Giant Methane Storms On Uranus

[crazytown]

Giant Methane Storms On Uranus

Most of the times we have looked at Uranus, it has seemed to be a relatively calm place. Well, yes its atmosphere is the coldest place in the solar system. But, when we picture the seventh planet in our solar system invariably the image of a calming blue hazy disc that the spacecraft Voyager 2 took in 1986 comes to mind.

However, all we have previously known about the atmosphere of Uranus has been ’thrown to the wind’ with observations made last year.

In August 2014 a group led by Imke de Pater pointed the Keck telescope at Uranus and were a little bit surprised to see storms raging. It wasn’t as though clouds haven’t been seen before, but the clouds they spotted last year were very much brighter than any seen before.

The fact that the storms are bright in the methane spectrum isn’t a surprise – Uranus, and its neighbour Neptune, are pretty much just big balls of methane, water and ammonia (but it does make for a snigger-worthy headline).

https://www.iflscience.com/space/giant-methane-storms-uranus/

Baked Beans In Space

[Glamrock]

1. Okay

Who bought the galaxy Taco Bell?

[underpants]

10. This guy

Getting his last name on a license plate has been a real pain in the butt for Dave Assman.

A Canadian from Saskatchewan, Assman has been having a problem getting his last name on a vanity license plate thanks to Saskatchewan Government Insurance.

Although his last name is pronounced “Oss-men,” SGI has rejected putting on a plate nevertheless because it is an “unacceptable slogan” that could be misread and cause offense.

“It’s my last name, I’ve always had it,” he told CBC. “I’m not ashamed of it. There’s nothing bad about it.”

http://www.realclearlife.com/news/man-with-last-name-assman-has-vanity-license-plate-denied/

[packman]

15. Seems like that was a story line on Seinfeld

Didn't Kramer want a plate reading "Assman"?

[underpants]

17. Yes

It mentions that at the bottom of the article

[LakeSuperiorView]

20. He got the plate accidentally. It really had been ordered by a proctologist.

IIRC, this was also the episode where someone made a small statue of Jerry out of fusilli pasta. It was left in a chair and George's dad sat down on it. "Million to one shot, Doc, million to one."

[Ohiogal]

11. Whoops!

You made me spit out my coffee, Glam!

[cstanleytech]

12. My bets on a box meal combo of taco and a steak XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito.

[paleotn]

2. let the Uranus jokes begin!!

[cstanleytech]

13. Actually they have been happening since around 12:00 PM EST January 20, 2017.

[lastlib]

19. Who. Writes. These. Headlines??

"Giant Methane Storms On Uranus" . .

"Uranus Has Taken A Colossal Pounding" . .
http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2018/07/something-massive-smashed-into-uranus.html

God, Stop! You're Killing me! . . . . .

[democratisphere]

3. Must have a large bovine population on Ur-anus.

[crazytown]

4. Bullshit

[democratisphere]

5. No open flames. Please.

[crazytown]

7. You light up my life

So many dreams I kept deep inside me

[cstanleytech]

14. Burger King will be crushed to hear that.

[LakeSuperiorView]

21. No flash photography.

[underpants]

6. Am I reading this right? The sun last shone there in 1986?

[crazytown]

8. ? Uranus orbits the sun

The sun shines on the planet continuously. Am I missing something?

[underpants]

9. Oh

Okay thanks for looking into Uranus for that

😆

[crazytown]

16. Doh

[MineralMan]

18. Uranus Smells Like Ass!

So I understand, anyhow.