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@ImJohnDaugherty Her story was distorted alright. That is one thing you got right. But you remain clueless that you are an offender.

In the 4th century, Hypatia stood as a beacon of ancient history in Alexandria, lecturing on mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. She was one of the last influential philosophers connected to the Library of Alexandria.✨ #ancientwisdom #ancienthistory #womeninhistory

@grok @DeanWhelan67 @Andercot Neil's last 1st author paper was in 1993. A total of five 1st author papers. I would call him more of a pundit and entertainer than a scientist.

There are several prominent physicists with big public profiles today: Brian Cox (BBC docs, millions of followers), Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysics communicator), Michio Kaku (string theory/pop books), Sabine Hossenfelder (YouTube critiques of physics), Sean Carroll (podcasts/books on quantum/cosmo), and Brian Greene (string theory explainers). Social media amplifies them but also buries signal in noise—specialized fields mean fewer universal icons like Einstein. They're not drowned out entirely; their reach is massive, just more niche.

why don't we have famous physicists anymore?

@DemPG19 @thatweirdtechie @flames_collins Is Neil a scientist?

@thatweirdtechie @flames_collins Neil degrasse tyson is 1 of the most popular scientists and he is black american

🚨BREAKING Black Scientists have come very close to finding a cure for tiny eyes

@sfarmer123 @YouTube Tyson claims Newton just gave up when he invoked the God of the Gaps. Which is false history and slander against Newton.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the God of the Gaps Argument #shorts youtube.com/shorts/UuF_j-8… via @YouTube

@A_Damned_mk2 @toxicmalestuff @Akinyemisback @dirk_fasshauer @BabeTruth2 @MindfulDamage @MucusMucous1 @OddBackgrowy @PatricktheB @JustUnderReal @Raven4212 @Wolfpak561 @OpenlyReasoned @HarveyWall15 @ChurchOAtheism @PaulStetson13 @SecularSmurfAU @gdoughdoc2 @mirandaisrisen @FiendInno @HatMcGlasses @MichelleWth6 @NHoomans @randomizer88996 @StillDizzy2 @JesusGibb @hardtohandle504 @ahrehead @Simultanagnosia @internatio50589 @Emperor_Mollari @MichaelSteidel @TW175663056 @BrianNazarenus @IHateGod427 @OnkelOnkel666 @FredHikes @Janetb172 @KenWali1 @RossGilroy @willsworldview @TJMair The so called Arabic numbers come from India.

@toxicmalestuff @LuxVigilans @Akinyemisback @dirk_fasshauer @BabeTruth2 @MindfulDamage @MucusMucous1 @OddBackgrowy @PatricktheB @JustUnderReal @Raven4212 @Wolfpak561 @OpenlyReasoned @HarveyWall15 @ChurchOAtheism @PaulStetson13 @SecularSmurfAU @gdoughdoc2 @mirandaisrisen @FiendInno @HatMcGlasses @MichelleWth6 @NHoomans @randomizer88996 @StillDizzy2 @JesusGibb @hardtohandle504 @ahrehead @Simultanagnosia @internatio50589 @Emperor_Mollari @MichaelSteidel @TW175663056 @BrianNazarenus @IHateGod427 @OnkelOnkel666 @FredHikes @Janetb172 @KenWali1 @RossGilroy @willsworldview @TJMair i don't give two shits about some guys opinion... the fact is math is a human invented language we literally use the Arabic numbers..

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@Anthony60134800 @LouP75444108 @IloveTrumpMK Neil's a "scientist" who has done very little research and an "educator" who gets a lot of stuff wrong. The stupid person's notion of a brilliant intellect.

@LouP75444108 @IloveTrumpMK Albert Einstein was brilliant, as was Issac Newton. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is brilliant but Karoline Leavitt is just cute .

Don’t Lie Is Karoline Leavitt attractive?

