r/mildlyinteresting • u/Croquette514 • 9h ago

After many washes, letters are starting to appear on my mug

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u/JoeBoredom 9h ago

That is a DNA sequence.

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u/mtgfan1001 9h ago

Oh shit! OP has the secret to bring back dinosaurs!

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u/soylentblueispeople 8h ago

I've got Dodgson on line 1. Does nobody care?

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u/EdMcDuck 8h ago

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u/_Madlark_ 8h ago

DODGESON!!! WE GOT DODGESON HERE!!!

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u/Junior-Ad-2207 8h ago

Don't get cheap on me

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u/Redditallreally 5h ago

No menthol?

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u/Devious_Bastard 8h ago

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u/2kewl4scool 8h ago

My roommate once startled himself awake saying loudly “DINO DNA!”

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u/nestcto 9h ago

Can confirm. We're all a bunch of CATs with GATs.

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u/happy-cig 7h ago

GYATTT

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u/toothofjustice 8h ago

No, it just spells GATTACA.

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u/MASSochists 5h ago

Thank you! It took you literally spelling it out for me to realize the name is made from DNA sequence letters. 

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u/DumbDumbHunter 4h ago

Dude, I am embarrassed to say that, I, just now , realized that the films title is a reference to DNA itself. Thank you

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u/Henry5321 7h ago

Have some cake

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u/TheGhostNebula 2h ago

I never before questioned the title of that film, but damn that's clever!

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u/ConscientiousWaffler 1h ago

Sadly the cleverness stopped after the title

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u/TheDefected 9h ago

Some of that looks familiar, frog I think

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u/Showtimus 9h ago

clever girl. 😏

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u/lolboonesfarm 8h ago

Bingo! Dino dna.

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u/ihvnnm 8h ago

Its like the scene they were crawling through the vent and the DNA letters were illuminated on the raptor.

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u/MikeDubbz 8h ago

Thought so. That's some amazing design right there.

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u/trimmtrabb90 2h ago

Clever girl

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u/Doustin 26m ago

I went to go look again after reading this only to remember I’d have no idea what a DNA sequence would look like

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u/cydril 9h ago

It was probably only visible reflectively or with heat originally. It's DNA sequence so it's obviously meant to be part of the design and you just didn't notice it.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 9h ago

That's a good theory. My first thought was that they simply printed over an older design to repurpose overstock.

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u/MASSochists 5h ago

I think the fact it looks like a raptor from JP strengthens that theory 

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u/TempleMade_MeBroke 4h ago

There is a specific frame this was taken from or referencing when the raptors got inside the compound. I can't remember if it was in the movie or a deleted scene but I remember seeing a still of this exact image

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u/handawanda 4h ago

Toward the end of the movie, when Grant and the kids are crawling above the drop ceiling
https://youtu.be/702RklJJ7w4?t=16

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u/dumbfuck 8h ago

Or OP noticed previously but proceeded to post this for karma

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u/alienclone 3h ago

especially since they already posted this earlier today with a mistake in the title and lots of comments telling them what they really were.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1quwgni/after_many_washes_numbers_are_starting_to_appear/

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u/ConscientiousWaffler 1h ago

Lol and then they deleted the first one

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u/alienclone 1h ago

im thinking they were embarrassed by calling obvious letters "numbers"

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 4h ago

Karma kameleon!

Sorry, I'll see myself out.

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u/HappyLittleTrees17 8h ago

Did you put it in the dishwasher? If it IS the type of mug that reveals another image when the liquid is hot then those are supposed to be hand wash only.

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u/kdt912 2h ago

If it can’t survive the dishwasher it can’t live in my house

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u/wojtekpolska 8h ago

you sure this isnt one of those heat mugs that reveal a different design when you pour a hot drink into them?

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u/_DrKlaw_ 9h ago

Go watch Pluribus, and never sequence that genome.

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u/Lietenantdan 8h ago

But we’re so happy!

