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Comment by julius_set | Hacker News Reader

Anything to get clicks right?

Uranus IS interesting as it’s the only planet which is turned on its side relative to the spin and orbits of its sibling planets.

Just because it doesn’t have swirling clouds due to the extreme cold doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.

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The article doesn't say it isn't interesting (nor does the title), and actually says it has nice swirling clouds now. (The comments here really are something else...)

HN doesn't like clickbait titles.

was unsure whether I should change the title to something less clickbaity or not. It's the article's original title after all..

The title certainly implies it doesn't have interesting features.

"Features on it", as in "visible things", not "characteristics of it".

Came for the puerile, stayed for the pedantry.

What of the puerile pedantry and the pedantic puerility?

HN users feel no requirement to read an article before commenting on it.

>2 sentences? i don't even bother finishing the entire comment either.

That’s not limited to HN

Indeed, when one read the Wikipedia page on Uranus, lots of things are unknown. Also, apparently the ring system is on the equatorial plane... How is it even possible?

Because the planet's axis is tilted 97 degrees, the equator runs roughly vertically comparered to the plane of the solar system, just like the rings. Basically it's like a "normal" planet with "normal" rings and rotation but the whole thing turned on its side, rotation, equator, rings, and all.

The equatorial plane is based on the rotation of the planet, not the relationship to the sun.

But the planet was turned on its side by a collision, right? How would the collision have also altered the rotation of whatever moon wandered past to Roche limit to later became the ring?

Perhaps the ring is the remains of the impactor. It struck Uranus (when the planet was rotating 'normally') on a trajectory aligned with Uranus's current, post impact, equatorial plane. Hence, the ring and the equatorial plane are similarly aligned.

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