Stuart Keynes

@WEtHePe0pl @astro_reid @Astro_Christina So what you’re buying is that the whole conspiracy is uncovered because the props department cocked up and used a cloth ‘hatch’ instead of a hard hatch? You must think that despite decades of faking it they really don’t have any production values… 🙄

@stuart_keynes @astro_reid @Astro_Christina

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@WEtHePe0pl @astro_reid @Astro_Christina Oh FFS man, a 5 second google search showed the answer. The pressure hatch is located inside, and opens inwards, so that the station pressure keeps it closed passively.

@stuart_keynes @astro_reid @Astro_Christina The cloth hatch.

@esrtweet If they wanted to join the wider civilisation, it would undoubtably damage them in extraordinary ways, but I can’t imagine they would ever be refused. But forcing integration on them seems to be a paradoxical move of removing their autonomy in order to give them more autonomy?

This is a complicated moral question, it's been troubling me for years, and I still don't have a stable answer. Most of the arguments for leaving the Sentinelese alone are romanticizing noble-savage bullshit. We know what life in societies like this is like - nasty, brutish, and short to a degree modern Westerners not only fail to understand but have difficulty even imagining. Technology and wealth can fix that. On the other hand, it is undeniable that contact with modern civilization would in a very meaningful sense destroy the Sentinelese; this experiment has already been run on their kin in the rest of the Andaman Islands and the results were dolorous. Many would be killed by disease. Many others would become addicted to alcohol. Still others would evade both those fates only to find that they're still incapable of having any role in modern society other than as dependents and impoverished day laborers. Only a lucky few at the right-hand end of their IQ bell curve would integrate successfully. The utilitarian question is whether improving the quality of life for their talented tenth outweighs what modernity would do to the rest of them. And there's another point: the Sentinelese have made it very clear that most of them want to be left alone. It's easy to argue that we're obligated to respect their autonomy, but - what of the children who gaze at passing ships and dream of escaping the primitive grind of their lives? This is a more significant question when you reflect that in societies like these a significant fraction of those children are quite likely to be raped by the men in their tribe before reaching adulthood. Such behavior is sometimes ritualized as tribal custom; field anthropologists know this, but generations of them have been politically conditioned never to reveal facts about the societies they study that could be construed as arguments for Western superiority. There are no facile answers. It's a variant of the trolley problem - we know that leaving the Sentinelese alone conduces to many kinds of harm, but busting their isolation would open them up to many different kinds of harm. Hands-off is an easy policy. At least we can tell ourselves we're not actively doing damage, and that what they do to each other is on them. I do wonder how often the children are being raped, though.

@WEtHePe0pl @astro_reid @Astro_Christina Pointing out to me like I’m 5 then

@stuart_keynes @astro_reid @Astro_Christina You are missing the obvious...

@kennyraytitan @astro_reid @Astro_Christina So the space ship is going maybe 10-20 times faster that a high speed train. But the moon’s surface is maybe 500-1000 times further away from the spaceship than, say, mountains could be from a train on Earth. Do the mountains seem to move fast when your train goes past? No.

@astro_reid @Astro_Christina How fast were the supposed to be moving around the moon? It looks like they are not moving

@WEtHePe0pl @astro_reid @Astro_Christina What’s to explain?? I see a slightly sped up clip of an astronaut trying to maneuver in zero gravity, which looks tricky. Everything is behaving exactly as one would expect in a zero-g vacuum.

@astro_reid @Astro_Christina Explain this NASA (Never Actually Sent Anyone)

@NarrowWay10 @Turbo_trans_am @BrooklynBoyB @astro_reid @NASA @Astro_Christina @neiltyson They are tens if not hundreds of KILOmeters above the moon. Not tens of meters. The analogy given makes perfect sense

@Turbo_trans_am @BrooklynBoyB @astro_reid @NASA @Astro_Christina @neiltyson The moon scape should be moving but not earth. Look at this video. The landscape is moving rapidly (which would be the moon) but the cloud in the distance is not. Your explanation doesn't make sense. youtube.com/shorts/GsqUp-k…

@PolitlcsUK Yeah for sure this will stop Kiwis leaving for Australia 🙄

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@CombatPigeon96 Wouldn’t it have to be out of the atmosphere to exert a net torque on the Earth? 🤔

I love how there’s technically nothing wrong with this statement

@RichardDawkins The extinction of Neanderthals is a great tragedy, but resurrecting them seems grotesque in some way. If they are intelligent enough to understand what we have done to them, what kind of living nightmare would they experience with this knowledge?

Neanderthal genome is largely known. If it becomes possible to reconstruct a live Neanderthal person, what, in your opinion, would be the pros and cons? I’m genuinely interested in canvassing opinions for and against.

@mrsjumpman @pippercorn … that’s usually the case with fiction?

@pippercorn It's a complete fabrication. Old cunt made it up

in retrospect it was not frighteningly real

@Brocklesnitch Aussies (at least this Aussie) say Spag Bog, not Bol. Which is even worse I know.

One of the worst Australian (possibly British?) names for food that I myself do unfortunately still participate in is calling spaghetti bolognese “spag bol” I know it’s wrong but it’s in me

@gothamgrrls I love how this photo clearly shows the equator by looking at the cloud patterns

Australia STUNS once again in new photo taken by Artemis II

Australia STUNS in photo taken by Artemis II

@cosmictylxr @HartshApo Reckon we limit binary system to ones where the common centre of the orbits isn’t within one of the bodies (like Pluto-Charon)

@HartshApo yes we’d be a binary system

hot take, i feel like some moons deserve to be planets. like a sub planet or something because i don’t see how like the Galilean moons and the small irregular ones are on the same level.

@cosmictylxr Need to popularize the term ‘Moonlet’ for a natural orbiting body (of a planet) that is not essentially spherical from its ow gravity.

@endwelljohn2022 @DocPriyamMD Free access as well I should add

@endwelljohn2022 @DocPriyamMD Yeah Australia has no shortage of deadly snakes either. But we get bitten a lot less and have excellent first aid knowledge and then access to anti venom.

Three months ago, a patient died in our ER. What he did in the hours before reaching us still makes me shudder. A 35-year-old shouldn’t die from a snake bite in 2026. He died because he followed myths instead of science. Don’t let your "first aid" be the thing that kills you 🧵

@RuthlessTweets @DocPriyamMD We do and I’ve helped coordinate its delivery to patients in need. In Jndia it must be some combination of cost, availability, knowledge of first aid, etc and wondered if one of those was a dominating factor

@stuart_keynes @DocPriyamMD I believe Australia has an excellent system of anti-venom storage and distribution.

@LordofAds Please leave me and other Stuart’s out of this. It’s tough enough as it is

No, you did not go viral for the "wrong" reason. You went viral because it perfectly represents how employees are forced to reply during PTO or risk getting fired in 2026. And you were a clear Stuart of that culture. Nicely done turning off replies on this post as well...

@dogsmellsgood I hear this when I yawn, and can prolong it to a certain extent. I’ve never thought about it, I thought everyone did it?!?!

Holy fucking shit. Finally found the name for it. Im going to cry Ive never been able to explain this to anyone they never know what im talking about