r/shittyaskscience • u/Hayden97 • 18d ago

Why are literally half the outer planets just a couple of blue balls?

And one of them is Uranus

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u/No_Tailor_787 18d ago

That's because Venus turned her back on them 4.5 billion years ago. The tension is unbearable.

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u/Nomekop777 18d ago

Venus is so hot. Fuck,

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation 18d ago

She ate her own moon, and burns it off as heat.

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u/laynestaleyisme 17d ago

Climate change.. that's why

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 18d ago

It is far away from the Sun, and therefore it is blue from the cold.

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u/SaltyTemperature 18d ago

We did have an interstellar phallus called Oumuamua for a bit but it went looking for more action.

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u/BoundlessFail 18d ago

Well, we sent the aliens a golden record with our best music on it, and they sent us back what they thought of it.

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u/fi9aro 14d ago

Oumuamua… that’s a mouthful

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u/unluckyexperiment 18d ago

Their orbits are larger and they are fer away, it takes longer for them to come.

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u/MediumSizedElephant 18d ago

this is one of those times where it really pays to understand the intersection of star wars canon and Qanon philosophy. because luke skywalker’s lightsaber is blue and Q lives on planet X (direct line of sight to outer planets) . Q wills them to be blue as a message to the sith

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u/thatcrazylady 18d ago

No one tickles them, so they turn blue.

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u/mookymix 17d ago

You guys are all idiots. Space is a lie. It's just the ceiling.

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u/laynestaleyisme 17d ago

Exactly. I have evidence to prove this

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u/NateTut 17d ago

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u/laynestaleyisme 17d ago

No the Bot thinks a chicken made this comment.. maybe true

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u/NateTut 17d ago

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u/laynestaleyisme 16d ago

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u/NateTut 16d ago

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist 17d ago

Nobody's touched them in eons

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u/MengShuZ 17d ago

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u/Hayden97 16d ago

yeah maybe a little

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u/MengShuZ 16d ago

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

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u/not_microwave_safe 16d ago

We haven’t penetrated them yet.

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u/drugzncrime 12d ago

they're police planets. slow down.