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We're only halfway through July and we feel confident saying that these astronauts & gun memes will be the meme of the month. It was making some serious strides on Reddit and Instagram when we covered the meme just two weeks ago. But now it's truly gotten out of control. The examples range from self-aware and meta to absolutely ridiculously dumb. The versatility makes for some seriously good scrolling, and that's exactly what we're here to provide you with today.

If you are at all invested in meme culture, you've probably see this meme: 

The absurd idea that all of planet Earth is Ohio has been an overwhelmingly successful image macro, and, as we've learned in the last few weeks, has inspired many equally absurd variations. Some are more inventive than others, replacing "Ohio Earth" with references to games or anime instead of just another place. Our favorite? Easily the meme that suggests the world is just chicken tenders. We could go for some right now.

Y'all know how much we loved the "Ight Imma Head Out" meme featuring Spongebob. That's why we're fans of this new dank meme, known as "Adios Wormhole" which features a sad guy about to peace out through a wormhole. Scroll down for some of our favorite examples, and as always, check out Know Your Meme for even more!

It seems like just yesterday that the film Interstellar came out, but can you believe it was actually all the way back in 2014? Yeah, neither can we. If you were a fan of the film (or even if you weren't), we think you'll enjoy these memes, in which Matthew McConaughey's character Cooper says, "This little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years."

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Sometimes it feels a bit like beating a dead horse with all of this flat-earther trolling, but it's just too easy. Why are there so many people in this world who refuse to believe in science? We'll probably never fully know. So anyway, please enjoy these ridiculous flat-earther memes that favor science!

When you start thinking about your life in the grand scheme of things, nothing truly matters because we're all just tiny specks of dust existing on a stupid little rock that's floating in circles around a slightly bigger rock that happens to be on fire. Anyway, ignore that existential bit and enjoy some fascinating nerdy facts about space!

Well, it appears that we're living in the future now, as the first space crime ever may have just been committed. 

Astronaut Anne McClain has found herself in hot water after being accused of identity theft from her estranged wife Summer Worden. 

Sounds like a fairly regular crime until you learn that McClain had accessed Worden's bank account from outer space, making for an unprecedented case with unclear jurisdiction. 

While the legal authorities try to sort that sh*t out, please enjoy the following Twitter reactions!

When  Hugo-Award winning writer Mary Kowal penned a New York Times essay about gender bias in space, she did not expect a wealth of responses claiming that women we kept from space travel due to a lack of adequate bathroom technology. The concept that only women would face issues relieving themselves was so preposterous that Kowal took to Twitter in hopes of enlightening the masses with some serious space potty history. 

In the thread, Kowal manages to destroy some seriously absurd bathroom-related gender bias and teach us a whole lot about the process of pooping and peeing in zero gravity. It's an informative yet wild and wildly funny ride, and really leaves us with the desire to observe a glove of purple piss floating out of a space toilet. If Kowal schooled you as hard as she did us, give her a follow on Twitter. She's got loads more wisdom to share.

These Area 51 memes are a gift that just keeps on giving! We thought they were all jokes at first but now we're not so sure. For legal reasons we probably can't really encourage you to attend this event, but we're also not going to tell you not to because the whole thing has been pretty damn entertaining. Keep the memes coming!

...And no, it's not Pluto (RIP). Researchers have found evidence that there may very well be a ninth planet, aptly named "Planet Nine" or "Planet X," in our solar system that's about the size of Neptune. 

The catch? No one has been able to find it. Yes, you read that correctly. This hypothetical planet is so far away that it takes between 10,000 and 20,000 earth-years for it to complete a full rotation around the sun.

Sadly, no scientist has been able to concretely prove the existence of such planet; they've simply predicted its existence based off of the similarly peculiar orbits of several objects in the Kuiper belt.

Still, we're going to hold onto hope that Planet Nine exists because that's just straight-up cool as hell.

If there was ever any compelling evidence that the moon landings never happened, then this is it, folks. You heard it here. No human ever landed on the moon and this guy proved it with a cornucopia of evidence.

Check out David Hughes' Twitter account for even more space-related conspiracy theories.