Planet Uranus: Probing the Ice Giant 

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In 1977 I entered in the fifth grade. The teacher had students break into self-formed teams to do reports on all the planets. Team Mercury, Team Venus and so on. I didn't want to be on any teams, and fortunately for me absolutely nobody wanted Uranus. I took it, and found out how little information was available about the planet. In frustration I wrote a letter to NASA to ask what they knew about Uranus. Somebody from NASA somehow got that letter and phoned and told me about how Uranus was the first planet we discovered with telescopes, the then recent discovery of the rings, the extreme tilt, the Voyager mission, and other stuff that was a fifth-grader's gold mine for a report. He also had someone from the Orlando Science Center, which I think was the (astronaut) John Young Museum and Planetarium at the time, meet with and give me a bunch of stuff. I was the only kid who had props for his planetary report. Since then Uranus has been my favorite planet. Well, besides Earth.

I imagine someone took a moment to consider titling this “Probing Uranus” but Simon said, “No! This is one of my *serious* channels.”

"We're Stardust Crusaders, riding a Golden Wind of rocket fuel past the Stone Ocean of our moon" "these Diamonds aren't Unbreakable" Damn, he probably doesn't really know what he's referencing, but his script writer is on point

How many hours of outtakes of Simon laughing hysterically exist from this video alone?

Probing Uranus.

Lmao "gazed longingly at Uranus." Simon I know you had to fight back a smile with that one 😅

I remember in one of mass effects games, if you tried to probe uranus, EDI the ship ai would go "Really commander?".

You sort of glossed over the discovery of Neptune. I know this video is about Uranus, but it was Uranus that led to the discovery of Neptune. Astronomers noticed that Uranus' orbit was more wobbly than it should be and postulated that there must be another planet tugging on it. Intense calculations predicted where and when to look, and it was exactly where it was expected. Neptune remains the only planet discovered on paper, an incredible achievement in a pre-computer/calculator world.

Farnsworth: "We changed the name of that planet..." Fry: "What do you call it now?" Farnsworth: "Urectum." -- Futurama

"We're Stardust Crusaders, riding a Golden Wind of rocket fuel past the Stone Ocean of our moon" "these Diamonds aren't Unbreakable" Someone on the writing team is a JoJo's fan 👀

I swear, his scriptwriter knew what he was doing with the puns and innuendos. Went thru all the Geographics videos, and this is the one that made me smile the most

Well done for mostly keeping a straight face throughout this one, Simon 😂

Writers: Simon, which Uranus puns do you want to use Simon: All of them, GIVE ME ALL OF THEM!

You don't want us to giggle at it, but you drop lines like "Gaze lovingly at Uranus" Yeah I see you factboi

Ah yes, entering the inner structure of Uranus is most assuredly when things "get weird"

I'm sure the out-takes of this video are gold. Simon: we want them, we need them.

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You know you're too deep into Simon's media empire when you can start recognizing specific editors by the memes they insert and their own comedic timing...

I've been laughing my exoplanet off this entire video. It's a masterpiece of puns 🤣

Having long since held an appreciation for the particular beauty of Uranus. I recall fondly the occasion when I aimed my telescope out of the window, gazed through it, only to be greeted by that most majestic of sights: Uranus, perfectly visible and shining brightly before me. No more wondrous a sight could I ever hope to imagine. I only regret that others couldn't also have been there that night; to share a view of Uranus, in all it's perfect beauty.

6:07 This is the LAST place I would've expected to hear a reference to JOJO!!

5:45 "a closer look at Uranus"

Uranus had always been my favourite planet: the color, its vertical ring, just made it such a gloriously bizarre planet.

I'd love to see the blooper reel for this one!

I'm 48 years old and I giggled all the way through this.

“What might a future probe for Uranus look like?” Everybody smiles cheekily

"More unlikely than Meatloaf doing that for love" - wonder how many heads that reference flew over lol

"why Uranus really is the most enticing destination of all" - he said, with a straight face

Simon Whistler: - Classy British accent - Well-dressed - Well-groomed - Thoroughly-researched facts and insights - Literally twelve years old, apparently 😁

I have to be honest I am disappointed that things pertaining to Uranus are “Uranian” and not “Uranal” but oh well

You ladies and gentleman did a good job on this one. If you would have done a 10-11 minute video on Uranus I would have skipped it. But I saw the runtime on this and thought "25 minutes is a long time to talk about a planet we know almost nothing about. He is going to talk about something I don't already know." And you guys did. Good job.

