Extinction Memes

The Grandfather Paradox: Fish Edition

2 days ago 2.9K views 0 shares

Time travel question: "What would you do with a time machine?" Meanwhile, this person's answer is to go back 375 million years and poke a Tiktaalik with a stick. You know, that critical fish-tetrapod transitional species that crawled out of water and eventually led to all land vertebrates including humans. Nothing major, just casually disrupting the entire evolutionary timeline that led to your own existence! Who needs complex paradox theories when you can just boop your ancestor on the snoot and potentially erase yourself from history? Darwin would be having an aneurysm right now.

The Evolution Has Begun

Evolution Biology Earth-science Science

15 days ago 10.0K views 0 shares

Cockroaches, tardigrades, and crocodilians looking at the rest of us after surviving their fifth apocalyptic event. That's just natural selection doing its thing – clearing out the evolutionary amateurs. Earth's history features five major extinction events where over 75% of species vanished, yet some organisms just refused the invitation to oblivion. These evolutionary overachievers simply dusted themselves off and said "Nice try, asteroid." Survival of the fittest isn't just a theory – it's their lifestyle choice.

Stay Humble: The Asteroid Doesn't Check Your Resume

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25 days ago 5.8K views 0 shares

Stay Humble: The Asteroid Doesn't Check Your Resume

Cosmic reality check! Dinosaurs ruled Earth for 165 million years before a 6-mile-wide space rock said "nope." Meanwhile, humans have been strutting around for ~300,000 years thinking we're special? The Stegosaurus probably had morning coffee plans for the day after extinction. Nature doesn't care about your LinkedIn profile or how many followers you have—we're all just temporarily successful species on a rock hurtling through space.

Betting On The Apocalypse: Humans Leading The Race

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26 days ago 4.2K views 0 shares

Betting On The Apocalypse: Humans Leading The Race

Forget asteroids and supervolcanoes! The betting odds are in, and human stupidity is running away with the apocalypse sweepstakes at a whopping 85%! 😂 What's hilarious is that this is actually backed by science! Anthropogenic threats (fancy term for "stuff humans cause") like climate change, nuclear war, and creating AI that decides we're expendable consistently rank higher in existential risk assessments than natural disasters. The irony of someone saying "I love democracy" while the masses vote for their own destruction is just *chef's kiss* perfect. Maybe intelligence isn't our species' evolutionary advantage after all!

The Real Reason Dinosaurs Went Extinct

Conspiracy Earth-science Science

1 month ago 5.3K views 0 shares

The ultimate scientific trolling! This meme perfectly captures what happens when you drop a truth bomb in a Flat Earth Discord server. On the left, we see an asteroid heading toward a flat Earth model (the ultimate "forbidden image"), while on the right, dinosaurs are witnessing their impending doom. Apparently, the dinosaurs didn't go extinct from a massive asteroid impact - they were actually banned from existence for violating community guidelines by witnessing spherical reality! The bottom panels show the asteroid somehow falling THROUGH the flat Earth disk (which is physically impossible) and dinosaurs floating in space (because gravity is just a theory, right?). Next time someone asks you about the K-T extinction event, just tell them the dinosaurs were canceled for spreading round Earth propaganda.

The Apocalypse Betting Pool

Climate Science Psychology Earth-science

1 month ago 4.9K views 0 shares

The odds are in! While natural disasters like earthquakes (5%), meteors (2%), and plagues (8%) might seem threatening, human stupidity is running away with the apocalypse betting pool at a whopping 85%! 😂 This is basically every climate scientist, ecologist, and sociologist looking at their data and thinking "we could totally solve these problems if people just... you know... stopped being ridiculous for five minutes." The irony of loving democracy while acknowledging our collective decision-making might be our downfall is *chef's kiss* perfect!

Giga Bact: The Duality Of Bacterial Existence

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1 month ago 5.0K views 0 shares

Giga Bact: The Duality Of Bacterial Existence

The duality of bacterial existence captured perfectly. Wild bacteria are out there causing mass extinctions and thriving in radioactive waste, while lab strains collapse if you look at them wrong. I've seen E. coli samples die because someone wore the wrong deodorant in the next room. The pristine lab specimens are basically the microbiological equivalent of that kid whose mom wouldn't let them eat dirt. Meanwhile, their cousins in nature are busy surviving in volcanic vents and literal acid.

Will We Ever Learn?

Biology Evolution Climate Earth-science

1 month ago 5.9K views 0 shares

Earth's first apocalypse happened when cyanobacteria invented oxygenic photosynthesis ~2.5 billion years ago, pumping so much oxygen into the atmosphere that most anaerobic life forms died in what scientists call the "Great Oxidation Event." Fast forward to modern humans discovering fossil fuels and gleefully pumping CO₂ into the atmosphere like SpongeBob ready for round two of planetary self-destruction. History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme!

Rip Neanderthals: The Original Evolutionary Hookup

Evolution Biology Science

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Rip Neanderthals: The Original Evolutionary Hookup

The ultimate evolutionary burn! This meme hilariously plays on the interbreeding that occurred between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. Modern genetic studies have revealed that non-African humans today carry about 1-4% Neanderthal DNA, proving our ancient ancestors definitely got some "Homo sapienussy" before Neanderthals disappeared forever. The scientific community spent decades debating whether Neanderthals were outcompeted by our metabolically more efficient ancestors or if they were simply absorbed through interbreeding. Turns out, it was a bit of both! Evolution meets prehistoric booty calls - the original "Netflix and chill" of the Paleolithic era.

Their Time Had Come

Evolution Biology Earth-science Science

1 month ago 6.1K views 0 shares

When the dinosaurs got wiped out, tiny mammals said "IT'S SHOWTIME BABY!" 🔥 The K-Pg extinction (when that massive asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago) was catastrophic for T-Rex and friends, but for our tiny shrew ancestors? Pure opportunity! While dinosaurs were busy becoming fossils, these little furballs strutted into evolutionary stardom like they owned the place. From hiding in holes to inheriting the Earth - talk about the ultimate glow-up! That orange suit energy is exactly how mammals rolled into their newfound ecological niches. Nature's greatest comeback story!

Jovian Protection

Astronomy Universe Physics Science

1 month ago 6.0K views 0 shares

The cosmic bodyguard we never properly thank! Jupiter's massive gravitational field acts like an interplanetary bouncer, deflecting countless asteroids and comets that might otherwise turn Earth into a sequel of the dinosaur extinction party. Without this gas giant's protection, we'd probably be too busy dodging space rocks to have invented WiFi. Next time you look up at that bright spot in the night sky, give a little nod to the real MVP of our solar neighborhood – silently taking cosmic bullets for the team for 4.5 billion years without even a Hallmark card.

What Would Be The Second Wish

Physics Science Earth-science

1 month ago 5.5K views 0 shares

Doubling Earth's gravity for a second would effectively turn every living organism into a pancake. The normal acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s², so cranking it up to 120.37 m/s² would increase your effective weight by over 12 times. Your bones would shatter, buildings would collapse, and the atmosphere would compress dramatically. The genie's confusion is completely warranted—he's basically being asked to temporarily exterminate all complex life on Earth by someone who clearly failed high school physics but somehow memorized random numerical values. The second wish would probably be for a time machine to undo the first wish, but good luck articulating that when you're a puddle of organic matter.

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