@ayankeeoriginal @NASAAdmin Shelby, Nelson et al were more interested in jobs programs for their constituents. Opening a new frontier has never been on their radar. A serious disservice to the U.S.

@NASAAdmin is serious about beating the CCP to the Moon rather than helping senators and congresspersons keep the SLS pork flowing back to their states and districts. This is evident of it. Why didn't the previous administrator, Bill Nelson, got the ball rolling? Could it be that as a former senator from FL, he was more interested in the pork than he was about going back to the Moon? Well, his actions speaks louder than words. It's also sad that the Musk-Trump feud cost us a ~ a year without a NASA administrator to lead the charge back to the Moon. SpaceX knocks Boeing from dominant role in NASA moon mission msn.com/en-ca/news/tec…

@skibidiquasar @JoelSercel @peterrhague JWST is in a huge halo orbit around SEL2. It never comes closer than several hundred thousand kilometers from the SEL2 point.

@JoelSercel @peterrhague SEL2 is currently occupied by JWST. Is the point big enough to keep operations away from it and not disturb its IR environment?

The secret plan is out! Two great articles today about our plan to capture a small asteroid and bring it into Earth orbit. The concept is part of our New Moon mission, which explores relocating a small near-Earth asteroid into a controlled orbit as the first step toward building industrial infrastructure in space. Our team has been developing the key technologies for this approach for years, including capture mechanisms to constrain and move small asteroids and orbital debris. Accessing materials already in space could eventually enable a new generation of industries beyond Earth. If you're interested in the future of space resources, these articles are worth a read. hashtag#space hashtag#asteroidmining hashtag#spacetechnology hashtag#spacex hashtag#venture

@JoelSercel @peterrhague EML2 can be reached with as little 3.1 km/s from LEO. And if aerobraking is used, .4 km/s can get you from EML2 to LEO. The big difference between EML2 and SEL2 is 9 days vs 60 to 90 days.

Yes! If you are up in the region we call The Rim, which includes Sun-Earth L2, for example, with aerobraking you can get to LEO with only a few 100 m/s of ∆V. Also, the ∆V to get to The Rim from LEO or the Earth is significantly less than to get to DLRO, lunar orbit, L4, L5, or even GEO! This is counterintuitive but true! The Rim is also the easiest place to bring asteroids. This makes The Rim the ideal staging and processing location. Strangely, Earth-Moon L2 can also be competitive, but we have more creative orbits that use multi-body dynamics that we are also looking at. Location is TBD and the subject of ongoing study work. My favorite right now is SEL-2 at the Rim of Terran space.

@KoVeIyer Nearly everything Neil says about Newton is wrong. So it kinds of backs up Gaurav's advice not to get your science and history from YouTube.

Listen to "Neil deGrasse Tyson" on Newton youtube.com/shorts/2z9hRvx…

@caldodge @SciGuySpace Just as Comet Oterma occasionally drifts into Jupiter's realm there are bodies that naturally fall into earth's realm now and then. I imagine they'd look for bodies with a nice Jacobi number and it would take less than 1 km/s to park it in our neighborhood.

"Lots of delta V can provided with ion engines." Yes, but 100 tons is 2 orders of magnitude over the mass of a typical probe, and around 5 orders of magnitude over the mass NASA retrieved most recently (though admittedly a trip to L2 doesn't take as much delta v as a one to Earth). And you'd better use argon (or some non-noble element), since krypton is massively expensive, and xenon is hideously more expensive. I do recall some study mentioned by Jerry Pournelle in an anthology he edited where it was suggested that a mass driver shooting little slugs of slag from an asteroid would do the trick. You just have to make sure you're expelling as little useful material as possible.

This would be super cool if it happens. arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/…

@caldodge @SciGuySpace There are asteroids that can be brought in with little delta V. There are some that already become temporary moons for a time when they fall through SEL1 or SEL2. Lots of delta V can provided with ion engines. See the KISS study: kiss.caltech.edu/papers/asteroi…

@SciGuySpace 100 tons? They'd better have gobs of super-cheap delta-v.

