Red and Blue Rings Around Uranus

Link.

I’ve met Imke de Pater, the leader of the team that discovered these.

Let the Uranus jokes begin!

You can get vericose veins there???

I don’t get it. What jokes can you make about a planet? :confused:

Brilliant! I’d figured out the red one (from the barbecue tofu I ate last night), but not the blue one. :smiley:

Jeez, the election is still months away, and they’re already pulling out that red/blue crap?

I bet those two rings haven’t been discovered until now because they were too busy fighting over an empty box canyon with no way in or out, dealing with evil AIs, spanish robots, while getting the dumbest of them nerfed and being blown into the future only to be impregnated by a blue alien.

Man, didn’t anyone ever tell you not to sit on a firecracker?

Hal, find someone you like, a good friend, close (woolly if you prefer.) Get them nice and comfortable, perhaps set up some soft lighting, Barry White playing softly in the background. Once the mood is set, steer the conversation towards astronomy, the planets, the stars, the solar system. Then look them in the eye, and say,

“I want to probe Uranus”

Uh, you’ve been watching a wee bit too much anime, methinks.

Maybe, maybe not.

Uranus is my favorite planet, and yet, simply because of the name, I can never discuss it. How cool is a planet that was knocked over?

(How cool? -214 C.)

You know, the not being able to discuss it probably doesn’t upset the people I don’t discuss it with. Not a lot of people into those types of things around here. Oh, well, I guess I’ll discuss statistics then…that’ll teach them.