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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon
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It's a busy, busy day for space with @OSIRISREx slipping into orbit around Bennu & @NASANewHorizons doing its flyby of #Mu69.

I'm not covering the stories (...sigh), but I can recc @elakdawalla @alexwitze @DownHereOnEarth @lorengrush
Hello, new tiny world. Ready for your close-up?
Hey, lil peanut! Nice to meet you, if only for a brief moment.
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#Mu69: contact binary, peanut, snowman, BB8 droid, balancing balls, & cute lil Kuiper Belt Object who will upend what we thought we knew because that's how science works.

Tech thread from today's news release:
Q: What's a contact binary?
A: What used to be a binary system (2 things orbiting each other) that got squished together (contact) until they're now 1 lumptastic thing.

Details (with diagrams!): planetary.org/blogs/emily-la…
For #MU69, it looks like it was very gentle squishage. Like, the softest of squeezy-taps from two balls in space to one wonky lil friend.

All that brightness in the neck? Probably fine powders settling into the seam.

So soft. So gentle. So friendly.
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It’s #NYE & nearly 2019 in my current time zone.

May you live in interesting times.
May you follow your curiosity.

May this year have fewer disasters than the last.
May this year not hold the Big One, whatever that looks like.

Take care of each other.
We’re all we’ve got.
Happy 2019, my science-loving kin. 💚

I’m in NY-ish until April.

Gimme a ping if you spot somewhere I should perform. I’d like to make the most of this stint in the northeast, and I have so much fun meeting you irl.
I’ve hit the champagne stage where my disaster mitigation training suggests I should log out of Twitter until I can navigate 2-factor authentication.

Be safe, tweeps.
At least partly because it would be a Very Bad Idea for me to do a talking news head catastrophe spot rn.
💚💚💚
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Hi, Puff! Are you joining me for New Year’s Eve in the city?

Moose & Fluffy are staying in playing video games.
Feeling a little overawed is the hustle & bustle of Grand Central, Puff?
PSA: My wee dragon is explosives-free.
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Day 4: Today Ss shared personal essays of introduction. I’ve been doing this for years, yet I am always touched, surprised, & humbled at the beautiful words Ss are willing to share aloud w/ their peers. Reminds me what a privilege it is to work w/young people. #aplangchat
Among the many things they wrote about and shared... one Ss wrote about how he decided to take on beekeeping this past year! Another wrote of his collection of campaign buttons dating back to 1896. Another reflected on how her family has dinner together every single night.
From one Ss essay: “Yet these moments do not make me feel inferior or silent. Instead, they empower me to make a splash. The moment you change yourself to avoid criticism, you feed into bigotry. You let hate win. So I’m determined to never lose. Stay gorgeous.” ❤️ #aplangchat
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This morning I've finished Scott Kellys (@StationCDRKelly) Book "Endurance" ( bit.ly/endurance-scot… ). Some thoughts below.
First, thank you Scott for sharing your story along with many personal insights from your time in space. It's great to learn more about the long path to become an astronaut and all the immense effort behind the human space program.
While reading Scotts book I got to understand the scale of the challenges coming with living and working in space better. It starts with having no gravity assisting you with daily life, keeping yourself healthy and alert for the hostile environment you are living in.
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THREAD - How about a bunch of blog posts on #Space and #Astronomy? Yes, I have more than you can imagine - especially since these are really just #physics topics. Hold on - because this is going to be a bit large.
2/ Here is an answer to my fav astronomy question EVER - "What would the phases of the moon look like if the moon was a cube?" wired.com/2015/09/moon-c…
3/ The great thing about the cube moon question is that it really tests if students understand phases of the moon rather than just recalling factual stuff. Here is my python model of a cube and spherical moon
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Sigh. We all know it wasn't about Hillary's health. It was about anything they could use against her.

The pneumonia, and more.
Clinton foundation - pay for play?
The fcking counter for time since a press conferences.
Another counter for donations from a sexual deviant.
OMG Hillary said some trumpsters were deplorables!
And always, every single day, the Emails Emails Emails -
NVM there were at least (IIRC - four?) different email stories - all we have to do is say "Hillary EMAILS" and we'll get all the clicks because we'll always infer that she did something illegal, or immoral, or treasonous, or - oh, who cares? It's about clicks.
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Doing a #stories and Q&A session with @consonanceng, an amazing community of designers and engineers in Nigeria and across Africa.

Here’s a thread on how I got into design and building products👇 Feel free to ask questions 🙏

#ConsonanceIsOne
I got into programming late. My first experience with it was in high school, AP Computer Science. Funny enough, it made me feel discouraged about programming. 😫
The class was confusing. I had a hard time grasping what classes and objects were. Needless to say, I got a 2 out of 5 on the exam 😬
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Obama & his fans were so insufferable during that 1st term because he would do something petty & stupid and dumb in an obvious way & then it would be denied.

Remember the 'bow' to King Fahd that wasn't a bow?
There were plenty of early signs of Obama's rampant narcissism, his pettiness.

Like this, for example. Watch him mention John McCain's name, then extend his middle finger & draw it across his cheek.

Now folks, I was a pastor of 2 churches, 1 from 1990-97, then from 1998 to 2002. I know public speaking. If you are standing up in front of THOUSANDS of people, not to mention plenty of cameras, you do not do this by 'accident'.
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