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Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wakka-wakka-wakka dept.

jitendraharlalka noted a piece about the origins of Neptune. There is a theory now that it once ate a super-earth in the outer solar system, and kept its moon as some sort of macabre trophy to make sure that Mars and Venus didn't get any big ideas.

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  1. What a bastard by Pojut · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always knew he was a slimey fuck.

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    1. Re:What a bastard by nine-times · · Score: 4, Funny

      You don't even want to know what went into Uranus.

    2. Re:What a bastard by Cryacin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Must have given him some pretty bad gas, considering the amount of methane.

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    3. Re:What a bastard by ooshna · · Score: 3, Funny

      My yes, also in 2015 Pluto was reclassified as a planet after the Texas school board voted to include it despite expert advice because "Without Pluto how would The Planet Song end? Neptune's really windy? Its unpatriotic!"

    4. Re:What a bastard by sconeu · · Score: 1, Funny

      They'll fix you guys! The name will soon be changed to Urectum!

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    5. Re:What a bastard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Out of Uranus?

  2. Next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    it might lick uranus.

    1. Re:Next by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dude, you're posting AC. You don't have to use the "my buddy" cover.

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    2. Re:Next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      He better. I don't want him sullying my good name.

  3. Re:What's that smell? by X-Power · · Score: 0, Funny

    No that was Uranus :(

  4. This should be tagged Om-nom-nom. by timepilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    This story should be tagged om-nom-nom.

    1. Re:This should be tagged Om-nom-nom. by mooingyak · · Score: 4, Funny

      I went with "badneptunenobiscuit"

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  5. Velikovsky by camperdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like someone signed Velikovsky's book out of the library recently.

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  6. Can't resist... by GPLDAN · · Score: 4, Funny

    ' Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its Moon'

    In this way, it is just like Rosie O'Donnell.

  7. Re:amphromoporthizing by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should never anthropomorphize planets. They hate that.

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  8. How many times do I have to tell you by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't anthropomorphize the planets... they hate it when you do that!

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  9. Re:Of course! by Cryacin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being a Roman god, he would have thrown it up afterwards.

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  10. Copious amounts of maryjoowanna by bynary · · Score: 4, Funny

    This "news" article reads like the "pot circle" scenes from That 70's Show:

    "Oooh, oooh, I know! First the planets form close to the sun!"

    "No way! What if they then moved away from the sun and some of the planets ate the other planets!"

    "You're blowin' my mind, man!"

    "I could eat a planet right now. Anyone have a Mars bar?"

    "Mars bar...Marssss bar...Marrrrrrrssssss bar...that's funny..."

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  11. wasted opportunity by blair1q · · Score: 1, Funny

    it's threads like these that make me wish i'd be less compulsive in disposing of my mod points...i had 15 bright, shiny ones yesterday, and wasted them all modding people UP...

  12. Re:Silly Goose by nschubach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe we should ask Slashdot to lock the whole thread while someone posts a reply to avoid this in the future.

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  13. First Pluto and now this by Wiarumas · · Score: 2, Funny

    First Pluto and now this. Neptune is no longer a planet, but rather a cannibal and a thief.

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  14. That's no moon. by SteeldrivingJon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was I really the first person to say that on this thread?

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    1. Re:That's no moon. by tool462 · · Score: 3, Funny

      The Force is weak with these ones today.

  15. Re:Silly Goose by eleuthero · · Score: 2, Funny

    The problem is, that Cronus, Chronos, Kronus ... were all iterations of the same general being (much like we have Batman, Batman Forever, Batman (the series), Batman (the animated series) - we are all referring to the same general being and while the description and artwork (and possibly even pronunciation of Bruce Wayne's name) all change, this doesn't change. The same was true for all the myths...

  16. Cannibal? by Mick+R · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which planet did it eat? Planet Kenny? The bastard!