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@neiltyson

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Joined January 2009
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  1. 5 hours ago

    Congratulations to the United Arab Emirates on their arrival at Mars today. Their HOPE orbiter will perform a detailed study of the atmosphere, which long ago sustained running water on the Martian surface. Now it doesn’t. Lessons for us back on Earth, waiting to be learned.

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  2. 8 hours ago

    Founding member of MOTOWN’s Supremes, whose songs lifted so many of us up, in an era when we were reaching for a voice of our own in an unwelcoming world. Mary Wilson, RIP (1944-2021)

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  3. 17 hours ago

    Emotional support robots. The benefits of comedy. Is ignorance really bliss? The "Science of Happiness” on , with , psychologist & host of and co-host . [Video: 50 mins]

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  4. Feb 8

    Wondering if any official source will confirm or deny that Batman’s Batplane joined the flyover at the last minute during the Super Bowl.

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  5. Feb 7

    So ends my Super Sunday Twitter barrage. Thanks to all who followed. Thanks to all who, as I do, like finding science & cosmic perspectives in everyday life. And congratulations to Tom Brady. We already knew you were G.O.A.T. But your performance today reaffirmed the obvious.

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  6. Feb 7

    Fascinating (to me) Fun Football Fact: If you throw a perfect spiral, with high arc, aerodynamics will force a football, initially pitched upwards, to change angle after reaching its peak height, and pitch downward on arrival into the arms of the pass receiver.

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  7. Feb 7

    Not that anybody asked, but the Raymond James Stadium, home to LV, is oriented precisely north-south in the Northern Hemisphere. This means the Coriolis Force from Earth’s rotation will deflect any 50-yard kick, nearly 1/2 inch to the right. I’m just sayin’.

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  8. Feb 7

    Conversely, a football inflated on Venus to 13 pounds per square inch ( regulation), when brought to Earth, would instantly explode.

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  9. Feb 7

    If you were to play football on planet Venus, then all 22 players would rapidly vaporize in the high-temperature atmosphere, 50% hotter than a Pizza Oven. Ignoring that complication, an Earth-inflated football would instantly flatten from the atmospheric pressure — 100x Earth’s.

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  10. Feb 7

    Proper uses of the word Super: Super Duper, Supercharged, Super Bowl, Superman, Supergirl, Supernova, Superconductivity, Super Mario.

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  11. Feb 7

    With Buffalo Wings high on people’s food choices today, I’m compelled to offer my annual reminder that Sunday is a bad day to be a Chicken in America. The USA raises nine-billion chickens per year. If you do the math, we eat a million chickens per hour.

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  12. Feb 7

    The sun-like star Gliese 570, of spectral classification K5V, is in a triple star system 19 light years away. Right about now, aliens on any planets in that star system are receiving the TV signals, just arriving, of Tom Brady winning his first Super Bowl in 2002, 19 years ago.

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  13. Feb 7

    I don’t want to call Tom Brady old, but since 1977, the year he was born, seven new subatomic particles have been discovered, including the Gluon, the Top Quark, the Tau Neutrino, and the Higgs Boson.

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  14. Feb 7

    The : Momentum & Energy transfer. Elastic & Inelastic collisions. Spin-stabilized Prolate Spheroids. American Football is Physics.

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  15. Feb 7

    Is Tom Brady charmed? Born in Menlo Park, CA, just down the road from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center — where physicists explore the building-blocks of matter. In 1976, the year before Tom Brady was born, SLAC was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the “Charmed Quark”

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  16. Feb 7

    In his career Tom Brady has passed for 91,452 yds (scoring 661 touchdowns along the way.) That’s the equivalent of a single offensive drive against 11 players who try to stop you, on a football field nearly 53 miles long. About the diameter of the rayed crater Tycho on the Moon.

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  17. Feb 7

    Tom Brady is old — for a football player. Back in 1977, when he was born, there were only 107 (out of 118) known elements on the Periodic Table.

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  18. Feb 7

    Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL draft. Which tells me that occasionally, if not often, people assessing your future potential based on past performance don’t know shIt about anything.

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  19. Feb 7

    With his tenth appearance in today’s 55th Super Bowl, Tom Brady has played in nearly 20% of them, while most players there ever were, have appeared in 0%.

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  20. Feb 7

    A brief mediation on Tom Brady follows…

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