New Moon of Uranus Discovered

paulnuyu writes "A group of international astronomers have found a new moon orbitting Uranus. This brings Uranus's total moon count to 21. The newly discovered moon is speculated to be a remaining fragment from a collision that occured when the solar sytem was still forming."

Comments

hmmm

[happy monday]

uranus... moon... i know there's a joke in there somewhere...

dammit

[austad]

I found that the other night also, time for a trip to the doctor.

Yes, I know...

[GreyWolf3000]

The article is about Uranus. I think we all know the joke, and we can all laugh about it by ourselves in the privacy of our own desks, without posting lame jokes here. This dead horse is beat. Most of us (except for the moderators ;) are over 15 and can be expected to behave in at least a semi-adult fashion.

You know, on second thought, screw that crap. This joke never gets old. The more I think about "21 moons on Uranus" the more I crack up. Pun intended. Just allow yourself to laugh at this, and maybe even let it lighten up the rest of your day. It has mine.

I also can't wait until a story comes along about how scientists "find" a small chance that there could be frozen water, which could indicate the slim chance of life. In turn, there'll be all the boring threads about the seti@home project and distributed computing to look forward to--certainly more pertinent than this post of course, but what the hell...

Re:Yes, I know...

[sanity_slipping]

My Physics teacher really dislikes interruptions. He torments people who come in and who interrupt him now by making them explain Physics problems, but he used to be much, much worse. A few years ago, the people who carry notes from the office apparently were terrified of entering his class room. One brave courier had a message and knocked on his door while he was explaining mass versus weight to his students. He was using the example of massing the same on other planets but having different weights.

He walks toward the door... "So, you can imagine what a one kilogram mass would weigh on Earth, but what would it weigh on SATURN OR UR-(opens door)-ANUS?"

Re:And the bit from Futurama

[Syncdata]

Professor: I call it "The smelloscope". Try it!
Fry:Just don't point it at Uranus..
Professor:Very funny Fry, we changed that planets name years ago just to get rid of that stupid joke.
Fry:What did you call it?
Professor:Urectum.