I Wonder Why

The Empire's engineering department just got owned by the Flat Death Star Society. In a universe where we can build planet-destroying superweapons, apparently basic geometry is still controversial. Next they'll claim the tractor beam is just magnets and the Force is a government conspiracy. I suppose if you squint hard enough at a sphere, everything looks flat—just like some people's learning curves.

Behold! The ultimate galactic gotcha! The Death Star—that moon-sized planet-obliterator from Star Wars—is shown here challenging the very notion of planetary curvature! 🌑 It's brilliantly merging two conspiracy worlds: flat-earthers (who refuse to accept our planet's spherical nature despite *waves hands frantically* ALL THE EVIDENCE) and sci-fi fandom. The "Flat Death Star Society" is the intergalactic cousin of our own flat earth believers! Even in a galaxy far, far away, there's apparently no escape from pseudoscience! Next up: Stormtroopers arguing that blaster shots cause autism. *maniacal scientist cackle*

The agony of holiday science conversations captured in four painful panels! The relative confidently questions why space photos lack stars (a common conspiracy talking point), while the exhausted scientist tries explaining light pollution. When the relative doubles down with "light isn't a physical thing, it can't cause pollution," you can practically feel the scientist's soul leaving their body. Light pollution is actually the excessive artificial light that drowns out celestial objects in our night sky. But the real issue here is the space photos conspiracy theory - NASA images often use exposure settings optimized for their main subject (like the Moon or spacewalking astronauts), making stars too dim to capture. The same reason you can't see stars in daylight photos! The desperate "Auntie please" is the universal cry of scientists everywhere who just wanted to enjoy their turkey in peace.

Taking conspiracy theories to a whole new dimension! A Möbius strip Earth would be the ultimate geographical mindbender - one continuous surface where if you travel far enough in any direction, you'd end up on the opposite side but upside down. Imagine the airport chaos! "Sorry, your flight to Australia has been redirected to Norway's underside." The best part? We'd only need to mow one side of the planet. Think of the savings on lawn care alone! For the topologically curious: a Möbius strip is created by taking a strip of paper, giving it a half-twist, and joining the ends. It has the mathematical property of being non-orientable with only one side and one boundary. Unlike flat-earthers who just removed a dimension, this theory adds a twisted one!

The scientific method requires years of rigorous study, peer review, and replication. Then there's the guy who watched a 10-minute conspiracy video at 2 AM and is now ready to overturn centuries of established research. The confidence-to-knowledge ratio here is truly groundbreaking. If only grant applications were this easy—"Saw it on YouTube" would save us all so much paperwork.

What happens when you blend conspiracy theories with the pain of structural biology research? This masterpiece. The truth about crystallography they don't want you to know: those diffraction patterns are just PhD students' tears crystallized under electron microscopes. That complex compound formula? Just keyboard smashing after the 47th failed crystallization attempt. Nothing captures lab desperation quite like calling your field "VOODOO mathematics" while staring at the same protein crystal that refuses to diffract properly for the fifth consecutive month. At least the "Round Pyramid Scheme" is aptly named - that's where your career goes when you can't get publishable data.