# When will NASA build something that will probe Uranus? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013 "2003-04-11T12:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/1 "2003-04-11T12:42:16Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/2 "2003-04-11T12:43:36Z")
NASA can just keep that little project to themselves. Perverts. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/3 "2003-04-11T12:47:34Z")
Well, they were fascinated with the moon…and those long Saturn rockets…and probes. Hey, not that there’s anything wrong with that - I’d just like to find myself on top of Venus. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/4 "2003-04-11T13:02:44Z")
[Whatever floats your boat **Philster.**](http://www.found-pets.org/rutherford/venus.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/5 "2003-04-11T13:13:53Z")
Damnit, **Philster** , you beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/6 "2003-04-11T14:09:26Z")
To search for Klingons? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/7 "2003-04-11T14:15:51Z")
We’ve already reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/8 "2003-04-11T14:26:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by welby \* > \*\*[Whatever floats your boat **Philster.**](http://www.found-pets.org/rutherford/venus.jpg) \*\* Hey, I didn’t say I wanted ruff sex. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/9 "2003-04-11T14:27:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*We’ve already reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us. \*\* Look, we still should probe Uranus. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/10 "2003-04-11T14:43:48Z")
Is [this](http://www.clannhoran.com/Rolling-Stones-800.jpg) an artist’s rendition of the probe? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/11 "2003-04-11T14:55:35Z")
Maybe we should get [Mike Hunt](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=175371) on this project. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/12 "2003-04-11T14:56:36Z")
Yes and here is the [robotic probe](http://www.jeffbots.com/twiki.html). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/13 "2003-04-11T15:02:02Z")
Tragically, at some point we’d likely have samples of Uranus available through backdoor negotiations. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/14 "2003-04-12T01:49:15Z")
What will be most important would be to collect some gas from Uranus. Photographing its moons would be quite fascinating as well. I’m rather put off, however, by the fact that Uranus has 11 rings. I didn’t know that was even physically possible. ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/15 "2003-04-12T01:54:40Z")
I have heard Uranus is large and gaseous. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/16 "2003-04-12T02:06:24Z")
I think it must be overexposure to the word, and the fact that I always read it as _Ur_anus, but I just don’t find Uranus jokes particularly funny. _sigh_ A little piece of me has died. I read the thread title and thought, absolutely! The rings of Uranus are unique because the ring particles are on the order of ten meters across. And we really need a closer look at [url=“[http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/miranda.html](http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/miranda.html)”]Miranda\*\*, which is, bar none, the strangest moon in the Solar System. And why are the albedoes of the Uranian moons so low, anyway? And, hell, what’s up with that screwey magnetic field? It is not centered on the center of the planet, and it’s tipped 60 degrees relative to the rotational pole. Is the magnetic field indeed created in a layer of “slushy” water and ammonia deep inside the planet? But, ya know, that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/17 "2003-04-12T03:09:32Z")
I’ve already seen quite enough of Uranus, thank you very much. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/18 "2003-04-12T03:43:25Z")
Fry: “Just don’t make me smell Uranus!” Leela: “I don’t get it.” Professor: “Fry, scientists renamed Uranus in the 2600s to end that stupid joke once and for all.” Fry: “Oh…what’s it called now?” Professor: “Urectum!” ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/19 "2003-04-12T04:13:00Z")
“Uranus can sit on it and spin… sideways!” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013/20 "2003-04-12T05:25:12Z")
**Podkayne** , I agree with you whole-heartidly. Sometimes there is more to life than contamplating serious facts on the message boards. But then I think about a chick I used to work named Miranda. Hot hell she was hot. And now, thanks to you, I found out that she circles Uranus. **Podkayne** , I patiently await the planet to be changed to Mianus. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-nasa-build-something-that-will-probe-uranus/168013.md?page=2)