Planetary Rotation Nerd Gifts

"...but that equals 243 Earth days!"

Alien David statue

"Houston, we have a problem."

Newton discovers gravity and apple sauce in the same day.

'I'm going to Venus. He's going to Mars.'

You must be this tall.

'Kids, today, Xerf brought in a planet that he found. Now if we look at it closely under the microscope, you can still see it's inhabitants scrambling around.'

Astronaut finds used firework on the moon.

"Going to Mars sounded like fun. Do you think we can get dad to finance it?"

Astronaut runs on spinning asteroid to reach space shuttle's tether.

NASA, 'I thought I smelled oxygen!'

TV - MARS, weather: 'Very hot and dry days, bitterly cold nights and no precipitation for the next several million years!'

NASA HEADQUARTERS, ACME VACUUM CLEANERS, 'Hi! - I understand that space is full of junk?'

First Contact

Mike had learnt by heart the whole training manual, apart from the most important bit.

"I don’t know why we bother traveling—they just missed the entire Milky Way."

"That's a meteor. If it hits the ground its a meteorite."

'Houston, we have a problem. We're going to need a bigger toothbrush.'

"Thank you earthlings, without your space junk we would be nothing."

"This gives me a remarkable idea - tempered only by the realization that Archimedes, discovered the principle of specific gravity 200 years ago."

Black Hole Exhibit

'Isaac Newton, doing...research.'

"Nobody told me it was formal."

The five inhospitable gas giants

NASA realized too late that there was intelligent life on this newly discovered planet.

Turkey Dinner and gravity

'No kidding? -- genuine Earth rocks?'

Theory of Gravity

Isaac Newton...stumped.

'Who put that thing there?'

For years the government has hidden the existence of Apollo 10 1/2...The embarrassing mission that got almost all the way to the moon before they realized they had forgotten the flag.

"Oh, don't worry, we just find this planet hilarious."