Thomson Hawks

Grateful father, husband, son. Ultra-runner, climber, pilot, diver. Data scientist, adventurer and teacher. Worldview: scientific skepticism.

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Some things never change:
“Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, though sure, are slow and solemn...”
~ Thomas Francklins (1787)

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@jorgsbj @Cmdr_Hadfield @NASAHubble @NASAWebb You can tell different tooling capture these images because of the different diffraction pattern artifacts around individual bright stars. JWST has a six-arm pattern, Hubble has four. Different hardware: different pattern.

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@ReapCapital @lobekjohnson @Zac_Petkanas Well, you claimed that Trump would make fentanyl deaths go down. Someone noted that they are already going down, and then you devalued that as evidence. The same evidence you were going to claim in Trump's favor. No? Oh, but of course, you'll say "even lower" 😏

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@ReapCapital @lobekjohnson @Zac_Petkanas Special pleading in action. Kinda gutted your own point here, David. 🥱

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@JehanJiwa88 @Cmdr_Hadfield Very cool! 👨‍🚀 But... likely AI generated. 🫠 Giveaways: 1) hand quality is substantially lower than face quality. 2) name on badge is mostly nonsense letters when (given detail in face) artist could have done better. Classic diffusion model failure points.

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@Cmdr_Hadfield Very cool! 👨‍🚀 But... likely AI generated. 🫠 Giveaways: 1) hand quality is substantially lower than face quality. 2) name on badge is mostly nonsense letters when (given detail in face) artist could have done better. Classic diffusion model failure points.

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@SkepticsGuide Happy birthday Steve! Your work has changed my life, in a big way 🙏❤️🙏

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@AlexHonnold Linguistic genius.

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@Cmdr_Hadfield @WesternU @NASA Do scientists believe that this was a single asteroid that split during atmospheric entry? Or two totally separate events? The spatial closeness of both impacts seems like quite a coincidence. Do you have any idea @Cmdr_Hadfield ?

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@Erdayastronaut @freeflysystems @considercosmos @TheSlowMoGuys can you do one of these launches!? It's a little outside your usual close-up action. But it would be truly amazing to witness ignition and liftoff at >100k frames/sec! Might even get the attention of @SpaceX or @elonmusk

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@Space_Station @NASAEarth @NASA LEO! Not LOE 🤦

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@Space_Station @NASAEarth @NASA How often does the ISS experience a total solar eclipse? Is it more frequent than Earth, or basically the same because of LOE altitude? Or, less, because orbital path does not always align with eclipse during window?

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@advherk @DesiSanatani @fasc1nate I see your profile claims you're a bit of an expert in this area. Maybe I'm missing something.

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@advherk @DesiSanatani @fasc1nate Probably best to ask the person their preference. And, respect it.

In this case, without more context, can you confidently say 100% wrong? Am I missing something? What if the bus, the chair, the driver, or some combination of those three made doing it all at once impossible?

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@jorgsbj @Cmdr_Hadfield @cleanaircatf Closed-loop freshwater, or desalination using a portion of electricity generated by the system.

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@emgaucherwrites @Cmdr_Hadfield This is super impressive! So many layers...

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@Cmdr_Hadfield Directed acyclic graph

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@kahententha @acabthearab As a parent, I've adjusted my keep-home behavior since COVID. I keep my kids home from school more frequently and for longer, given the same illness. The pandemic increased my awareness of and sensitivity to the societal impacts of contagious disease.

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@SkepticsGuide You mean, Hallowistmas?

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@thejackbeyer @NASASpaceflight What are the wispy things dangling down and to the right of the bottom of some engine bells?

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@laurenboebert It hit a truck. The train hit a truck... that's why it derailed. Did you read?