Lenkyl (he/him)

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Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating

Carbon Dating

xkcd.com/3205/

You know that thing where the farther something is, the smaller it looks? That doesn’t quite work in an expanding universe. It’s true for a while but after a certain point, more distant things (of the same size) start to look BIGGER because their light has been traveling since the cosmos was small 🙃

this is my favorite space fact

@astrokatie.com is my favorite

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

— Frank Herbert, Dune

"The End of Everything, Astrophysically Speaking" is a great audiobook! I've listened to it at least a dozen times over the last several years. I hope you do at least the first chapter of the audiobook version of your next book!

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

more like hypestry amirite!

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The wisdom of Percival de Rolo, from almost 10 years ago. Posting now for no particular reason...
#CriticalRole

“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”

― Brian Cox

YouTube video by Dr. Nora's Guide to the Galaxy Where's All the Antimatter??

Stuff exists, and that's a problem....

youtu.be/aP5L7rAzaFQ

🧪👩‍🔬🔭🛰️

why doesnt anyone ever take the polite no? why do people require a forceful no? and why do said people then act like they were the ones wronged in the exchange?

Contact and The Demon Haunted World helped me maintain mine.

does this mean travis is playing a Lionett?

i'm going with Pri-desire

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

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Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to critical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.

- Carl Sagan.

congrats, meer!!

It's just a baby (exoplanet)!

It's lunation 1270 and exciting things are happening in space & astronomy: ngttg.kit.com/posts/it-s-j...

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."

whenli1Giga go lemons go! whenli1Giga

you didnt miss much lol

that belly, probably

The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell - NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake

Rest in peace, Jim Lovell

www.nasa.gov/news-release...

finish this loose end whenli1Cheeky