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To do: don't forget to look at Saturn to the left of the moon tonight! Tweet your photo if you take one! #Saturnpix pic.twitter.com/smzKpjI373
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What we call "wear and tear," Curiosity calls "battle scars." Keep dominating Mars you beautiful rover: ow.ly/litKl #MSL
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1 yr ago today, SpaceX made history, launching Falcon 9 and #Dragon on the 1st ever commercial mission to the #ISS! pic.twitter.com/MmRpdzA9bc
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Oh, Canada. Government *still* selling out science: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
Hawaii got an awesomely weird sky show a few hours ago: an expanding bubble of light from an ICBM launch! slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
So disappointed in Portland. Sad to see #chemophobia, misguided libertarianism, and doubt of science win so handily. oregonlive.com/portland/index…
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AVN banned for 'abusing the trust' of cancer patients | Northern Star m.northernstar.com.au/news/avn-banne… #StopAVN via @lukeweston great headline!
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Oh for criminy’s sake, Internet. GIF is pronounced “Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptangya Ziiinngg!” #duh
No pressure there. “@BGazeley: @starstryder A horse called Dark Energy won today in England. #acceleration
Want to hear me rail against global warming deniers? Big Picture Science: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/Skept…
The trailer for the upcoming scifi flick “Europa Report” is online, and the movie itself is really good: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
xkcd asks, what if the Earth were a bowling ball? Or vice-versa? what-if.xkcd.com/46/
What yesterday’s deadly storms looked like from 36,000 km above: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
We have a winner for most idiotic spam ever. #seriously pic.twitter.com/Fm1cSHzqHz
Join @Veronica and me (and a cast of ones) in a Google+ Hangout Friday May 31 at 22:00 UTC! plus.google.com/events/c2f6cot…
A weird and weirdly beautiful galaxy. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
I…I… wow. I’m conflicted. But I’m in. RT @RiffTrax: Coming this Thursday to rifftrax.com! #doctorwho pic.twitter.com/9nYAyM4yBd
VERY excited to launch our new @GeekandSundry vlogs channel today! youtube.com/user/geekandsu… Click the playlist to watch all our new talent!
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Why I love doing science outreach. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr… //with thanks to @FuSchmu & @ZachWeiner
I enjoyed the new Star Trek movie but something bothered me and I wrote on my Tumblr about it. thisfeliciaday.tumblr.com/post/508588837… Am I the only one?
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No matter what I do, I cannot seem to turn off Tweetbot’s autocorrect. Teh annoying.
For your Sunday coolishness: a fan of lunar ejecta, and a Moon boulder makes a hooked hole in one. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
Seriously, Louisiana voters, you really need to do better than this guy. theadvocate.com/news/opinion/6…
Wait, wait. You're telling me these pickles are an ORGANISM? With GENETICS? Why was there no label?!
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[Trek 2/2] I heard from my friend Rick Sternbach, who worked on TNG, about how phasers work: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
[Trek 1/2] My Slate colleague Forrest Wickman convincingly argues about allegory in STID I missed. slate.com/blogs/browbeat…
Drat. “@haggholm: @BadAstronomer It appears, then, that everyone agrees -- that you were wrong.”
Movie reviews are funny Half of folks are saying I was too harsh, half say I was too lenient. #SchrodingersMovie
I just watched the 2009 Star Trek movie reboot, and I’m wondering if I was too harsh on the new sequel. I may go see it again with the fam.
Re: that last RT from @NASAGoddard there was no flare associated with the CME. A minor one erupted a could of hours later.
Get ready for a love-letter from our sun, in the form of billions of tons of the sun's corona: go.nasa.gov/109LtDb aurora ETA: Sunday
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My “Star Trek Into Darkness” review is laden with spoilers, but they’re all below a big warning line. You can read the first few paragraphs.
I posted my review of “Star Trek Into Darkness”. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr… #StarTrek
Well, nuts. “@Syfy: NEWS: Syfy today announced that #Warehouse13 will return for a fifth and final season of six episodes in 2014.”
97% - *ninety-seven percent* - of climate scientists agree that global warming is real and our fault. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
Looks like that same sunspot just popped out a smallish, M1 flare. It may yet have some X-class left in it. pic.twitter.com/6mfFZZ7KuF
Just got my ticket to see Star Trek later today. Hopefully I can have a review up Friday morning. Qapla’!
I love Trek, but it does sometimes play a bit loose with science. Here’s my list of top Trek science booboos: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
If you want spoilers on how that video I just tweeted was done: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
Just posted: You won’t believe your eyes….. bit.ly/16j3fZ1
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My friend @geekyjessica writes about her anxiety and depression. She is awesome. geekyjessica.tumblr.com/post/505119339…
Seeing this question a lot. We couldn't repair Kepler with the shuttle. Kepler orbits ~40 million miles from Earth; shuttle was 200 miles.
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Kepler planet-finding mission in jeopardy after a reaction wheel on-board the spacecraft fails. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
.@BadAstronomer NASA Watch broke the news this morning.
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Did any other science reporters hear about Kepler before the press conference? Curious that the NYT already has an article up.