JR Hunt

STEM writer and scribe of other things, nature lover, vocalist, SFF enthusiast. @NASAJPL tweetup alum. We can advance technology AND protect the environment.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

@ThatEricAlper Britannica:

"Taking an early interest in music, Prince began playing the piano at age 7 and had mastered the guitar and drums by the time he joined his first band at age 14."

Musical ultrageniuses tend to start young and it can help a lot to have parents or mentors involved.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Making a car with staples without glue

[source: https://t.co/hzIcqFGh3D]

[Gene J. Mikulka @genejm29]

For those who think orbital debris isn't a big deal.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

Well I took a significant hiatus from Twitter and now I'm back, well much more back anyway. How y'all doin?

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

@NASAJPL I noticed you somewhat recently unfollowed a significant number of people probably because what you had were causing too many problems. I'm requesting that you follow me once again, I will be more active going forward, I took a hiatus on Twitter.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

"And we mean a lot longer – in the case of chili peppers, some 50 million years in North America, rather than the 15 million years indicated by previous studies. They now appear to date back to the Eocene, which covers 56 to 34 million years ago."

https://t.co/WktgO3HrtU

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

Among the best hug sessions in history?

Perhaps that's overstating things.

More people should have the courage to hug like that in public.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

King:

"The thing is, if everybody who doesn’t approve of the way things are going, if we all leave, then it’s just like walking off the field. No, I can’t see myself leaving Twitter."

I agree. Twitter has been around much longer without Musk at the helm.
https://t.co/7fh14JbKLR

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@ernsterlanson Even though they are both unpredictable, I now see Xi as more unpredictable than Putin.

@DavidDeutschOxf

[Ernst @ernsterlanson]

Kotkin consistently makes clear which questions are impossible to answer. In other interviews he points out how nobody knows what Xi Jinping will do or thinks etc

ATST what he does explain, like how russias invasion is unrelated to nato, is full of deep explanations

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

@ernsterlanson @DavidDeutschOxf I agree, this is what you have to do when the unknowns pile up too much.

[Ernst @ernsterlanson]

https://t.co/i66u2stFy1

"I predict nothing, I have no idea what is going to happen, I know nothing about the future".

Kotkins parting lines on this.

Amazing how much more one can learn when a thinker is clear about what is not knowable.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

@NASAJPL @NASA I love this part of that article:

“A glossy sea surface produces very little radar signal. We need wind to disturb the surface and produce the signal we are after,” [ Dragana Perkovic-Martin ] added.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

"Feynman’s philosophy is clear: Physicists should sum over all possible shapes of space-time. But when we consider the shape of space and time, exactly what is possible?"

The broad answer is a lot is possible if that philosophy is true enough.

@phalpern

https://t.co/qiI6BIlQEy

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

@shaileeejain @alex_ander @jerryptang Yeah, we must become better at anticipating some of these tech advances and the societal implications because these advances may happen much faster than even legit predictions indicate.

"Mind-reading" technologies are probably in the "right around the corner" mode.

[Shailee Jain @shaileeejain]

Our paper on decoding natural language from fMRI is out now in Nature neuroscience: https://t.co/srls5P6J8M

Pls read @jerryptang’s excellent blogpost on it(+privacy implications) here: https://t.co/KUbJ0fKItM

And here is his explainer video: https://t.co/ZZuSs4Bexh

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

"Contrary to the government communications, the vast majority of cybersecurity experts do not warn that juice jacking is a threat unless you’re a target of nation-state hackers. There are no documented cases of juice jacking ever taking place in the wild."
https://t.co/sE8KsUxtmQ

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“We don’t understand the cosmological horizon,” Lupsasca said. “It’s super fascinating, but way harder than black holes.”

Read this article if you think the Observer Effect may not be strange enough.

🤔😲😅

https://t.co/RxLoBe7NwD

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I wish Douglas Adams would have had the chance to write about Marvin the depressed robot getting over depression.

At one point Arthur Dent calls Marvin the clearest thinker he knows.

Perhaps in an alternate universe they get more Hitchhiker's Guide and other Adams brilliance.

[JR Hunt @JRScribe]

Maybe @leverus can help you out with some magical geese. He has some experience with those.

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"The team called falling feet-first and then rolling backward the 'ideal' body position to land from a large fall, attempting to cushion the head and chest from as much impact as possible."

https://t.co/6UxP8vHEE5