# The Clouds of Magellan are just passing by. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231 "2007-10-02T05:01:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/41 "2007-10-02T19:36:51Z")
Actually, everyone misspells the name of the seventh planet, which is supposed to be “Uranus:” Since, as everyone knows, there’s a colon hiding behind Uranus. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/42 "2007-10-02T19:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Well, if we’re going to damn celestial objects, then a big “fuck you” to the galactic core and dust clouds around it for blocking our view of the Great Attractor, one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy and cosmology. Barring some kind of black magic FTL drive, I’m never going to know what that’s all about. It pisses me off just thinking about it. [/QUOTE] Yeah, on that note, I’m going to say a big “fuck you” to all galactic cores everywhere. Especially the ones located in giant elliptical galaxies at the centres of galaxy clusters. Fucking behave damnit so that I can figure you out! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/43 "2007-10-02T19:46:02Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Well, if we’re going to damn celestial objects, then a big “fuck you” to the galactic core and dust clouds around it for blocking our view of the Great Attractor, one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy and cosmology. Barring some kind of black magic FTL drive, I’m never going to know what that’s all about. It pisses me off just thinking about it. Stranger [/QUOTE] You don’t know what’s happening [at the Core](http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/title/at-the-core-niven-ebooks.htm)? (By the way, the OED recognizes this story as the origin for “the Core” as the term for the center of our galaxy.) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/44 "2007-10-02T20:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] Yeah, on that note, I’m going to say a big “fuck you” to all galactic cores everywhere. Especially the ones located in giant elliptical galaxies at the centres of galaxy clusters. Fucking behave damnit so that I can figure you out! [/QUOTE] Butt, butt, butt - if it were easy, _anyone_ could play! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/45 "2007-10-02T23:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] The past few years, I’ve also heard people pronouncing the word “pianist” as pi-AN-ist, to avoid the chance resemblance to the word “penis”. [/QUOTE] [BEHOLD, the clouds of pianist!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX7VumRvjRM) ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/46 "2007-10-03T00:10:48Z")
I’ve decided to reclassify this thread. It’s no longer a Pitting, but is instead an MPSIMS thread. Please make a note of it. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/47 "2007-10-03T02:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] I’ve decided to reclassify this thread. It’s no longer a Pitting, but is instead an MPSIMS thread. Please make a note of it. [/QUOTE] So, does this mean we have to stop saying fuck you to the heavens above? Tris ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/48 "2007-10-03T03:44:57Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] [Both of them!](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070926123359.htm) I’m not sure how everyone else feels about this, but I am pissed. First it’s Astroweenies changing the pronunciation Uranus, out of fear of eight year old boys, then Pluto gets demoted. So now where is the neighborhood going? It’s going away, that’s what’s happening! Immutable Heavens my ass! Tris [/QUOTE] Stop whining. At least you’ll have them around to look at for a while. We never get to see them without enriching an airline. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/49 "2007-10-03T03:59:42Z")
Actually, I can’t see them from where I live. I am more or less theoretically pissed off. I know it’s not much, but it’s the best I can do. Tris ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/50 "2007-10-03T04:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] I’ve looked at Clouds of Magellan from both sides now. from up and down and still somehow From 9th grade science I recall I still say Ur-Anus after all [/QUOTE] Hehhee, that was a good sweet laugh, thanks.. > [@](#): > > So, does this mean we have to stop saying fuck you to the heavens above? > > Tris Nope, never ever, The way my small mind sees it, the universe continues to produce all kinds of phenomena, in increasing complex ways that can vex the little meat monkey mind. Fuck You is a very good impetus, then, and can get the wheels aturning to figger out a better answer. Hmmm, maybe not Fuck You in an insulting sense, but, wanting to engage in an intense way. Ah, kinda dribbling here, late night, but feel free to go on about it. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/51 "2007-10-03T04:17:33Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Well, if we’re going to damn celestial objects, then a big “fuck you” to the galactic core and dust clouds around it for blocking our view of the Great Attractor, one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy and cosmology. Barring some kind of black magic FTL drive, I’m never going to know what that’s all about. It pisses me off just thinking about it. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I feel that pain too. Like it would have been just too hard for the galaxy to rotate just a bit faster, so we could be on the other side! You know, they got dwarf galaxies on that side too! And theirs are actually hanging around, you know? Real neighbors, not transients! And throw in the Great Attractor, too, to sweeten it up. Are we just on the wrong side of the tracks? Is this the bad side of town? Makes you want to move to a nice Globular Cluster, maybe high above the Galactic Plane, where you get a view! Tris ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/52 "2007-10-03T06:54:35Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] _This_ is a pit thread? 😕 [/QUOTE] > **[Abusive Astronomy](https://xkcd.com/66/)** ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/53 "2007-10-03T13:31:24Z")
I’m not sure how everyone else feels about this, but I am indifferent. First it’s Czarcasm shuffling it off to the Pit, for fear of it crowding out topics _less_-than-cosmic, then Giraffe mod notes it. So where is this irregular dwarf galaxies thread going? It’s forum jumping, that’s what’s happening! Mundane pointless stuff my ass! 😉 Borb ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/54 "2007-10-03T14:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] So where is this irregular dwarf galaxies thread going? It’s forum jumping, that’s what’s happening! Mundane pointless stuff my ass! 😉 [/QUOTE] Big on irony, our Mods, eh what? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/55 "2007-10-04T00:18:39Z")
I’m just sitting back in my chair with a glass of Tully, watching the clouds go by. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231/56 "2007-10-04T01:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] So, does this mean we have to stop saying fuck you to the heavens above? Tris [/QUOTE] No kidding. This is terribly unfair to us who came late to this thread. I could have used some intergallactic cursing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-clouds-of-magellan-are-just-passing-by/421231.md?page=2)