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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Urectum? U damn near killedim.
I needed a good laugh today. Leave it to the science heads to do that!
Magnetic fields protect atmospheres. Prevents the solar wind from stripping off atmosphere by shielding a planet. With little magnetic field Mars lost its atmosphere, or much of it.
A molten core is needed to act as the Dynamo that creates the magnetic field. The Mars core has significantly cooled in the 4.5 billion years it has been around and even though early on it had substantial atmosphere and a strong magnetic field, today the atmosphere is extremely thin and the magnetic field weak because much less of the core is molten.
That at least is the leading theory.
H/T Richard Pryor
An oldie -
Why is the Starship Enterprise like a roll of toilet paper?
They both circle Uranus looking for Klingons....
My anus, Uranus...leaking gas is a universal function...
I sure the new green deal will fix this.
Let’s launch AOC and her crew out there to investigate this some more.
Is this serious?
LOL
I am NOT going there.
‘What a headline”
The guy that wrote is probably rolling on the floor laughing as he imagines all the comments it will inspire.
Jerusalem Artichokes, aka Fartichokes win the gas producing foods war by miles. They also happen to be delicious both cooked and raw. Perfect for any church pitch in. Raw, sliced or diced on a salad or roasted or mashed into a excellent mashed potato like thing which is even better tasting. They contain a sugar/startch that people can not digest but gut critters love it and go into hyper mega overdrive churning and bubbling away like an extremely active beer fermenter. Rumps trumpet within about two hours and will play the tune for at least twelve. These are the eye watering nose bleeding hydrogen sulphide types of emissions. Go with the mash and add egg yolks and onions to boost available sulphur and coincidentally make the mash even more delicious. Other gas producing foods are molehills next to the Mt. Vesuvius of the mighty Fartichoke.
Occasional release of gas from Uranus is preferred over hot lava eruptions.
Uranus has The Great Brown Spot?
Are they worse than asteroids?
Once would be a slow day at my house.
At times I have errored at discerning the subtle difference.
My questions is, does this mean myanus is less, or more effective than uranus?
Don’t go spreading crap about myanus. Myanus is very effective.
Some of that sounds a bit like the music from Close Encounters.
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