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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

8 years

I think I need this GIF on my office door.

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8 years

HAIR-RAISING HARE (1946) Dir: Chuck Jones | See IMDb for artist info |

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Tim Hamilton

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6 years

@Jilchrest You need a lot of ammunition to practice so that you have the skill to do this. Shooting 100 rounds at a single practice session is common, maybe even a low number. And the 2nd Amendment isn't simply for defending against thieves—it's for defending against tyrannical government.

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Tim Hamilton

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@onevoicetosing @fakehistoryhunt And to think, we USED to get depictions like this:

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Tim Hamilton

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@CarlBeijer Does Romania count? My wife's grew up there, and they had the lines and shortages, too. She and her family haven't expressed any such nostalgia. People hated this so much, it led to the Revolution.

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@stan_okl I’m a Southerner, and I’ve been to the Third World. There’s no comparison. If you have such a low opinion of us, you really should leave. I mean, you’re so much better than us, so you surely have greater opportunities elsewhere.

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Tim Hamilton

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@ZitoSalena I don’t even like Trump, but I’m getting riled up on his behalf with this absolutely partisan behavior by the moderators.

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Tim Hamilton

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4 years

@1967mustangman @thehill I was in her class at Rhodes, and this has been a sharp turn from the open, tolerant, and even moderately conservative atmosphere on campus when we were students. I’m writing a letter in her support.

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Tim Hamilton

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5 months

Oh my goodness!

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Tim Hamilton

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11 months

@Mediaite Federalist #51 : "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." The corollary is that because men are NOT angels and have the evil tendency towards sin, we need to be restrained. This is standard American & Christian thought & shouldn't be controversial.

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Tim Hamilton

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@K12ssdb I see you edited out "Mexico" from your original post. Why?

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Tim Hamilton

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@iwolf6645 @katewillett Yes, you should probably avoid small towns, the countryside, and…well, really just stay out of the South altogether. We’ll let you know if & when it’s safe.

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Tim Hamilton

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5 years

@RaySuarezNews @TheOtherKeppler @StevenTDennis All of which has nothing to do with McConnell today.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@SRevelare I’m an astrophysicist and a Christian and don’t see how anybody expects my scientific training to invalidate the love of God.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@NatGeo My grandparents & parents were subscribers, going back to the 1940s, & the collection of yellow spines on the shelves was something I loved to read. I eagerly subscribed once I was out of college and on my own. But the politics and its sneering tone got to me, & I dropped ~2010.

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Tim Hamilton

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6 years

@LastLapPodcast @PonyByte_ @JamilaJemstone @mgboylan_mark @Telegraph It is inappropriate for an American, especially the President repersenting us, to bow to a monarch. Especially the Queen of England. You understand why that's against our protocol and customs, I hope.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

5 years

@TeenVogue Well, cheerleading the ideology that murdered 100 million innocents and enslaved and oppressed hundreds of millions more...is one way to play this. My wife grew up in Communist Romania, & our daughters know Communism better. They'll be mocking Teen Vogue rather than reading it.

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Tim Hamilton

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1 year

@philipletsou It's just English but using the Greek "Symbol" font, so I can sound it out easily enough. But that's pretty blatant in trying to cheat FOIA.

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Tim Hamilton

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@LadyDemosthenes @whignewtons That’s an excellent point. Returning the cart is just the reverse of whatever action she did to GET the cart. If it was possible to get it, it’s equally possible to return it.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@peterjhasson @redsteeze What in the heck does any of this tweet mean? I get that it’s a joke, but I don’t get the joke.

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Tim Hamilton

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4 years

@einhornmaedchen @mirandajewess My college Russian grammar had three examples in a row which, if you read them together, said “The Chairman of the Communist Party.” “He drinks.” “He is drunk.”

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Tim Hamilton

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6 months

We met at the most romantic spot possible—a gravitational wave conference. I proposed to her at the Allegheny Observatory.

