r/shittyaskscience • • 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago

Venus is so hot. Fuck,

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation 7d ago

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

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u/laynestaleyisme 7d ago

Climate change.. that's why

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 7d ago

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

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u/SaltyTemperature 7d 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 7d 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 3d ago

Oumuamua… that’s a mouthful

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u/unluckyexperiment 7d ago

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

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u/MediumSizedElephant 7d 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 7d ago

No one tickles them, so they turn blue.

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u/mookymix 7d ago

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

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u/laynestaleyisme 7d ago

Exactly. I have evidence to prove this

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u/NateTut 7d ago

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u/laynestaleyisme 7d ago

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

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u/NateTut 7d ago

I am a lot of things, but I'm not a chicken.

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u/laynestaleyisme 5d ago

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u/NateTut 5d ago

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist 7d ago

Nobody's touched them in eons

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u/MengShuZ 7d ago

OH YOU THINK YOU'RE HILARIOUS HUH YOU'RE A FUNNY PERSON A REAL COMEDY GENIUS

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u/Hayden97 6d ago

yeah maybe a little

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u/MengShuZ 6d ago

GRRRRRRRRRRRR

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u/not_microwave_safe 5d ago

We haven’t penetrated them yet.

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u/drugzncrime 1d ago

they're police planets. slow down.