On Today's Alley Oop - 10 August 2021

Today Joey posits another idea, that planets outside the Milky Way Galaxy are flat. Sorry, Joey but it doesn't work that way, that the laws of physics operate differently in different parts of the universe. Planets in other galaxies are spheres, too, just like here. It can't be any other way for a true planet- a piece of space debris might be "flat" but a planet never. What she suggests is so mind boggingly dumb that its absolutely laughable.

What's the deal with the spaceship? What propels it? How does it travel such vast distances when it is made out of plexiglass? The usual Sayers reasons - "just because". Joey doesn't bother to explain anything - no hyperdrive or a spaceship made out of "impervium" - because that would take work and effort. Just let everything happen by magic, so much easier that way. And what happened to yesterday' setup? They were supposed to be in suspended animation for the long journey and yet they are awake as if nothing had happened. Wouldn't Doc's beard have grown an inch or two in their 40,000 year journey?

Today's Scientific Unamerican: https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2021/08/10