[huangc10]

Original Title: "NASA WANTS TO PROBE URANUS IN SEARCH OF GAS"

All jokes aside, these missions are still pretty far off and article doesn't really go into depth of what this research can help accomplish for future generations. Thoughts?

[gadders]

I worked for a large bank that had decided to name the meeting rooms in their Paris office after planets.

If I was doing a meeting with Paris colleagues I always tried to book the Uranus room so I could start the meeting with HILARIOUS comments like:

"Are you talking from Uranus?"

"How many people are in Uranus today?"

[hrasyid]

Just curious, was the word pronounced the same way as today when they picked the planet's name? Or was it picked by non-English speaking people?

[dzink]

It sounds bad only in English and partly because of the foreign spelling. In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran”.

[JumpCrisscross]

> In Bulgarian it the name spells and reads “Uran”

Uranus was discovered by British-Hanoverian William Herschel [1] and named after the Greek god of the sky, Οὐρανός [2], which anglifies to Ouranos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)

[dzink]

The comical pronunciation is only comical when Our-/Ur- as a prefix resembles a relevant word in your language. The second part of the joke comes from the greek spelling/pronunciation which is also not used by all countries/languages referring to the same planet.

[sosuke]

Great video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ppbbYXMxE

[Sharlin]

It's still spelled "Uh-RAH-nus". Nothing has changed.

[NeoBasilisk]

Isn't it kind of impossible to know what there might be to learn there until you actually look?

[Baeocystin]

The unexpected EDI quip when doing so in Mass Effect 2 was worth a chuckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-CDNLYZ0zA#t=15s

[walrus01]

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[naeemtee]

Kinda abandoned any semblance of subtlety at the end there lol