The IAU would agree that the CowboyNeal option is the best descriptive name for a gas giant.

Exactly!

Saw it, logged in immediately only to vote on the CN option! Good to see it, even if he's not working on the polls.

I was starting to think that CowboyNeal had a copyright on his nickname or something

I want the CowboyNeal option back!!!!! :)

I now he's not running the polls anymore, but seriously, it's not like he owns a copyright on his nickname... does he?

It seems to me that some of the geek jokes and obscure references, which made you feel like you're part of a community, have been dissappearing lately.

Poincare would be so excited about this... Poincare and the three-body problem

Nearly a decade reading ./, and I did nothing but writing productive posts about "all your base", "in soviet russia" and a joke mocking the cat command... Thanks you Rob and good luck!!

1997

Not the South Pole, but here is an image of a southern noctilucent cloud (NLC) observed in South America (the camera is facing the south pole).

cheers.