The other planets in the solar system POLL

ime it exclusively refers to Earth's moon ("Luna")

were there more than 9 planets in our solar system at one point? feel like we destroyed a few, just to watch 'em die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoG5bhofvMk

Write-in for Planet X

Pretty sure uranus will take this. huehuehue

Mercury making a play for the Pluto holdouts: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/16/solar-systems-smallest-planet-is-shrinking/

hehehehehe

Without life earth would become a water world, the importance of plate tectonics on life. http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/why-aliens-and-volcanoes-go-together

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/04/18/mountains-on-saturns-moon-iapetus-fell-from-the-sky/

It may sound like something out of “Chicken Little,” but at some point in the history of Saturn’s moon Iapetus, the sky was actually falling: Scientists reported this week that an entire 800-mile-long mountain range along the moon’s equator formed after it fell from space.

We should poll satellites once we're done with the planets

http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/304943403_640.jpg

Jon Anderson still quiet as to what "mountains come out of the sky and stand there" means

Neptune blue

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whoa Pluto with the sympathy vote bloc turning out in surprising force

BALONEY

all those wasted votes and Mercury ffs!

I call for a runoff election.

Nobody appreciates Mercury. Everyone goes for the bloated gasbags.

you're a....oh nevermind.

huh, uranus is not a favorite

hurhur

no, I will not pull your finger.

people don't understand the magnificence of the sun from mercury. JUST THINK ABOUT IT MAN

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

Nobody appreciates Mercury. Everyone goes for the bloated gasbags.

― jmm, Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just like in real life yo ... :-)

that said, kinda surprised at the love for Neptune ... i voted for it, but as a goof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJub1A1aIk

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.

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

Top 3 otm

Yep, despite #stanning4jupiter

Bullshit poll. Let's do it again in 3 years and see who the REAL winner is.

Mercury Venus Mars top three! #rockist

Man, Uranus really got fucked.

Yeah, the head of steam around Uranus really dissipated.

Neil deGrasse Tyson noticeably skimmed Uranus in the intro ep of Cosmos

Not sure why anyone's surprised at Uranus pulling up the rear.

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, 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.

Lex knows comedy

Right, we all should give Uranus a rest.

haven't seen Uranus beaten this badly in a while

The planet that must not be named.

Some people really butthurt about Uranus.

lowest of hanging fruit hehehehehe

there is nothing funny about any of this

what's chafing uranus lex

JUPITER WUZ ROBBED

also what's up uranus

I guess I'm not surprised that Uranus was the one planet on the outer rim that got jobbed.

My name is Johnny Fever. I'm 40 years old and I still find all this Uranus joeks funny.