When they named the planet Uranus they probably didn't know it was full of methane.

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’ll have a new name in 2620

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  Fry: Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.
  [He laughs.]
  Leela: I don’t get it.
  Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all…
  Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
  Farnsworth: Urectum. :::

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• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know this one.

  There was a decent amount of debate over the name for Uranus. There was already a naming tradition present, and some argued it should be broken. I think one suggestion was like “George’s Star”, thank fuck that didn’t stick.

  Eventually it was settled on being named after the Greek sky deity Ouranos, which is the father of Kronos (Saturn in Latin), who is the father of Zeus (Jupiter in Latin), who is the father of Ares (Mars), who is the spouse-brother of Aphrodite (Venus), and sibling to Hermes (Mercury).

  Old astronomers had big old hardons for Greco-Roman mythology.

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One of nature’s happy little coincidences.

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now I’m picturing Bob Ross painting Uranus.

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    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Didn’t know Bob Ross did body painting. What episode is that?

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Astronomers had pretty much all agreed on the name “Uranus” by 1850, and the first spectrographic studies began in 1861—so yeah.

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• s@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, probably

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• Sarcasmo@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He who smelt it didn’t name it.

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People always pronounce it wrong, it's your-ah-nohse, sometimes your-ah-nuss.
  People always mispronounce Neanderthal as well. It's ne-ander-tall.

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hear it pronounced Urine-us more than not lately. It’s not better.

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    • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m glad scientists are planning to change it to Urectum in the year 2620, finally put an end to this confusion. They should do it sooner if you ask me.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When they named it Uranus, English wasn’t invented yet to have called the butthole an anus. 🤷‍♂️

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