Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for December 16, 2024

Urine-us in ur-anus.

Oo-ran-oos.

OK. How about calling it That Ball of Frozen Stuff Beyond Saturn?

Is that a Black Hole in Uranus?

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‘Urine-us’ is how astronomers pronounce it, but why not go back to ’George’s Star’?

Does Missy have a space alien living in her hair?

He’s (pretty much) right and she’s wrong. It’s Yoor-ay’-nus.

Trust me on this. I have been an astronomer for 70 years specializing in planetary and stellar spectroscopy and spent my career at NASA.

I had to ‘like’ this after the very first panel !

Fry: What’s it called now?

Prof. Farnsworth: Urectum.

In “Futurama” Professor Farnsworth explains to Fry that the name was changed in the future to end all those stupid jokes. The new name chosen was “U-rectum”.

Just think of all the dumb jokes we would have missed out on if ye olde astronomers had stuck to Roman mythology and called it Caelus instead of changing teams and going with Greek mythology for that one…