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Uranus discovery fulfills cosmic punchline
FoxNews/Science ^
| Apr 24, 2018
| John Johnson | Newser
Posted on 04/24/2018 8:58:21 AM PDT by ETL
Scientists using the huge telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano have discovered the world's most obvious space joke. "Uranus smells like farts" is an actual, and correct, headline making the rounds ...
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; garbage; gas; gasgiants; odor; planets; spaceprobe; uranus
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As a college student back in the mid-eighties taking an astronomy 101 course I once asked the teacher the following question: Does Uranus emit gases? Only he and another student got it and laughed. Most of the students were from foreign countries.
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posted on
04/24/2018 8:58:21 AM PDT
by
ETL
To: All
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:02:39 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
Always been on Team Neptune, personally.
Uranus stinks. It’s official.
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:06:04 AM PDT
by
CharleysPride
(Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
To: ETL
Why does a headline with Uranus in it always bring out the amateurish astronomer in all of us?
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:10:11 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
“The discovery, reported in Nature Astronomy, should help astronomers better understand the formation not only of Uranus but of the other outer planets. For one thing, Uranus differs from gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, whose clouds are made up mostly of ammonia ice (and are thus less smelly).
“If an unfortunate human were to ever descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” says study co-author Patrick Irwin of the University of Oxford in a news release.
Not that they’d live long enough to sniff it: “Suffocation and exposure in the (minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit) atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium and methane would take its toll long before the smell.” It’s likely that Neptune’s clouds are similar to Uranus’ clouds in makeup, given that those two planets formed farther from the sun than Jupiter and Saturn, notes Space.com.”
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04/24/2018 9:11:58 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:13:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: ETL
Uranus appears to have rings around it too.
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:14:30 AM PDT
by
Genoa
(Luke 12:2)
To: ETL
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:16:01 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: ETL
Note to self: Never use the words “fulfill” and “Uranus” in the same sentence.
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:26:08 AM PDT
by
Enduro Guy
(Always cov fe'fe)
To: ETL
And new pictures taken under the cloud cover of Venus shows it is shaped like a ...oh wait.... I can’t say that.
To: ETL
Eureka! A real Smell-O-Scope!
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:34:47 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Hehehe...more like the Seven Year Old Astronomer in all of us!
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04/24/2018 9:41:18 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: ETL
I admit, my first thought on reading it was just that...having a spacesuit and having to remove the helmet to actually smell the Uranus farts and having the guy asphyxiate in agony being exposed to it a la “Total Recall”!
Then it reminded me of a First Class in the Navy who had to have all of his teeth removed and he only ate peanut butter for about a week...he cleared out the compartment with a big grin, and I thought “Yeah...removing the helmet WOULD be like being the last one out of the compartment that day when AD1 Ingraham let loose...
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:45:25 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: polymuser
Hahaha...I remember “Groove Tube”...the blonde I took with me to the movie would never forget the segment on venereal disease...:)
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:46:29 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: ETL
Authorities have been considering a change to the name of the planet Uranus to put an end to these silly, juvenile jokes once and for all.
The new name? Urectum.
(Rectum? Damn near killed ‘em)
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:51:54 AM PDT
by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
To: Genoa
Uranus appears to have rings around it too.
Thats where the Klingons orbit.
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:55:00 AM PDT
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polymuser
(Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
To: -YYZ-
The new name? Urectum. New fields of study may arise from this discovery, such as "astro-proctology".
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posted on
04/24/2018 9:57:56 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
To: ETL
atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium and methane A planet made out of fuel, hmmmm....
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posted on
04/24/2018 11:04:36 AM PDT
by
eldoradude
(Walk a mile in a man's shoes and he'll never catch you.)
To: ETL
To: ETL
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posted on
04/24/2018 7:16:45 PM PDT
by
Amberdawn
(If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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