Quirky Astronomer Gifts

Voyeurs guide to the Cosmos (stars in the shape of a sexy woman).

Alien David statue

'How's the gene-splicing going? Cloned any new hepatitis antibodies?'

Reverse Ageing Laboratory

"I said to make a thousand CLONES."

'It's not a desert island - it's Australia.'

A Poem about Sand

Pavlov's Cat

Biologists often consult with microbiologists.

'Very good, Jeffrey! - You are so creative!'

'The math is more complex this year and some of you won't be able to just tap out your answers anymore.'

'Neighbors...friends...artists models.'

'That's interesting -- I seem to have discovered the gene that makes people want to become geneticists.'

Galileo describes his discoveries to the church (and gets hit over the head by the bishop/pope with the telescope that he made the discoveries with).

London map drawn from memory.

Cloning Laboratory: 'I never thought I'd work here.'

"When I was your age the Big Dipper was over THERE."

'This cork idea of yours is great! How do you get it out?'

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

Carl Wilhelm Scheele: "There was a great display of ores and minerals...I could not write with a molybdenite pencil."

"Now don't expect any miracles. I'm only a para-scientist."

No other lab did as cutting edge research using lab rats as test subjects as McWit Lab.

'Kleinzweck has a theory that the strong nuclear force is actually tiny rolls of duct tape.'

'I'm left brained and I needed some right brains.'

"Please, George...not here!"

Early Scientific Fraud: Young Thomas Edison Tried to Pass off a Container Filled with Fireflies as an Incandescent Bulb.

'No kidding? -- genuine Earth rocks?'

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

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

Agricultural Failures: Hydroponic Livestock.

Cambridge Dons Researching Gravity.