NASA Looking At Uranus

NASA are preparing their priorities for the next decade and the US National Academy of Sciences are urging NASA to put exploring Uranus top of the list and it would be easy to make childish jokes but this is a serious, grown up blog so there won't be any of that here so let us put juvenile snickering to one side and take a good, long look at Uranus and how important it is to study the gas that emanates from it.  
Uranus enthusiast, Prof Leigh Fletcher, of Leicester University has welcomed the announcement, saying there was a glaring gap in our knowledge of Uranus as we have had little interest in probing Uranus and it has only been visited once in 1986 when we discovered that it was rich in Methane gas.
As Uranus is the second farthest Planet from the Sun and 1.6 billion miles from Earth, the timing is crucial as it will need a gravity kick from Jupiter before continuing on to the sideways spinning Planet when it is at its closest approach to us which means the mission to get close to Uranus would have to be launched late 2031 or early 2032 for a 13 year mission, arriving at Uranus in 2044/45.
Unfortunately, Uranus is full of gas and scientists are not expecting to find life there, nothing could live in the toxic fumes that come from Uranus and it is not a place humans could go to, nobody wants to explore Uranus, so we won't be sending men to have look closer at it, just probing it from afar.
I am more in favour of doing experimentation on the Moon and building our knowledge that way but NASA are paying for it and if they want to fully experience Uranus and expand upon what we know about it then it's up to them so by all means let's have a long, hard look at, probe and take some close-up pictures of Uranus and explore one of the mysteries of our universe but as well as sticking a large flag in Uranus to show we have been there, let's also explore the more easily accessible places.