Posted on 12/22/2005 11:55:15 AM PST by iPod Shuffle
Butthead: "He said 'pole'. Heh heh, heh heh heh."
Teacher: "It's pronounced `YOUR-anus'. OK?"
Bevis: "Are you, are you threatening me!? I am the Great Cornholio!"
ARE YOU THREATENING ME??
I finally beat ring-around-the-collar, now this?
Hey! That's personal. I'm going to go take a bath.
"Uranus is one of the solar system's giant, gaseous planets."
Oh please, someone make it stop!
ping a ring a ping
Congrats to all FReepers for using restraint.
(see tagline)
Spiderboy ping
Dunno. Haven't seen it.
How do you think the rings got there in the first place?!.......
here's a related, newer topic:
Hubble spots Uranus' moons, rings
Baltimore Sun via San Francisco Chronicle
December 23, 2005 | Frank D. Roylance
Posted on 12/24/2005 7:02:26 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1546744/posts
['Civ takes cover...]Rings of Uranus - Invisible and impossibleNeither the dynamical nor the optical properties of the rings of Uranus are easily understood, unless it is assumed that they are not rings in the ordinary sense but simply volatile material in the orbits of several individual small satellites. It is possible that other natural satellites may also leave such rings in their wakes.
by T. C. van Flandern
old, related:
Uranus: Whacky weather, odd rings
Astronomy Magazine | 11/10
Posted on 11/13/2004 9:43:06 PM PST by ambrose
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279478/posts
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