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pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 03:33 PM Sep 2012

The 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, “What’s 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.

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The Most Pornographic Astronomical Terms (Original Post) pokerfan Sep 2012 OP
Not bad, not bad. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #1
What.... AnneD Sep 2012 #2
Isn't it #2? pokerfan Sep 2012 #3
Now I am.... AnneD Sep 2012 #4
What? No Big Bang? struggle4progress Sep 2012 #5
some bangs are bigger than others I guess pokerfan Sep 2012 #7
wise edit! struggle4progress Sep 2012 #9
muahahaha fbguy_144 Sep 2012 #6
Are you saying my anus is fat? rug Sep 2012 #8
Orion's "Sword" ThoughtCriminal Sep 2012 #10

AnneD

(15,774 posts)
2. What....
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 04:28 PM
Sep 2012

black hole (light goes in but doesn't come out) didn't make it, or is that another too obvious.

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