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A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust, new observations reveal.

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[โ€“] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This headline belongs on not the Onion lol
Sorry ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Kata1yst@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We either need to rename Uranus to the traditional spelling of Ouranos to stop all this childish teasing, or we need to lean in harder and have the Onion get final edit on every single scientific publication on that planet.

[โ€“] snooggums@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

They fixed it in Futurama.l to avoid those childish jokes.

They renamed it Urectum.

[โ€“] admiralteal@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

you - Rahn - oos

You don't even need to change the spelling, just pronounce it a way that better resembles the underlying Greek. Problem is, no English-speaker needs to think about pronunciation for the other planets because the latin is just pronounced phonetically.

It's weird that it's the one Greek-named planet. If we're changing things up, it should just be Caelus to match the others.

[โ€“] DrYes@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

oo rah noos

"U" is not pronounced like "you" at all. "Noos" is also pretty off.

[โ€“] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Said Carlsen to Niemann.

[โ€“] rocker@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Leave me alone. I've been trying to pass it for like a week.

[โ€“] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Wow, I wonder if this will impact Uranus in any way?

[โ€“] DrYes@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Probably just some cloaked Klingons