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Amy’s Space
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I code, I film, I study astrophysics. ❤️🤩
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The dumbing down of America. (Sadly, those who should read and understand this, cannot.)
Excerpt from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book “The Demon-Haunted World”: I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness… The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
January 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
Actor Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, a Harry Potter character. Here she is holding a magic wand like she’s ready for action.
December 24, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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❤️❤️❤️
“Sometimes science is a lot more art than science. A lot of people don’t get that.” -Rick Sanchez, Earth Dimension C-137 From cartoon “Rick and Morty”
December 21, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Attended a brilliant lecture by Jason Dworkin on OSIRIS-REx gathering samples off asteroid Bennu. Quite an impressive feat through the hiccups!
PowerPoint slide (with a detailed depiction of grey, rocky asteroid Bennu) that says: OSRIS-REx Returned a Piece of the Early Solar System Jason Dworkin OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 21 November 2024
November 22, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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The deeper I go into physics, the more I’m like the guy on the bottom instead of the one on top. 😅🙃
Top portion of meme says, “Newton with an apple,” and shows someone in front of a massive chalkboard covered in data. Bottom portion of meme says, “Me with an apple,” and first shows an apple with a sticker on it and a man. Under it is an apple without the sticker and a man wearing the sticker on his forehead.
November 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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I’m enjoying the deep dive though 😅
Comic from SeekersOfThrCosmos on IG: Dino 1 is standing on the shore asking, “I want to be an astronomer, can I?” And Dino 2 who is in the water says, “Sure! Come in!” And Dino 2 says, “THANKS!” and he jumps in the water. And on the way to the bottom he sees the words “Maths, Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Particle physics, and Quantum Physics” to which he replies, “Motherfu-“.
October 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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He could be a Todd. ❤️ Or a Walter. ❤️ Or he could be the Grink. ❤️
Tweet from @murrman5: [me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
October 24, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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George Wallace tweet: I’ll snooze and win I don’t give a shit.
October 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Less light pollution = more stars.
A positive in a sea of chaos.

(We do have power, though so many around us do not. We’re lucky!❤️)
More stars than I’ve ever seen from my home’s night sky.
October 1, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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Um…I might need these shoes.
Alpargata Cloudbound Toms shoes, black with colorful math calculations on them.
September 13, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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They did it! Congrats to SpaceX for a successful mission! I’m excited for the doors they just opened for more exploration and learning! ❤️🛰️🔭
Jared Isaacman emerged out of the Skywalker hatch during his spacewalk.
September 12, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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😊😅
Person with stick poking at something, caption reads, “C’mon, do something…”
September 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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I made a cute little moon phase ring.
😊❤️🌒🌕🌘
Moon phase ring I made with black and silver beads Moon phase ring I made with black and silver beads
September 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Taylor Swift, holding her cat. A proud “childless cat lady” who just endorsed Kamala Harris 2024
September 11, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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It’s back!🛰️⭐️🎉
From CNN: “Starliner touches down. The Boeing Starliner spacecraft - nicknamed Calypso - has finally hit terra firma. Three large parachutes and airbags softened its touchdown. And the spacecraft has made it ‘safely back to the desert floor,’ according to NASA’s webcast hosts.”
September 7, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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Any day now we’ll be able to see the T Coronae Borealis nova explosion that happened 2600 years ago. #astronomy #astrophysics 🛰️
Skeleton sitting on a park bench looking up with the caption, “Waiting to view the T CrB nova explosion”
September 3, 2024 at 8:18 AM