Scientists plan mission to probe Uranus

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 1/7/11 | Paul Sutherland

[LibWhacker]

Proposed by British scientists as a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency, the mission would offer the first close-up view of Uranus in 25 years.

British space scientists are leading plans to send a probe to explore giant ice planet Uranus. They have put forward a detailed proposal to the European Space Agency to launch a joint mission with NASA to the distant world, 1.8 billion miles from the sun.

It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus since NASA’s Voyager 2 flew past and captured fleeting pictures 25 years ago.

The £400million mission is designed to go in orbit to study the rings around Uranus and answer questions such as why it gives off so little heat.

[BradyLS]

Reading the article, the author had to know he was basically writing a stand-up routine.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Obviously this post was not going to end well. I just had to see what the comments to this were going to be. I was not disappointed.

[Calusa]

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[PoloSec]

Starship Colonoscopy

[bunkerhill7]

Scientists plan mission to probe Uranus, which is full of Gas

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[ReverendJames]

Yep, what I said. It was just so funny watching these two Libtards trying so hard not to say YourAnus.

[bmwcyle]

ping

[allmendream]

We had just seen “Total Recall”. A buddy asked me (the resident expertoneverything and a biologist to boot) “Can a girl really have three breasts?”

Without missing a beat I said “I knew a girl once with three sphincters.”

Everyone laughed to beat the band, but my buddy was “in” on the joke. He said after the laughter “Everybody has three?”

“Three in the digestive system. Esophageal, Pyloric, and Anal, everyone’s favorite.”

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Actually, it’s “Oo-ranus” after Urania (pronounced “oo-rania”) the goddess of the heavens.

[Gaffer]

Scientists? You mean the IRS, don’t you?

[SunkenCiv]

...to study the rings around Uranus and answer questions such as why it gives off so little heat.

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[SunkenCiv]

C'mon, say it. You know you want to.

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[Bean Counter]

[NonValueAdded]

#6 on the list of moderator “oh,no ... not that headline” exclamations

[NonValueAdded]

Or the horror when standing at the blackboard and realizing you just gave the proof as Angle-Side-Side.

[central_va]

Does this have anything to do with the repeal of DADT?

[irishtenor]

NASA being run by TSA now?

[Disambiguator]

Uranus? Damn near killed ‘em!

(Wait a minute, that didn’t work.)

[King Moonracer]

the mission would offer the first close-up view of Uranus in 25 years.

25 years of yoga lessons?

[ReverendJames]

LOL