# Red and Blue Rings Around Uranus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651 "2006-04-07T00:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/1 "2006-04-07T00:01:40Z")
[Link](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/04/06/national/w110331D86.DTL). I’ve met Imke de Pater, the leader of the team that discovered these. Let the Uranus jokes begin! ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/2 "2006-04-07T00:04:02Z")
You can get vericose veins there??? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/3 "2006-04-07T00:05:15Z")
I don’t get it. What jokes can you make about a planet? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/4 "2006-04-07T00:10:06Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > You can get vericose veins there??? Brilliant! I’d figured out the red one (from the barbecue tofu I ate last night), but not the blue one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/5 "2006-04-07T03:00:04Z")
Jeez, the election is still months away, and they’re already pulling out that red/blue crap? ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/6 "2006-04-07T03:05:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/7 "2006-04-07T03:33:23Z")
Man, didn’t anyone ever tell you not to sit on a [firecracker](http://www.icecreamplanet.com/AA.firecracker.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/8 "2006-04-07T03:49:30Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I don’t get it. What jokes can you make about a planet? 😕 **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” ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/9 "2006-04-07T05:50:36Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > 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. Uh, you’ve been watching a wee bit too much anime, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/10 "2006-04-07T10:14:12Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > Uh, you’ve been watching a wee bit too much anime, methinks. Maybe, [maybe not](http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php). ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-and-blue-rings-around-uranus/351651/11 "2006-04-07T13:03:18Z")
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.