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  • fatbigeye, on 05/05/2008, -15/+72Uranus lol
    • DiceRoyale, on 05/05/2008, -9/+0The Uranus jokes will continue for another hundred years thanks to the poorly (or well) thought out symbol.
      • MikeSD34, on 05/05/2008, -0/+28Until they rename it to Urectum.
        • DangerMouse9, on 05/05/2008, -4/+1And that'll happen around the same time the US switches to the metric system.
        • bigstinky, on 05/05/2008, -5/+3"urectum?"...U damn near killed him.

          yeah, pretty bad. I know.
      • Necho, on 05/05/2008, -0/+22I feel sorry that Uranus has to be the butt of so many jokes.
        /not helping
        • theaceoffire, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8You were just assking for it.
          • chromerium, on 05/05/2008, -12/+2C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-OMBO BREAKER!
          • MtheoryX, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9@chromerium: You're doing it wrong.
        • NeoTEKK, on 05/05/2008, -0/+11It's okay. I'm sure he can put it BEHIND him.
        • homerang, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2These jokes are terrible. You RECTUM.
          • groo68, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1i get the feelling some people here dont know what a rectum is.
    • novenator, on 05/05/2008, -0/+19Scientist recently discovered 9 dark rings around uranus
      • mountvale, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12I bet you say that to all the ladies.
      • Silentnite85, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Yeah, not all Toilet Paper is created equal.
        • mountvale, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2And yet, not all equal toilets are created of paper.

          Ponder this my pupil, and keep an open mind on your journey to enlightenment.
      • twinklyJesus, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2It's an infection.
    • nimawin, on 05/05/2008, -2/+6don't worry, in about 800 years they will change Uranus to Urectum. ask Leela
    • TracerMan, on 05/05/2008, -3/+1Hey let's be a bit more mature here will you? /sarcasm
    • geoboy, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4Why must the planet Uranus be the butt of all jokes? It's completely asinine.
  • Grantismo, on 05/05/2008, -12/+268Who is "they"?
    • gambit2121, on 05/05/2008, -2/+153the man
      • moblin7, on 05/05/2008, -1/+6Sailor Moon, actually. GO SAILOR JUPITER.
    • lamiaconfitor, on 05/05/2008, -3/+45Welcome to inference class... in this course, we will be studying our environment to draw logical conclusions based on clues from surrounding context!
      • munkyxtc, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12I only signed up for this course because I want the mat that is included.
    • Thorpe, on 05/05/2008, -13/+4NASA?
      • RealmDown, on 05/05/2008, -1/+5Them. The Men In Black.
      • cizzop, on 05/05/2008, -3/+7the same jerks who decided pluto isnt a planet anymore
    • WarezAppz, on 05/05/2008, -5/+59Who 'ARE' "They"?
      • antiorblkflag9, on 05/05/2008, -6/+1Dwight: "IT KNOWS KELLY!!! IT KNOWS!!!"
        Daryl: "Who is 'IT'?"
      • specialK16, on 05/05/2008, -5/+1'WHO' are they?
    • solidus636, on 05/05/2008, -4/+19The Patriots.
      • antiorblkflag9, on 05/05/2008, -0/+10LA-LI-LU-LE-LO
        • nebion, on 05/05/2008, -4/+0I thought the order was ...le-lu..., but I could remember incorrectly, it's been quite a few years...

          Looking forward to next month in any case!

