Marc Fries
@WarrantyViolatr
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Planetary scientist, meteorite fall finder, and other assorted adjectives. I like to open the box and see how the machine works. Views are mine, go get your own
Houston, TX
Joined February 2010
RT @volcaholic1: Amazing capture of a meteor streaking through the clouds over Athens, Greece, this morning š š¹ Ilioupolis meteorologicalā¦
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RT @tony873004: Here are 70 clones of #asteroid 2024 YR4 that do hit Earth, highlighting the impact risk corridor. There are some big citieā¦
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RT @tony873004: #asteroid 2024 YR4 and 200 clones pass through the Earth-Moon system on Dec 22, 2032. Three of these clones hit Earth. Anotā¦
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Can confirm that trying to do research in a university setting is exceedingly difficult, despite the large dollars that flow through the process. There is ample room for procedural change. Just make sure to give the profs a voice in steering the changes.
Absolutely. Universities are among the largest drains on taxpayer money in my dataset. They receive massive funding from NGOs and USAID, and they take more government grants on top of that. Meanwhile, anonymous professors have reported to me that true scientific research is stagnating due to DEI mandates and administrative bloat. On top of that, countless young people are left burdened with debt. At the very least, we should start offsetting student loan defaults with the grants these institutions receive.
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RT @TheShawnHendrix: When we were saving families from sleeping in tents. FEMA was spending 59m a week on hotels for illegals. TO BE CLEARā¦
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RT @volcaholic1: A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over Japan! Captured from Mt. Fuji, a camera aimed toward the northern sky recorā¦
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RT @WxNB_: Watch the waves from yesterdayās M7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea roll across seismic stations in North America. https://t.cā¦
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@NASA_SLS First off, the newer Metallica is wretched. Itās what you get when the band is too rich to write solid music. Second, this would only have been exciting if youād done it ten years and a giant pile of money ago.
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And it was 100% effective. There is not a single reference it literature to a bombing incident. šš»
Itās a little known fact that the Vikings covered the roof of their houses with grass so that enemy aircraft bombers couldnāt see them
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This is important to prevent future flooding. Itās a common-sense thing to do in a flooded region and should have been a priority at the outset. Glad to see itās finally getting done.
šØ#BREAKING: The US Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed that, "100% of ALL waterway debris will be removed from Buncombe County NC by June 1st..." They also confirmed that President Trump's executive order has caused, "a huge surge" in cleanup efforts. LET'S GO!!!!!!
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Clearly, cutting into space exploration to āfix problems here on Earthā is a silly argument. Waste, fraud, and abuse in the U.S. government alone amounts to multiples of NASAās entire budget.
The level of outright fraud in entitlement payments in the US - according to existing Treasury staff, not the DOGE guys - is around double the entire budget of NASA. Donāt let anybody ever tell you space is too expensive, or that we should āfix problems on earth firstā
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RT @Firefly_Space: Blue Ghost has "merged" onto the highway to the Moon! After a successful Trans Lunar Injection burn, our lander has leftā¦
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The Earth 3.2 Ga ago. It is a watery world because the continents have only started growing, and the moon was only about 1/3rd its distance from present-day Earth. Tides would have been ~9x higher and stronger as a result.
Here's a painting I made of the Earth 3.2 billion years ago. I hardly post here now because my feed is just clickbait and angry RW dorks. #geology #paleontology #sciart #paleoart
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Oh my I think I know what this is about, and it will be a whole new dimension of awesome.
*Cracks knuckles* *Unzips the Wikipedia archive* *Writes code* Hey @Wikimedia, your censorship of populist voices is about to backfire. š
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@rnell2 SciFi looks to the future but in this case is defining the kind of world we want to live in today. So we want a world where all are free to speak their minds? Of course, and the community took the correct stand. Bravo.
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New Deimos imagery incomingā¦
On 12 March the #HeraMission will perform a Mars gravity assist flying at about 5000km altitude and 300km from Deimos. The trajectory was actually corrected to enable this close passage of Deimos, we hope to image it with our hyperspectral camera #planetarydefense š¦
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