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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Most Pornographic Astronomical Terms
Double entendres ensue...
In preparation for the Quiz-o-Tron 2000 at DragonCon this year, I was writing questions that would be of interest to my panelists. Because I had one astronomer (Phil Plait of course!) and eight immature funny people (everyone else plus Phil Plait), I decided to ask, Whats the most pornographic-sounding astronomical term? To seek out the answer, I of course started by Googling pornographic astronomical terms. The results were disappointing, so I also tried filthy astronomical terms, dirty astronomy, sexy space things, and many other phrases, all of which gave me pretty much nothing to go on.
So, I asked the Skepchicks (including our own resident astronomer, Dr. Nicole Noisy Gugliucci) to help me compile a list. And now, for the betterment of the Internet, I present it here in full:
Accretion Disk
Black Hole to Bulge Mass Relation
Coronal Hole
Double Asteroid
Ejecta Blanket
Greatest Elongation
Galactic Bulge
Globular Cluster
Herbig-Haro Object
Kirkwood Gaps
Sea Floor Spreading
Trojan Asteroid
Virgo Cluster
Waxing Crescent
Uranus was excluded for being too obvious.
More in the comments...
http://skepchick.org/2012/09/the-most-pornographic-astronomical-terms/
So, I asked the Skepchicks (including our own resident astronomer, Dr. Nicole Noisy Gugliucci) to help me compile a list. And now, for the betterment of the Internet, I present it here in full:
Accretion Disk
Black Hole to Bulge Mass Relation
Coronal Hole
Double Asteroid
Ejecta Blanket
Greatest Elongation
Galactic Bulge
Globular Cluster
Herbig-Haro Object
Kirkwood Gaps
Sea Floor Spreading
Trojan Asteroid
Virgo Cluster
Waxing Crescent
Uranus was excluded for being too obvious.
More in the comments...
http://skepchick.org/2012/09/the-most-pornographic-astronomical-terms/
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The Most Pornographic Astronomical Terms (Original Post)
pokerfan
Sep 2012
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HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)1. Not bad, not bad.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)2. What....
black hole (light goes in but doesn't come out) didn't make it, or is that another too obvious.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)3. Isn't it #2?
AnneD
(15,774 posts)4. Now I am....
sounding like hubby.....
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)5. What? No Big Bang?
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)7. some bangs are bigger than others I guess
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)9. wise edit!
fbguy_144
(47 posts)6. muahahaha
rug
(82,333 posts)8. Are you saying my anus is fat?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)10. Orion's "Sword"