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Can I lick it? Yes you can.

3 years ago by Oiconomia to c/science_memes

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Galapagon 70 points 3 years ago

Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.

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xkforce 31 points 3 years ago

Purposefully licking things.

Chemists of old were a bit less safety conscious than we are today. Tasting the chemicals you just made was just part of the job back then.

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spittingimage 17 points 3 years ago

Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.

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atomicorange 9 points 3 years ago

We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!

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NeatNit 4 points 3 years ago

very sensitive chemoreceptors

laughs in canine

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Oiconomia 25 points 3 years ago

"Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?" is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.

EDIT: Michael Sveda's discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937

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ironhydroxide 14 points 3 years ago

Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.

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Schadrach -1 points 3 years ago

Literally how we got aspartame. It started as an ulcer drug.

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ladicius 65 points 3 years ago

Biology: Lick here... Yep, that's the spot. Continue... Oh yeah, keep going. Uhhh....

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atomicorange 41 points 3 years ago

Human anatomy: you’re technically always licking it. And now you’re aware of it. Your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touching your teeth.

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commanderoptimism 18 points 3 years ago

I always hate how well this works...

Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation

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dharmacurious 12 points 3 years ago

The fuck did I do to you? Now I can feel my tongue and I don't know how to breathe!

I hope you can hear your blinking for the rest of the day!

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Classy 4 points 3 years ago

I've heard that with enough lack of stimuli combined with enough concerted concentration, you can actually begin to feel your guts as they process food. Like, feeling the muscles contracting.

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hakunawazo 1 point 3 years ago

Yes, and if you imitate a salt shaker over your tongue, you can taste the salt...

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5714 48 points 3 years ago

Geography: You can try, but it's gonna take you a while.

Cartography: "Would you not lick my maps, please?"

History: Fuck You.

Sociology: Allowed and encouraged in some fields, others... better not.

Economics: "Is Human Resources there?"

Medicine: "Next, please." or "Don't, please."

Civil engineering: Go ahead, eat the dirt.

Law: Go to jail.

Political science: Could you please do this somewhere else?

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AlsaValderaan 45 points 3 years ago

Electronics: Only the low voltage side.

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Oiconomia 22 points 3 years ago

Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.

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omega_x3 3 points 3 years ago

You can always lick the ground or earth depending on where you live

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pirrrrrrrr 32 points 3 years ago

Software engineering... If you can lick it, you spelled "click" wrong. And that's why your code won't compile, you complete failure.

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NegativeInf 11 points 3 years ago

NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'click'?

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humbletightband 10 points 3 years ago

NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'sudo rm -rf /'?

Ftfy

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loudWaterEnjoyer 6 points 3 years ago

📞Hello police? Yeah it's this one.📞

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FuglyDuck 32 points 3 years ago

Mycology: “go ahead have a seat. Lick this one. It’ll be fun!”

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Jivebunny 3 points 3 years ago

Certain tree frogs in the Amazon: while you're at it, lick us too

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FuglyDuck 3 points 3 years ago

I want to make a joke about “that’s how you catch herpes”, but my brain is fried.

So I’ll just leave you with the knowledge that the Colorado River Toad is also psychedelic. and the Park Service really wants people to stop.

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Mikufan 29 points 3 years ago

Let's ask Microbiology and Virology

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FuglyDuck 26 points 3 years ago

“Lick this dish please.”

“So you do lick the science?!”

“No. You are the science.”

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QTpi 2 points 3 years ago

My Clinical Microbiology teacher: I'm no longer allowed to teach you how to waft plates, but... if you happen to catch a whiff of ____ growing on a plate, you would smell ____. ::wink, wink::

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Viking_Hippie 28 points 3 years ago

In zoology, science might lick you, but it might also bite you.

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callyral 25 points 3 years ago

Chemistry + licking = cooking

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charolastra 1 point 3 years ago

Well I'll be..! I wonder if that's how they came up with the word?

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growsomethinggood 24 points 3 years ago

Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!

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HonorableScythe 2 points 3 years ago

As long as it's the ice cream you're licking and not the liquid nitrogen.

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lenuup 24 points 3 years ago

And then there is NileRed, who does lick the chemistry He does.

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BluesF 21 points 3 years ago

Chemistry 50 years ago: it is encouraged to smell, taste, and injest all of your work

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nothacking 4 points 3 years ago

You know it's an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.

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BluesF 2 points 3 years ago

Or the dizzying high resulting from tasting 2,3,4,5-tetramethoxyamphetamine

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mipadaitu 2 points 3 years ago

And sometimes inject.

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AusatKeyboardPremi 20 points 3 years ago

A quick question, should the software engineer lick the monitor screen or the keyboard?

I… uh… am asking for a friend who is a software engineer.

I am a butterfly instructor.

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SanndyTheManndy 12 points 3 years ago

the motherboard. how else can you tell that it is working?

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AusatKeyboardPremi 9 points 3 years ago

Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment, I would… I mean my friend would have to shove their head into a server rack that is consuming high amounts of wattage. My friend would then have to try reaching for the motherboard by extending their tongue.

The only problem I see here is travelling to the data centre which are often located in different countries or even continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.

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SanndyTheManndy 13 points 3 years ago

ssh into the server and lick your desktop's motherboard

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AusatKeyboardPremi 3 points 3 years ago

Gives a whole new meaning to SSH tunnelling.

