Peter James

Planetary geophysicist who understands the gravity of a situation. Trying to follow Jesus. Associate prof @BaylorGeo, formerly @eapsMIT/@LamontEarth/@LPItoday

[Peter James @PeterBJames]

At @Yankees stadium for Lou Gehrig day. It’s time for a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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@allie__voss That’s clever, I’m stealing that line.

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@MattGlassman312 That’s what @PitcherList would call a Toby

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@flying_cripple @WB_Baskerville Craters also play a much larger role on Mars, making the “land” area look fragmented in an unfamiliar way.

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This is what stardust looks like!

These are fragments of the famous Murchison meteorite. The black grains are mostly carbonaceous chondrite matter, but they also contain pre-solar silicon carbide particles from nearby supernovae.

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@PlanetaryGao It needlessly hastened the gen-omega catastrophe

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"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
That Paul Erdos quote needs to be updated.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

If this is true, using the best public estimates we have of LLM resource use, solving this Erdos problem took 0.6–6.3 kWh of electricity and about 3–31 liters of water.

So that is less than three almonds worth of water and the electricity equivalent of 2-20 miles of EV driving.

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@DanAF1492 @CryptoMikli $6 in an index fund 20 years ago would be $40 today. Money grows more than people think.

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@jonwins @FoulTerritoryTV ABS works well now, but it’s low-hanging fruit for cheating (batters and catchers will find ways to get real-time information about whether to challenge).

When that inevitably happens, umpires will get the earpiece.

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@FoulTerritoryTV

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Space Camp registrations have doubled since Artemis II.

https://t.co/78i6sOUa2C

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@RockettLord Amaze

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@nordman__ But ladybugs

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@muhendisIiktr That's a vesicular basalt (formed from lava with lots of holes where gas bubbles exsolved from the lava). This is a good start, but practically any other rock would be more difficult to hold.

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@SarahRogersBU I just went to Glory Bell on 6th. Simple coffee place (no pies), but cozy.

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@pattyoarmstrong @BaylorBaseball @BaylorAthletics Tyce is my son’s sports hero! Thanks for everything.

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@allie__voss Einstein’s law of mortgage relativity: physical appearance at the age of first mortgage remains constant throughout history.

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@NeilShenvi The problem hinges on what you expect others to do. If the outcome is a toss-up, blue is heroic. If polling suggests that only 2% of people are planning to push blue, the answer is different.

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@bartbarber @BenSasse @60Minutes @andersoncooper His appearance on the "Interesting Times" podcast was also great. The hope Sasse communicates is infectious.

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@HopeSpringsATL @dead_baseball It’s a loophole to force a stalemate!