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Radio waves and microwaves, yes, they work very much like ocean waves. Planets generate their own "sound" in radio waves. They amplify and cancel each other, all over the universe.
Gamma bursts are different, because they're charged particles.

I wonder, do the radio waves and microwaves and whatnot that astronomers receive from space have similar layers and harmonics to the sound waves we hear on earth? And, can you hear two gamma bursts or whatever interfere with each other as their waves cross paths, the way that the sound from separate ocean waves interact on the shore?

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In 2016, at the age of 89, Opal Lee walked 1,400 miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in an effort to get #Juneteenth recognized as a national holiday. Today we look to the stars and celebrate every step.
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#NASAExoplanets

Fedi is the most strange thing in the world.

On normal social media, you write a message and people just ignore it forever.

Here, you write a message, it stays ignored for 1 or 2 years, and then all of a sudden, for no reason, with no explanation, someone finds it somehow, boosts it, and it gets 200 likes and 120 boosts.

What the fuck.

I'm sure someone will boost this message in 2021 or 2022.
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@dmacphee it’s insane that we’ve reached a point where millions of people think that the right way to reach truth in medicine is for a doctor to go on the radio and debate a comedian.

Enormous bird dropping - 50p for scale.
(on top of a wall!)

Happy Father's Day to all the dads who may not have been present during procreation, but got here as soon as they could.

@AlisonW @ratcatcher@neurodifferent.me @veroalgoz @kacey @actuallyautistic

[shaking my head] It's like you people don't even know how to speak English.
These are braces:

@noondlyt @StefanThinks

Than you'd really hate what I propose:
Mandated that all pizza must have pineapple, anchovies and artichoke hearts until the country pulls it together.

I wrote about why Twitter has become a national security threat, and how its owner keeps making decisions that help violent autocrats and harm democracies around the world. Currently, Musk is not only re-platforming Kremlin-linked accounts β€” he’s amplifying them, despite Russia’s continued involvement in war crimes and the distribution of terroristic content.
weaponizedspaces.substack.com/

@Jaden2@mstdn.social

Time travel is hard to write about - it just about requires leaving logical loopholes, and hand-waving away a bunch of very real issues.
The books that have done it successfully (IMO) are the ones who embraced either the metaphor (ignore logic) or the reality (everything gets broken).

Example:
For you to exist, 1 sperm (and only that one) had to win a fight against 350,000,000 others. If your parents waited a day to conceive, you wouldn't exist. Time travel ruins everything.

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