@neiltyson How high off that schoolroom globe would ISS be?
The "Edge of Space" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.
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@cairmaid In round numbers, Earth is 8,000 miles across. The ISS orbits around 230 miles up. So the ISS altitude is around 2.8% of the...
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@neiltyson Unfortunately, the effect of the fisheye cam is more eloquent than truth. -
@DonMostrenco Two very bright ISS passes tonight. First one comes up 20:05 in Northwest. http://twisst.nl/66916
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@neiltyson Q: could an astronaut "space jump" in the event of damage to station/craft and survive?#fartherthanfelixThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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@neiltyson but that last tweet was just him being an ass. Not cool. -
@sonic43 Like the time you demanded that people who favorite your tweets also retweet them? Yeah. Not cool at all. -
@FakeRobHunter This conversation is about me, Hunter!
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@neiltyson All this tells me is we need to go farther, do greater things. Aim for the stars.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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@neiltyson Mind blown.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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@neiltyson Where we stand our world consumes us, from the cusp of space our world is digestible, but from Andromeda our world is unnoticedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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@neiltyson a "schoolroom globe"? Those have been replaced with cutouts of Justin Beber. Its a popularity thing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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@neiltyson well that kinda takes the wind out of it -
@iluvgadgets Yeah, he had a habit of being a wet blanket. -
@theillien it felt like a modern day moon landing moment for me, i loved every minute of it, tho i didnt watch all 2 hours of the ascent
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@neiltyson not even close to edge of space (100km?), but - still takes balls of steel, or no brains, or both :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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@neiltyson So Felix only stepped out 23 miles up. It's still a marvelous feat.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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You wouldn't expect someone with this much attention to detail to overlook a lost comma in his Twitter description, right
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@Boris Could well be a deliberately placed mindfuck.
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