Dave Danna

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The comments on this are great 🙂 If y'all wouldn't mind dropping a comment/quote tweet of where you met your spouse & a pic - people seem interested 🤷🏻‍♂️ We met on hinge 🙏

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Tim Hamilton

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@HirokoTabuchi Since the summer of 2020, I’ve traveled from our home in West Virginia to Italy, Romania, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Baltimore, Washington DC. My wife has also traveled to Chicago and California. It’s been OK to travel.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@CoriBush My wife grew up in socialist Romania with only public utilities. Then the government started running out of money and rationed the heat and power. The heat would only be on at night. During the day, it got down to 50°F indoors at one point. Her best friend was worse off— 1/2

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Tim Hamilton

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@RogueWPA @pegobry I learned Russian in college from a Ukrainian who survived the Famine, & I’m entirely on their side. But “Kiev” has been the conventional English spelling & pronunciation for over 200 years, & I’m sticking with it. “Kyiv” is the name in Ukrainian; “Kiev” is the name in English.

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Tim Hamilton

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2 years

@KanekoaTheGreat @elonmusk Russia. It’s not even debatable. Russia is invading its neighbors to conquer and rule them. Other countries are voluntarily joining NATO, which is a defensive alliance, to protect themselves against an invasion by Russia. Even Russia joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace.

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Tim Hamilton

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5 years

@amy_harmon @ElizWinkler Do you mean, by literary scholars? Because I've mostly been seeing criticism of this and the Shakespeare conspiracy theories in general by literary scholars.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

3 years

@ChrisLoesch I’m guessing this is a parody account.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

6 years

@jackmirkinson @NoahCRothman Thank goodness for that. The Constitution is an impediment to all kinds of power schemes.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@KeithOlbermann “Keep”

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Tim Hamilton

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3 months

@RolandGunnTN One thing I've picked up from reading James Lileks is how, even in the late 1960s, the dominant culture was still aiming at higher things. The "counterculture" wasn't dominant. That's why it was "counter"-culture. And then it kind of took over, later.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

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@espiers @tinsleybach “This building is about to be bombed. Leave the building now.” is not something that requires a long, arduous journey.

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Tim Hamilton

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Oh, no. One more of the Apollo astronauts has died. Ken Mattingly was originally on Apollo 13 but was bumped at the last minute over a concern he might have caught the measles. He was later Apollo 16 CMP and flew the Space Shuttles Columbia and Discovery.

Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered

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Very sorry to hear today of the passing of Apollo 16's Ken Mattingly. One of the least captured on film, here he is during the mission. It's not great, sadly, but about the best we have.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@CoriBush in a drafty house, & she wound up with arthritis (or something like it) in her hands to this day. The power was shut off at 10 PM. There would be ~2 hrs of hot water in the morning & 1 in the evening. I’ll stick with private utilities. The best solution is prosperity.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

1 year

@ingelramdecoucy @nycDSA 2082 for froggy vs. 849 for the terrorist supporters. That was quick!

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

1 year

@kelsieA67 Sheesh! I’m glad Apple(?) has that feature that tells you if you’re being tracked by somebody else. Good for her for taking care of it, and I’m glad she can defend herself.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

6 months

I’ve got better photos with my Nikon DSLR without clouds, but this was pretty good for a quick shot with the iPhone. I didn’t want to spend the whole time staring at the camera screen.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

6 years

@Lunar_Luster @pilliarscreatio @SmileSimplify @sw1a0aa @DavidBflower @garyparker83 @mistereitch @paperrocketman Took me some searching, but here it is—with a slider to let you compare:

Two views of comet 67P's surface

A surface panorama from Philae, in its final resting place on comet 67P. The left image is unaltered; the right is colorized with depth cues added by…

www.planetary.org

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

2 years

@samagreene And Goebbels had a Ph.D. in historical literature, so clearly, we should be very suspicious of English professors, too. I’m sure we can keep going with this logic.

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Tim Hamilton

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11 months

@espiers @tinsleybach Israel gives warnings before they do so, because they care more about human life than Hamas does, and they take pains to avoid civilian deaths. It will still happen, but much of it is b/c Hamas shoots people trying to evacuate.

