#Asteroid

I'm taking a couple weeks off. But I can't go anywhere. (Thanks COVID!) I think maybe tomorrow, I'll pack as though I'm preparing for a flight to a warm beach
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let's take a trip through cosmic time.let's pretend that our own calendar--the one that runs from January through December--is representative of *the Universe*.imagine that it's midnight on January 1. all
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Neverending Story just starting on BBC1. Inexplicably-heartbreaking 80s kid film fantasy fun. Cracking theme song, too. It opens with a forlorn conversation about a dead mum. That's how little it
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A random thread on science fiction and the future of language.Why? See my other tweets. Itโ€™s Friday night and Iโ€™ve been in quarantine with the kids for a week. Plus
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What is even the point? This is in a *hospital lab* ffs. Are we actually the only people who understand how this works? Is that what's happening? Is it us?
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I've spent several weekends working on a presentation of twentieth-century science fiction set in the year 2021, and here is the fruit of my labours, a 21-minute video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqlCgQxfguM We start
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It was incredibly exciting to see #Perserverence landing safely on Mars. But what does it feel like down there? With no atmosphere or magnetic field, #Mars is bombarded by cosmic
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I realized sampling multiple octaves of noise per step is way too computationally intensive so I gotta first cache my perlin noise by unwrapping the 3D perlin noise that lies
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Some highlights / takeaways / thoughts / comments from #RWRI 14, Day 6:1. Chaotic systems occur when tiny differences in initial conditions result in wildly different results (e.g. changing a
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Environmentalists in German forest Many Russian arrests for treasonJapan gets asteroid samplesQueen Elizabeth/Obama/Bush/ClintonKids taken at borderPolice dogs confront #Belarus protestersVW predicts autonomous cars soonWilly Brandt at Wars
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Chang'e-5 press conference happening nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lZ1LSIJRzM A few things from the CE-5 presser: Wu Yanhua: China will be sharing samples with scientists from other countries. methods for the management to be
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Letter from the stock markets to the sceptics: "I may be high, but I'm not crazy." Caution, this thread may not age well, but I didn't really write it :).
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Highest Ranking Draco Reptilian; Breakdown:Appearance:- 14-22 feet tall, weigh up to 1,800 pounds, very powerful, complete with retracted wings, supported by long ribs, they can fly. . Some of the
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Astronomers used Hubble to look at the Moon during an eclipse to discover life on Earth.Well, kinda.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-use-hubble-during-an-eclipse-to-detect-life-on-earth 2/ During a lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks t
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Here's a thread about how Polynesian war canoes prove that humans are never going to colonize space in any foreseeable future: The Polynesian expansion is a great natural experiment in
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Quick thread about Space Force. Our future, most assuredly, will include Jan 1 2060.On that day, what will space 'be'.Let's discuss... There are 5+ crewed bases on the Moon supporting
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