Simon, your emphasis on the scientist desire to probe Uranus almost made me chop my finger off with laughter while I was innocently chopping carrots 👀😂

It made my day to learn about Uranus Simon. By exposing the inner mysteries of Uranus, you have inspired me to do some further probing of Uranus. Also, now I am so jealous of Voyager 2. That probe got closer to Uranus than I ever will!

"Probing Uranus", "Uranus and all its gassy glory", my inner 13 y/o is going crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Less likely than Meatloaf doing that for love” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Why Uranus really is the most enticing destination of all" I had to pause it right there, I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂

6:08 IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?! (I know Simon doesn't know a thing about anime, but his writer for this video certainly does)

I can't be the only one who noticed a significant number of JoJo references in this episode

Even Uranus and Neptune being my 2 favorite planets. I still chuckle with all the puns, such as Simon saying, "Viewing Uranus in all its gassey glory." Even 46 years old and that planet makes me laugh like a grade school kid.

Thank you for giving us a better look into how amazing Uranus is Simon 😂

Quite fitting that, while watching this video, my bluetooth speaker momentarily cut out, causing Simon to say "ass giants."

I choose to believe that they knew exactly what Uranus sounds like to English speakers and chose the name on purpose just to spite them after they had attempted to name it after a British king. I don't know how plausible this theory is but I believe in it because it's funny as heck

"Prove why Uranus, really, is the most enticing destination of all." Comedy Gold!

I swear to god, there's some kind of internet conspiracy to ensure that all discussions about the planet Uranus are described in terms of "probing".

"What is out mission for today sir?" "We are going to probe Uranus" "Er, yes sir".

"Stardust Crusaders" "Golden Wind" "Diamond is Unbreakable" Factboi, whoever wrote your script knows what's up

8:00 Oh god oh god oh god. I can’t stop long enough to wipe off the tears. How many takes, Simon? You deserve a medal.

Thank you Simon, appreciate your humor and your dedication in all you do friend!!

We can't send a crewed mission to Uranus. I'm sure we can send a crude mission to Uranus though.

"Uranus is weird and no one knows why" "Uranus doesn't have a heat source...." a .... sensation comedy here lol

This video should go down in history as not only a terrificly informative episode, but also the ultimate library of Uranus puns. Well done, bravo! 🎉

The sheer amount of JoJo puns and references is so torturous, I love it.

I laughed through almost this whole thing. At one point, my wife told me to grow up.

“Probing the ice giant” I feel like this was deliberate.

Uranus truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

Excellent video Simon, informative, well researched and full of puns, it's got to be the funniest one on this channel so far. 😂

One day I can hear Uranus and not giggle 🤭 Today sure as f isn't today 😂

Sneaky Simon tossing in those JoJo's references at 6:08

My absolute favorite joke in 4th grade was a *real* knee-slapper. It goes as follows; "What does the crew of the Enterprise and a roll of toilet paper have have in common? They both fly around Uranus wiping out clingons."

Are you planning a video on Neptune? It was the only planet to be mathematically predicted. That alone is really cool but it has a lot of secrets that we still haven’t uncovered

"Probing The Ice Giant" 😂😂🤣🤣thanks for that. It is one of my favorite planets, I just wish it had a different name, people seem to get so hung up on the name they miss how amazing it is.

So is there going to be a blooper reel from this one? I can see that you had to recover from laughing a few times!

Google informs me the diameter of Uranus is 31,518 miles. That's huge. I was surprised to learn Uranus has rings, as does Neptune. I have seen some good discussion on why Uranus is colder than Neptune, even though it is closer to the sun. It's because Neptune swallowed the planet Triton was originally orbiting. Triton still orbits that rocky planet, though now it is the core of Neptune. This explains why Triton orbits retrograde AND why Neptune has a hot interior. heat leftover from the collision. Nice reporting. All good wishes.

