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A deep dive into Uranus jokes
- ill0gicity 8y agoThe title of this is oddly apropos.
- gjm11 8y agoIt's clearly deliberate.
- classicsnoot 8y agoOn the nose, in a manner of speaking.
- pronoiac 8y agoIn Futurama, astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Its new name: Urectum.
- dragonshed 8y agoOh, that's Good News!
- adzm 8y agoWhy wasn't it called Caelus in the first place? Was something else using that name?
- stochastic_monk 8y agoPhysicists and astronomers by and large pronounce it something like “urunus”, with the accent on the first syllable. In addition to avoiding jokes, it feels more formal to me, probably because I’ve mostly heard it primarily in academic settings.
- xiphmont 8y agoNow this is a subject I can really get behind!