Twitter users asked to name Uranus probe – and it went pretty much how you’d expect
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If you ask people on Twitter to name a probe to Uranus, they're going to deliver.
In what might take the title of Low Hanging Fruit of the Year, someone recently asked Twitter users to come up a new name for a probe headed to Uranus, and, well, what happened next will not be shocking to anyone – but it is hilarious.
Before we get into the enthusiastic and viral responses, let’s backtrack for a moment.
ExploreIGO is a Twitter fan account devoted to hyping up our solar system’s Ice Giant planets, namely Neptune and Uranus. The account often posts pictures and memes about the two planets and their pinned tweet is a plea to the space community to send missions to the icy masses in the name of exploration.
It should be noted that there are no scheduled probes headed for Uranus as of now, but scientists with NASA voted last year to make the blue planet NASA’s top priority in the next decade by developing a mission to Uranus, with spacecraft that could include an orbiter and a probe.
Which brings us to the tweet in question.
Last Saturday, ExploreIGO asked its community “what would YOU name the #Uranus Orbiter & Probe Mission?”