The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

The line is a comic one-liner that fuses cosmic grandeur with a petty, familiar frustration: mishandled airline baggage. By proposing an absurd “scientific theory,” it parodies the authoritative tone of science while actually satirizing modern travel’s bureaucratic incompetence—so pervasive that it feels capable of producing astronomical consequences. The joke also works by scale contrast: Saturn’s rings, among the most iconic structures in the solar system, are reimagined as a monument to everyday human error. Implicitly, it suggests that contemporary systems meant to manage complexity often fail at basic tasks, and that humor is a way to puncture the seriousness with which we treat both science-talk and corporate assurances.