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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Let's not forget that the Apollo space program used SI units at every step, except for displaying it to the astronauts.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And that a very expensive probe crashed into mars instead of landing because NASA used metric for all measurements but one contractor didn’t get the memo.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Not NASA, but a subcontractor (Lockheed??).

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Have you ever done physics with non SI units? It is terrible and causes mistakes

[–] urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

NASA is also really funny and uses millimeters as their base unit for everything.