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Fact: You should pronounce it "YURR-rin-us," not "Your Anus." For years this beautiful and underappreciated ice giant has been subject to childish mockery due to this ignorant pronounciation.  Meanwhile, it sits nearly two billion miles away, silently tolerating your juvenile jokes and butthole obsessions, not judging you for your relentless disrespect. God, you suck and should feel bad. Another fact: It's tilted on its side. It also rotates in the opposite direction of all the other planets except Venus.  Methane gas gives Uranus a beautiful blue appearance. It is arguably the prettiest planet. What? Saturn has rings? Who gives a poo poo. Our big blue boy's rings are sexier.  Quick quiz: What's the coldest planet? Neptune since it's the farthest from the sun, right? Not so fast, hotshot. Uranus has recorded a low temperature of -370 degrees Fahrenheit. Neptune meanwhile bottoms out at a balmy -360 F. Uranus has 27 known moons. They are all traditionally named after characters from works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, giving them the nickname of "the literary moons." These include Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Miranda, Cressida, Ophelia, Desdemona, and, of course, Juliet.  Respect Uranus. If you don't, you might be the true rear end in a top hat.
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A great source of methane 
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Feb 23, 2021 17:36
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It actually does deserve an orbiter of it's own honestly.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:46
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we're laughing with it not at it
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Feb 23, 2021 18:04
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Not being able to pronounce it as your anus ruins at least 25% of my dad jokes. No thanks, you monster.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:08
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I gotta say, calling it "Urine-us" doesn't really help make its name any better...
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Feb 23, 2021 18:19
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I am not going to gas this.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:20
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I do like Uranus.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:20
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Lawman 0 posted:It actually does deserve an orbiter of it's own honestly. The ice giants definitely do.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:26
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Hazo posted:Fact: You should pronounce it "YURR-rin-us," not "Your Anus." In Greek it's closer to "urine-ous". lol
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Feb 23, 2021 18:52
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You're supposed to pronounce it "Pissus"
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Feb 23, 2021 18:59
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Fact: You should pronounce it "YURR-rin-us," not "Your Anus." no
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Feb 23, 2021 19:36
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Ice giants are cool and we don't know enough bout them. More probes for Uranus.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:55
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Hazo posted:Fact: You should pronounce it "YURR-rin-us," not "Your Anus." Urine-us you say?
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Feb 23, 2021 19:59
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A Sometimes Food posted:Ice giants are cool and we don't know enough bout them. txt me
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Feb 23, 2021 20:01
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It seems like some of you aren't ready for the maturity level it takes to appreciate a spectacular planet like Uranus. I recommend you start your introduction to astronomy with a planet that's easier to understand and pronounce, like Eyarth or Venice.
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Feb 23, 2021 20:53
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Uranus is a nice shade of blue.
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Feb 24, 2021 03:20
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Its discoverer, William Herschel, wanted to name it George, after King George III of Britain, but the other Europeans didn't like that. I prefer to believe that the name Uranus was proposed to mess with English-speakers as retribution. George. Well, Georgium Sidus.
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Feb 24, 2021 07:00
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Y'all are slacking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWszdSHkyE
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Feb 24, 2021 08:20
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Groke posted:Y'all are slacking. how did I make this the video i decided to watch all the way through tonight
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Feb 24, 2021 08:27
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Hazo posted:It seems like some of you aren't ready for the maturity level it takes to appreciate a spectacular planet like Uranus. I recommend you start your introduction to astronomy with a planet that's easier to understand and pronounce, like Eyarth or Venice. Was anything I said wrong? 
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rockinsaki posted:how did I make this the video i decided to watch all the way through tonight Because Nanowar are cool and awesome? (Their bass player has a legit PhD in astrophysics and a day job at a university. Making this song must have been a long-time dream for him.) Groke fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 09:14
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I love Uranus, OP
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Feb 24, 2021 09:29
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noted indian genocider winston churchill giving the uranus U sign. you keep questionable company op
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Feb 24, 2021 09:47
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A Sometimes Food posted:Was anything I said wrong? no you're cool you can be part of the uranus crew Groke posted:Y'all are slacking. Ok these people are allowed to pronounce it wrong because this loving rules. Nobody else though.
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Feb 24, 2021 15:07
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:Uranus is a nice shade of blue. reminds me of an easter egg
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Feb 24, 2021 18:56
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I think Urine-us is the most appropriate, the etymology is probably 'the rain maker' and shares a root with urine. That's why it's so horrifying Uranus had his balls chopped off, the source of all his power.
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Feb 24, 2021 22:24
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Uranus is the planet where I'd like to know just wtf happened. It's rolling on its side, the magnetic axis is way off from the spin axis and doesn't even go through the center of the planet, and whatever is powering the atmosphere dynamics on the other big planets is kaput.
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Presto posted:Uranus is the planet where I'd like to know just wtf happened. It's rolling on its side, the magnetic axis is way off from the spin axis and doesn't even go through the center of the planet, and whatever is powering the atmosphere dynamics on the other big planets is kaput. presumably it got smacked by an ice planet
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Feb 25, 2021 21:04
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Hazo posted:Fact: You should pronounce it "YURR-rin-us," not "Your Anus." [...] Methane gas gives Uranus a beautiful blue appearance. This mf trying to tell me a planet that smells like farts isn't called "yer-ANUS"
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Feb 26, 2021 06:01
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uranus just kinda marches to the beat of its own drummer and isn't conformist like the other planets. i like that in a frozen fartball.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:53
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I made sure to teach my daughter the correct pronunciation by stressing the anus
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Feb 26, 2021 20:00
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When I was a kid I pronounced it "ur-anne-us." I was a huge loser!
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Feb 26, 2021 21:19
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mediaphage posted:presumably it got smacked by an ice planet I know but drat, that would've been something to see.
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Feb 26, 2021 22:05
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It's pretty crazy that voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit uranus. Most of the pictures I think are from hubble.
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Feb 27, 2021 02:08
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Salt Fish posted:It's pretty crazy that voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit uranus. Most of the pictures I think are from hubble.  ".
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Feb 27, 2021 03:10
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Uranus and Neptune always seem slightly special to me because despite looking pretty boring compared to Jupiter. I just like that they seem to actually have something akin to a "surface", even if it would probably be a crazy hot "ocean" possibly including crazy things like giant diamonds. That always seemed cooler to me than Jupiter or Saturn being just being gas all the way down.(Even if metallic hydrogen might be kinda cool)Presto posted:I remember Uranus being kind of a letdown. Jupiter and Saturn had gotten everyone used to exciting pictures of roiling atmospheres and complex ring systems, and then Voyager 2 gets to Uranus and the planet is like "hello If I recall, it's been theorized that Uranus happened to be in an extra boring period weather wise and typically has a bit more going on than it did when voyager 2 visited it. The hubble pictures seem to show cloud formations and storms, but obviously in much less detail than a probe would have seen on encounter.
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Feb 27, 2021 05:43
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Yeah, I did some googling and it seems like there's a lot more going on now in the atmosphere than in 1986.
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