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.
Raising Arizona!! Gotta find that movie and watch again!!
What else would it smell like?
i remember when it came out but i was never sure if it was made up or not
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