Andrew Rader @marsrader
SpaceX Engineer, MIT PhD, TV Know-it-All 🚀 New book 'Beyond the Known' is available now: https://t.co/sM0v6vs2DY 📖 Audiobook: https://t.co/4lI48gFaFX andrew-rader.com Planet Earth (for now) Joined January 2013-
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When Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed, people actually didn't know what they were, so it was a valid scientific question.
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After I was hooked by @marsrader reading his own sweeping exposition on 3+ millennia of seafaring, I ordered the hardcover too for $12 to scribble notes. Halfway through he calls out gold-bumblers Columbus and Magellan for having no clue of Eratosthenes 🔥 audible.com/pd/1508296758?…
Why do they call it baby steps when babies can't step?
The oldest nearby stars (up to 10B years) reside not in the Milky Way itself, but in surrounding globular clusters. (📷 Hubble)
Voyager launched carrying recordings of 56 languages: 55 human & 1 whale. So maybe Aliens will answer in whale?
Ever wanted to learn about spacecraft engineering? My video series is accessible to anyone: dld.bz/dgVTk @NASA
Space Shuttle heat shield tiles close up. Each is individually marked, and the darker ones are replacements which have not yet undergone re-entry.
There are tiny "moonlet" dust clouds lingering around Earth's Lagrange points at around the same distance as the Moon, as predicted by astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski.
The Arches cluster is so dense that if we were at its center we'd have 10,000 stars within a few light years.
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11K Followers 1K Following Deputy Opinion Editor: @globeandmail. Former Books Editor: @globebooks and @npbooks. Writing a book for @mcclellandbooks. Email: [email protected].@marsrader The (mostly forgotten) third verse of "Twinkle Twinkle" also recalls how essential stars were for navigation: "Then the trav'ller in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark, He could not see which way to go If you did not twinkle so."
After I was hooked by @marsrader reading his own sweeping exposition on 3+ millennia of seafaring, I ordered the hardcover too for $12 to scribble notes. Halfway through he calls out gold-bumblers Columbus and Magellan for having no clue of Eratosthenes 🔥 audible.com/pd/1508296758?…
@marsrader The same applies to the expression “sleep like a baby”
@marsrader And I suppose those dragons are not Big Birds.
@marsrader Pretty bad when A Clockwork Orange is best possible result!!
@marsrader 3% live in New York City. People’s PERCEPTION is that 30% live in NYC.
@marsrader Interesting the break point is at pet ownership.
@marsrader You definitely don't want to open up a door to let in some air.
@marsrader Apparently also the first use of a countdown, which lives on in launch operations today ?
@marsrader @mynameistardust Cherish this stage of her life. In the blink of an eye she will be a grown woman. I used to sing this to my 4 year old daughter: Twinkle Twinkle little star, we know exactly what you are . Up a trillion miles so high, a fusing ball of gas in the sky...<repeat verse >
@marsrader I went swimming in that tide when it came to Virginia. It was one of the best times of my life. Magical. Love this picture - thank you for sharing! Big smile.
@marsrader Space toilet Space beer Space sandwich Space Santa
@marsrader Space Hamster. Which is what my most recent short story is about.