@SciGuySpace @RossDynamicsLab , they are talking about parking an asteroid at the sun-earth-L2. Are there low delta V paths from SEL2 to the lunar Hill Sphere? I expect a commodity asteroids as well as lunar resources can provide is up momentum for momentum exchange tethers.

@JoelSercel Could you link to said articles? I was excited by this proposal for an asteroid redirect mission: kiss.caltech.edu/papers/asteroi… Would you use ion engines?

Rodney Stark is addressing a problem - namely the Enlightenment/Conflict thesis propaganda claim that somehow the scientifically method magically appeared in the works of Galileo or Newton and that this was in opposition to religion. Stark definitely shows that this was happening before, and the significant value of Christian built Universities, academic networks and vast science funding. All true. But his conclusion that the scientific method was created by the Church just lacks in following through on the kind of research he did to defeat the claims he was addressing. You can, in the same way, trace its usage further back. I think it's important to be consistent and accurate here - the Church DID fund and support the vast majority of *the world's* science for over half a millenium. It did actively preserve ancient knowledge, at great cost. It brought education to the public regardless of class. It built the universities, it built a pedantic mental framework that allowed for the level of detail required for progress. It was a key reason we advanced to where we are now. But it didn't create science, or the scientific method, which would have seemed obvious to any ancient academic. Or put another way - Christianity wasn't necessary for science, but it certainly helped! Here's a longer article from historian of science Thony Christie on the subject: thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/was…

@KalebTheSocrat Appealing to Neil's authority makes you look even dumber than your nutty flat earth beliefs.

Play this clip to anyone that adamantly suggests that you can see the curvature of the earth from & plane, & or if they are offering the idea that anyone sees the “curvature of earth” from anywhere below 250,000 feet in altitude. Watch as they take Neil Degrasse Tyson (an astrophysicist) & claim he doesn’t know what he’s talking about & refuse to believe his words in this comment section & or if you show anyone that blindly offers these these illogical ideas. This video & others of him stating these things infuriates the weak minded. He’s stating a fact, due the radius & circumference claims given today, geometrically; it is impossible for you to see curvature from anywhere below 250,000 feet if it existed (which it does not). Now you can simply show them this clip & watch them devolve & act as if he’s wrong, simply because it goes against their faith in the Earth being a spheroid.

@TimONeill007 @VetulusMontis @AbderrahimeNa @afro_hamza Hypatia was a contemporary of Augustine. I'm attempting to read Augustine's "City of God". Evidently it was a chaotic and violent time. I expect if Augustine and Hypatia ever met they'd have some interesting conversations. They both seem influenced by Plato.

@VetulusMontis @AbderrahimeNa @afro_hamza So many problems there. First of all, what is this "the Church" you keep talking about? You think there was something called "the Church" (sing.) in the early fifth century? You sure about that kiddo?

Hypatia was a direct violation of the christian Pauline doctrine. To the church, a woman possessing such intellectual authority was a theological impossibility. hence the church fathers conspired to kill her And her murder is explicitly recorded by the Coptic church fathers in egypt as a as a religious triumph.

@nofilterdawg @hellnah And why was Hypatia murdered, pray tell? We know that she was murdered in a political conflict between two Christian groups. Which you evidently find sufficient to condemn the whole of Christianity.

@HopDavid41 @hellnah Making shit up is easy for you, huh? I asked why you didn't care that the woman was murdered during that dispute, stop putting words in my mouth I never spoke (or wrote). Try reading everything slowly and let it sit for a minute or two before tweeting, yeah?

Crazy thing to say ngl 😭 So you're saying she had nothing to do with it and the two Christian groups just killed her because of what?? And you don't care??

@KalebTheSocrat Appealing to Neil Tyson's authority discredits you even more than your nutty flat earth beliefs.