Brian Sparrow

actor/singer/writer/botanist. I can kill you with trivia six ways from Sunday.
he/him/his

[Stephanie Insley Hershinow @S_Insley_H]

5yo: What’s Romeo and Juliet?
Me: Well, it’s a story about two people who fell in love, and…

[2 parents, both English professors, one a Shakespearean, give a long and age-inappropriate synopsis]

5yo: Wow.
Me: Yeah. It’s sad.
5yo: Yeah. I can’t believe they FELL in LAVA!

[наталка 💙💛 (they/them) @nataliya_gurba]

… the who’s what now?

[Non-Ironically T.V.'s B. Dave Walters - EVERYWHERE @BDaveWalters]

Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

I'm not very business savvy. Is this good

[Benjamin Partridge @benpartridge]

Just ordered in a restaurant in Bulgaria and the waiter looked at me with real gravity and said "sir, you must know that this doesn't come with any sort of potato". I've never felt truly seen and supported like that before. Weeping.

[Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su]

this is the the best idea I have ever had in my life

[Tim Soret @timsoret]

Wow, the original Wilhelm Scream!

Only 67 downloads so far. Interesting piece of history. I just converted it to video for Twitter convenience.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Kids who survived a school shooting just months ago - who will never, ever be the same - are going through the same hell again tonight.

Fucking hell.

[RAF_Luton @RAF_Luton]

BREAKING: First photo released of #UFO shot down over #Alaska by F35s shows it to resemble the USS Enterprise from the hit TV show Battlestar Galactica.

Photographed from a Canberra #AlaskaUFO #AlaskaObject #ufotwitter #UFOSightings

[Brian Sparrow @sparroni]

Well, this thread is adorable.

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

when we first started dating my husband smoked all the time. one day I mentioned I didn't much like the habit, not really expecting it to change, but the next time I saw him he'd already quit cold turkey as if it was nothing, and I was like wow I guess I'm in love huh

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A quick summary of why all these UFOs are popping up now.

Call it Science Sunday… or Superbowl Science Sunday.

In spatial science (in this case radar/satellite data), we use techniques to filter out noise so we can identify objects in space (the abstract space, not outer space).

Think of it like trying to find a tennis ball on the beach using a 3d scan of the beach read as lines of text.

You know how big the tennis ball is, so you take all the data from the beach and tell the computer to find a round object that is the approximate size of a tennis ball.

It would take a lot longer to find the tennis ball if every small object on the beach had to be reviewed one-by-one. So we tell the computer to ignore everything that doesn’t look like a tennis ball.

Same goes with detecting aircraft.

We know the range of sizes aircraft typically are, and we know they move across space, so we filter out tiny objects that aren't large enough to be typical aircraft and/or are stationary so we can readily find objects that fit the parameters we set for things like war/spy planes/drones/etc.

When the balloon thing happened, NORAD reduced the filter sensitivity to allow smaller objects to pass through.

Now, we're picking up these small, slow-moving objects that had been filtered out before.

Back to the beach analogy: we essentially turned off the filter and now we’re picking up sea shells, coins and lost rings.

What the objects are and what nation/entity they're from has not been announced. They are simply unidentified flying objects (UFOs) at this point.

These weren’t necessarily launched or sent recently, we just never looked for them. Now we are.

And we’re finding there are quite a few of them there.

[Mark Thompson 🔜 Combat Wheelchair v4 @mustangsart]

My dad who works as someone who ensures that the exporting amd transportation of dangerous chemicals is done safely here in the UK and EU is literally losing his fucking mind over this shitshow.

[Blood Quantum Entanglement @LammaticHama]

I hope you're all enjoying #HogwartsLegacy

[Brian Sparrow @sparroni]

@NoContextBrits Proactive. Paradigm.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

WOW. The Pentagon just confirmed that THREE Chinese balloons flew over the U.S. during the Trump presidency & not only did he not shoot them down, but he also didn’t say anything about it. Shows you how ridiculous Republicans are right now by only talking about the balloon.

[Brian Sparrow @sparroni]

@jonpaulmaki @Nash076 Same!

[Brian Sparrow @sparroni]

@Browtweaten Airplane!