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Mark Thornton

@storiesforspace

Stories, space and super-wicked problems. Senior Partnerships Manager for https://t.co/gSqAG7yOYF in the UK, partner in crime of @nicki_thornton. Dad.

Abingdon, UK Katılım Nisan 2009
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
@Cmdr_Hadfield ...It will be slower, less entertaining, more incremental, led by innovation and technology and that's the way it has to work." Hopefully the work starts now!
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
@Cmdr_Hadfield I wrote down something you said on 'Stargazers Live' back in 2014: "If you want to incrementally expand our understanding of the universe both robotically and eventually as a place for us to go live it can't be a race where it has a finish line where everything stops after...
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Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield@Cmdr_Hadfield·
4 people are in there with hopes, dreams, risk and the unknown. It makes me breathless, knowing how they're feeling and what they're facing. So exciting to see what we're capable of when we work together in common purpose, deciding to push back the edges of our collective ignorance. Have a great voyage, crew of @NASAArtemis!
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Ed Davey
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey·
Then vs now. Such a shame.
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Bookshop.org
Bookshop.org@bookshop_org_UK·
Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card.
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Bookshop.org
Bookshop.org@bookshop_org_UK·
FREE Shipping is GO! Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org [Site-wide | UK only | Standard shipping]
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"Volunteers cleaning up the pellets at Camber Sands have described it as "the worst single incident" they have encountered." I'm going to be down on the south coast this weekend. Perhaps the minister responsible Emma Hardy might like to join me at Camber Sands on Saturday morning to help with the clean up, we can discuss how best to reprimand Southern Water instead of patting them on the head like some naughty little school boy? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
@christianbok Self-annihilation seems our most likely destiny (statistically). Luke Kemp reached similar conclusion in Goliath's Curse, from analysing data from 800+ polities in the Seshat Global History Databank: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goliat… We have one job as a species: don't go extinct!
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Physics In History
Physics In History@PhysInHistory·
Happy Birthday to Carl Sagan. Here he explains global warming in simple words (1985 video):
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
I have been watching hurricanes, reading about them, for decades and this is about as historic and horrific as it gets. Many, many people are about the have their lives turned upside down and some will not survive. Jamaica will need our help over the coming weeks and months.
Mark Robinson@StormhunterTWN

The eye is almost there. #Melissa is going to make landfall soon. It’s got near perfect presentation which means that the winds over the island will be wreaking catastrophic damage within the eyewall.

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Jeremy DeHart
Jeremy DeHart@JeremyDeHartWX·
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
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ESA Operations
ESA Operations@esaoperations·
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft is ready to aim its instruments at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! 🪐☄️ Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
@iCyclone Best wishes Josh from the UK. I feel the single word that sums you up is 'respect'. Respect for the people, culture, landscape but above all respect for the storm: it's destructive potential and the need to bear witness. This looks generational and devastating. Good hunting.
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Josh Morgerman
Josh Morgerman@iCyclone·
3:30 am. Couldn't sleep. Full-on obsessed. #Hurricane #MELISSA is bombing out in the Caribbean Sea, a beast closing in on #Jamaica. Feeling concerned for the island & its people. Also feeling great personal pressure to properly record & measure what may be a generational event—to collect the data that tell the story. Trying to keep emotions out of it & just stay focused. One task at a time, I tell myself. Right now poring over maps, plotting every town near the coast, figuring out my strategy.
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
Never heard about @bookbanksuk? I really recommend discovering the amazing work this charity is doing bringing books into food banks. It's a simple idea that has a profound impact. And today is the last day of our fundraiser 'Books That Give': uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-th…
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Mark Thornton@storiesforspace·
Happy #BookshopDay - to those quietly profound inclusive spaces full to the brim with ideas contained within that most enduring of information technologies: books. Go visit, discover new authors, try an event, buy a book. And if you can't visit, there is bookshop.org
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Bluemoose Books
Bluemoose Books@Ofmooseandmen·
Good morning. A massive couple of weeks ahead for everyone at Bluemoose. Many thanks to our brilliant editors. @LinBodhran @hethajd Leonora Rustamova and Flora Rustamova. _Leonard and Hungry_ Paul By Rónán Hession 6 part BBC Drama series on your screens. @thebookseller
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