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Dr. Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill
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Friends tell me I should've explained why I unfollowed from 35,000 down to <200 accounts. I humbly apologize. I used to follow back 100% to communicate true respect. 4 years ago I simply couldn't keep it up. It took HOURS to identify & NOT follow objectionable robot accounts.../1
2/ I was forced to give up. I had to stop following back entirely so I wouldn't accidentally follow bots tweeting bad stuff. Out of a desire to not offend I didn't unfollow any existing follows, but after 4 years I was following less than half the people who followed me...
3/ The twitter feed had become a firehose that I couldn't possibly keep up with. My interactions on twitter were reduced to just responding. Reply to everyone who tweets at me, and answer every science question (except when overwhelmed by work & simply can't keep up)...
4/ So deep apologies. My intent is to keep interacting on twitter exactly as I always have.
5/5 Speaking of overwhelmed, I can't keep up with saying thank you, I'm so sorry, you're too kind, and thank you again. #trulyhumbled #youretookind Will catch up ASAP. I have to write "Operations on the Moon" for Frontier Development Lab (while away from home on the holiday).
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I'm choosing to annoy my fellow science nerds with this statement: I like the term "Dark side of the Moon." It was always "dark" in the sense that we lacked knowledge of it, not that it lacked sunlight. We allll know this & don't need to be nerd-splained, right? 😝 Also... /1
2/ ...the dark side of the Moon stopped being dark in 1959 when the Soviets flew Luna 3 around it and sent home some pictures. So the Moon used to have a dark side, but it doesn't any more. Right? 👊😅 But to be more accurate...
3/...really, we have barely explored either side at all. There's so much we don't know, even from the side where most of the missions landed. So shouldn't we say the Moon has twoooo dark sides: the Slightly Darker Dark Side, and the Slightly More Illuminated Dark Side?
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Fun conversation at dinner tonight, since my oldest daughter Jess participated in pebble accretion research in the lab of @joshuacolwell and @astroaddie at @UCF two years ago. Josh, Addie and Julie Brisset are doing reduced gravity experiments to understand planet formation.../1
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3/ This is the "bouncing barrier" of the planet formation process. So Josh, Addie, Julie, and others in their team have been devising experiments to study how gravel-sized particles can form ever-larger clumps until they are large enough for gravity to take over...
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