Astrochemist Gifts

Asteroid Bennu

'Well, there's something you don't see every day'

International Women's Day.

"I'll bet your're a Taurus. Right?"

"We can see through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and into all those distant stars up there in outer space... truly remarkable, huh, girl?"

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"Our light bill is astronomical living next to a black hole."

'Teenagers!'

"You go on in, I’m just going to catch up with the moon for a few minutes."

"Oh, no - Karen baked a cake so dense that not even light can escape."

The Solar System (after deregulation)

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

"Look what I found, dad!"

"Houston - you will Not believe this!"

"Lemme know when you’re ready to howl at it."

You too?! I go around feeling half asleep all the time also!

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

'But what is the universe for?'

"Abduction 101, when abducting eggs from a primitive planet always lower the temperature in the ship!"

"Hey Pete, why do you think they call it a 'Supermoon?'"

"A full moon! It's like Mother Nature turning on a night light!"

Boptimism

Questions about an old case refuse to go away. . .

'You forgot to pay the gravity bill, didn't you?'

'Look - a starfish, its manager, its agent, its minders, its significant other, its make-up artist, its personal trainer, its secretary, its astrologer, its feng shui consultant...'

Martha Stewart Takes Over The Universe

"Up here, light is neither a particle nor a wave. It's a liquid."

"The stars were much more beautiful from Earth."

God Sneezes Out Creation

'BANG' and a cosmology institute appears.

'Never mind that. I think I've just discovered a new planet!'

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"When we're home, are we still aliens?"

The flies have landed.

'I don't know which was prettier - the meteor shower or the cascade of flaming space junk.'