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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.
Kepler team says mission’s not over & can use thrusters to point the spacecraft even if wheel has failed. Not perfect, but may be good enuf.
If the wheel cannot be fixed, the mission may be done. It needs 3 wheels to point the spacecraft, and this would leave it with only 2.
…but this is trouble. They are looking into the problem to see if anything can be done.
The Kepler planet-finding spacecraft has a faulty reaction wheel (which moves the spacecraft). One wheel failed last year. Mission not over…
Coooool…GIFs of 3 of the recent solar flares, taken using XRT. xrt.cfa.harvard.edu/xpow/20130515b…
attn @neilhimself MT “@geekyjessica: Photoset: This is the best line in almost any TV series ever... tmblr.co/ZX1h9yl2M7ED
Did you know that exhaust from ocean-going ships creates clouds that can be seen from space? slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
Yay! @TealSherer has a KickStarter for a 2nd season of My Gimpy Life! I love that web series. kickstarter.com/projects/19931…
Matt Yglesias of @Slate posts a thoughtful meta-analysis of Star Trek. Well worth a read for Trek fans. slate.com/articles/arts/…
Trust me: Take two minutes to watch this *astonishing* time-lapse video of the eclipsed sunrise. slate.com/blogs/bad_astr…
WOW. Congrats! RT @CaraSantaMaria: Who has two thumbs and just joined @TheYoungTurks officially? THIS GIRL. bit.ly/19qmJah
That active sunspot just blew out a 4th flare, peaking at X1.2. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/bro… More info: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr… /via @p0lln8r
I’m not tweeting much today to balance out the twitterrhea yesterday. The Universe takes the law of conservation of tweets seriously.