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Ron Buck retweeted
Again, a moment to pause & appreciate the cool professionalism of those in & around the Key Bridge at 1:24 am Tuesday. Ship’s pilot radios in that ship has lost steerage & will hit bridge. Someone (maritime control?) transmits urgent alert to Maryland/Balt police dispatch… —>
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I guess, if it's "radical" to dredge up discredited 30-year-old ideas and ignore the mountains of evidence that they are wrong. Credulously spreading bad science doesn't make the world a better place.
Replying to @IAI_TV
So, what's radical about Eric Lerner’s recent article, is that it suggests that recent images from the James Webb telescopes challenge the Big Bang model of cosmology, the model @seanmcarroll declared as decidedly true iai.tv/video/big-bang-creati…
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There's this thing where I state quite clearly, right here on Twitter, that some proposition X is incorrect, and yet people out there in the world continue to claim X anyway. Baffling.
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The Many Worlds of QM talk starting in half an hour! Streamed on YouTube if you’re not in Santa Fe. m.youtube.com/watch?v=nOgalP…
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Tomorrow! Live in person in Santa Fe, or virtually on the YouTube. I've talked about this stuff many times, but here I'm trying out some new angles.
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17 Mar 2022
Working hard to make useful products & services for your fellow humans is deeply morally good
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Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov said similar things a couple of decades earlier.
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Fascinating story about how one fellow pointed at a bottleneck in our supply chain jam at the ports... a head-slapper that got solved within 8 hours once the brilliantly simple solution was pointed out ...AND THE RIGHT PEOPLE LISTENED. thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/10…
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In this case, the relationship between time reversal, reversibility, and CPT. Nobody ever explains this correctly! Happily, the book I’m writing will. :)
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The Fall; or, Dodge in Hell ebook is just $1.99 today only (Aug 18th). Download it wherever you buy your ebooks – it includes a sneak peek excerpt from @nealstephenson ‘s new novel, TERMINATION SHOCK, on sale Nov. 16th. harpercollins.com/products/f…
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23 Jul 2021
NASA has selected Falcon Heavy to fly Europa Clipper! Launching in October 2024, this interplanetary mission will study whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa could have conditions suitable for life. go.nasa.gov/3iGmYKV
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Investigations into an insurrection shouldn’t require bipartisan support from the side that incited the insurrection.
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In the wake of terrorists storming the US Capitol on 1/6, Republicans have responded by doubling down on the big lie of a stolen election, and the background conviction that any election they lose is illegitimate. This is the party leadership, not a fringe group.
A quote from Rep Liz Cheney heavily lingering this morning as the GOP readies do remove her: “I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president’s crusade to undermine our democracy.”
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Ron Buck retweeted
What is sedition? dlvr.it/Rq3H5P
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Sometimes I wonder if people who aggressively seek political power are precisely those who should not be entrusted to wield it.
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26 Aug 2020
Standard Model Changes xkcd.com/2351/ m.xkcd.com/2351/
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The Republican Party in 2020 in one quote. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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All true...
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Trump campaign ad pulled after complaints it politicized space - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/technolog…

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Ron Buck retweeted
15 Mar 2020
Fear is the mind-killer
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