To: BenLurkin
Couldn’t the guy who named this planet come up with a different name instead of Uranus?
Maybe the guy was gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
18 posted on
08/24/2022 12:42:15 PM PDT by
moviefan8
(The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. - M in No Time To Die (2021)c)
To: moviefan8
"Couldn’t the guy who named this planet come up with a different name instead of Uranus?"
They say he had also considered calling it "Myanus", and "Heranus", and "Hisanus", before settling on "Uranus".
To: moviefan8
Couldn’t the guy who named this planet come up with a different name instead of Uranus?Excellent question.
Many people say NASA is so tired of all the jokes made about Uranus, that it smartly decided to rename it Urectum.
33 posted on
08/24/2022 12:59:17 PM PDT by
gw-ington
(My preferred pronouns: she, him, it, senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
To: moviefan8
GAsAss would have been just as appropriate.
35 posted on
08/24/2022 1:03:36 PM PDT by
fwdude
(Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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