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underpants

(182,955 posts)
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 06:53 AM Apr 2018

It's True - Uranus Really Does Stink

If you were ever to stand on the surface of Uranus and take a deep breath, you would get the distinctive pong of rotten eggs (and no oxygen of course).

"but suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane would take its toll long before the smell.”

However, a team of astronomers led by Irwin has now found that hydrogen sulphide definitely does permeate the upper atmosphere of Uranus, according to sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii’s Maunakea.

Irwin and his team used infrared light images capture by the scope’s Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer, which sampled reflected sunlight from a region just over the main visible cloud layer in Uranus’ atmosphere.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2018/04/24/its-true-uranus-really-does-stink/

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It's True - Uranus Really Does Stink (Original Post) underpants Apr 2018 OP
Oh, great! MyOwnPeace Apr 2018 #1
Not the way I pronounce it.. Cha Apr 2018 #4
So far team DU has not come through underpants Apr 2018 #9
Well underpants, TexasTowelie Apr 2018 #2
It's not a hostel underpants Apr 2018 #8
Speak for yourself. Funtatlaguy Apr 2018 #3
Buttchugg underpants Apr 2018 #6
How to Poop at a Party stonecutter357 Apr 2018 #5
Sports fans call that a "road win" underpants Apr 2018 #7
Peeyew! MineralMan Apr 2018 #10

Cha

(297,818 posts)
4. Not the way I pronounce it..
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 07:05 AM
Apr 2018

Ur-"an" with a short a like "ah"-us. I started doing that a long time ago.

Funtatlaguy

(10,890 posts)
3. Speak for yourself.
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 07:03 AM
Apr 2018

Uranus might stink.
Mine smells like lilacs and dandelions.
Butt then, I buttchugg bottles of potpourri daily.

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