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Look Up! Uranus Opposes the Sun
Discovery News ^ | Tue Sep 27, 2011 03:06 PM ET | By Mark Thompson

Posted on 09/28/2011 11:03:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

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This Voyager 2 image of the mysterious Uranus shows a largely featureless upper atmosphere. NASA

1 posted on 09/28/2011 11:03:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Uranus has not seen the light of day in many years.


2 posted on 09/28/2011 11:05:07 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Thane_Banquo

Not true in San Francisco..........


3 posted on 09/28/2011 11:07:01 AM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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Fry: “Hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.” *laughs*
Leela: “I don’t get it.”
Professor: “I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.”
Fry: “Oh. What’s it called now?”
Professor: “Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.”
Fry: “Hehe, no, no, I think I’ll just smell around a bit over here.”
From the TV show ‘Futurama’


4 posted on 09/28/2011 11:08:42 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Red Badger

Rodney Dangerfield of planets gets no respect.


5 posted on 09/28/2011 11:10:53 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
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I’m told that if you have perfect vision, and if you have ideal viewing conditions, and if know where to look, Uranus can be seen with the naked eye.


6 posted on 09/28/2011 11:11:16 AM PDT by kidd (Perry is a "conserbatib" - voting "conservative" while holding your nose)
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To: Red Badger

Since the title contained the words “look up” and “Uranus,” somehow, I was under the impression the story was written by Katie Couric.


7 posted on 09/28/2011 11:11:47 AM PDT by edpc (Former Normalcy Bias Victim)
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To: Red Badger
Am I the only on thinking... Brown 25?
8 posted on 09/28/2011 11:13:59 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: kidd

Well, that lets me out. Bad vision and poor conditions. I guess I’ll just have to use a mirror.............


9 posted on 09/28/2011 11:14:08 AM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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Only when I’m mooning it.


10 posted on 09/28/2011 11:18:37 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: Red Badger

Wow. Mine only looks like that... wait. Never mind.


11 posted on 09/28/2011 11:23:20 AM PDT by mc5cents
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I thought I saw Uranus just this morning at the crack of Dawn.


12 posted on 09/28/2011 11:24:47 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

Who’s Dawn?


13 posted on 09/28/2011 11:25:41 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: Red Badger

It “opposes” the sun at least once a year, does it not?


14 posted on 09/28/2011 11:28:00 AM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv

SC, is this ping worthy?


15 posted on 09/28/2011 11:30:25 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Red Badger

I hope you continue to post these bits of science, in spite of all the good laughs everyone offered over the namesake of your article.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not apologizing for anyone and I am not complaining about the jokes, but I do enjoy the science as well.


16 posted on 09/28/2011 11:33:04 AM PDT by Wuli
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Ouch!


17 posted on 09/28/2011 11:34:15 AM PDT by austinaero ((More Bark, Less Wag))
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To: edpc

That would be look up Heranus


18 posted on 09/28/2011 11:36:15 AM PDT by al baby (Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
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To: Thane_Banquo
crappy sci fi...fondly remembered from my Ute(what's a Ute???)...


19 posted on 09/28/2011 11:36:38 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Wow is that Michell Obama ?


20 posted on 09/28/2011 11:39:56 AM PDT by al baby (Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
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