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Tim Hamilton

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@pilliarscreatio @SmileSimplify @sw1a0aa @DavidBflower @Lunar_Luster @garyparker83 @mistereitch @paperrocketman Nuts—forgot to add the picture. Here it is:

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Tim Hamilton

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1 year

@emmma_camp_ That is a textbook example of the abusive ad hominem fallacy. How do the judges get away with rewarding it?

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Tim Hamilton

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1 year

@whstancil Do you remember the 1970s at all? People got VERY mad about inflation.

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Tim Hamilton

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@espiers @tinsleybach Israel has a long history of “roof knocking” on buildings about to be bombed. Because, again, they care more about human life, including Palestinian Arab life, than Hamas does.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 months

@BadWeaponTakes “Why didn’t they just shoot the gun from his hands?”

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Tim Hamilton

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1 year

Ran the Apollo mission simulation in Physics class today. Several dead crew during reentry—no ability to maneuver. Thought it was a bug but discovered tonight they'd forgotten to connect the Command Module batteries. My simulator is so realistic that it has details even I forgot.

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Tim Hamilton

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@AndrewCFollett @SpaceX Consciously or not, you're almost quoting a letter sent to NASA by a lady in 1968, after Apollo 8 reached lunar orbit. And you're both right.

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Tim Hamilton

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@marmotpond @DavidJUrban @ZitoSalena It is when it’s not the role of a moderator and they’re doing it only to one side.

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Tim Hamilton

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2 years

@mtracey "Territorial dispute in the Donbas" is one heck of a euphemism to describe Russia's attempt to conquer Ukraine. It's like my friend who described his ancestor leaving South Dakota because of "a dispute over the ownership of a horse."

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

Most people aren't aware of it (I'm an astrophysicist, and I didn't really know much about this until a few years ago!), but the moon wobbles each month in what's called "libration." When you see the lunar cycle sped up, it's blatant. I'd used to think it was subtle!

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I spent 27 days shooting over 2 million photos of the moon to capture how it dances in our sky. This is the most detailed “Lunation” I’ve ever captured. #astrophotography #space #opteam

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@espiers @tinsleybach I must say, I am amazed that you were not already familiar with this practice. It’s been known for a very long time that Israel does this.

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Tim Hamilton

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@anglotradboy I remember one WWI veteran, John Everett, the man we bought our farm from. He lived next to us in the 3-room cabin he built by himself when he returned from the war in 1918, still a bachelor. Mrs. Everett said when they got married, she discovered he hadn't made any closets. ;)

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@redsteeze The whole plot is how Beetlejuice turns out to be worse than the problem they brought him in to solve. And he gets his comeuppance in the end.

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Tim Hamilton

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2 years

@ProfRobAnderson @RogueWPA I distribute their bills at the end of each lecture with suggested tips. For classes of 25 or more, an 18% tip is automatically included.

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Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

6 months

I’ve discovered the computer commands to fire grenades from mortars on the moon*. (From the Apollo Flight Ops manual) *This is literally true.

Tim Hamilton

@TSHamiltonAstro

6 months

At the National Archives in Fort Worth, copying Apollo-era NASA Mission Control handbooks. Came across this section of the Standard Operating Procedures: what to do in the event of total loss of Mission Control Center (MCC).

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Tim Hamilton

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1 year

@NatGeo Oh, good grief! This article reads like a press release from the vandals. You put one single paragraph noting people are turned off by this, but then you immediately counter it with a “However…” This is the kind of political opinionating that made me drop my subscription.

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Tim Hamilton

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2 years

@gunpolicy Last week, I started off on a rant about Wickard v. Filburn, and eventually my dad (who entirely agrees with me) had to tell me to take it easy. ;) Give me five justices who will overturn Wickard, and we’ll be taking the first serious step back towards Constitutionalism.

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Tim Hamilton

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@iwolf6645 @katewillett Yep, just trying to keep you safe.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@BecketAdams Surely this is satire.

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Tim Hamilton

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@mkhammer I'm as pro-Ukrainian as anybody in this war, but I admire a lot of Russian arts, and the whole concept of cutting them out is a ridiculous non-sequitur.