        • lalilulelo, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7Who called me?
    • schweeet, on 05/05/2008, -3/+66Matt Damon
    • senatorpjt, on 05/05/2008, -1/+12Astronomers, I guess. The symbol was probably chosen by people who don't speak english anyway. Wikipedia says it's an alchemical symbol for platinum, so it's a lot older than even "uranus" jokes.
    • sfury, on 05/05/2008, -0/+13whois they
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        • itsthebrod, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12Good concept, terrible execution.
    • R0l0, on 05/05/2008, -1/+5Uranus.
    • sathia, on 05/05/2008, -2/+4the others
    • philmck, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7Good question - especially since astrologers and alchemists appear to use a completely different symbol for Uranus
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_symbols
      and the International Astronomical Union doesn't seem to use them at all
    • bobbyi, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4The people who decide on symbols for planets. Apparently the same ones who believe that then sun and moon are planets.
    • chyya, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4who 'THAT' is?
    • Soave, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1Science.
    • robbob, on 05/05/2008, -6/+4You can say "they" anymore, it's racist
    • coyote1284, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1That guy over there.
    • bsonline, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3They're they. They're them. They're the men in black.
    • identitymatrix, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3"They" Live
    • jozb, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3The symbol for Uranus is represented by combined devices indicating the Sun plus the spear of Mars, as Uranus was the personification of heaven in **Greek** mythology, dominated by the light of the Sun and the power of Mars.
      http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm ...
    • Ploosheeta, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/They
    • Sillywombat, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Two possibilities:
      1. its derived from Latin
      2. Or its Greek

      The answer is the greeks.... and im not suprised, look at that symbol!
  • amanilaenvelope, on 05/05/2008, -6/+129why is the symbol for earth a crosshair? its like we're being targeted by E.T. or something.
    • oxdeltaxo, on 05/05/2008, -1/+30It's designate our home planet, much in the same way x marks the spot.
      • mightycbu, on 05/05/2008, -11/+5yeah right. and the symbol of the sun symbolizes the center of our planetary system then?
        anti-creationist :P
      • RealmDown, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2Hope they call before digging.
      • BoonTobias, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1we're gonna get sniped with a r700 any second now
      • atgmac, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3In case we forget where earth is?
    • firstpost, on 05/05/2008, -1/+23It's earth with the equator and a meridian
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_symbols
    • esantipapa, on 05/05/2008, -2/+10Its the cross of the zodiac... it has many meanings.

      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pagan+cross&b ...

      Four seasons, two equinoxes, two solstices. When further divided (with eight additional lines) it maps out the annual cyles of earth (12 months, each in their repsective season, also with the equinoxes and solstices falling on the month they occur). This pagan symbol was adopted by the early Christians to identify the crucifixion (of Christ) with a circle (to represent Christ) depicted "on" it... the pagan cross looks like the symbol for earth and the sun superimposed. Needless to say, it got the pagans coming in droves to Christian churches.

      The symbol is one of the oldest representations of "time on earth".
      • jargonaut, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3This is right... The earliest recording of the cross for earth is from the Sumerians... It is the "four corners of earth" or the extremes points of sunrise and sunset at the summer and winter solstices.
    • Falc, on 05/05/2008, -12/+7you guys are both wrong. it stands for the 4 nations of earth... the Earth-benders, the Water-benders, the Fire-benders and the Air-benders, of which Aang is the last of ;)
      • CurlyMike139125, on 05/05/2008, -1/+6In the words of a character from a far better show, "Worst.. anime.. ever."
    • falkonv7l, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Pluto makes the most sense
    • DarrylWatts, on 05/05/2008, -2/+4Call me stupid, but maybe it has to do with the hemispheres?!?
      just a guess
    • eighties, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3You people really need to learn how to use this thing we call 'Google', or just look in the address bar of the image link. It took all of 5 seconds to get the official NASA explanation for the various symbols.

      http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm ...

      /EndBitching
      • atgmac, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2From the article: "...as Uranus was the personification of heaven in Greek mythology"
    • jazzboyrules, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4It's like saying "You are here".
    • mrblue182, on 05/05/2008, -4/+1its because that one old scientist guy, I forget his name, maybe aristotle, anyways, he theorized that everything was made of the 4 elements, Earth, Water, Wind or Fire. Just that they had different concentrations. So wood was earth and water. Thus, the 4 elements of the earth. =]
      • homerang, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5Have you ever thought about going into teaching?
  • Vuredel, on 05/05/2008, -32/+4Who did they hire to make those symbols, a grade schooler?
    • fletcherrr, on 05/05/2008, -1/+5HAHA!

