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Uranus may leak gas into space at least once a day
BGR.com ^
| November 16, 2020
| Mike Wehner
Posted on 11/29/2020 5:26:35 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Uranus is weird. It’s unlike any other planet in our solar system for a number of reasons, but its most bizarre feature is that it rotates at a roughly 90-degree angle to all the other planets. Scientists believe that its strange orientation is due to an impact that the planet sustained early in its life, but they’re just beginning to understand how this particular circumstance is affecting the planet on a day-to-day basis.
In a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists explain that, based on models of the planet and its magnetosphere, it’s likely that the solar wind streaming from the Sun actually enters and flows through the magnetosphere rather than flowing around it....
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: lowhangingfruit; uranus; youranus
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To: rsobin
You can get that bleached
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posted on
11/30/2020 2:16:47 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
To: calenel
I looked. Actual posts relative to the thread are running about 20%.
It’s like farting in the wind.
102
posted on
11/30/2020 2:43:02 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
To: teeman8r
Oops. Sorry. Make that 5%... brain fart.
103
posted on
11/30/2020 2:44:00 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
To: teeman8r
In space, no one can hear you
scream phart.
Love, Ripley
104
posted on
11/30/2020 2:45:05 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
To: BenLurkin
Where do you think John Williams stole it from?
The Composer's Recipe For Fried Chicken:
First, steal a chicken.
105
posted on
11/30/2020 3:29:19 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
("Congress Shall Make No Law..." They should have stopped right there.)
To: real saxophonist
The comic who wrote this headline should not quit their day job.
106
posted on
11/30/2020 3:34:01 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: CheshireTheCat
Anyone wanna bet that BGR is a mirror URL of the Babylon Bee?
107
posted on
11/30/2020 4:36:59 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: OKSooner
I’m sniffing Fake News here.
108
posted on
11/30/2020 4:38:16 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: a fool in paradise
109
posted on
11/30/2020 4:39:04 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Larry Lucido
ATlanta needs less 300 ‘teen’ brawls.
110
posted on
11/30/2020 4:41:36 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: max americana
I thought that was the moon?
111
posted on
11/30/2020 4:43:08 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: EvilCapitalist
Them red and/or blue bears need to address this problem.
112
posted on
11/30/2020 4:45:51 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
It’s in the timing.
I; too; have been fooled.
—Jack Nickelson
113
posted on
11/30/2020 4:49:15 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: calenel
A wise man bets like to do.
A man wanting a big payoff puts it all in at around 90%!
114
posted on
11/30/2020 4:51:01 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Sapwolf
115
posted on
11/30/2020 4:52:20 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: teeman8r
The more replies this thread has received; the more farty they have become.
116
posted on
11/30/2020 4:55:12 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Three things to remember when you get older:
117
posted on
11/30/2020 4:58:18 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: CheshireTheCat
To: CheshireTheCat
If I am not careful I get Klingons.
119
posted on
11/30/2020 5:26:20 AM PST
by
Neverlift
(When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Thanks! I LOL’d with every turn of phrase.
120
posted on
11/30/2020 5:36:50 AM PST
by
Migraine
( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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