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Astronomers Found Something Cold and Wet Near Uranus (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 121 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm not a 12 yo boy, I'm not a 12 yo boy, I'm not a 12 yo boy

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't worry, the scientific community is working on getting it renamed to solve exactly this problem.

It's going to be called "urectum".

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a genuine proponent of renaming Uranus to "Caelus." It's the only planet (save earth) not named for a Roman god. It's named for a Greek god, and completely breaks the naming convention. Funny word play aside, I'd like to see it renamed Caelus.

[–] colderr@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Caelus would fit perfectly in our solar system.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? Such a cool name! I also would not mind if they renamed earth to Terra, though, to keep the trend. But if we keep Uranus, we should make earth Gaia, so Uranus won't be so lonely as the only Greek in the solar system.

I may, may, be anthropomorphizing our planets a bit

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean since it's 71% covered in water, how about Poseidia?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How does one select the ending of the word, like how would one know to choose Poseidia instead of Poseidus?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I pulled it out of my ass

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

The best formula for solutions haha. Here I thought you knew some magic space nomenclature guidelines.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hey don't talk about Uranus like that.

Uranus is good enough, smart enough, and goshdarnit, people like Uranus.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Rectum? Damn near killed em!

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago

Relax friend. You are safe. That was a long time ago and Father McCoy is not around anymore.

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

pfft BWA-HAHAHAHHHAA

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

None of us are (hopefully). Doesn't make the joke any less funny to our 12 year old senses of humour.