      bury bury bury
    • Vuredel, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I believe everybody missed my point, so let me spell it out for you:

      The symbols look like utter CRAP. Male and female symbols? A P with an underscore? You can see where they come from, but they're really uninspiring.
  • twertyto, on 05/05/2008, -8/+67http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/uranus

    Click on the speaker children.
    • WileyII, on 05/05/2008, -1/+27Mere maturity cannot overtake the fun we get out of pronouncing it the other way.
    • xTRUMANx, on 05/05/2008, -4/+22Wow, I actually thought it was pronounced 'your anus'. 21 years and I never knew...
      • arcooke, on 05/05/2008, -3/+18So much for the education system.
      • TroHax, on 05/05/2008, -2/+3Wow, me too.
        See? This is a proof that digg actually can teach you something and is not a total waste of time. :)
      • Zurahn, on 05/05/2008, -1/+24Acutally, it's both. It only provides one audio pronunciation, but written offers two
        U·ra·nus
        /ˈyʊərənəs, yʊˈreɪ-/
        Pronunciation[yoor-uh-nuhs, yoo-rey-]

        Merriam-Websters provides an audio version for both
        http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uranus
        • Kontra8, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2It probably gives audio for both pronunciations because wrong one is by today so deeply rooted in that there's no point ignoring it.
        • twertyto, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1Dictionaries are simply a mirror of modern language (and linguistics). That pronunciation is probably given due to the way English-speaking people would commonly say it based on how it looks. The original word whether from Greek or Latin would have sounded most similar to the first pronunciation.
          • IntellEJent, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2Oh rah nohs is the original pronunciation in greek.
          • twertyto, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Umm..right. That proves my point.
      • mozi470, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2My radio broadcasting professor told us that this was one of the words which had an alternate pronunciation created specifically for broadcasting. According to her, radio broadcasters had trouble with the original [yoo-rey-] pronunciation and therefore altered the pronunciation to better fit "serious" journalism. They've also tried to do this with words like "harassment." I haven't been able to verify this. But that's what she said.
        • chiefbandit2200, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Verification - I've heard people in videos pronounce it harris-ment
          • IntellEJent, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1HAIR-risment is the more traditional pronunciation according to my dictionary
        • B3000, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1haha "that's what she said" good one.
      • bernlin2000, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2I was taught both: tomato tomahto. They both are suck, ur either talking about an anus or urinating....lose-lose (or win-win, depending on your tendencies...)
    • Maynza, on 05/05/2008, -2/+72Ah yes because "Urine-us" is so much better?
      • timusca, on 05/05/2008, -0/+37Or You're-in-us
        • bernlin2000, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Never thought of it that way...wow that's much more than your anus
      • dpcamp, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1I remember being in the 3rd grade when they switched the pronunciation from your-anus to urine-us and thinking.. how's that any better?
    • JediCowboyD, on 05/05/2008, -1/+9browse/uranus
      Heh.
    • Soave, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uranus (second pronunciation)

      I trust Merriam-Webster more than dictionary.com
    • exomni, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1ˈjʊərənəs or jʊˈreɪnəs, that is the question.
    • CaptainJapan, on 05/05/2008, -1/+0"Your in us" is even funnier.
    • einstein2k8, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0"Uranus...son and husband of Gaea (Earth)"

