Uranus discovery fulfills cosmic punchline

FoxNews/Science ^ | Apr 24, 2018 | John Johnson | Newser

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Scientists using the huge telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano have discovered the world's most obvious space joke. "Uranus smells like farts" is an actual, and correct, headline making the rounds ...

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As a college student back in the mid-eighties taking an astronomy 101 course I once asked the teacher the following question: Does Uranus emit gases? Only he and another student got it and laughed. Most of the students were from foreign countries.

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[CharleysPride]

Always been on Team Neptune, personally.

Uranus stinks. It’s official.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Why does a headline with Uranus in it always bring out the amateurish astronomer in all of us?

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“The discovery, reported in Nature Astronomy, should help astronomers better understand the formation not only of Uranus but of the other outer planets. For one thing, Uranus differs from gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, whose clouds are made up mostly of ammonia ice (and are thus less smelly).

“If an unfortunate human were to ever descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” says study co-author Patrick Irwin of the University of Oxford in a news release.

Not that they’d live long enough to sniff it: “Suffocation and exposure in the (minus 328 degrees Fahrenheit) atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium and methane would take its toll long before the smell.” It’s likely that Neptune’s clouds are similar to Uranus’ clouds in makeup, given that those two planets formed farther from the sun than Jupiter and Saturn, notes Space.com.”

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avrqo0rC7cw

[Genoa]

Uranus appears to have rings around it too.

[BenLurkin]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3649686/posts

[Enduro Guy]

Note to self: Never use the words “fulfill” and “Uranus” in the same sentence.

[antidemoncrat]

And new pictures taken under the cloud cover of Venus shows it is shaped like a ...oh wait.... I can’t say that.

[polymuser]

Eureka! A real Smell-O-Scope!

[rlmorel]

Hehehe...more like the Seven Year Old Astronomer in all of us!

[rlmorel]

I admit, my first thought on reading it was just that...having a spacesuit and having to remove the helmet to actually smell the Uranus farts and having the guy asphyxiate in agony being exposed to it a la “Total Recall”!

Then it reminded me of a First Class in the Navy who had to have all of his teeth removed and he only ate peanut butter for about a week...he cleared out the compartment with a big grin, and I thought “Yeah...removing the helmet WOULD be like being the last one out of the compartment that day when AD1 Ingraham let loose...

[rlmorel]

Hahaha...I remember “Groove Tube”...the blonde I took with me to the movie would never forget the segment on venereal disease...:)

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Authorities have been considering a change to the name of the planet Uranus to put an end to these silly, juvenile jokes once and for all.

The new name? Urectum.

(Rectum? Damn near killed ‘em)

[polymuser]

“Uranus appears to have rings around it too.”

That’s where the Klingons orbit.

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The new name? Urectum.

New fields of study may arise from this discovery, such as "astro-proctology".

[eldoradude]

atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium and methane

A planet made out of fuel, hmmmm....

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

2017

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3539193/posts

[Amberdawn]

Lol!