P(David|Kipping) ∝ P(Kipping|David) P(David)
@david_kipping
Followers
19K
Following
10K
Media
2K
Statuses
11K
Exoplanets & Exomoons, Cool Worlds Lab, Columbia University. Be kind to one another.
Sol-d
Joined March 2009
We’re a bunch of terrified, hairless apes who will all soon die and be forgotten. Perhaps the only meaning is presentism, found in small acts of kindness to one another, compassion for our fellow companions. Be kind to one another.
18
6
62
The Universe is a terrifyingly stark & cold place. As far as we can see, fast travel is prohibited, there’s no-one else out there & death is an inevitable end. Even legacy is one day forgotten. It’s as if the cosmos is telling us that what really matters is right here, right now.
66
17
133
This isn’t accurate. The SETI paper says that it IS a natural object:
21
38
421
OK, yes, that was a joke. Cameras, like those used by TESS, have square pixels. For this camera, each pixel spans 21 arc seconds on the sky. So anything smaller than this (e.g. nearest stars are milli-arcseconds across) gets smudged out into blocks like this.
2
1
25
Holy shit guys... @NASA_TESS imaged TIC 261136679 and just look at what it saw - does that look like a "star" to you? And it gets even worse. It turns out all so-called stars imaged by TESS look like this! source: https://t.co/miQgMN4kNo
19
6
60
I wish folks would stop saying astronomers aren’t open-minded about the possibility of aliens visiting the Solar System. We’ve been talking this about since the 60’s! eg Bracewell argued aliens might leave monitoring stations on or near inhabited worlds https://t.co/d6CrFDnYyC
nature.com
Nature - Communications from Superior Galactic Communities
20
14
98
It has to stop
AI-generated content is flooding the internet, from videos and music to news and books. On top of that, generative AI is making false information look more convincing than ever. We're entering a new era of information overload, and figuring out what's real and what's not is
7
5
74
First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍 Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus. Read more 👉 https://t.co/LYT2kHpwa7
115
399
1K
This is what my YouTube Studio app recommends I imitate to improve growth…
4
0
60
Simeon has confirmed what I suspected in this video, the Navcam image doing the rounds is NOT 3I/ATLAS, but is in fact Phobos. I had that in my original script as a strong hunch but scrubbed it last second, but great to see it confirmed here!
1
2
25
3I/ATLAS has become a magnet for pseudoscience like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my lifetime. There’s a vast audience out there who apparently don’t question the ludicrous claims floating around. Naivety and gullibility used to be ridiculed, but somehow it’s become the norm.
69
43
310
3I/ATLAS, a quick update.
10
12
88
Another camera on Perseverance, Navcam, seems to show an independent detection: https://t.co/W4PAmZcxWc
mars.nasa.gov
Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in Jezero Crater.
0
0
5
I’m not sure we’re going to learn much scientifically from such low quality images from a camera not designed for such work, but it’s an impressive feat if validated by the Perseverance team.
2
0
4
It appears that https://t.co/qq7J370Fyx was first to find it by comparing 20 image stack to predicted position from Stellarium. Note how in this 10-min stack all the stars streak and the candidate 3I/ATLAS is still barely perceptible.
1
0
5