      So Gaea had a son, divorced her husband, then married her son to give birth to other children? Does that mean her child is her grandchild? And that incestuous spawn's brother is it's father and any other siblings are cousin and brother/sister and nephew/niece?... man this sounds like Oedipus Rex all over again. Whoever invented incest is a prick.
  • jaychuck, on 05/05/2008, -2/+166Mercury is the devil.
  • dizturbd2, on 05/05/2008, -4/+184Lol the sun.....now it makes sense why mom always told me not to stare at womens' breast because I would go blind.
    • Arcesius, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4She wasn't joking =/. I have a little dot in front of my eyes from staring at women's breasts... err.... the sun.
  • bearcat8543, on 05/05/2008, -34/+10Buried as inaccurate: pluto is not a planet...anymore.
  • JimboLimbo, on 05/05/2008, -13/+2when would anybody ever use these?
    • Papajohn56, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6astronomers use them as subscripts to denote which celestial object they're referencing, such as the mass of the sun will be an M with a subscript of the circle-dot symbol.
      • nienhulm, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3As do crazy new agers
        • Scynet, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Bleh, if by "new" agers you mean the thousand-years-old astrolgy traditions...
    • haydesigner, on 05/05/2008, -3/+1Stock markets are stupid, when would anyone use them?
      Dogs are dumb, when would we use them?
      Pennies are useless, when would anyone use them?
      • RealmDown, on 05/05/2008, -2/+3To get rich enough to buy trained guard dogs.
        For self-defense against door-to-door evangelists and cookie saleskids.
        Three points each when the penny hits them in the back before they GET OFF MY LAWN.
      • avatar28, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Screw the guard dogs. Buy trained attack ALLIGATORS! Wanna scare off those pushy Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses (not to mention the occasional vacuum cleaner salesman)? Answer the door with a couple of those babies in tow and watch 'em sweat.
    • Apolloi, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5Sailor Moon, duh!
      • Areku, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Though Takeuchi used a different symbol for Uranus than the one pictured here.
    • NathaMan10101, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Iv seen these been used in a Yu-Gi-Oh! game or the PS............
  • nitesoulja, on 05/05/2008, -11/+16i dont get it...it doesn't look like my anus at all...im more interested in the sun...its like a circle with a dot in the middle of it
    • Grungitude, on 05/05/2008, -4/+3It's a dark little hole.. with an arrow above it.. you know.. up uranus.
    • RealmDown, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7Contemplate your anus some more. You're missing something.
    • stonebear, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Gay astronomers wanted to make sure Uranus is male.
  • stilesja, on 05/05/2008, -7/+2(x)
  • alisiacam, on 05/05/2008, -3/+54if men are from mars, and women come from venus, then who [on earth] comes from mercury? witches?
  • AHHHHH, on 05/05/2008, -0/+11From wiki, the symbol is "One of the two symbols for platinum or a combination of the symbols for Mars and the Sun". If it really bothers you, use this one:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94 ...
    • pe5t1lence, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Ahh yes, that looks more like my ass
    • suriyou, on 05/05/2008, -5/+2Am I the only one who sees a Goatse there..?
    • somon90, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1It says "Drive/aim/force over a divine spirit (circle) surrounding seed of potential" now
  • Schmich, on 05/05/2008, -9/+3Pretty cool how Pluto has all it's letters in it's symbol.
    • arcooke, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Except T and O... The O you're referring to is the shape of a D, and the T is more of an F, and even that's a stretch.
      • kyelewis, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2I'll give you that the O isn't really there, but the t is.. sounds like you're looking for a capital T whereas the symbol contains a lowercase t without the left part of the upper horizontal line :)
      • Schmich, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Nah put T sideways I meant
        • kyelewis, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1that's a pretty good way to think of it as well :P
    • oblique63, on 05/05/2008, -5/+1inaccurate unless you can show me where to find OGC in pluto....
      • kyelewis, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1if the human race travels to pluto, explores the surface and finds OGC, i'll... wow, that's the one situation I dont know what i'd do in.
  • jm1234567890, on 05/05/2008, -8/+1What about the sun??
  • rivalius13, on 05/05/2008, -13/+131So wait....pluto's a planet again?
    • mescad, on 05/05/2008, -0/+123Yes. Also, the Sun and Moon are now planets too.
    • Zippo, on 05/05/2008, -2/+7These symbols are quite old. They most certainly outdate the updated definitions of planet and dwarf planet.
      • Suricou, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2More significently, they predate the 1930 discovery of Pluto.
        • TheTaoOfBill, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Wait...so how did they have a symbol for pluto before pluto was discovered ;x
          • Suricou, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1Exactly. They don't. The symbols for pluto and neptune are later additions.
    • tehrich, on 05/05/2008, -1/+6These were made waayy before they took away Pluto's status.
    • tidu, on 05/05/2008, -0/+23RIP Pluto
    • fxu1989, on 05/05/2008, -1/+13Even if astronomers don't want to acknowledge it, in my heart, Pluto will always be a planet.

