ASTROHUMOR ABOUT THE PLANETS WITH ADRIAN BRUNO SONKA
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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Eight planets racing boringly
around the Sun -
needless dizziness!
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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As I have shown in the past on the Astronomers Without Borders website, the coordinator of the Bucharest Municipal Observatory popularizes astronomy with an irresistible humor, poetically pigmented by comparisons and metaphors. Here is a new example from January 2024, taken from his blog.
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS FAR-FETCHED
Short adaptation from an article by Adrian Bruno Sonka
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I've always suspected that the planets have their names wrong.
Look, for example, Venus. Its name comes from the goddess of beauty, love and other positive experiences, but in reality the planet is so inhospitable that you die on it three ways at once. (…)
Then there is also Mars, a planet with the name of the god of war, which sounds as if immediately after you got on it, someone starts beating you on the red plains. (…)
What about the blue planet? And that's a name used for Earth, but two other planets are blue, Uranus and Neptune. If you wander through the solar system and take a taxi to the blue planet, you might end up on Neptune. (…)
The case of giant planets is an example of planetary nepotism. Jupiter, the brother of Neptune, is the son of Saturn, and Uranus is the ruler of the sky. Coincidentally, all these guys also have planets named after them. A concrete negative example.
As you can see, the planets have wrong names or obtained by relationships.
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