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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/

That's a really nice idea! Great fun.

It's the Total Perspective Vortex Lite.

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

Very cool!



Just the thing for a hoopy frood on the go! MMMmmm mmm!

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

"pronounced YER uh niss" ~ lol. nice try.

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.

Uranus is named after the ancient greek god. Thus the correct pronunciation is YOUR-IN-NUS with the emphasis on the first syllable.

Cheers,

Drew.

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 .

A nearer (and less controversial) approximation for you guys might be a more closed "oo".

So... Ooranus? Oddly fitting in this community, no?

Thanks Daddyhoggy. Shared this on Facebook as it is a beautiful site. Good find !