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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....

(Excerpt) Read more at bgr.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: lowhangingfruit; uranus; youranus
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To: rsobin

You can get that bleached


101 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?")
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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)
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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)
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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?")
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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.)
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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))
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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...)
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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...)
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To: a fool in paradise

and Beano; too.


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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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To: Sapwolf

#me, too!


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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Space Fart!


118 posted on 11/30/2020 5:00:40 AM PST by ballplayer
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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.)
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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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