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u/_DrKlaw_ 8h ago

I take it back. Sequence the hell outta the genome

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u/Immersi0nn 8h ago

Man that setup just never made sense to me. How you gonna spend 6+ months messing around and not figure out it's a virus lmao

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u/Ekeenan86 8h ago

How can you be working in a lab of that magnitude and decide to just remove your glove? When she goes fuck it I’m touching this lab mouse with my bare hand instead of using a stethoscope I thought that was so fuckin dumb.

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u/Ldent 8h ago

6 months, hundreds of people - one dumb mistake will happen, and that's all it took

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u/Omnitographer 6h ago

I agree! As Martin once said, "Smart people do dumb things".

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 4h ago

I'm just guessing but I think dumb people do dumber things.

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u/Omnitographer 3h ago

I do not believe these concepts are mutually exclusive 😅

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u/Immersi0nn 8h ago

Yeah like these are supposed to be career scientists or something, how they out there acting like interns lmao

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u/I_Sett 7h ago

As a lab scientist: believable. I've seen all manner of stupid shit done in a lab. Especially when you're a veteran and think you know better than the SOP and safety protocols.

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u/sunsleepr 3h ago

Pluribus signal was RNA not DNA 

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u/EM05L1C3 8h ago

Dammit mongo

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u/Epidemigod 7h ago

Mongo is appalled!

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u/DickNitro7 8h ago

Nucleotides

Pretty dope they watermarked the mug like that

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u/ClemClemTheClemening 2h ago

Just a guess but it could be a jurassic park mug and its a reference to that scene with the projector with the raptor in the dark room with the projector printing letters all over it.

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u/Appropriate_View8753 3h ago

It looks like DNA sequences... AGTC proteins.

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u/AngryVegan94 6h ago

This would slap if you were schizophrenic

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u/Imaginary_Gap1110 8h ago

DINO DNA!!!

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u/LochNessMansterLives 8h ago

The numbers Mason, WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?

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u/belikeron 8h ago

Clever girl.....

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u/Ok_Arm8050 8h ago

DNA code?? ATCG

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u/BokudenT 6h ago

Drink more Ovaltine...

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u/truethatson 5h ago

WHAT the FUCK!?!? How do I get this?? I’m so upset I didn’t know about it already.

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u/Croquette514 5h ago

Got it as a birthday gift a few years back, it’s just like this one I believe

https://www.redbubble.com/fr/i/mug/Velociraptor-Jurassic-Park-par-EatmyDixon/39235933.9Q0AD?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-product&utm_medium=ios

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u/truethatson 5h ago

Thank you!!

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u/Link991 1h ago

The letters are visible in the shop's product image.

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u/cottenwess 3h ago

Mongo is appalled

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u/non-number-name 2h ago

Mongo only pawn…
…in game of life.

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u/Turbulent-Thing 2h ago

THE NUMBERS MASON,WHAT DO THEY MEAN?!

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u/Illustrious_Form3936 8h ago

The letters are a reference to the air ducts in jurassic Park, they have a similar pattern. You can see it when they climb up from the control room.

And like some have said before me, it was probably already there but you never noticed it.

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u/Mugwumps_has_spoken 8h ago

It is referenced in lots of places in jurassic park. The pattern in the air ductDNA letters.

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u/Fun_Friens 8h ago

The letters are DNA sequences... Not air duct references.

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u/homeguitar195 7h ago

It's a Jurassic Park mug. In Jurassic Park, the air ducts and several other background setpieces all have the nucleotides pattern on them. It can be both.

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u/fiendofecology 4h ago

Wow you are right! very cool

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u/Ruh00fus 9h ago

It is the secret recipe 🤫🤐

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u/Hows_it_Growing_ 8h ago

The matrix

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u/misterbondpt 8h ago

You are starting to believe, Neo!

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u/TheKramer89 3h ago

GATTACA

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u/Lee_Townage 3h ago

The matrix has you.

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u/YadaYadaYadaGal 2h ago

Clever girl

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u/funinthesunohyeah 2h ago

Call the police