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Blue Ring Around Uranus
ZedNaught writes "The BBC is reporting that 'astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System. Like the blue ring of Saturn, it probably owes its existence to an accompanying small moon.' According to the April issue of Science, the blue ring is one of two new outer rings recently discovered around Uranus using the infrared Keck adaptive optics system. The rings are blue and red like Saturn's E and G rings. The blue ring around Saturn hosts the moon Enceladus while the Uranus ring contains the moon Mab."
I should get that checked out....
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
How many Uranus jokes do people have to make before we finally get the name changed to something a little more tasteful? I'm thinking something along the lines of Urectum. Or do I have to wait around until 2620 to see that happen?
After calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
If ever there were a topic begging for a goatse post, this is it.
You should see the ring around the other guy...
In other news, Uranus has filed suit against Neptune for making it pick up the soap, which Pluto clearly dropped.
You will see me around a lot today...
we've found the proverbial "blue moon?"
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
I guess Papa Smurf forgot to clean up...
OMG! Pretty rainbows around a planet. Did they find ponies also?
Table-ized A.I.
I, for one, salute our new blue ringed overlord.
How is NASA going to pitch the missions?
The Uranus Probes?
I'd hate to be the mission-director for that one...
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
a place where the sun don't shine...
Every single Slashdotter who thinks they're hilarious will inevitably make their way down the comments, groan that they weren't the first to the joke, and then attempt to make one anyway.. ... the thought clearly never crossed my mind! Ahem.
I've got the spirit, lose the feeling.
In other news the 10th 'planet' has finally been named Mykok, pronounced Mick Oak.
Man walks in to the waiting-room at his doctors office.
There is his old friend he hasn't seen in a while also waiting for his appointment.
Man: - It's kind of embarrassing to say but I come here because I have a blue ring around my penis.
Friend: - What a coincidence, I am here with a similar problem. I have a red ring around my penis.
Friend goes in to doctors office and comes out after two minutes, smiling.
Friend: - Doctor said I should not worry, just go and take a shower.
Man goes into doctors office and doctor takes a look at his "problem".
Doctor: - Sorry to say but I will have to amputate your penis.
Man: - But that's not what you told my friend with almost the same problem.
Doctor: - You have to understand that there is a clear difference between lipstick and gangrene.
As long as the ring is not red and itchy, Uranus will be fine.
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Windows has detected an undetectable error.
Upon discovery of the blue ring NASA administrators immediatly began a search for an Astroproctologist.
The problem in British pronunciation is that it sounds like 'urine-ous' which
is still unfortunate, so you can't win.
In either case I blame Tidy-Bowl.
Anything NOT worth doing is NOT worth doing well...
... will help red rings, but has never been tested on blue ones.
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There is inferior bacteria on the interior of your posterior.
The thought occurs that since the ring is blue, it might have formed by some object having rammed Uranus pretty hard. This doesn't fully explain the red ring, but in either case, this theory sounds good on the whole.
If you get this, we're 10 of a kind.
eating smurfs.
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Does your dad tell you to bend over and spread your countertop when he visits?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
German: Ihr Anus
Dutch: uw anus
French: vos anus
Italian: il vostro anus
Portuguese: seu anus
Spanish: su anus
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
HAHAHAHAHA! "It is a gas giant..." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Early in my career I worked at a city observatory and planetarium where among other duties I had to help with public visits. Damn near every single guy who walked through the doors immediately cracked some lame Uranus joke, and then expected us to laugh, as if it was the funniest, most original thing we'd ever heard. They were always amazed that we weren't rolling on the floors afterwards.
I fucking hate that planet now.
And Spitting Image had this news on their skit of the BBC news. With the rider:
"Scientists have also found a new moon around oorinus, and have named it boomholly" (spelled bumhole).