It Has Just A Little More Hydrogen Than Us...

Content Both shapes have the same number of holes. Try it yourself. Start with a cube of playdo. Take a chopstick and push it through until it pokes out. Expand each hole. Repeat until each face has a hole. You only need to poke 5 holes in the cube to create the final shape. The first poke creates an opening in the top and bottom. Each following poke adds a hole to one of the 4 side faces.

When your Nazi rocket scientist colleague gets all the glory while you've been quietly pioneering aerospace for decades... awkward! Operation Paperclip brought Werner von Braun (former Nazi rocket developer) to NASA after WWII, while Theodore von Kármán had been grinding away at JPL since 1930 without the questionable backstory. Nothing like that uncomfortable moment when your new coworker with a sketchy past gets the corner office. The ultimate scientific workplace drama - turns out rocket science isn't just about equations, it's also about who has the most explosive résumé!

You enter the lecture hall excited about stars and planets, then BAM! The professor starts babbling about spectroscopy, parallax measurements, and relativistic redshifts! What you thought was going to be "oooh pretty space pictures" turns into "calculate the proper motion of this binary system using these 17 differential equations." The cosmic bait-and-switch strikes again! The stars may be billions of years old, but your enthusiasm for the class died in just 10 minutes.

The cosmic gatekeeping is strong with this one! Apparently, the advanced alien civilizations have turned exoplanet preferences into the ultimate personality test. Choose a hot Jupiter? TERMINATED. Prefer a super-Earth? You might get satellite privileges. Meanwhile, the rest of us astronomers are still debating whether that fuzzy pixel is a planet or just a smudge on the telescope lens. The real question is which exoplanet gets you access to their intergalactic Wi-Fi password—because mine is terrible and I've got 4TB of data to upload.

Ever notice how journalists keep asking questions astronomers stopped asking centuries ago? The headline "Experts ask where the center of the universe is" has actual cosmologists facepalming so hard they're creating new black holes! 🤣 Since the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding in ALL directions simultaneously—like a cosmic soufflé that never stops rising! There's no center because EVERY point is expanding away from every other point. It's like asking "where's the center of the surface of a balloon?" while the balloon keeps inflating. Spoiler alert: it doesn't exist! Prof. Keating's "No, we aren't asking this..." is the scientific equivalent of banging your head against Einstein's desk. Next headline: "Scientists struggle to determine which way is up in space." *cosmic screaming intensifies*

The cosmic chicken-and-egg paradox strikes again! This is like asking why rain always falls in puddles. Spoiler alert: the meteor creates the crater upon impact—they're not aiming for pre-existing holes like some celestial game of golf. The beauty of this meme is watching someone confidently misunderstand cause and effect while thinking they've stumbled upon science's greatest mystery. Next up: "Why do gunshots always leave bullet holes?" File this under "questions that answer themselves if you think for more than three seconds."