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Uranus will be visible to everyone in the UK tonight
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| October 26, 2018
| Jeff Parsons
Posted on 10/26/2018 1:13:30 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: 2nd Amendment
In Star Trek they chased Klingons around Uranus!
I call foul!
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:32:36 PM PDT
by
loucon
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
It will be as plain as the ass on a goat.
No, no, no! That would be Goatanus.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:34:11 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Charles Henrickson
It doesnt rotate on its side. It has an axial tilt of close to 90 degrees.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:34:54 PM PDT
by
webheart
(Grammar police on the scene.)
To: EdnaMode
My @zz it will be visible. Not until the PLANET Pluto flies out of my buhtt.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
To: EdnaMode
No, it won’t. I don’t do wild night excursions.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:36:18 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Izzy Dunne
It’s name is Uranus so that we do have something to joke about. Juvenile humor but humor nonetheless.
Try making a joke out of Saturn or Neptune. It just doesn’t work. so we had to come up with something, we were running out of planet to discover
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:36:35 PM PDT
by
dirtymac
To: C19fan
The name isn't Herschel's fault. He wanted to call the planet
Georgium Sidus in honor of King George III.
I've seen the planet Uranus through a telescope. I'm not flying all the way to the UK to see it again.
To: EdnaMode
To: dirtymac
Its name is Uranus so that we do have something to joke about.
It's a Greek thing.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:41:02 PM PDT
by
loucon
To: EdnaMode
The seventh planet from the sun can be found just to the left of the moon in the night sky all this week. Speaking out out of their butts about Uranus. The moon moves through about 360 degrees of the sky every month. That's 12 degrees per day or its own width every hour. That's why eclipses are so short. You could say Uranus is just left of the moon for a day or maybe two, but a week later the moon is half way across the sky.
But we must trust the press whenever they report on science.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:43:01 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Damn juvenile says I. Uranus deserves better. Let’s clean up Uranus and change its name.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:43:34 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
To: EdnaMode
Uranus will be visible to everyone in the UK tonight
Now thats what I would call a 'full moon'.
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:44:51 PM PDT
by
LeoTDB69
To: EdnaMode
The media always loves these stories.
To: C19fan
He didn't name it. From Wiki: Name The name of Uranus references the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός), the father of Cronus (Saturn) and grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter), which in Latin became "Ūranus" (Latin pronunciation: [ˈuːranʊs]).[1] It is the only planet whose name is derived directly from a figure of Greek mythology. The adjectival form of Uranus is "Uranian".[35] The pronunciation of the name Uranus preferred among astronomers is /ˈjʊərənəs/,[2] with stress on the first syllable as in Latin Ūranus, in contrast to /jʊəˈreɪnəs/, with stress on the second syllable and a long a, though both are considered acceptable.[f] Consensus on the name was not reached until almost 70 years after the planet's discovery. During the original discussions following discovery, Maskelyne asked Herschel to "do the astronomical world the faver [sic] to give a name to your planet, which is entirely your own, [and] which we are so much obliged to you for the discovery of".[37] In response to Maskelyne's request, Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of his new patron, King George III.[38] He explained this decision in a letter to Joseph Banks:[33] In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method and call it Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration of any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology: if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found Planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, 'In the reign of King George the Third'. Herschel's proposed name was not popular outside Britain, and alternatives were soon proposed. Astronomer Jérôme Lalande proposed that it be named Herschel in honour of its discoverer.[39] Swedish astronomer Erik Prosperin proposed the name Neptune, which was supported by other astronomers who liked the idea to commemorate the victories of the British Royal Naval fleet in the course of the American Revolutionary War by calling the new planet even Neptune George III or Neptune Great Britain.[30] In a March 1782 treatise, Bode proposed Uranus, the Latinised version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos.[40] Bode argued that the name should follow the mythology so as not to stand out as different from the other planets, and that Uranus was an appropriate name as the father of the first generation of the Titans.[40] He also noted that elegance of the name in that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn.[34][40][41][42] In 1789, Bode's Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element uranium in support of Bode's choice.[43] Ultimately, Bode's suggestion became the most widely used, and became universal in 1850 when HM Nautical Almanac Office, the final holdout, switched from using Georgium Sidus to Uranus.[41] Uranus has two astronomical symbols. The first to be proposed, ♅,[g] was suggested by Lalande in 1784. In a letter to Herschel, Lalande described it as "un globe surmonté par la première lettre de votre nom" ("a globe surmounted by the first letter of your surname").[39] A later proposal, ⛢,[h] is a hybrid of the symbols for Mars and the Sun because Uranus was the Sky in Greek mythology, which was thought to be dominated by the combined powers of the Sun and Mars.[44]
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:51:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
To: EdnaMode
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My anus won’t be within 5000 miles of the UK, how will they see it?
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:52:54 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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Good!
I was getting tired of seeing you in a skirt! :o)
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posted on
10/26/2018 1:54:04 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
I always wanted to moon the U.K.
To: EdnaMode
First sentence is also LOL funny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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