Tim Hamilton
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Tim Hamilton
@TSHamiltonAstro
🇺🇸 Mild-mannered professor by day. Astrophysicist by night. Methodist, Smoky Mountain hillbilly. Observational research on active galaxies & galaxy evolution.
Katılım Kasım 2014
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@TSHamiltonAstro @bernardtjoy The question exposes the hidden lie: the movie was based on time travel - not biology.
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Why has no one asked this Jurassic Park question in 33 years!?
The Devine Comedy@darylthedevine
@bernardtjoy Actually how did they bring the plant back?
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@TPNdustries @GoonBoolder Yep. They had a limited edition run of these when they first moved to Maryville.
I keep suggesting that they should give out free samples on factory tours, but so far they’ve ignored me.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @GoonBoolder Did the tri-star come on it from the factory? Nice.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @Lunar_Luster All those posts on textual spacing, and you get hooked by "some day"?
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What does "Some day smoker" mean? Like, if I plan on starting one day? 😂
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@GoonBoolder First roll mark I've seen on one that says "Maryville, Tennessee"! When they start showing up on rifles, I will get a Volunteer Series AR. Like I need it...
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@LadyDemosthenes I read all of these to our youngest daughter. These were especially popular with Dad ‘s side of the family. Grandmother had written to Laura Ingalls Wilder and had gotten a litter back from her, which we have. My sister and a cousin were both named for her.
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Why not just stick to the books?
The books DIDN’T highlight men with guns.
The books highlighted real life on the frontier. There was SO much in the books about the daily life of WOMEN on the frontier.
The source material is perfect… why change it to make a point that doesn’t need to be made?
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens: "I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity." Is a story about settling the American frontier supposed to avoid masculinity?
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@WKCosmo There is, in fact, an amateur radio astronomy group who also meets there. But our observing noghts are going to be with optical telescopes.
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etymonline.com/word/gun Interestingly, the word “gun” might stem from that name.
Wylfċen@wylfcen
Gunhild Larking at the 1956 Summer Olympics↓ I like the name Gunhild because it means ‘battle-battle’. The Anglo-Saxon equivalent would be Guþhild.
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@yuanyi_z I met the “emperor” of Brazil around 25 years ago (the uncle?) at a get-together in Washington that a friend had organized.
Come to think of it, I also met the deposed king of Rwanda at another event my friend organized. He worked for a Catholic lay group who were monarchists.
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The heir to the pretender to the imperial throne of Brazil is an AI guy in London whose uncle may deprive of dynastic rights because he didn't find a princess to marry.
République 🇧🇷@republiqueBRA
👑 ⛔️ Príncipe Dom Bertrand de Orleans e Bragança, chefe da Casa Imperial do Brasil, diz que não autorizará o casamento de seu sobrinho e atual herdeiro, Dom Rafael, com Margherita delle Piane; caso se casem, Rafael perderá os direitos dinásticos e será excluído da linha sucessória, já que ela não pertence a uma casa real reinante ou ex-reinante.
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@DavidDeeble It did take me a minute to figure out what the joke was.
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@peterrhague Vaguely have an idea it’s about 30 lunar diameters? Maybe a bit more?
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To go with my 10cm globe I got a 2.5cm marble to represent the Moon (it’s a mm or two too small but close enough)
Without working it out, have a guess how far apart I would have to place them to be scale correct?
Peter Hague@peterrhague
I bought a 10cm globe as I need a visual aid for something, and I wasn’t prepared for how satisfying it is to hold in my hand.
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Liz: Jack? What's wrong? Who died?
Jack: Sam Neill, Lemon.
Liz: Oh no. I loved him in Jurassic Park.
Jack: Oh please. Archaeology was just a cover story for his ultimate sacrifice on board the Red October.
Liz: what? Jack..that's a Tom Clancy movie.
Jack (visibly emotional): "He wanted to see Montana Liz. And he did!"
Heath@LeastHesFunny_
Alec Baldwin’s Instagram “tribute” to his Red October Co Star Sam Neill, where he spends almost 3 minutes talking about his own filmography & every other actor in October who isn’t Sam Neill might be the most unintentionally funny thing I’ve ever watched
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@TSHamiltonAstro It works if you're trying to get to that one tree though.
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@TSHamiltonAstro Communication Ph.D. (Stanford) here. You’re right; two spaces is not an arbitrary convention. The role of unitization in facilitating readability is underappreciated.
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Your periodic reminder that extra space between sentences has been the standard in English language typography for hundreds of years, pre-dating the typewriter. It’s there because it makes the text easier to read.
The Not So Distant Past@MemoryLaneTime
Just a friendly reminder to my friends older than 42: You don’t have to put 2 spaces after the period anymore. That was for the typewriter era. You're free
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@EsotericCD So, when it came to your birthday presents that year, what was in the box?
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I never quite got pimp-slapped by a surprising "hard" PG or PG-13 film. (I turned 13 in fall 1993, so the industry had caught up by then.)
But what this reminds me most of all of is how WILDLY VARIANT the R ratings could be. I remember when my mom let me see whatever film I wanted - with her - for my 15th birthday. So I picked what looked like a cool, dark crime thriller.
Boy was the drive home from the theaters with my mom ever awkward after we left SEVEN that afternoon.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
It's amazing how film ratings slid. My dad was a little taken aback that we took the family to see the Wonder Woman movie because it was PG-13 and our youngest was 7. He was shocked that it was just an average action movie. Jaws was PG! There was nudity in PG movies! F-Bombs!
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@TSHamiltonAstro this is off topic but on subject
since those here care about style and grammar, can we recruit an army and declare war on the post-internet feral autist techie kids who are giving up on on everything from capitalization to punctuation
i cannot keep reading tweets like this one
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