Megha Wijewardane

Scientific Communicator, NASA ambassador for mission OSIRIS Rex

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

https://t.co/pBi8v03Nlf

They're mocking how ridiculous we sound.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@heykizuna

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

Why are there so many racists and neo nazis in my feed? Is this just how X is?

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@NightSkyNow Ideally, nothing, without knowing how they would react or how their culture works.

A friendly greeting to us such as "hi" could mean a declaration of war for them.

We can assume that most aliens if existent due to convergent evolution are opposed to mass murder to some extent.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@Gosleepriya Dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2, as dividing fractions is the same as multiplying by the reciprocal. So, 500/0.5 = 1000 + 50 = 1050.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@joleablacker @ginamilan_ It's sad if it made you racist, as you claimed.

I would rather treat people individually, and condemn all people who desecrate graves regardless of skin colour.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@forallcurious Scientist: My discoveries are useless if taken out of context.

Media: Scientists say their discoveries are useless!

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@joleablacker @ginamilan_ The one who desecrated the grave was one person, yes.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@joleablacker @ginamilan_ I think it's a very bad idea to use one person like this very specific gentleman to generalize almost 1.5 billion people.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@joleablacker @ginamilan_ I don't think racism will solve that. Anatomically, all ethnicities of humans are the same, with only negligible differences, and that applies to brains as well.

Improving socioeconomic status and education will, and that may take time in this case.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

https://t.co/kYyESBOZIW

What is this, a tourism ad of the VOC?

They keep talking about "beautiful" bali is for white people, without mentioning any of the 11th century architecture that is present in Bali.

Bali is an island that is part of a sovereign nation, not a colony.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

Imagine killing so many animals that aversion to your voice becomes an ingrained evolutionary trait: https://t.co/xHV9nmELAD

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

Oh, and he murdered a peacock too. Disgusting.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

It's very racist indeed, and these pricks make money from pretending that south asian countries are that bad, and they are breeding an entire generation of racists who grew up thinking this is what Sri Lanka or India, etc, looks like. https://t.co/KhDOa0D4Nb

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

We are making fantastic progress in science & technology but the current AI fetish, thinking that investing in AI infrastructure to solve science & technology problems will work, is insane. We need to invest in people not GPUs, experiments not LLMs, critical thinking, not agents.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@BuzzedEdwin @Maximum2893 @stats_feed I have a strong suspicion that this is not all that is required to convert flat earthers, and they would instead claim that the experiment was faked. I wonder what would actually convince them then.

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@BuzzedEdwin @Maximum2893 @stats_feed After the final experiment in Antarctica, many flat earthers promised to accept the globe model, and many of them delivered on that promise. If a foucault pendulum was demonstrated, in front of flat earthers, they would accept the globe model?

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@BuzzedEdwin @Maximum2893 @stats_feed https://t.co/zEjdiyK7dS

[Megha Wijewardane @MeghaW2010]

@BuzzedEdwin @Maximum2893 @stats_feed It does. The swing plane is fixed in space while the Earth rotates underneath it. You can see that happen during the course of a day.