Childhood Astronomy Trauma

The celestial size queens of our solar system! Earth and Pluto bonding over their disproportionately large satellite companions. While most planets have sensibly-sized moons, these two are practically in binary relationships. Earth's moon is about 1/4 its diameter (absolutely massive compared to most planet-moon ratios), while Pluto's Charon is so big that their barycenter—the point they orbit around—actually lies outside of Pluto itself. It's less "I have a moon" and more "we're cosmic dance partners with boundary issues." The rest of the planets are just watching like, "get a room already."

The ultimate science YouTube channel evolution! Starting with the German Kurzgesagt (already pretty good), then leveling up through Veritasium (getting smarter) and Vsauce (where things get weird), before reaching the cosmic brain territory of 3Blue1Brown (mathematical enlightenment). But the final boss? PBS Space Time – where your brain literally becomes a supernova trying to comprehend concepts like quantum gravity and the holographic principle. Every time Matt O'Dowd says "but wait, it gets weirder," you can physically feel your neurons surrendering. It's the YouTube equivalent of going from "I understand science" to "I am questioning the fabric of reality while staring at my ceiling at 3am."

The ultimate planetary rebellion! Earth is shown as a flat disc while all other planets are correctly depicted as spheres. This is basically Earth at the family reunion insisting "I'm not going through a phase, THIS IS WHO I AM!" Meanwhile, the Sun's just there like "Well, this is awkward" because one of its children decided to reject basic astronomical reality. Flat Earth believers are the cosmic teenagers of our solar system—refusing to accept what literally every other celestial body already knows!

The Pluto defenders club is still going strong! In 2006, the International Astronomical Union brutally demoted our beloved ninth planet to "dwarf planet" status, and some of us are STILL not over it. Poor Pluto didn't even get a vote in its own planetary execution! It's like getting kicked out of the cool planets club after 76 years of membership. No wonder Bugs Bunny is being passive-aggressive here - Pluto's been orbiting the sun for 4.5 billion years, and suddenly it's not good enough? Justice for the tiny ice ball that captured our hearts!

The astronomical audacity of astrophysicists! In stellar classification, they casually lump nearly every element on the periodic table as "metals" - including non-metals like oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. To an astrophysicist, if it's not hydrogen or helium (the two most abundant elements in the universe), it's just a "metal." Meanwhile, chemists are having collective aneurysms because oxygen is actually a highly reactive non-metal that would corrode actual metals faster than a freshman's confidence during finals week. The cosmic irony of calling oxygen a metal is like calling a fish a land mammal because "it's not a bird."

The comic brilliantly plays on astronomical facts with religious terminology. Mars (the red planet) has only two moons, Phobos and Deimos, while Jupiter has a staggering 95 confirmed moons. The "Catholic" reference is a clever nod to large families traditionally associated with Catholicism. In the final panel, Jupiter looks absolutely overwhelmed by its excessive lunar offspring. Classic case of astronomical birth control failure.