TL;DR: Because, methane makes it look that way in visible light.
Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
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Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#32My 9th grade science teacher, Mr. Chew, told me that I would outgrow my juvenile sense of humor. I turn 40 in April. Mr. Chew, you were incorrect!
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Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#33The short answer is: "because clickbait titles is part of the industry, it's not really that boring." The longer answer it is sometimes too cold to make the same cool cloud patterns in the visual spectrum Jupiter and Saturn have.
Someone please make a crowdsourced browser extension for news articles that answer clickbait titles, similar to:
Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#34The short answer is: "because clickbait titles is part of the industry, it's not really that boring." The longer answer it is sometimes too cold to make the same cool cloud patterns in the visual spectrum Jupiter and Saturn have.
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#35Anything 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.
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...)
The title certainly implies it doesn't have interesting features.
Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#36My 9th grade science teacher, Mr. Chew, told me that I would outgrow my juvenile sense of humor. I turn 40 in April. Mr. Chew, you were incorrect!
https://bgr.com/2018/07/03/uranus-collision-early-solar-syst...
"A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered"
In all seriousness, crude graffiti and dick jokes have been around as long as we've had civilization and the written word: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-graffiti-of-pompeii-was-downrigh...
Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...)
The title certainly implies it doesn't have interesting features.
"Features on it", as in "visible things", not "characteristics of it".
Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#38Anything 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.
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?
Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#39The short answer is: "because clickbait titles is part of the industry, it's not really that boring." The longer answer it is sometimes too cold to make the same cool cloud patterns in the visual spectrum Jupiter and Saturn have.
I got the impression that it was because of the methane cloud blocking things below in combination with the cold (as cold=less energy=less movement/"weather").
Re: Why Is Uranus the Only Planet Without Interesting Features on It?
#40The fact that it is the only one that is relatively featureless makes it incredibly interesting. It's anything but boring.
> relatively featureless makes it incredibly interesting OT but this reminded me of the "Interesting number paradox" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
That's not a paradox, it's not the number that's interesting, but a sentence about it.