I damn near pissed myself reading that!

INDIE IS NOW

ADULT CONTEMPORARY

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FTA:

Astronomers believe this was caused when Uranus was given a mighty whack

He told Skymania in an exclusive interview: "We've only really scratched the surface of Uranus. It is very difficult to observe from Earth because any detail is smeared out."

Because there is so little heat coming from inside Uranus...

I think the author is making shait up.

FTFA:

"It Also has a lot more Methane"

Ya think?

Potty humor jokes aside, an orbiter to the U-planet would be awesome. Neptune, too.

It never ceases to appall me that the money spent on TARP was greater than NASA's budget for all of history, and yet people still complain about how expensive space missions are.

flaminio
Potty humor jokes aside, an orbiter to the U-planet would be awesome. Neptune, too.

It never ceases to appall me that the money spent on TARP was greater than NASA's budget for all of history, and yet people still complain about how expensive space missions are.

Yup

On this issue NDT is right. Fund NASA properly.

Uranus... also has the most powerful wind observed in the solar system, blowing at more than 500mph.

I... I got nothin'.

It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus since NASA's Voyager 2 flew past and captured fleeting pictures 25 years ago.

Perhaps those fleeting images are best. If it's anything like mine, the last 25 years have not been kind to Uranus.

Stavr0: heh, wrong thread.

I'm sure it was unintentional, but Ariel is also a moon of Uranus. Different Ariel though.

(And if the movie is to be believed, Uranus is *that* Ariel's great-grandfather.)

/tmyk

"The planet is unusual because it is tilted right over on its side. Astronomers believe this was caused when Uranus was given a mighty whack by another world in a cosmic collision."

Listen, it was the 80s. I'd been drinking, it . . . it was just an experiment, okay?

If they ever find a Planet X out around the Oort cloud, we should name it Cock and Balls (fitting if it has a few moons). That way we can say every few thousand years Cock and Balls shoots thousands of tons of ejecta and comets at us. The reason for the fall of the dinosaurs was Cock and Balls. The giant crater in the Yucatan is directly related to our Cock and Balls.

And so on.

I can't wait until 2620 when we can move past this joke for good.

So the European Space Agency is filled with mostly Greeks?

Jackpot777: study the rings around Uranus

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If you have rings around uranus you either need to wash better or see a vet.

Potty humor aside, leave it to journalists to be retarded yet again:

TFA: Uranus - first spotted by Sir William Herschel from Bath, England, in 1781 - also has the most powerful wind observed in the solar system, blowing at more than 500mph.

Neptune's gusts are easily twice that fast.

Why is it that everything today has to do with things going into or coming out of my ass?

Is that a rocket in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? Uranus.

It is also a gas giant.

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Ariel's dad was Neptune. You were close to still being relevant.

/it's pronounced your - on - us

//killjoy

And Saturn (Kronos in Greek) is Neptune's (Poseidon) father and Uranus (which is the only planet to be named after the Greek form. Caelus is the Roman counterpart,) is Saturn's father. So the whole joke could have been avoided if they had just named it Caelus.

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//You can find *anything* on deviantart.

Ariel's dad was Neptune. You were close to still being relevant.

/it's pronounced your - on - us

//killjoy

And Saturn (Kronos in Greek) is Neptune's (Poseidon) father and Uranus (which is the only planet to be named after the Greek form. Caelus is the Roman counterpart,) is Saturn's father. So the whole joke could have been avoided if they had just named it Caelus.

Soooo, you're saying that it was pretty callous of them to not name the planet Caelus?

/sorry
//not really

Atillathepun: So the whole joke could have been avoided if they had just named it Caelus.

The whole joke could be avoided if ostensibly grown men and women stop acting like third graders.

/suck my caelus