Tom P

Part-time Earth Sciences student | Full-time vegan

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@ElenaBrowett @StephenKing Tim Curry Pennywise is only Pennywise. He will always float down there.

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@gilescoren Remind us where the hypocrisy lies when it comes to Gove, drugs and honesty, Giles?

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@JacquelynGill Who the fuck gets their medical advice from a café?

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@dontpanicgeo was watching a tv show where some entrepreneurial pot farmer checked a hydrogeology survey to find an aquifer where he could grow his weed in peace. No joy, so he kidnapped the geologist only to be told “hey-it’s not an exact science!” Had a good laugh at that one.

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@DrPhiltill A fun series of posts. Just about no.10 though - you say that water is incompressible, how do we reconcile this with the fact that pressure waves can travel through water?

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PS to celebrate your bicentennial episode, I went back and listened to Ep0. Digital posters, mapping w/drones, paleomagic, high-speed cameras, and frostquakes... I feel like you two definitely stayed true to your roots in all the episodes since!

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@dontpanicgeo fun paper Friday recommendation, two words: Martian eskers. https://t.co/MgeRzUEuKI

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@BradyHaran

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@GeologyNick “I’m in it for the stories”, I can’t think of a better snapshot of why I love Earth sciences so much. Four and half billion years makes a lot of stories that the Earth has to tell.

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@R_Siddall Can’t we just go with something that isn’t a pun? “Dropping (hydrochloric) acid and smashing rocks: a day in the life of a professional dirt dweller”. That’s my best effort.

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@LoriKFenton Well that’s quite a leap! Thanks for the answer, your research sounds interesting.

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@BradyHaran Classic Brady comment, one for the history books

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@NadWGab The volcano double album also features “why we can’t drill to release pressure and prevent eruptions”, “the mantle is solid”, and “Yellowstone isn’t going off anytime soon” (b-side to that single was “magnetic field reversals don’t kill people - humans do”)

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@KathyBenison @MicroEarthSci Does the source rock represent an OAE? Or are there other ways of generating black shales? And what are all the spherules?

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@MJ_Mouton Marie wasn’t permitted to go on the sonar cruises led by Bruce Heezen which supplied all the data, as they still didn’t let women aboard back then. Heezen warmed to her but couldn’t change this fact. “I was so busy making maps, I let them argue” - Tharp.

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@R_Siddall @NHM_London Amazonite! The foxiest feldspar. Apart from maybe labradorite, even if he is a total show off.

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@NadWGab @museumhour Yep, travel + £6 lunch expenses covered, free access to exhibitions and certain events.

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@JakeOnOrbit Can you imagine if China were the first to put a person on Mars? I don't think it would be as universally celebrated as the US Moon landings.