Uranus smells like farts and rotten eggs

KHQ Spokane ^ | 4/25/18 | Cory Howard

[Sopater]

There's no way around it, so I'm just going to say it, we can laugh, laugh some more, and move on. Then share it with our friends and family and laugh again.

Uranus smells like farts. Seriously.

That's not some childish joke (but come on, it's kinda funny). That's straight from scientists at the University of Oxford, who published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy on Monday.

Researchers studied Uranus using a giant telescope in Hawaii known as Gemini North. What they found was - ahem - unfortunate for the planet that is already the butt (hehe) of so many jokes.

Much of the upper atmosphere of Uranus is hydrogen sulfide. Farts, basically. Or at least the smell of them. It smells like farts and rotten eggs.

“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” lead author Patrick Irwin said in a release.

But I wouldn't worry about ever having to catch a whiff of our solar system's stinky planet. Scientists say "suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celcius atmosphere made mostly of hydrogen, helium, and methane" would do you in long before the smell ever would.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Methane, natural gas, is odorless. Mercaptan is added so that you can smell the leak.

[T. P. Pole]

Even worse is when it is like the fourth thread on this in a week.

[clamper1797]

Just like my ex wife.

and if you think Uranus is big ... you should see hers

[Zeppo]

There must be a Michael Moore joke or two in that story...

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Sounds like the perfect place to “lock her up.”

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Is that eMail real? Did Podesta really send that?

[mindburglar]

https://liquidass.com

[BBell]

The joke just write themselves.

[unread]

"Uranus smells like farts and rotten eggs

Well, SAME TO YOU..!!

[jmacusa]

Oder has to have an oxygen environment to be noticeable, correct? So then there's an oxygen rich environment surrounding Uranus?

[Dr.Deth]

Didn't astronomers rename Uranus to end that stupid joke once and for all?

[MNJohnnie]

Unless you are from San Francisco in which case it smells like KY lubricant.

[caww]

Gets real old seeing this stuff.....getting more and more daily too. Use to be we could get the latest ‘news’ here....not all this tabloid stuff.

[Riley]

Uranus smells like farts and rotten eggs

Speak for yourself.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Senator Proxmire, phone your office.

We have a new candidate. We didn’t need to spend Govt. research dollars on THIS.

[xrmusn]

Often wondered.

If one has an olafactory problem does that mean if one can’t smell he/she/it doesn’t smell?

[Mr. K]

Has anyone confirmed if that email was real?

[Slyfox]

Don’t you guys remember when it came out from Wikileaks and all the jokes that were made about it?

[MGunny]

LMAO!!!! Do you need a PhD to make that determination?????!!!!!!

[DannyTN]

They weren’t kidding when they called Uranus a gas giant.