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Beautiful site - wouldn't work as the scale of the Ooniverse of course (although that would be amusing...)

http://scaleofuniverse.com/
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That's a really nice idea! Great fun. :)
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It's the Total Perspective Vortex Lite. :lol:
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
Beautiful site - wouldn't work as the scale of the Ooniverse of course (although that would be amusing...)

http://scaleofuniverse.com/
That is lovely - was there a typo at about the micron level (pm twice)? Thanks for sharing :)
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Very cool! 8)

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i'm sure they're maiking some of that stuff up.

"pronounced YER uh niss" ~ lol. nice try.
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Killer Wolf wrote:
i'm sure they're maiking some of that stuff up.

"pronounced YER uh niss" ~ lol. nice try.
I think the BBC have settled on the syllables: YOU-RAN-US

lest children snicker everywhere at the pronunciation when I was a kid of YOUR-ANUS. :roll:
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Uranus is named after the ancient greek god. Thus the correct pronunciation is YOUR-IN-NUS with the emphasis on the first syllable.

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I'm a native Portuguese (a Romance language) speaker, so I have no difficulty whatsoever with the vowels in Uranus... For me, it's simply U-ra-nus - as it was meant to be 8) .

A nearer (and less controversial) approximation for you guys might be a more closed "oo".
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So... Ooranus? Oddly fitting in this community, no?
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Thanks Daddyhoggy. Shared this on Facebook as it is a beautiful site. Good find ! :D
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