days ago

Supposedly, 666 being a bad number is a mistranslation, and the actual bad number is 616. This is according to an old episode of QI.

Or you could not believe in evil numbers.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And every beast is made of the stuff.

[–] Squorlple 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s possible there are alien beasts not made of C, but made of SiN instead

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about aliens made of COS or TAN?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Those aren't devils, they're angles.

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

More rational than most religious beliefs.

[–] Squorlple 27 points 2 days ago

Now we all need to go to school board meetings and protest against allowing anything made out of carbon into our schools

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@MishaVelthuis @science_memes the only atom they believe in was Eve's husband

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago
[–] yogurtwrong 7 points 2 days ago

Now I wanna start a BanCarbon movement similar to "Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I am a ~~carbon~~ satan-based organism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Just switch to using an isotope.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Carbon neutrality means carbon dioxide neutrality. Carbon is just an element and literally everything you see and don't see has some of it in it.

Also, around 2% of our sun's energy production involves the Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle which is a cyclical fusion reaction using carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. (The main source of energy production is through a proton-proton chain since our sun is too small to rely on the CNO-cycle entirely)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

@MishaVelthuis @science_memes Truthfully, making money at the expense of the future of the world sounds like its devilish type stuff.

They are sacrificing the future of the world just for temporary pleasures which will be meaningless when they are dead

The irony is so thick that a python would have trouble swallowing it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This might work on getting the religious folks to go green. Don't tell them what else has carbon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'd just prefer to tell them how to get rid of carbon in their bodies, and if they looked up the process they would get the real info about it dealing with carbon. It's not my fault they don't know the context of what would happen when the carbon goes away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 points 2 days ago

Never mind the weather report.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@MishaVelthuis Carbon is the element that allows life to exist, as it makes the planet warm enough for liquid water by contributing to the greenhouse effect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Maybe the devil is not such a baddie and just gets bad press?