Who looked through his telescope and discovered Uranus? This guy.
NASA has lots of pictures of Uranus.
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Hey, it’s just fun to talk about Uranus!
I knew NSA was collecting personal information
Yep. My astronomy professor called this ‘planet’ George, as he didn’t care for the snickering over Uranus.
Professor Herbert H Hobbs (H cubed)
was my only memorable professor at The George Washington University.
OK. There was the insaniac psych professor. I don’t remember his name. Just that he was bug fuck crazy.
H cubed was the only one I actually learned anything from.
Who could imagine a Scientist would come up with a name for a Planet that would make people laugh for generations.
Did he do it on purpose?
It is a joke that never gets old.
Uranus looks remarkably smooth – not even one assterrhoid on it.
🙂
@cardo – For a while, the planet was known as Herschel¹ but later became known as Uranus in keeping with naming planets after figures in classical mythology. Uranus was Gæa’s husband (Gæa = Earch), and father of Cronos (Saturn).
1. True: Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
It was confirmed with a telescope. Its existence and position were calculated by ‘wobbles’ in the other exo-planets.
I never saw a single dollar for NASA wasted,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but spending billions to finance a welfare breeding system in the US is a waste.
That’s nice…. I guess.
Obama has a hard-on.😗
What makes me barf is the changing the pronunciation to sound like yure-enness
Its Ur-anus Deal with it, Buttholes.
Without male bathroom humor life is basically meaningless
Speaking of Uranus, what the hell is with Mike Lee? Does someone have pictures of him with little boys?
Is uranus gasseous?
Carl Sagan kind of nixed this, by pronouncing it “YURRR-AN-us.”
sagan wanted it named youRectum but got out bid.
AO-Cortez is always talking out of Heranus. When she’s sitting down, it’s just muffled fart sounds.
“Who looked through his telescope and discovered Uranus?”
My assumption would be that most people would have used a mirror…not a telescope.
Everybody’s talking about Uranus but what about myanus?.
He was torn between naming the new discovery Uranus or Bung. He clearly had something on his mind while choosing.
Uranus had no rings during thousands of
years of human observation. In 1977 it was
suddenly discovered that rings had appeared.
Do some research on “The Ringmakers of Saturn”
who seems have turned their interest to additional
planets. Catch the YouTube interviews with the
Highline Pro NASA scientist who wrote the book
back in the 80’s when he saw the NASA photo’s.
65 if you’re “experienced”.
The irony of calling it ‘Uranus’ before they even knew it was full of methane….