[apillar]

Poor Uranus, the butt of so many jokes (pun intentional). Seriously, I wonder just how the rather unfortunate English pronunciation of the planet's name has negatively influenced exploration proposals (since there hasn't been one since the Viking flyby, which only really happened because Uranus was in the right place.)

No matter how adult and professional scientists are, even they would shy away from being know as the head of the "Uranus Study Team" or for submitting a serious proposal "to probe the inner workings of Uranus". I assume this is only an English problem and other the joke doesn't translate into other languages? Maybe Russia or China is the best hope for Uranus exploration...

[VRWCmember]

Maybe Russia or China is the best hope for Uranus exploration...

Or maybe San Francisco

[originalbuckeye]

‘Your anus’ or ‘Urine-us’........neither works well. Who named this planet???

[bigbob]

Somebody seriously did not like that planet!