      I love you Pluto.
      • ssn697, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1It's okay to love your pets, just don't LOVE your pets....
    • Fludd777, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1http://www.snorgtees.com/images/ItsOkayPluto_Fullp ...
    • Duck3h, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Pluto has always been, and always will be, a true planet in my heart. The IAU can go jump off a cliff.
    • tehcakeisalie, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Pluto has been turned into the Death Star.
    • dougd3345, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1It's a sympathy inclusion. Like the way we still invite Russia to the G8 summits even though they suck now.
  • lumpking69, on 05/05/2008, -8/+31whats the big ***** deal ?
    • RealmDown, on 05/05/2008, -2/+17Uranus
    • BlueSkyfish, on 05/05/2008, -2/+6Someone give him a link to goatse.
    • ishwarchand, on 05/05/2008, -2/+3We have no life and these small things excite us. Is this what you wanted to hear.
    • uziko, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1Ok mister short bus taker here goes:

      Uranus sounds like "your anus" which means "your butt", the symbol for uranus is a circle with a hole in the middle of it, which looks like a butt with a butthole in the middle of it.

      don't hurt yourself now
      • 5celery, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1your butt looks like a circle? who rides the short bus?
    • 5celery, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1best comment of the day - Dugg!
  • WCL23, on 05/05/2008, -4/+4Not really too much anus symbolism there really. Goatse would have been worse ;)
  • prophetpimp, on 05/05/2008, -5/+12Reminds me of Goatse upsidedown
    • stonedtestbunny, on 05/05/2008, -1/+0o god bad memories
    • Vodd9, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4I'm just glad not to be the only one to think this.
  • RyomaNagare, on 05/05/2008, -13/+281I'm sorry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
    What's it called now?
    Urectum
  • dojonz, on 05/05/2008, -4/+56I killed a man with a trident.
    • MarsSentinel, on 05/05/2008, -2/+18I have never even SEEN a man with a trident. How did you find one to kill?
      • davidwasman, on 05/05/2008, -2/+3...
      • wontstoptalking, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Dude, just look around you.
      • Tirial, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4Yeah, I stopped doing that [making dangling modifier jokes] to people in high school after the fourth time I got stuffed in my locker.
    • thepretext, on 05/05/2008, -3/+16Dojonz, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.
    • IllBeBack, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3How can you kill a man with gum?
  • Papajohn56, on 05/05/2008, -7/+5so is jupiter's symbol a combined 2 and 1, or a 4?
  • MMaster23, on 05/05/2008, -6/+1At least it doesn't has the sun's symbol .. lol
  • MCA2142, on 05/05/2008, -5/+0It's very clear where the zodiac killer used to live,
  • Maynza, on 05/05/2008, -5/+30Jupiter looks like a kick ass new logo for 24
  • Paranoidmarvin, on 05/05/2008, -11/+6I heard they are changing the name to 'Urectum'
  • MacMasore, on 05/05/2008, -10/+1Since when is Pluto still a planet?
    • PurpleSfinx, on 05/05/2008, -2/+3Since I haven't died yet. You'll have to pry Pluto from my cold, dead, hands before I give it up as a planet.
      ...I liked it :(
      • bizarrocanuck, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1Yeah, you're right. Let's all just ignore scientific progress in the name of sentimental value!
    • esfisher, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9Why the hell do people bitch about Pluto not being a planet when it's on a list that includes the Sun and the Moon?
  • nienhulm, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8Awww...I like Mercury. Cute li'l devil
  • itsgotyou, on 05/05/2008, -6/+1William Herschel was torn, he finally named the planet after the father of Kronos (Greek god of time). His first choice was Urectum.
  • CarStan, on 05/05/2008, -8/+1Urugay
  • mightycbu, on 05/05/2008, -3/+10i knew it!
    evil women come from mercury!!!
  • Fragger06, on 05/05/2008, -6/+0Why is the moon in there at all? Most of the planets have multiple moons... Why not put comets and aliens on there while you're at it.
    • dpcamp, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2uhh cuz we're the earth, center of the universe? duh!
  • NecroDigg, on 05/05/2008, -5/+0It looks like goatse to me. The circle is his stretched ass, and the arrow part is the rest of his body.
  • gl77, on 05/05/2008, -3/+3i was expecting something more along the lines of looking like goatse.
  • alealea, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4It is unfortunate that classical education is expelled from schools. Just 70 years ago even barely educated person would know the story of Uranus. Back to basics. Read Hesiod's Theogony. The story of Uranus (poor guy) is amazing.... I would disconnect arrow from circle in that symbol though ;)
    • DestroyFascism, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Yes, suggestive of ones sexual preference really isn't it.
  • XxXKUL, on 05/05/2008, -7/+1In the future, they change the name Uranus to Urectum... just to end the Uranus jokes.

