Observations Of Uranus

I find it rather humorous that a number of years back, certain science experts decided to change the pronunciation of Uranus. Its name has been pronounced “Your Anus” since its discovery in 1770. In fact, the heavy, radioactive metal “Uranium” was named after Uranus when it was discovered only 8 years later by a German chemist. What a compliment to Uranus to have something hazardous associated and named for it!

Recently we have been told that the new and improved pronunciation of this planet is “urine-us.” Evidently the constant giggling over the original pronunciation was upsetting to the university professors and scientists.

Personally I fail to see why “urine-us” is any better than “your-anus.” Do we now have to pronounce Uranium as “urine-‘em?” Perhaps that would balance things out, for if we are to urine us we might as well urine ‘em while we’re at it. Or should it be "urine-yum?"

The original pronunciation of “your anus” just seems to fit in better with universal movement. Think of the other cosmic terms out there. Nebulae (cosmic gas), irregular galaxy, black holes, cosmic blasts, asteroid… Freud would have a hay-day with these terms.

And what about Asteroids? Nobody seems to have a problem with the pronunciation of these cosmic objects. I Googled “Uranus” and “Asteroids” together and found the following information:
“An Uranus-crosser asteroid is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Uranus. Most if not all are classified as ‘Centaurs’.”

What is a Centaur? A Centaur is a creature bearing the upper torso and head of a man, and the great-big buttocks of a horse. See? Universal compatibility!

I'd also love to know, if we send the Navy in a starship to explore the planets of our solar system, does that mean there could someday be seamen on Uranus? And if minerals are found there, will we be drilling into Uranus? Perhaps Uranus will be a great source of natural gas at some point in the distant future?

Only time will tell. In the mean time, how ever we choose to pronounce “Uranus” in the end, don’t let the scientists switch things about too much. I'd think it would be better to have a hemisphere full of asteroids or an atmosphere full of hemorrhoids.