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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 6 Oct 2013

    FYI: Angular Momentum -- The tendency, once set rotating, to keep rotating, unless another force acts to slow or stop it.

    9:43 PM - 6 Oct 2013
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      1. ᗰᗩтт 🚸‏ @highwaytolink 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson Neil go to bed

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      1. Mick West‏ @MickWest 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson the tendency to keep spinning. AKA the Fox News Effect.

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      1. Laura Hogan  ❄️‏ @holborne 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson The best thing I learned in physics is that skaters can do that fast twirling thing because of conservation of angular momentum.

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      1. Adam Seligman‏ @adamse 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson is that like centrifugal plot?

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      2. Wes Sheffield‏ @BeardedRiker 6 Oct 2013
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        @MattVATech @neiltyson Not so much in "Gravity".

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      4. Wes Sheffield‏ @BeardedRiker 6 Oct 2013
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        @MattVATech I'd say criticizing a moor that gives us the best representation of space walking yet is being a tad too critical.

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      6. Wes Sheffield‏ @BeardedRiker 6 Oct 2013
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        @MattVATech Then I'll never watch an episode of Star Trek again.

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      1. Natty‏ @phunanii 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson do electrons ever stop spinning?

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      1. Brian Dunning‏Verified account @BrianDunning 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson Your wording is suspiciously similar to that used by Klaatu when explaining inertia to Bobby.

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      2. Ham Solo‏ @FantasticHams 6 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson So is my ceiling fan in angular momentum or does that not count?

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      3. Michael O'Connor‏ @Asminthe 6 Oct 2013
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        @FantasticHams @neiltyson Angular momentum allows your fan to require less electricity to continue spinning than it otherwise would.

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      1. Changs Marangs‏ @changsmarangs 8 Nov 2013
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        “@neiltyson: FYI: Angular Momentum -- The tendency, once set rotating, to keep rotating, unless another force acts to slow or stop it.”

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      1. Grim Ruby  💀‏ @DizzyMissRuby 11 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson Why didn't the debris slow down after colliding with so many satellites?

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      1. Jo Thoning‏ @jthoning 9 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson its the reason almost everything rotates anti-clockwise.

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      1. NeoNeanderthal‏ @priyadarshic 8 Oct 2013
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        @neiltyson I understand Angular Momentum from experiments etc...but never intuitively. It always is mysterious.

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