    But Uranus is has a minimum temperature of -224 Celious
  • RauruBlock, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1I wonder how astrologists accommodated when a new astronomical body was discovered, for example, Ceres.
    • steviesteveo, on 05/05/2008, -4/+1They didn't, you can't add new planets as they're discovered or everything was suddenly supposed to have a different prediction yesterday, it'd be chaos. Space-time could not survive it.
      • atgmac, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1What the ***** are you talking about??
  • prompel, on 05/05/2008, -3/+1A stylized Goatse would be more appropriate. Wait, just turn it upside-down!
  • farboo, on 05/05/2008, -3/+6The real WTF is using a JPG for a monochrome image.

    Oh wait, wrong site.
  • cmerlo441, on 05/05/2008, -4/+4Men are from Mars, women are from Venus... Jack Bauer is from Jupiter?
    • timusca, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3It doesn't matter where Jack Bauer is from... it only matters that he is here to kick your ass for such a lame joke.
      • cmerlo441, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0If that were true, there'd be no way I could finish typi
    • BenKenobi88, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2Who cares about Jack Bauer.
  • Suricou, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Something is very suspicious here! These are the very old planetry symbols, yet there is a symbol for Pluto? Discovered 1930. Even Neptune was only 1846. Well after these symbols should have fallen out of use for anything but historical trivia.
    What this tells me is that at some point after 1846, astrologers realised that predictions made naming the newer planets would only be taken seriously if they were assigned a mysterious, ancient symbol.
  • fudged71, on 05/05/2008, -3/+1absolutely
  • donkz, on 05/05/2008, -2/+5any reason why this simple image is that big??
  • AirBallistic, on 05/05/2008, -2/+4Mercury and Neptune are a match made in..... hell.
  • Rappa819, on 05/05/2008, -4/+3Oh look, a sex joke.
  • Aerandir, on 05/05/2008, -6/+4Sun = *****
  • friday04, on 05/05/2008, -3/+16Who knew? Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. And the crazy bitches I've dated are from Mercury.
    • AmandaZampieri, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1poor Mercury :T
    • 5celery, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1this was funnier the first 8 times someone else said it
      • friday04, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Bah! Who has time to read through all that sh!t.
  • Adelie, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Planets are 'officially' named, as in what US Department of Education will use, by the IAU (International Astronomers Union). The controversy concerning Pluto was that there are many kinds of astronomers around the world registered with IAU (50,000+?) and only one small group of American astronomers.
  • keatonkeaton998, on 05/05/2008, -0/+37LOL, did you guys see the symbol for the moon? It looks like the Moon.
  • WarfareArtist, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Though it was gonna be a goatsee...
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