Chris Moran

Earthling, 2 decade Math & Science Teacher, Astronomy Geek, Amateur Photographer, Humanist, wannabe know-it-all, and cancer survivor x2.

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

@ansonmount I've loved what you all created...

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Please act now to fund Easterseals Massachusetts College Navigator and Assistive Technology Programs! https://t.co/NK5rLneWTl

[Steven Greenstreet @MiddleOfMayhem]

We're almost there, folks.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1890, Henri Poincaré proved the non-existence of the uniform first integral of the three-body problem and the sensitive dependence to initial conditions of its trajectories.

Yet, stable solutions to it do exist and these are some of them.
https://t.co/haECKnWsfp

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

I was fortunate enough to meet him once upon a time. We chatted about how we both failed thermodynamics the first time we took it. 😆

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.'

Or storytelling + data visualization + data visualization about storytelling = mind blown.

[The Three-Body Universe @3bodyuniverse]

The ant is navigating a tombstone that exists for reasons beyond its comprehension, made by tools beyond its comprehension, by creatures beyond its comprehension.

What the ant sees as natural stone, is actually a grave, deliberately shaped by beings of higher intelligence.

What the human race sees as a natural Universe, is actually a grave, deliberately shaped by beings of higher intelligence.

#3BodyProblem #TheDarkForest

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A new ocean is forming in Africa along a 35-mile crack that opened up in Ethiopia in 2005. The crack, which has been expanding ever since, is a result of three tectonic plates pulling away from each other.

It’s thought that Africa’s new ocean will take at least 5 million to 10 million years to form, but the Afar region’s fortuitous location at the boundaries of the Nubian, Somali and Arabian plates makes it a unique laboratory to study elaborate tectonic processes.

There are still some big unknowns, including what is causing the continent to rift apart. Some think that a massive plume of superheated rocks rising from the mantle beneath East Africa could be driving the region’s continental rift.

Each plate boundary in the Afar region is spreading at different speeds, but the combined forces of these separating plates is creating what’s known as a mid-ocean ridge system, where eventually a new ocean will form.

The three plates are separating at different speeds. The Arabian plate is moving away from Africa at a rate of about 1 inch per year, while the two African plates are separating even slower, between half an inch to 0.2 inches per year.

[📷 Anthony Philpotts]

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

@stellerarts Can I love it twice?

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@TheRoaringKitty He should talk

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

@3bodyuniverse I just want to know how far we’re going… to the end… end. Or are we getting a different ending. Some of his visions will be so hard for non book readers to grok.

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

@stellerarts We are Borg

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@stellerarts Love the heighliner

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

Portrait of a bush-league Führer... like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth.
~Rod Serling

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

Damn impressive how long C++ had held on…

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The most popular programming languages since 1965 to 2022

[🎞️ DataIsBeautifulOfficial]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

#OTD in 1996, Carl Sagan died: 27 years without Carl

«When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.

They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl.

But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance.

That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful.

The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful».

― Ann Druyan

[Chris Moran @buggs_moran]

I guess I did well on Duolingo. I’m learning Chinese and Spanish… #Duolingo365

[JustV23 @VitkusJustinas]

Just finished a painting of #J1407b also known as a Super-Saturn. Possibly a brown dwarf with a MASIVE ring system with planets forming in it. This is my attempt at portraying this system.

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@VitkusJustinas Love the waves!

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@onewiththegif First time I’ve thought this… why no x-wings at Hoth? They seem to make quick work of AT-ATs. These are the things that weigh heavily on the minds of middle aged #StarWars geeks… #firstworldproblems