
Adolfo Carvalho
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Adolfo Carvalho
@Miles2AU
Postdoc at CfA, Astro PhD @ Caltech, BSc/BA @ Rice University, Astrophysicist and long distance runner 🇧🇷


@memeticsisyphus Now explain the phone call to the moon.

Imagine being prompted to sign in with Authenticator from here


Was speaking to an academic astrophysicist in spectroscopy who told me that they have so many plausible exoplanetary atmospheric biosignatures at this point that there’s no longer any real doubt, but the standard of proof for official acceptance is just incredibly high.



🚨 BREAKING: IMAX is actively developing next-generation 70mm film projectors! This major technical upgrade could officially allow Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ to exceed a 3-hour runtime—a feat impossible with current 15/70 units due to physical platter limits.



Reminder that Nancy Pelosi is so old that there is literally a picture of JFK checking out her rack

The fact that hotter things are represented by a larger number and colder things are represented by a smaller number is one of those things that’s totally arbitrary that over time people come to think of as conceptually essential

He's also the one who fixed Celsius (it was originally set to 0 degrees being boiling and 100 degrees being freezing)


Vance: "If you're an American citizen and you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed that wait times are especially large and very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:








