It’ll have a new name in 2620
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Fry: Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.
[He laughs.]
Leela: I don’t get it.
Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all…
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.One of nature’s happy little coincidences.
Now I’m picturing Bob Ross painting Uranus.
Didn’t know Bob Ross did body painting. What episode is that?
It’s somewhere on Pornhub, probably
Astronomers had pretty much all agreed on the name “Uranus” by 1850, and the first spectrographic studies began in 1861—so yeah.
People always pronounce it wrong, it’s your-ah-nohse, sometimes your-ah-nuss. People always mispronounce Neanderthal as well. It’s ne-ander-tall.
I hear it pronounced Urine-us more than not lately. It’s not better.
I’m glad scientists are planning to change it to Urectum in the year 2620, finally put an end to this confusion. They should do it sooner if you ask me.
