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The article seems to say otherwise.

Sort of? My understanding from reading a handful of articles is that Neptune has a bluish haze layer that's absent on Uranus, but it's fairly subtle and the overall color of both is a pretty similar frosty light green. So it's not just that it got oversaturated but that that particular blue hue got applied to the whole planet and not just a thin layer.

How long has this guy been staring at Uranus?

Honestly it's the shitpost community so kinda fitting. Too bad your miners won't find much stinky sulfur after their decade+ journey.

A pip and a peep? You flatter me sir/ma'am.

Not yet, but it's not a chance I'd be willing to take. They have at least one neighbor who's supposedly been arrested for theft. He used to watch their dogs for them but when they found out they stopped talking to him and changed the locks.

Yeah so maybe both Neptune and Uranus look hazy and dull green in visible light. So what?! They're both entire worlds, significantly larger and vastly different in climate and tilt and composition and weather phenomena than our own, and we're lucky enough to have seen them up close with probes. They have layered structure that can be seen in other wavelengths (e.g. infrared) and so many mysteries we haven't yet conceived. Plus a ton of moons each that are weird and fascinating in their own right. They're not the least bit boring to a curious mind.

My anus is not.

NASA-grade pics or STFU

Serious answer: the sensors in telescopes and probes don't work exactly like human eyes. They pick up a different range of frequencies than our cone cells in the first place, and don't have the same sort of overlapping input curves. There's a lot of tricks and techniques in converting an image into the same sort of thing we'd see with the naked eye. You can sorta think of it like translating Japanese into English; there's no perfect formula and it requires some creative interpretation no matter what.

The popular images that get published all over are simplistic composites and never really reflect the actual data astronomers rely on, so that was never a hindrance to scientific progress. It suddenly made the news because a research group decided to reevaluate the old data and reinterpret it against calibrations from other equipment (e.g. Voyager probe vs. the Very Large Telescope here on Earth). There's a general interest factor in "wow that looks so much different than the old pictures", when the underlying data really hasn't changed.

No kidding! Glad someone gets it. A couple I know who Instagrammed their entire cross-Europe vacation last year couldn't understand why I don't want to travel at the same time as them this year even though we're going some of the same places 🤦‍♂️

Um, throughout much of the journey I thought Frodo had the ring on a necklace so he wouldn't have to wear it on his hand. How is a mouse a better solution?

A friend's mom was there in 1970. Wasn't a good time.

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Doesn't she spell it with an A?

Lewis Black would like a word. https://youtu.be/o4vVGG_FcvY?si=03k6RlNNn7II4tIY

Salty or no? If yes, are you from Finland?

Ohhhh... TIL!

I've had elderflower liquor (St. Germain is very nice) but not elderberry.

There are some southern or appalachian insults that I'm sure would confuse foreigners, even those who are functional in English.

Comparisons like "He's twelve ounces short of a pint", backhanded compliments like "I just love how you don’t care what people think", idioms like "three sheets to the wind". And then of course there's "rode hard and put up wet".

"Your mother was a hamster!" is pretty self-explanatory though.

But elderberries smell rather nice. Or at least the last elderberry jam I had was quite lovely. So that certainly makes for a confusing insult.

Been looking for a non-paywalled link...