Astronomers And Their Ridiculous Naming Conventions

The eternal battle between physics students and Newton's First Law! In the vacuum of space, with no air resistance or significant gravitational fields nearby, that rock you throw is basically signing up for an eternal road trip. It'll keep moving with constant velocity until something stops it—which in the vastness of space could be... never? The bell curve shows the classic intelligence distribution: the average folks (middle) correctly understand it keeps going forever, while the two extremes hilariously think it eventually stops. Newton is somewhere in the afterlife facepalming so hard right now.

The scientific method has nothing on character design! While we're busy writing 20-page papers to describe a single protein, animators just need a distinctive silhouette. That last one? Literally a black circle. Yet somehow we all know it's a black hole that's about to devour everything in its path. Physics simplified to perfection—no equations about event horizons or gravitational singularities needed. Just pure, existential dread in circle form.

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.

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Even cosmic mysteries need therapy! This poor blob of dark matter is clearly going through an existential crisis while its therapist takes notes. Everyone's obsessed with detecting dark matter and mapping its location throughout the universe, but nobody's checking on its emotional well-being! Dark matter makes up about 27% of our universe and holds galaxies together, yet gets zero emotional support. Talk about an unappreciated relationship - it's literally the universe's backbone having a breakdown! Maybe if we showed it some love, those detection experiments would finally work... 🌌✨

The meme brilliantly illustrates NASA's planetary exploration priorities using the drowning kid meme format. At the top, we see Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn getting all the attention (the kids playing in the pool), while poor Uranus and Neptune (the skeleton at the bottom) are completely forgotten. It's the perfect metaphor for how NASA has sent multiple missions to the inner planets and gas giants, but hasn't returned to Uranus or Neptune since Voyager 2's brief flyby in the 1980s. The ice giants are literally left to die at the bottom of NASA's priority list! The skeleton waiting for a mission approval that may never come is just too real for planetary scientists specializing in the outer solar system.