The other planets in the solar system POLL

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.

i didn't find them funny even when i was a child. BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT FUNNY

Someone's got a stick up their butt about Uranus.

seems like we're split down the middle on the humor of uranus

Next poll:

http://www.australianscience.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/kepler-37-system.jpg

i pronounce uranus the boring way

Nah next thread should be favorite KBO so the Pluto stans can win something.

(I'm voting Makemake because I like its name. Makemake. It's fun to say.)

next thread should be uranus joke poll

nah people will probably just be assholes about it

heee

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.

otoh some ice giants might just be "crappier" than others (uranus)

I don't know, I think a higher mark would always have been a bit of a stretch for Uranus

it's the jan brady of the solar system

Uranus is like a black hole.

I just would really have liked it if Uranus supporters had shown up an wrecked 'em.

I think we should give this a rest if lex finds jokes about Uranus distasteful.

that's the thing about uranus jokes, you think they're worn out but just give them a while and they come back around

Uranus is cyclical.

All the same, I think we should bend over backwards so that sensitivities about Uranus don't flare up.

Only one spacecraft in the history of spaceflight has ever made a close approach to Uranus. NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped pass Uranus in January, 1986, coming within 81,000 km of the surface of Uranus. It took thousands of photographs of Uranus and its moons, and then sped off onto towards its next target: Neptune. No other spacecraft have ever been sent towards Uranus, and there are no plans to send any more.

I was trying to picture ilx minus all the things that annoy lex and it made me lol

ilx minus other people you mean

Haha, "Urine us"!

NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped pass Uranus in January, 1986, coming within 81,000 km of the surface of Uranus.

We went to my grandparents' for a visit and Granddad was watching a cable channel showing nothing but that footage. Just a big white sphere with some stats updating on the side. I sat down next to him and watched it with him for awhile. Honestly, it was a little like that Young Ones where they watch the dot for awhile.

You know what else is funny?

YOUR ANUS.

that's not funny.

http://theconversation.com/jupiters-great-red-spot-could-disappear-in-a-generation-26798

https://62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/48655/width668/7mffnqb7-1400203086.jpg

Love this Neptune composite on APOD yesterday

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1405/Neptune-South-Pole-Voyager-2_950x682.jpg

I find it incredible that in the 70's/80's the Soviets managed to engineer a probe with a camera that can withstand the heat and atmospheric pressure of Venus. I know the Mars rovers have done an amazing job beyond expectations, but the surface of Venus ffs ? This is a bit old and some of the images are frustratingly small, but it is worth checking out.
http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

http://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera_Perspective.jpg

The theory that we already had a smaller moon from a giant bolide impact prior to the Thea collision, excellent article.
http://nautil.us/issue/13/symmetry/when-the-earth-had-two-moons

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http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/stuff-you-dont-know-about-venus/

4. Difference in temperature between day and night on Venus: 0 degrees.

5. Difference in temperature between the planet’s equator and poles: 0 degrees.

6. Reason for #4 and #5: That enormously thick, carbon dioxide atmosphere redistributes heat very efficiently. In other words, if you’re on Venus and you need to cool off, your best bet is to go up. Roughly 30 miles up, where the pressure and temperature finally relax and become something Earth-like (see #8).

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8. That doesn’t mean the planet is necessarily lifeless. It’s possible that organisms could live in those acid clouds, which contain water, energy, and nutrients.

Distant Uranus Sees A Storm Surge Of ‘Monstrous’ Proportions

http://www.keckobservatory.org/images/made/images/blog/Uranus_Aug20141_800_407.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/02/tech/innovation/is-pluto-a-planet/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Recently read about that technicality. I believe in the case of the earlier vote there had been an original subcommittee featuring the likes of Dava Sobel and Owen Gingerich that drew up guidelines under which Pluto was a planet, but then the rubbish-clearing, broom-clean clause was added, driving Pluto out with a flaming sword.