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SCIENTISTS INTRIGUED BY STRANGE BLOBS ON URANUS
futurism.com ^

Posted on 09/20/2021 11:10:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Researchers believe that mushy blobs on Uranus are hiding lots of gas.

More specifically, scientists have discovered that “mushballs,” large slushy hailstones made of ammonia and water, might be causing an odd atmospheric phenomenon on Uranus, according to a press release about the research. The mushballs, which are also present on Neptune, might be carrying ammonia into the two planets’ atmosphere and hiding the gas from detection.

The balls might actually be the secret behind why scientists can’t detect ammonia in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune — which is odd because it’s abundant with other gasses like methane.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: ammonia; astronomy; catastrophism; dontgothere; methane; mushballs; mushyblobs; neptune; nonmushyblobs; science; uhhuh; uranus; water
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1 posted on 09/20/2021 11:10:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’m just going to sit back and enjoy this one.


2 posted on 09/20/2021 11:11:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

On the contrary, my doctor found them to be a cause for concern.


3 posted on 09/20/2021 11:11:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

Here we go...


4 posted on 09/20/2021 11:11:32 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: BenLurkin

I’m not sure about blobs, but those Klingons can be pesky.


5 posted on 09/20/2021 11:12:04 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 (Your either busy dying or getting busy living. I don't have time for fear.)
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I thought they renamed that planet to urectum


6 posted on 09/20/2021 11:12:12 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: dfwgator; BenLurkin

“To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before”


7 posted on 09/20/2021 11:12:17 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ((The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.))
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To: BenLurkin

Cellulite??


8 posted on 09/20/2021 11:12:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BenLurkin

This one is gonna be fun.


9 posted on 09/20/2021 11:12:34 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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I think those blobs are a bunch of crap.


10 posted on 09/20/2021 11:12:43 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: BenLurkin

Grabbin’ the popcorn...


11 posted on 09/20/2021 11:13:25 AM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!)
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To: dsrtsage

“I thought they renamed that planet to urectum”

Rectum? Damn near killed ‘em.


12 posted on 09/20/2021 11:13:34 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: BenLurkin

‘roids


13 posted on 09/20/2021 11:13:35 AM PDT by TomGuy (!)
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Can’t see Uranus for the balls? Is that the fake-away?


14 posted on 09/20/2021 11:13:45 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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I think a biopsy and cauterization should be required!


15 posted on 09/20/2021 11:14:15 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: gundog

Take-away


16 posted on 09/20/2021 11:14:27 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: BenLurkin

I’m going to pull up a chair for the replies on this thread.


17 posted on 09/20/2021 11:14:32 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: BenLurkin

Yikes!


18 posted on 09/20/2021 11:14:45 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: BenLurkin
We already know what it is:


19 posted on 09/20/2021 11:15:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin

Boy, that stock in Preparation H is finally going to pay off!


20 posted on 09/20/2021 11:15:19 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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