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Hubble Just Spotted Something Massive Coming Out of Uranus (2017)

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rocking gently in place

I am a mature, responsible adult. I don’t make juvenile jokes.

The title is obviously meant to at least elicit a chuckle.

rocking gently in place...

this is not reddit.

this is not reddit....

this is not reddit.........

I am a free man, unbound by the chains of expectations.

They really have a liking for Uranus...

Another of their headlines were "Uranus Has Experienced A Colossal Pounding" [1].

Metro also used the headline a couple of years ago [2]

[1] http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2018/07/something-massive-s...

[2] https://metro.co.uk/2017/04/11/hubble-just-spotted-something...

The article reads like something generated by an AI. It fixates on a core idea (astronomers use the hubble), repeats it a number of times with minor variation, goes on unrelated tangents (sources of charged particles in general rather than as specific to this anomaly) and riffs on these themes in ways that make zero sense (astronomers controlling solar wind using magnetic fields? Unlikely).

The title will probably be enough to drive millions of views, though.

I think it is kind of self-evident that editorializing the title to promote more productive discussion might be useful in this specific case...

Can we just all appreciate how amazing this headline is?

It's the type of clickbait we accept here, I guess. Almost expected a clickhole link.

I wonder how long they've been waiting to use that phrase for an article

I'd say the whole world (or at least, the whole world's middle-school age population) has been waiting for that headline since approximately 1782, when Johann Elert Bode proposed the planet's name.

I think the double entendre here is pretty limited to primarily English speakers.

Johann Elert Bode was German, so I'm not sure if the meaning of the word holds there.

The article seems bullshit clickbait. Shame.

(2017)

This title is going to make big, big waves in reddit.

Cool? Probably Facebook too. What’s the deal with redditors bringing it up on other sites?

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