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And Then God Created Saturn…
March 2, 2010 By 20 Comments
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Who will be the first to make a scatological joke about the ring around uranus?
I think it was you, albeit very subtly!
Um… a ring doesn’t plug a hole?
So I’ve heard.
I have no idea whose Twitter link I followed here – but this just made me giggle hard. Thank you.
Passing it along! :)
Apparently god has a fascination with dust. It’s a messy solar system, what with all those remnants bumping around in the Kuiper belt. Plus, God changes his mind in mid-creation. Neptune and Uranus seem to have originally been between Saturn and Jupiter. He’s “just a slob, like one of us.”
He also really really likes water. There are a thousand thousand oceans worth of water ice in those rings. It really makes TV shows like V extraordinarily silly. “We’ve come to steal your water!”
“Uh, you can have some water from the rings if you like. We aren’t using it. Also, you had to drive your ships through the kuyper belt, which is pretty much just ice balls floating around. Why didn’t you take some of that?”
THANK you for the laugh. I just read about “womb lyching” and was feeling despondent.
I’m going to regret doing this, but….
*googles “womb lynching”*
Oh.
Well… that’s… excuse me, I need to go bleach my brain. Again.
Did you read this article in Jezebel? Apparently the phrase was coined by a white anti-choice group in Georgia. Strange group to be accusing anybody else of racist practices, I’d have though: Southern, right-wing and religious? Not the traditional friend of the black person.
Ha! Awesome.
Kayne West claims Boyence created a better planet.
And then the International Astronomical Union determined that Pluto was not a planet, and God was very angry, but the IAU said, “If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it,” and God relented.
God was just sort of asking for trouble on that whole Pluto issue.
Pluto will always be a planet to me, man. Besides, removing Pluto just fucks up the whole story arc of Sailor Moon S and Super S….
Does that mean that Ur-anus left a ring on him? ;)
Don’t be ridiculous! It just popped into existence! Clearly, that’s the intellectual conclusion. ;)
That’s great!
If God likes Saturn because he put a ring on it then how do you explain Uranus? Uranus has a ring? Uranus is nearly as big as Saturn. However, Uranus is cold yet gassy.
Hah, that describes me, some nights!
There’s a telescope at the observatory in Greenwich London (free to enter) that’s directed at Pluto. If in London you MUST visit this if only just to see Pluto!