The one single mission to capture images of Uranus was during the Voyager 2 approach, on January 24, Uranus is huge. We can see Uranus with the naked eye. But if you head further up or down from the equator, Uranus is not difficult to spot.
The EU wants to probe Uranus. In the last few years, the European Space Agency has wanted to send a probe to study Uranus. The plan is to launch it in or , reaching it in and examine it in close detail. The highlight of this news? The probe will be called Uranus Pathfinder. Uranus produces a lot of wind.
The jetstreams on Uranus and Neptune are over 10 times more powerful than on Earth, which drives the wind speeds on these planets to over kmh. Will you be kind enough, my friend, to tell this crowd what you see? Whack him back! Go in, old woman! As I researched 19th-century newspapers, I was surprised by how many times I encountered the same articles in rural and frontier journals far from urban centers, often within weeks of their original publication dates.
The piece is characteristic of American humor writing of the day, overwritten and none too funny. Even in mainstream publications, stereotyping was pervasive, with reappearing stock characters such as the lazy Negro, the conniving city slicker, the clueless hillbilly, the stuffed shirt blueblood, and, as seen in this third seemingly sui generis Uranus joke fail from the Pacific Northwest , the vainglorious sozzled Irishman.
Perhaps publications in the s were too restrained by contemporary mores and genteel sensibilities to seize upon the comic potential inherent in the obvious double entendre. That reticence, however, would soon change. The subhead would also signal as much, and maybe this was done to camouflage the subversive ribald element. Without a doubt, Uranus humor is present and could have been enjoyed by readers of the day, but it is not the fulcrum of the joke.
Newspaper editors across the nation nonetheless found the original story rich enough to warrant republication. Is that all? This closing line, which seemed so off when I first encountered it, makes sense as a vestigial remnant of the original.
Clearly, this person grasped the comic potentialities of the Uranus joke. Is it a coincidence that the first true Uranus joke appears almost precisely years after William Herschel discovered the planet on March 13, ?
Uranus Joke Zero appears so close to the date of that milestone as to make one wonder whether the wag at Puck might have been inspired by a contemporaneous headline about the centennial of Uranus.
Is it a coincidence that the first true Uranus joke appears almost precisely years after William Herschel discovered the planet?
As the March 30 edition of Puck moved west from New York, other editors realized the magazine had struck comic gold. The birth of the Uranus joke exemplifies. On that one page of Puck , there is an abundance of modern mold-breaking. With emoticons, we see a reimagining of the use of movable type for the first time since Gutenberg introduced it in ; with the advent of the digital age a century later, this innovation would revolutionize modes of communication worldwide.
Not only that, Puck readers got as a bonus an irreverent anticlerical cartoon about a randy man of God. He, too, is with us still. Their social engineering project was destined to fail, because Uranus. Most unfortunately, Professor Trelawney heard him, and it is this, perhaps, that made her give them so much homework at the end of class.
The Harry Potter series is destined to be read for a long time to come, ensuring that future generations will be introduced to, delighted with, and shaped culturally by the low humor of the Uranus joke. Imagine if you can the end of the world, the grand wind-up, when mankind is forced to abandon the dying planet Earth for a new home in another solar system.
The final spaceship will pass the seventh planet from the Sun, and as it recedes in the distance, you have to figure that someone on board is going to say:. Enterprise, into the final frontier. The author would like to thank Prof.
Researchers confirmed Monday the seventh planet from the sun has an upper atmosphere full of one of the smelliest chemicals known to humans, hydrogen sulfide, according to a study published by Nature Astronomy. The odorous gas is what gives rotten eggs — and human flatulence — their distinctive and unpleasant smell. According to the Environmental Protection Agency , people can smell the gas when it makes up as little as three out of every billion molecules in the air, so imagine what being surrounded by clouds of the stuff would smell like.
Scientists discovered evidence of "the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops" after observing how sunlight bounced off Uranus' atmosphere, according to a news release from the Gemini Observatory, a high-power telescope located on top of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano.
The new findings come after decades of observations and even a visit by the Voyager 2 spacecraft to the blue-green ice giant, the release said. Before making the discovery, scientists had long inferred hydrogen sulfide existed in the planet's atmosphere, but never "conclusively detected" the gas before, according to Science News.
Using a foot Gemini North telescope, the team of scientists studied the reflected sunlight in infrared and determined what types of molecules made up the planet's atmosphere, the release said.
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