whoa Pluto with the sympathy vote bloc turning out in surprising force
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
BALONEY
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
all those wasted votes and Mercury ffs!
― xelab, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
I call for a runoff election.
― Aimless, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Nobody appreciates Mercury. Everyone goes for the bloated gasbags.
― jmm, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
you're a....oh nevermind.
― ryan, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
huh, uranus is not a favorite
hurhur
― mattresslessness, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
no, I will not pull your finger.
― Aimless, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
people don't understand the magnificence of the sun from mercury. JUST THINK ABOUT IT MAN
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 April 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
it's like you're a 2-year-old staring up at the iron giant, only you're a planet and it's the SUN
― jmm, Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just like in real life yo ... :-)
― bob abouille (Eisbaer), Friday, 25 April 2014 06:04 (ten years ago) link
that said, kinda surprised at the love for Neptune ... i voted for it, but as a goof.
― bob abouille (Eisbaer), Friday, 25 April 2014 06:05 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJub1A1aIk
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Friday, 25 April 2014 06:12 (ten years ago) link
I voted for Neptune because in 1989, I was lucky to have a pass into JPL during Voyager 2's closest approach to Neptune and the Triton barnstorming. The bandwidth is far better now, but I have a specific nostalgia for that era. Late night hang out in an auditorium filled with scientists and news media all jacked on coffee waiting for each frame to come down. The local cable channel ran a JPL feed on an unused station. I'd leave the TV tuned to it for hours and watch Neptune's crescent get smaller in the rear-view mirror one frame at a time.
Of the five spaceships leaving the solar system, four of them have a thoughtful message from Carl Sagan on them. (he was around at fly-by night)
The fifth one has my half-scrawled signature on it.*
*along with signatures of all of JPL, whoever was there for open house, and whoever signed the Internet form.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 April 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link
ew, mars so overrated, who cares about mars, it's so...normal in comparison
smh @ pluto pity votes
i'm sure uranus is fascinating and everything but it will always get automatically docked a million points for every incidence of "hur hur, uranus" attempted comedy
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 April 2014 07:59 (ten years ago) link
Top 3 otm
― tsrobodo, Friday, 25 April 2014 09:09 (ten years ago) link
Yep, despite #stanning4jupiter
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 25 April 2014 09:29 (ten years ago) link
Bullshit poll. Let's do it again in 3 years and see who the REAL winner is.
― Jeff, Friday, 25 April 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
Mercury Venus Mars top three! #rockist
― jmm, Friday, 25 April 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
Man, Uranus really got fucked.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the head of steam around Uranus really dissipated.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
Neil deGrasse Tyson noticeably skimmed Uranus in the intro ep of Cosmos
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
Not sure why anyone's surprised at Uranus pulling up the rear.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Friday, 25 April 2014 12:42 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Friday, April 25, 2014 2:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM. It's not just the immaturity of it, nor the fact that the jokes are typically third rate, but I mean, there's been millions of painful jokes about it already, each more tedious and obvious than the last. Leave this lowest of hanging fruit be and let the damned planet rest already.
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
Lex knows comedy
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Right, we all should give Uranus a rest.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
haven't seen Uranus beaten this badly in a while
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
The planet that must not be named.
― jmm, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Some people really butthurt about Uranus.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
lowest of hanging fruit hehehehehe
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
there is nothing funny about any of this
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
what's chafing uranus lex
― dan m, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
JUPITER WUZ ROBBED
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
also what's up uranus
I guess I'm not surprised that Uranus was the one planet on the outer rim that got jobbed.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
My name is Johnny Fever. I'm 40 years old and I still find all this Uranus joeks funny.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
i didn't find them funny even when i was a child. BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT FUNNY
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Someone's got a stick up their butt about Uranus.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
seems like we're split down the middle on the humor of uranus
― mattresslessness, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Next poll:
http://www.australianscience.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/kepler-37-system.jpg
― jmm, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
i pronounce uranus the boring way
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
Nah next thread should be favorite KBO so the Pluto stans can win something.
― dan m, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
(I'm voting Makemake because I like its name. Makemake. It's fun to say.)
next thread should be uranus joke poll
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
nah people will probably just be assholes about it
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
heee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
it is kind of a shitty poll idea
i'm beginning to think that uranus' poor showing has a lot to do with us still not knowing much about it, it's got a pretty placid and some might say bland surface despite those epic rings (which are still not near saturn's). i think we're all a little curious about exploring it further, we can admit that much, so we try again and send a probe into it.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
otoh some ice giants might just be "crappier" than others (uranus)
― mattresslessness, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
I don't know, I think a higher mark would always have been a bit of a stretch for Uranus
― soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link