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Popular comment has it that “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to ...,” just as “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to program a mobile phone.” That is true—it takes a teenager. A rocket scientist would intellectualize the whole process, press two keys simultaneously, and crash the software. The past person you would want to ask is a rocket scientist.

Blown opportunities

Many more millionaires have gone bankrupt trying to develop rockets than satellites. They have got overlooked the fact that the operative word in “manipulated explosion” is manipulated.

Gravity depravity

No one is aware of what gravity really is, so don’t blow your bluffing cover by trying to explain it. The thing known for several is the fact that any two physical systems will attract the other person in proportion to their sizes (which simple truth is best not considered literally by oddly sorted lovers).

Lunartrick

One Sunday evening, the 12-year-old von Braun strapped rockets to a cart, lit the fuse, and sent the fire-spitting vehicle careening down a streets . . . . His life-long purpose was to send a rocket to the moon. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that traveling a lunar mission is complicated.