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Tim Hamilton

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I always used to wonder at Grimm’s fairy tales, where a boy might take a walk through the woods and come across a kingdom he hadn’t heard of. Then I realized that they came from a time when THIS was the map of Europe, and it makes more sense, now.

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Map shows Europe in 1444. Europe was still outrageously fragmented at the time. The boom of the nation state was still in the future. Source:

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Tim Hamilton

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@AGHamilton29 I’m a professor and didn’t get tenure until I‘d been teaching several years. No one has a *right* to tenure, as far as I’ve known. It’s always conditioned upon approval of several layers of faculty & administration, any one of whom could refuse. So what’s the suit’s basis?

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Tim Hamilton

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@kathrynw5 This is dishonest. Your network has left out the biggest response by conservatives, which was "A protest that went too far" (84% of conservatives said "yes"). It's buried on p. 8 of the poll results:

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Tim Hamilton

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@ACLU I see you’ve dropped the pretense of fighting for civil liberties, now.

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Tim Hamilton

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@RepRaskin @ingelramdecoucy , a frog is needed.

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Tim Hamilton

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@AmySwearer I never knew which of the two Kansas Cities they played in until today. Some people don’t seem to realize there IS a Kansas City, Kansas, too.

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Tim Hamilton

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. @ObservatoryCats I brought home SDSS spectrograph plug plates today. My cats aren't sure what to make of them.

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Tim Hamilton

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4 years

@page88 @drmoorw Plenty of people are simply goodhearted and generous towards others, without expecting something in return. Even people with whom we disagree on politics.

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Tim Hamilton

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@MarkWhittington @tweetsoutloud @skrishna Right. Webb deserves the honor here and did serious work for spaceflight. Make another one for Betty White, if you like.

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Tim Hamilton

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Oh, that's interesting! You can tell they hit at the same time, b/c neither has covered the other. Look at the blast pattern along the axis. The shock waves from each collided & dug out those two trenches.

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“double-bowl crater. If a meteorite breaks in two shortly before hitting the surface”

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Tim Hamilton

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The Apollo board game is here! Just opened it, and I’m even more impressed at how they worked this out as a game. The goal is to compete experiments during a timed mission to the Moon & back, while failures happen & Mission Control solves crises. 1/

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Tim Hamilton

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I switched SCE to AUX. At the Apollo CM simulator at the Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville.

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Tim Hamilton

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@mtracey WWII: Germany conquers half of France, all of Denmark, Netherlands, makes a stab at England..."A territorial dispute over Alsace–Lorraine."

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Tim Hamilton

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@Space_Bandito @washingtonpost @LauncherWP I don't need the music and movie companies to weigh in on this, either.

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@JaredRyanSears @chrislhayes That's not how or why it happened. Virginia had the most electoral votes in 1792 (the first use of the Electoral College after all original states had joined the union). North Carolina had the same number as New York. For that matter, New York was a slave state in 1792.

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@DOfaquarius @TeenVogue Boy, have they ever! I read the article, thinking it *might* be a clear-eyed, critical look at what his philosophy has led to today. But no, it's actual communist cheerleading. Yikes!

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Tim Hamilton

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@Jra4U @GregAbbott_TX And Washington sneaked up on the drunken, passed-out Hessians at Christmas. The rule is: always be alert. In both cases, the enemy wasn't, and they lost.

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Plotting Δt vs. t, I find that a 2nd-order polynomial is the most reasonable fit. Extrapolating, I predict that by ~2029, we will hit the Batman singularity, and all future reboots will be released simultaneously that year.

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@okcupid Evidence? Let me check with my wife...OK, no. She wants flowers and chocolates and is horrified by abortion.

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@pmeissner @conservmillen Wealth is not income.

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@RolandGunnTN I told Dad about your German barn post, and he said there’s a saying. That when they first came to America, the English built a chapel, the Germans built a barn, and the Scotch-Irish built a still.

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Tim Hamilton

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I've found what is either the coolest or the dorkiest moon suit ever. Cover of a report proposing a storm shelter for a moon base, to protect against radiation from solar storms.

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Tim Hamilton

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@heckyessica Sure, but it may not do much.

