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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 07, 2017, 07:57:05 PM

Title: Probing Uranus
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 07, 2017, 07:57:05 PM: No, really

http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2017/11/nasa-wants-to-probe-deeper-into-uranus.html
Title: Re: Probing Uranus
Post by: jeremyp on November 07, 2017, 08:08:15 PM: They renamed it in 2620 to end that joke once and for all.

Now it's called Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.

~~ professor Farnsworth.
Title: Re: Probing Uranus
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 07, 2017, 08:56:22 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 07, 2017, 07:57:05 PM
No, really

http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2017/11/nasa-wants-to-probe-deeper-into-uranus.html

Interesting, thanks for posting :=)
Title: Re: Probing Uranus
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on November 07, 2017, 10:41:55 PM: Will they be probing Saturn's ring?
Title: Re: Probing Uranus
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 07, 2017, 11:19:55 PM: OK if we are going to do bum jokes, I was setting up a telescope outside my Wal Mart store in San Anton, it was a promotion that we were doing. One wag asked me "Have you seen Uranus?", to which I replied "No, but I have scratched it a few times".
Title: Re: Probing Uranus
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on November 07, 2017, 11:24:32 PM: FTR the recommended pronounciation is "Yoo raa nus".

My understanding is that the latest theory is that the surface of this planet is an ocean of compressed methane, with diamond icebergs.
Title: Re: Probing Uranus
Post by: Shaker on November 07, 2017, 11:36:02 PM: Quote from: Humph Warden Bennett on November 07, 2017, 11:24:32 PM
FTR the recommended pronounciation is "Yoo raa nus".
Not recommended by many ;)