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odium 3 points 3 years ago

Also, I don't know if Amazon will let my friend in a similar situation into their data centers to lick the AWS motherboards.

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AusatKeyboardPremi 3 points 3 years ago

AMZN can charge extra as part of their AWS plan to allow enhanced debugging.

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deur 1 point 3 years ago

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trxxruraxvr 7 points 3 years ago

Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I'd go for the monitor.

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Nelots 5 points 3 years ago

This is why they never get cleaned, you gotta start somewhere. Lick the keyboard!

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AusatKeyboardPremi 2 points 3 years ago

Apple could have avoided an entire lawsuit for their butterfly keyboards, if their users did this one thing. SMH.

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AngryCommieKender 6 points 3 years ago

The butterflies. Someone needs to see if they taste of butter.

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psud 2 points 3 years ago

I have eaten fried moth. Tasted much like almond

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AusatKeyboardPremi 2 points 3 years ago

They taste more like flies and less like butter.

Source

Don’t ask.

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pirrrrrrrr 3 points 3 years ago

Licking is for mouses and touch-pads.

Use the onLick() event.

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Kowowow 3 points 3 years ago

Isn't there a game where if you put ketchup on the disc it does something to make it easier to speedrun? So licking might be too unreasonable

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AusatKeyboardPremi 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks for sharing the insight. Apparently, it was a speed run hack on Xbox for an old SpongeBob game.

So, there’s some precedent set in the field of computer peripheral licking to improve results.

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mexicancartel 3 points 3 years ago

Lmao dammit emacs

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ulterno 1 point 3 years ago

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jabathekek 15 points 3 years ago

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bazus1 5 points 3 years ago

You can quest like a tribe does.

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SwampYankee 3 points 3 years ago

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dyathinkhesaurus 15 points 3 years ago

You can lick anything at least once.

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atomicorange 14 points 3 years ago

So you’re saying I can lick Uranus?

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MonkderZweite 7 points 3 years ago

If you go there, yes.

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spittingimage 2 points 3 years ago

Point yourself at the surface so that when you get there the tongue-part of the pressure diamond you've become is lowest.

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atomicorange 2 points 3 years ago

Thank you for the practical advice! Uranus exerts a lot of pressure and getting my tongue up there could be challenging.

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supercriticalcheese 1 point 3 years ago

That you wish you could ;)

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odium 1 point 3 years ago

How would I go about licking the sun?

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psud 1 point 3 years ago

Choose parts of the sun the sun has thrown away so as to not need to find a way of surviving to living range of the surface of the sun

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ulterno 1 point 3 years ago

Just send a meta-lick into the future. After long enough, the Sun will come closer to get licked.

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Wizard_Pope 13 points 3 years ago

Lemme just lick my radioactive isotope sample.

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ILikeBoobies 7 points 3 years ago

We know not to lick it, therefor someone has licked it

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chatokun 1 point 3 years ago

Well, lots of someone's painting watch faces with it.

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HonorableScythe 13 points 3 years ago

Medicine: In here? Sure, that's how you get c diff, staph, e coli...

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nodimetotie 10 points 3 years ago

Economics: How much are you willing to pay?

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Oiconomia 5 points 3 years ago

If the market clears the price is equal to the marginal utility of getting licked

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Naz 2 points 3 years ago

This man economics

How does $3.50 sound?

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ZILtoid1991 9 points 3 years ago

Electronics: "It's useful in testing whether a battery has charge or not."

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pineapplelover 9 points 3 years ago

Comp sci and software engineering is pretty much the same thing

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BleatingZombie 1 point 3 years ago

I would say replace "Computer Science" with "Computer Engineering" (or electrical engineering) and it works pretty well

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pineapplelover 0 points 3 years ago

Not really. Software engineering is part of computer science. Computer engineering and electrical engineering have more to do with physical hardware and circuits.

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BleatingZombie 0 points 3 years ago

Exactly. The things with the electricity. You don't write code into a circuit

You might need to reread the post and this comment thread to understand you're saying the same thing as me and telling me I'm wrong

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RampantParanoia2365 8 points 3 years ago

Biology: Yes. Most definitely. Please do.

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LemmyKnowsBest 2 points 3 years ago

But those worms & cow eyeballs & sheep lungs we had to dissect in elementary school??

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meliaesc 5 points 3 years ago

nutritious and delicious!

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Mikrochip 1 point 3 years ago

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peak_dunning_krueger 8 points 3 years ago

Philosophy:

"That depends on your definitions, some may call philosophy a science, others may not, what do you think? Can you lick the philosophy?"

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NeatNit 7 points 3 years ago

There is philosophy in everything. Any time you lick anything, you lick philosophy. Even if you lick nothing, you lick philosophy.

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isolatedscotch 2 points 3 years ago

is my toungue staying inside my mouth licking the inside of the mouth? does that mean it's also licking philosophy?

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mipadaitu 2 points 3 years ago

Philosophy is science. It's the very foundation of all of our studies. What do you think PhD stands for?

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loudWaterEnjoyer 5 points 3 years ago

I'd also lick your anus

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reverendsteveii 4 points 3 years ago

You on the lab safety committee, Tip?

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EmperorHenry 3 points 3 years ago

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Rai 2 points 3 years ago

Just here to voice my appreciation for the ATCQ title.

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