If You Are Into Star Wars,

this will make perfect sense,

take a concrete dome, like the observatory in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and give it a paint job, image via Hochschule Kaiserslautern,

 and this is what you get,

 Hubert Zitt, an electrotechnology professor at the Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences, was already known for injecting his lectures with a little pop culture flavor when he decided to take on the project, He’s spent the last few decades traveling the world, speaking at sci-fi conventions on the scientific realism (or lack thereof) in fictional worlds. He even has a class called “The Physics of Star Trek,” where he explores such topics as the feasibility of beaming and warp-drive technologies, image via instagram @ferwen04

Zitt brought together a team of volunteer painters, including his father and some of his students, to complete the transformation in late 2018, as you might imagine, the R2D2 paint job worked, going viral on American and European media and drawing in Star Wars fans from lands (if not galaxies) far, far away, and to make the image compleat just add a bit of cosplay! image via instagram @cpt.maggi