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Tim Hamilton

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They've confirmed its hyperbolic orbit—very first interstellar asteroid discovered!

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@JPMajor

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A/2017 U1's hyperbolic trajectory is confirmed, indicating extrasolar origin

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@BadBalticTakes Even if somebody HAD told Gorbachev that NATO wouldn't expand, would that person have had the authority to set the future membership for a multi-nation alliance? Of course not, and Gorbachev would have known that.

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One of the difficulties in portraying yourself as a public intellectual is when you speak confidently on subjects you don’t know much about.

Feature First 📽️

@Feature_First

7 months

Neil deGrasse Tyson critiques thumpers and sandworms in 'DUNE: PART TWO'. "You can't thump sand, if you do this to sand [slams fist] nobody else is gonna hear it... they have the worm going straight fast, no that's not how physics work they gotta curl" Source: @colbertlateshow

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@FiveThirtyEight I had been reading about this issue since the 1980s, and I remember distinctly how it was explained that the court had been ambiguous up to that point. Regardless, the 2nd Amendment and its meaning didn’t change. You’re misunderstanding how the Constitution works.

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Tim Hamilton

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@PolitiBunny I’m a college professor, and I’ve been teaching in person since the fall semester started. We have lower room capacities now to allow spacing, but we’re also teaching a more contagious age group than younger kids. And our school has stayed open.

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Tim Hamilton

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I recently gave a talk to an amateur astronomy society on gravitational lenses, and they asked if it were possible to photograph any of these with amateur equipment. As it turns out? Yes.

Emil Rivera-Thorsen 🐘 @[email protected]

@thoeger

2 years

Just remembered this amateur astronomer who managed to capture the Sunburst Arc, the my pet gravitationally lensed galaxy, with his 132 mm amateur telescope, by taking a large number of pictures of the same plot of the sky over a total of 22.5…

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@StevieD401 @MonkeyWrnchArmy @TeenVogue Well, you've got to give visionaries a pass on the first hundred million people massacred. Eggs, omelette, and all that. ;)

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@EricJafMN @SenMarkey By similar logic, make it illegal to build one with borrowed money. Good luck getting a small business loan. We could also make it illegal to buy a car, a house, a college education, or even Christmas presents with borrowed money.

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@aelfred_D I understand there are some ex-library books from Florida elementary schools that you could pick up on the cheap. But to be honest, they probably wouldn’t help with the reproduction part.

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@PolitiBunny I’ve never heard of “the nation’s most active hate group.” But assuming it’s real, if all they did was walk around and wave some flags, then that’s legal and they should be ignored, rather than given the attention they want.

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Tim Hamilton

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Continuing my apparent transformation into a biologist. I’m filtering the tardigrades in our “ranch” and feeding them algae from our “farm.” Setting up a permanent astrobiology lab to see what these critters can do in space-like environments, including high-altitude balloons.

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Tim Hamilton

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5 months

I prefer to talk to my doctor in ancient Egyptian. And I want my prescriptions written out in hieroglyphs, not this newfangled Demotic crap!

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I’m filling out a medical form online and I’m curious who’s out there speaking Old English.

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Tim Hamilton

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@Buddyhead @LudwigvonMercer Your keen debating skills astound and amaze me.

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Tim Hamilton

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@gaybashingYE24 @SamParkerSenate So Germany was just sitting there, minding its own business, not invading Poland or anything, and Great Britain and France just ambushed Germany out of the blue?

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Tim Hamilton

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@CaptVelvet @Prada Oh, that’s Goldblum! He looks like he’s doing a spoof and is about to start laughing.

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Tim Hamilton

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3 years

@DeanObeidallah Because the National Guard can be called up by the President, leaving the state without it. That's one reason half the country has these state guards. This reaction is irresponsible conspiracy mongering.

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@TSHamiltonAstro

2 years

We had a stop at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in the way up to #1 daughter’s college graduation, delayed 2 years by the epidemic. @pilliarscreatio , you might like these. Armstrong’s backup moon suit, the Gemini VIII capsule(!), & his suit from that mission. Simulators, too!

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