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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: CheshireTheCat

Before even looking, I’m betting at least half of the comments on this thread are fart jokes.

That’s so sad.


81 posted on 11/29/2020 7:25:00 PM PST by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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To: calenel

Yes, yes. Of course, you are correct.

I am so sorry.

Uranus should be taken much more seriously and given due respect.

It is such an important planet and so vital to our existence.

Now I must get back to my milky way.


82 posted on 11/29/2020 7:33:11 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

*in to see the puns and jokes*


83 posted on 11/29/2020 7:40:31 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: CheshireTheCat

At my age once a day would be great!


84 posted on 11/29/2020 7:41:40 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
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To: CheshireTheCat

How would you like to be a planetary astronomer assigned to the Uranus team? No one would ever take you seriously.


85 posted on 11/29/2020 7:51:01 PM PST by IronJack
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To: CheshireTheCat

May? May??? It’s a rare day when it doesn’t.


86 posted on 11/29/2020 7:52:09 PM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

And you would have to team up with a gastroenterologist.


87 posted on 11/29/2020 7:57:03 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Great headline. I admit I was immediately thinking Babylon Bee.


88 posted on 11/29/2020 8:22:32 PM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: Grimmy

Blame it on
The Dog,
Biden Did!


89 posted on 11/29/2020 8:22:48 PM PST by Big Red Badger (TRUMP, the Other guy lives in a Basement!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Beavis and Butthead, please pick up the wbrown courtesy phone.


90 posted on 11/29/2020 8:24:25 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (I'd rather have a rude President than a polite tyrant.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
There is a cure:


91 posted on 11/29/2020 8:45:51 PM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Larry Lucido
Uranus needs Mylanta

Take care of Uranus before mine,pal! (wink)

92 posted on 11/29/2020 9:33:39 PM PST by llevrok (Aunt Bea ran the Mount Pilot brothel.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Gives new meaning to,

old 5th grade joke.

93 posted on 11/29/2020 9:36:34 PM PST by McGruff (We will not go quietly into the night. We will not surrender without a fight!)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Uranus is weird.

Them's fightin' words!

94 posted on 11/29/2020 10:19:52 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Paul R.
Or...

Uranus is weird.

And just how the Hell would YOU know?

95 posted on 11/29/2020 10:22:59 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

So much bad humor could have been avoided if they’d just named the damn thing Ouranos. Or Pluto, instead of that thing they demoted from planet status.


96 posted on 11/29/2020 10:57:08 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: CheshireTheCat

The jokes just write themselves...


97 posted on 11/29/2020 11:33:45 PM PST by Thunder 6
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To: wardamneagle

Due to radiation and chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer (and nearby liver possibly being affected), I leak gas at least 10-15 times a day. Not enough Gas-X in the world to stop it, but it does help a lot.

I try to stay away from people during a long toot but I have seen bodies lying behind me in the Canned Fruits and Vegetable aisles in food stores. Sorry about that.

I do wear a “Do not light a match or smoke around me” sign when I go out. Only lost a couple of jerks who couldn’t read or refused to obey. They were millenials so no one has missed them yet. /SARC


98 posted on 11/30/2020 1:58:03 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Migraine

Re Att: 50th annual bean supper tomorrow hight at 6:00 in the church multi-purpose room. Music will follow”.

If they light any supper candles this will be the first church ever launched into orbit.

The music that will follow will be “Fly Me To The Moon”.


99 posted on 11/30/2020 2:03:44 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: CheshireTheCat

Isn’t 17 times a day the average?


100 posted on 11/30/2020 2:08:03 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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