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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 12 Dec 2012

    I'll use this, my 3000th tweet, offered on 12/12/12, to welcome new followers to my endless stream of cosmic brain droppings.

    5:55 AM - 12 Dec 2012
    • 829 Retweets
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    • Darren Bogus Gavin J. Porter 🇦🇺 Kristin Cox Jake Campbell ✨The Solar System✨ 52X Max 🌐‏ Nick Minor just here Stephen
    244 replies 829 retweets 881 likes
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      2. Frank La Vigne‏ @Tableteer 12 Dec 2012
        Replying to @neiltyson

        @neiltyson what if today is the Mayan apocalypse and the 21st was just a typo? ;)

        1 reply 4 retweets 7 likes
      3. John G‏ @jgrandef 12 Dec 2012
        Replying to @Tableteer

        @Tableteer @neiltyson - Scary, though its fairly hard to typo a monkey, a lizard, and a house!

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Frank La Vigne‏ @Tableteer 12 Dec 2012
        Replying to @jgrandef

        @jgrandef @neiltyson depends on how good their spell check was

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      1. Chester See‏Verified account @chestersee 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson Your catalogue of interviews kept me up last night. Thank you.

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      1. Matt Hart‏Verified account @TheMattHart 12 Dec 2012
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        @NeilTyson “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

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      1. Nikki Rice Malki‏ @MrsMalki 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson Eeew, I think I might have stepped in one of your droppings. I see stars on the bottom of my shoe. #classy

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      1. Anthoni Rossi‏ @Uncle_Anthoni 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson you are the best!

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      1. Alex Sharrard  🆗 🆒‏ @AlexSharrard 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson are you on acid?

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      1. HallowKady‏ @Nitekrawlr 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson cosmic fruit punch as it were.

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      1. Colette Koch‏ @raven2cu 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson thanks from The Netherlands

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      2. Tilo‏Verified account @TiloJung 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson please tell me you'll be around for the next 12/12/12 in a hundred years

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      1. Cheese Boots‏ @SghettyCorn 16 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson Is there some sort of algorithm that can be used to find out just how much wood a woodchuck could chuck?

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      1. R. Toby Richards‏ @rtobyr 13 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson Didn't George Carlin invent that phrase? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Droppings …

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      1. Riley John Gibbs‏ @RileyJohnGibbs 13 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson A tribute to base 10 and modular arithmetic!

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      1. Karen Fox‏ @karengfox 13 Dec 2012
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        .@neiltyson I'd gladly step in your (and George Carlin's) cosmic brain droppings any day.

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      1. Kathy Clifford‏ @solitha 13 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson What fertility your brain droppings bring to otherwise exhausted and sterile lives. Thank you!

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      1. Christopher Moore‏ @MrChristofr 12 Dec 2012
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        @neiltyson if January were the 13th month of the year, next month there would be 13/13/13

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