Posted on 04/25/2018 1:25:14 PM PDT by Sopater
There's no way around it, so I'm just going to say it, we can laugh, laugh some more, and move on. Then share it with our friends and family and laugh again.
Uranus smells like farts. Seriously.
That's not some childish joke (but come on, it's kinda funny). That's straight from scientists at the University of Oxford, who published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy on Monday.
Researchers studied Uranus using a giant telescope in Hawaii known as Gemini North. What they found was - ahem - unfortunate for the planet that is already the butt (hehe) of so many jokes.
Much of the upper atmosphere of Uranus is hydrogen sulfide. Farts, basically. Or at least the smell of them. It smells like farts and rotten eggs.
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” lead author Patrick Irwin said in a release.
But I wouldn't worry about ever having to catch a whiff of our solar system's stinky planet. Scientists say "suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celcius atmosphere made mostly of hydrogen, helium, and methane" would do you in long before the smell ever would.
methane ,so it has cows sheep etc ?
Planet Hillary.
Someone should light that fart.
Sheesh, you realize you’ve just described Hillary’s “odor problem!” Or was that Urine, Cabbage and Farts? Well, anyway, she’s close to Uranus
NASA needs a skimming flyby satellite that will collect
Uranus gas from the upper atmosphere, avoiding any moons, compressing samples to be canned an sold to the DNC for several million dollars an ounce.
Don;t laugh, they paid millions for the Steele Dossier didn’t they. We might as well subsidize NASA with democrat cash for further access to Uranus.
It’s because of the Klingons around there.
We can now safely rename Uranus “Planet Hillary”.
Pluto smell like a wet dog?
Everybody is getting a chuckle out of this. Saw this story on the local newspaper’s site.
Just stay upwind of mine after a couple chili dogs.
Still not as bad as baby soy milk poop.
There they go again, probing uranus.
What did they expect to find that uranus smelled like roses?
So when it was bath day it went like this:
"Time for a bath,Dad"."Nope,I don't want a bath"."Dad,you need one"."No!" "C'mon,Dad...you don't smell too good" (I say that jokingly)."Are you sure that's not you you smell?"
He kept that Irish wit until the end.
Well...yeah
Truly sad when FR threads go this low.
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