Dr. Paul Filmer

Colombo-Canadian Brit-gringo scientist, manage international relations 4 @NSF. Polyglot NeXT and Newton nerd. VFR Pilot, failed astronaut. Admin 4 @NSFVoyager2.

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Engineers have repaired an issue affecting telemetry data from @NASAVoyager 1 that was identified earlier this year. While the team continues to investigate the root cause, the spacecraft appears healthy and continues to gather and return science data. https://t.co/SylVehnFo7

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

RT @GLOBEatNight: btw 18-27 Aug, measure night sky brightness w @GLOBEatNight from ur computer, tablet, or smartphone 2 raise public awareness abt light pollution. We’ve reached 12k data points. Let’s reach 20k by the end of 2022!
https://t.co/m82zqVJ3vg

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@drspacejunk I’m not sure I’m ready to endure the commentary if I have V2 retweet this one.

[Alice Gorman @drspacejunk]

Voyager 2 is a spacecraft that lives always in my heart. In 2012, six years before it passed the heliopause, I interviewed the spacecraft through its Twitter avatar. https://t.co/Ox91DipYLo #Voyager45 @NSFVoyager2 @pffli

[Alice Gorman @drspacejunk]

This diagram, from the 'The Voyager Uranus Travel Guide', shows the different trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. I love the shell-like graphic. #Voyager45 @NASAVoyager

[Alice Gorman @drspacejunk]

The Earth portrayed on the Golden Records will probably be unrecognisable even 100 years from now. https://t.co/WCc7KMbWuR #Voyager45 @NASAVoyager

[Alice Gorman @drspacejunk]

The Voyager Golden Records are endlessly fascinating. In the 90 minutes of music, there is 1.24 seconds of Yolngu music from Milingimbi Island in the Northern Territory of Australia. Who were the Aboriginal musicians who are going to the stars? #Voyager45 https://t.co/kG8EAldgiR

[Alice Gorman @drspacejunk]

But of course I love Voyager 1 as well - its 45 launch anniversary is on Sept 5 - here @lucidkevinor and I talk about the spacecraft crossing that invisible line between our world and the next https://t.co/gLxYWep5qw #Voyager45

[Alice Gorman @drspacejunk]

This is my long interview with Voyager 2, through the amazing @pffli who continues to represent the spacecraft on Twitter. I think you'll agree that Voyager 2 has a diffident charm that is utterly beguiling. https://t.co/ZbfrNwFPJi #Voyager45

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

This galaxy is so far away that the expansion of the universe is causing it to recede from us faster than the speed of light. Weirder: it has ALWAYS been receding faster than light. When the photons we are now seeing were first emitted, they were moving directly AWAY from us.

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@NASA_ICE Leech = invertebrate; leach = dissolve substrate.

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

RT @charliegiattino: Excess mortality @OurWorldInData just updated for this week
Model estimates of cumulative excess deaths globally from @TheEconomist
(chart: https://t.co/NhF69lddbI)
Details & limitations about estimates here: https://t.co/721BgPz8q3

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@AlexKp87 @NSFVoyager2 I’d love to see this work up close to see all the details. Someone will eventually get this as a tattoo. That will take a while…

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@carolynporco @_TheSeaning Sounds like us funding science done w NASA data. I fought lots of battles after HQPAO would announce “NASA funded scientists found...” and then “...we don’t correct old news” after we protested. This happened so often I’m sure it was deliberate.

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@drspacejunk Aînés by iself works...

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@esascience @AstroEmz LOVE the Rosetta Stone mug linkage...

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

RT @NASAWatch: This from @SpaceXStarlink TOS. Yes, people will b arguing abt the Outer Space Treaty but it is interesting 2 see a company thinking ahead 2 providing services 2 people offworld. Or maybe this is a @SpaceX lawyer having a little fun. Or both.

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@jansky_girl @NSFVoyager2 @GreenBankObserv Figured you might have spent some time at GBO...I spent time in T.O. and Pasadena, took courses with Chuck Elachi.

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

@mleary2001 @NSFVoyager2 @NASAJPL Ha! No...the monitors from 1977 were long ago junked! The SPARC Stations were a big upgrade. Think green lettering on a burned in screen...

[Dr. Paul Filmer @pffli]

HT @NewsfromScience: A shiny green beetle is eating its way through N American forests, leaving a wake of dead ash trees. A new analysis predicts ash might not recover. https://t.co/AZzbTmFyzh
I have some of the last living American Ash trees on my property in WV... ;'(