February 22, 2005

A Riddle: What do the Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Io, Uranus, and Neptune have that the moon, Venus and Mercury don't?
posted by Skrik 19 years ago
  • Crabs?
  • Uranus? Klingons!
  • Pudding! *checks link* Areolas!
  • Atmospheres? Monoliths?
  • MCT, that cheating!
  • Note to self: Must needs preview.
  • Girlfriends?
  • Republicans?
  • ooh, pretty!
  • satellites?
  • and the requisite Monkeys?
  • Cable?
  • Strippers?
  • guitars? (shout out to the hoodoo Gurus!!)
  • cockpunch! cockpunch on Uranus!
  • So, the question is: why? (No atmosphere on Mercury, but why not Venus? And what about Mars?)
  • jb, did you read the 2nd link?
  • Jb, that's listed at the bottom of the last link (I don't want to spoil it).
  • water and/or ice?
  • What the hell? My comment disappeared! Does Mofi employ some sort of reverse-time instant pre-deletion? Anyway, jb, your answer is at the bottom of the last link.
  • It's obvious. Bigger orbits, duh. (Oh wait: Damn you, Io...) Anyway. New riddle: Guess what's in Uranus?
  • My car keys!
  • A rock band featuring Stephin Merritt?
  • A sense of purpose?
  • Hamsters?
  • Micheal Jackson?
  • little potatoes?
  • So why don't Venus and Mars have their own magnetic fields?
  • ummm...these? that's today's page btw....coincidence?
  • they're too cheap.
  • no differentially rotating liquid metallic cores, it's assumed, jb saturn's magnetic field is the only one known to be lined up exactly with it's axis of rotation (i.e. magnetic north and rotational north are on the same spot)...
  • Mars doesn't have a molten core. Venus rotates too slowly.
  • And Neptune is a bit hippy. Just sayin'.
  • Areolas! /flagpole imagines areolas on top of every planet... but... where are the nipples?
  • SideDish beat me to it.
  • (I'm sure I look lazy just asking questions and not looking stuff up, but this is more fun) So why doesn't Mars have a molton core, being not so much smaller than Earth?
  • That's because it has a chewy, Tootsie center.
  • I thought they discovered a couple of years ago that Mars does have a hot, partially gooey, center.
  • hiki - where do you think Tootsie rolls come from?
  • Ah! Of course. mmm...molten Tooties...*sizzle*
  • Mars does have a hot, partially gooey, center Hey, so do I!!!
  • Ok, I'm not touching that one. Wait.
  • stop clowning, youse! mars is actually really small jb, only about half the diameter of the earth and therefore only about 1/8th the volume... actually, i just found this and it seems mars does have a bit of a mag. field...venus and mercury probably do too, to some insignificant degree....
  • I was going to say "starbucks", but they probably all have one by now.
  • I propose that we rename Io as Heynow.
  • I propose that we rename HawthorneWingo as Hwingo - much easier to type.
  • Schwing!
  • Iiiii-O! Iiiiiiiiii-O! Daylight come and we want go home...
  • I remember one edition of the UK satirical puppet show Spitting Image satirising the way newsreaders would pronounce the planet Yew-renus to avoid saying something dirty sounding. The joke was they discovered a new moon of it called 'Bumhole' which they of course pronounced 'Bewm-ho-lay'. /funny if you saw it
  • personally, I pronounce it yeranus.
  • I don't WANT to be...
  • Tor: I have it on good report that there's a Moxie Java outlet on Venus. Damn the competition.