I am STILL to this day still amazed how Simon is able to pull off all those gags and joke lines without losing it. Only a few times he came close with a smile sneaking in. 😆 😁 PS: I wonder how many takes did it took to complete this video? 😉😆😁

I'm not sure why there's a bunch of JoJo references in this script but I do appreciate just as much as the butt jokes.

Uranus has a fuzzy borderless core. How in the hell am I not supposed to giggle through this entire episode?!!!

I appreciate your efforts into seeing how much innuendo-heavy writing can be crammed ;) into one episode. I'm sure at least 3 people have already mentioned this, but "Georgium Sidus" sounds remarkably like "Georgie Inside Us." In Star Trek they knew there were a lot of Klingons near Uranus

Never has any of your videos made me laugh this much before. Some of these lines were just super smooth

Who rolls right on from an excellent Roman emperors series into an underrated Planets series complete with Uranus jokes? I mean seriously who does that?

I can't wait until 2620 when astronomers will rename Uranus once and for all to end that stupid joke. Finally we will be able to talk about Urectum without people snickering!

1:58 -- thank you, Simon. You made the title of the video worthwhile. No false advertisement here. :)))))

Only ONE RU-vid channel has the guts to say the name of this planet the way it deserves to be said. I applaud you.

Damn, Simon made at least 4 Jojo references

Pretty sure Morris has been waiting a loooooong time to use up these butt puns. 😄 He's been sprinkling them throughout the Astrographics videos for years.

Tries to get away from all the butt gags, then says "why Uranus is the most enticing destination of all" Simon, I just can't comprehend how you said that with a straight face.

They should call any mission to Uranus "Charmin."

Just imagine scientists saying stuff like "We have to probe deep into Uranus in order to make new and exciting discoveries!"

Simon totally made a JoJo reference 😂 “Stardust Crusaders, Golden Wind, and Stone Ocean.” Absolute legend!!!

Simon, to his wife: “Uranus really is the most enticing destination of all.”

we need a blooper reel from some of these, i don’t believe you do this all day and don’t laugh your ass off lol!

Can we just take a moment to contemplate the fact that Science believes Uranus once got smashed by an object the size of Earth? 😆

I'm halfway through the video, and I'm absolutely certain that the writer's deliberately putting Jojo references here 😂

If you'd ask Simon, he'd say his greatest achievement is naturally weaving the line "staring longingly at Uranus" into a lecture on the 7th planet, then delivering that line after only 39 takes.

Fun fact, Uranus currently only has one prograde irregular moon called Margaret. And Margaret is arguably the most inclined natural satellite at 57 degree in prograde direction (or about 123 degree in retrograde) and has one of the most eccentric orbit among the moons in the solar system. In 2010, Margaret's orbit eccentricity is at around 0.8 (similar orbital eccentricity to Sedna), making it the most eccentric orbit in the solar system, although Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.

nice Jojo's references! I just want to see Simon watching Jojo's for the first time.

"We're Stardust Crusaders, riding a Golden Wind of rocket fuel past the Stone Ocean of our moon" Waaaaaait a minute... is that a JoJo reference?!

I’m so glad they are finally probing Uranus.

I can't believe Cassini was 20 years ago... seems like more recent history. I think the most depressing part of this is that even if it gets the green light, many who are excited about this won't be around to see the spacecraft reach Uranus.

“I appreciate Uranus in all its gassy glory” would make an EXCELLENT T shirt!

“But then that’s just Uranus. It’s just weird and no one really knows why”

I remember when they discovered the rings around Uranus. I was at the perfect age to just giggle every time I heard about it.

Hey, everybody! Simon is going to tell stories about Uranus.

I would love to see the outtakes for this video

Made me laugh more than a Brain Blaze ep and was very informative. The number of word choices in there said with a strait face had too be very deliberate. lol Great vid.

Thanks for great vid! So many epic quotes from you script also lmao

I'm now disappointed that we don't have a Uranian Moon named Bottom. Science has let us down!

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Behold & love this giant 5:50 - Chapter 2 - Voyage inside uranus 10:25 - Mid roll ads 11:45 - Chapter 3 - Georges's star 16:40 - Chapter 4 - Flying visit 20:30 - Chapter 5 - Probing Uranus

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.

Simon should add a channel to his collection, and call it Galactic Geographics