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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago
[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 10 points 15 hours ago

isn't this a decades long myth?

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 17 hours ago

Don't tell the Jehovah's Witnesses, they'll use it to further justify their insane anti-blood transfusion beliefs.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago
[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago
[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Similar to how a red panda isn't a panda or wild rice isn't rice or a sichuan pepper isn't a pepper... yeah there's a lot of these.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

Panda bears were named after red pandas, both in Chinese and English.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago

Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?

[-] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 17 hours ago

A swallow couldn't carry a coconut from the tropics, they don't have the mass and thrust of flying necessary to lift and carry one that far.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

A swallow, carrying a coconut?

[-] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

If it's an African one. Not sure about the European one if we're talking young coconuts, those things are heavy.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 17 hours ago

African ones are non migratory though.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 14 hours ago

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

[-] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago

Not at all, the swallow could've carried it by the husk.

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 21 hours ago

This also works for hangover recovery.

Coconut water is awesome!

[-] ebolapie@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You can actually just drink it if you're hung over in most cases.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Oh dear.

Yes, that is what I meant, but ... I now realize I should have specified that.

Yes, you don't need to mainline the coconut water for it to be good for you lol!

[-] ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Mainlining a coconut for a hangover would be so rock and roll though

[-] mech@feddit.org 42 points 1 day ago

Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn't mean it's a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.

I think if people really understood that anything you eat and drink is also going into your bloodstream we might all be a lot more careful about what we consume.

[-] clucose@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

This machines is fueled by Hamburgers and greased by it’s fat.

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 71 points 1 day ago

Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside

[-] Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago

We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!

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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They don't, not enough sodium in coconut juice for one thing.

I guess you first use the clean juice to make the wounded stop dying long enough so you can stitch what's left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

Yeah it's actually a really shitty substitute for blood, it's just slightly less shitty than dying. It was all about keeping the blood pressure high enough so that what little blood you had would work. Coconut water was one of the only things that could do that without also killing you. It's still a very bad day

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Well you could always go the boiled water and some salt route. "Yo dog I heard you liked shock so I infused some water with bacteria antigens in it so you could go into shock while you're going into shock."

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Way too much potassium too (and gives a hint as to why it burns at the infusion site just like a k run would). It's like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term. Thankfully the glucose in the coconut water treats hyperkalemia or it would be deadly in the short term.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago

They're actually perfect because they double up as cannon balls too

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

And bras for womenfolk stranded on the island.

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