03/13/1781: Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus – IOTW Report

03/13/1781: Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus

Good lookin’ out, Sir William. But why did it take so long to discover Uranus?

See also: On This Day in Space! March 13, 1781: Uranus is discovered!

BONUS! You can see the rings around Uranus right here!

34 Comments on 03/13/1781: Sir William Herschel discovers Uranus

  1. “𝙎𝙞𝙧 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙐𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙨”

    …sounds like a shitty job.

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  2. Was at a kind of dull meeting with some people and this dyke, a nice one, but no matter, was kneeling down to tie her tennis shoe pretty much in the center of everyone.

    I got up and started circling her with my arms out.

    Her: “What are you doing?”

    Me: Playing Star Trek. I’m circling Uranus looking for Klingons.

    The meeting was much more cheerful after that. Even the dyke couldn’t stop laughing.

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  3. BUBBA MARCH 13, 2022 AT 7:05 PM

    Men are from mars, women are from venus, all the other genders are from uranus.
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    HA! I’m going to remember that one. I think there will plenty of opportunity for using it in the near future.

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  4. Uranus wasn’t ‘discovered’ by random observation. Herschel calculated there should be a planet in that orbit by the permutations observed in the orbits of the outer planets. He came up with the math that pointed out where exactly that planet must be, telescopes were tasked with looking there, and Uranus was found to be in that place. If that ain’t science, I don’t know what is.

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  5. Innocuous comment that will end up in moderation anyway which is too bad as I write the mods wonderful stories and jokes that never make it onto the site.

    Yes, I amuse myself.

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