Who Thought Asking The Internet To Name NASA's Uranus Mission Was A Good Idea?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Asking the public to name things is a terrible idea. Just ask any sailor who nearly served on the good ship Boaty McBoatface. But here we are again (albeit in a less official capacity, perhaps they learned) after an unofficial Twitter account appealed to the Internet to name a probe that will shortly explore Uranus.

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is a project that NASA hopes will be launched sometime in the early 2030s. The mission would spend several years orbiting Uranus, possibly sending a probe down through its atmosphere to the surface. It could tell us a lot about the makeup of the ice giant, which is why such an important mission's name should not be left to the public.

However, the Ice Giant Missions Twitter account asked its followers what the mission should be called.

With an official-looking poster image, a number of people took the question to mean that NASA itself was asking the question, but no trace of such a scheme is to be found on any official NASA sites, and given the mission is not yet greenlit, it's unlikely that they'd ask people to come up with inevitable butt jokes just yet.

more at https://iflscience.com/who-thought-asking-the-internet-to-name-nasas-uranus-mission-was-a-good-idea-65285?fbclid=IwAR2-O0NxaByeYzhfZo3Xr35Q3BqOriy6W_fecHMoxCPakwWFuEUdVsHwueg

[EYESORE 9001]

1. It's all in the pronunciation

Doesn’t ‘your-uh-nuss’ sound a lot more classy than ‘your-anus?’ I realize it’s like listening to the William Tell Overture without thinking about the Lone Ranger, but is it too much to ask that we exude a tiny bit of decorum when mentioning this project?

[3catwoman3]

4. Must be my health care background. To me, the pronunciation...

…with the first syllable emphasis sounds like Urine-uss, which is not much better.

The poor planet needs an entirely new name.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. That never occurred to me

Yeah, a new name is in order. Maybe ‘Bob.’

[patricia92243]

2. Probe your anus. Why are they expecting any trouble/ (sarcasm)

[JHB]

3. Opening it up to the public for suggestions is not the same as a "vote to name it" contest

Invoking Boaty McBoatface on this is just clickbait.

[3Hotdogs]

6. Is it too much to ask?

Yes.

Where do I submit my winning entry?

What’s my prize?

[zuul]

7. Uranus Probe. Obviously.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. First one I came up with too. Then, Uranus Santorum

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He was against spending money on NASA due to budget constraints. This might be a way of cramming it to Hizanus.

Santorum: One of the big problems we have in our country today is that young people are not getting involved in math and science and not dreaming big dreams. And so NASA, or the space program, or space, is important. NASA is one component of that. Our space defense is another area, I think both of which are very, very important.

I agree that we need to bring good minds in the private sector much more involved in NASA than the government bureaucracy we have. But let's just be honest. We're on a $1.2 trillion deficit right now. We're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar. And to go out there and promise new programs and big ideas, that's a great thing to maybe get votes. But it's not a responsible thing when you have to go out and say that we have to start cutting programs, not talking about how to grow them…

Those are things that sound good and maybe make big promises to people, but we've got to be responsible in the way we allocate our resources.

https://www.space.com/14380-republican-debate-florida-president-space-program.html

It's pretty bad when there is a Dictionary.com definition for your slang name.

Santorum

or santorum [ san-tohr-uhm ]
Published September 16, 2020
What does Santorum mean?

Santorum is the last name of former US Senator Rick Santorum.

After he made widely publicized homophobic remarks, notably comparing homosexuality to bestiality, the term santorum was an invented and spread as an ironic slang term—referring to a mixture of lube and fecal matter that can result from anal sex—to pillory him.
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Where does Santorum come from?

In 2003, while serving as SRC Chairman and Pennsylvania senator, Santorum gave an interview to the Associated Press that touched on a pending Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws. Santorum remarked: “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.” Santorum elsewhere claimed that legalizing being gay would create precedent for legal unions such as “man on child” or “man on dog” sex.

There was quick and severe public backlash to Santorum’s comments, including from LGBTQ activist and columnist Dan Savage. In an advice column for The Stranger, Savage suggested attaching Santorum‘s name to an act or element of gay sex to “memorialize” his homophobic comments. Savage accepted more than 3,000 suggestions from readers and posted the most popular for public voting, eventually settling on “that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.” The Italian surname Santorum is, hilariously enough, said to be from the Latin sanctorum, or “holy.”


https://www.dictionary.com/e/famous-people/santorum/

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[3catwoman3]

9. The poor planet needs a new name - 8th Rock From The Sun.

💫

[Jack the Greater]

10. "possibly sending a probe down through its atmosphere to the surface"

Does a gas giant have a surface, and if so, is it liquid? Or does a gas solidify if the pressure is great enough?

[edhopper]

11. Probey McProbeface

obviously.

[Ilsa]

12. You had me at, "...name a probe that will shortly explore Uranus."

I can't wait to hear what Kimmel and others have to say.

[Doc_Technical]

13. What do the starship Enterprise

and a roll of toilet paper have in common?

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

14. Why is the starship Enterprise like toilet paper?

They both search around Uranus looking for Klingons.

[chowder66]

15. My submission: Dingleberry

[ForgedCrank]

16. When I first

saw that, I knew exactly where it was going. Surely they did too.
That planet name has been the subject of middle school level jokes since they first named it.
Heck, maybe they did know and did it on purpose? There's a lot of us out here with a pretty juvenile sense of humor (yea, I'll admit to it).