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Uranus smells like rotten eggs, say scientists


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  • The title was changed to Uranus smells like rotten eggs, say scientists
 

It depends what I have been eating ...... :D


(Sorry, but someone had to say it!)

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  • The title was changed to Uranus smells like rotten eggs, say scientists

UM-Bot has a cheeky sense of humour it seems... Beep Boop!

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I can't wait to ask Siri about it.

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Ammonia and hydrogen sulphide? That's a nose buster!  

To answer the above question, they found it with the Gemini spectroscope, an improvement over instruments used before to study the planet. Uranus' atmosphere absorbed light in the narrow color bands associated with those two pungent substances, making dark lines in the rainbow-like spectrum of the planet.  That told the tale. 

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HAHAHA! Seriously, it's not pronounced 'your anus'. Just like 'artisanal' isn't pronounced 'art is anal.'

Apparently, you can't type quotation marks here. Odd.

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No it does not. There is no way scientists could know

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3 minutes ago, qxcontinuum said:

No it does not. There is no way scientists could know

Why would the observations using the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer instrument on the Gemini North telescope be flawed? 

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Someone go and get Professor Fansworth's Smell-o-scope. 

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My question is why on Earth (Or not on Earth) were scientists sniffing my anus to find out about this? Also, what an insult saying it smells like rotten eggs!

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There's also no way you could know that it doesn't, as (I hope) you haven't been sniffing it as well! :rolleyes:

15 hours ago, qxcontinuum said:

No it does not. There is no way scientists could know

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Has nobody here ever visited Rotarua in New Zealand? 

Smells like that too but you get used to it. It's highly volatile and a beautiful place with many public hot springs, and some would enjoy in public parks but fenced off because they are seriously hot. 

Te-Puia-rotorua-geothermal-cultural-perf

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Uranus jokes were annoying eye-rollers even in 1st grade.

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Date on the article wasn't April 1st, was it?

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I wonder if Mars taste like a candy bar?:w00t:

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2 hours ago, Skulduggery said:

Uranus jokes were annoying eye-rollers even in 1st grade.

:rofl:

 

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On 4/23/2018 at 5:06 PM, Sundew said:

The jokes write themselves......

And truth is stranger than fiction..

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On April 25, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Ogbin said:

And truth is stranger than fiction..

Often the case!

 

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Thought it smelled like ur...ok I will shut up now, and go back to kindergarden....

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