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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Full list here: https://t.co/TdRgBYvnpm Shoutout to @udimsumulosesum for coining the very useful term "historical friend." — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Some types of not-so-great friendships: https://t.co/ff8cMakmiD — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Q1 is great. The rest not so much. https://t.co/wQbYoci6DT — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@SFXK @GreatDismal Think how cool the Greek god would have been. — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Light takes 2.5 million years to pass between the two galaxies, so if a fancy Andromeda alien is viewing us with a… https://t.co/bcwwUIZlJf — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
If Andromeda were brighter, this is how big it would be in our night sky. https://t.co/bbIY0M7F2I — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@Mattspace5 When a dick had another obvious category (in his case, political leader), I put them there. If I had ca… https://t.co/tWuvRE30Q8 — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@GireeshMandhale There are a lot of non-western names in the charts, but it's true that it's heavily western focuse… https://t.co/RzFi21dP7i — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
The first image is fuzzy in mobile, sorry. Comes through better in the post: https://t.co/zSQyRYqTsh — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Full post: https://t.co/zSQyRYqTsh — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
The US Civil War coincided with a legendary literary decade. Darwin: On the Origin of Species (1859) Dickens: A Tal… https://t.co/sHUdQ634hG — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
While Copernicus, Michelangelo, and Henry VIII were happening, it was also the height of European exploration (purp… https://t.co/LVGysIvwFP — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Copernicus’s seminal work was happening right when Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Henry V… https://t.co/9oUvsKoZBq — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
These four were all in their primes around the year 1610. https://t.co/Zzl4STnmMs — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Visuals can help us get a better sense of what was going on in different moments. Mozart wrote his Requiem the sa… https://t.co/QYcSR4udCr — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Visual lifespans: https://t.co/Y48FrhB4vm — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Some different ways to try to wrap your head around history. Famous people by birth decade, going back to 580 BC: (… https://t.co/pxmXYC92Z3 — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@Liv_Boeree Fancy visuals that I don't know how to make is cheating. — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
P.S. I'm doing so many astronomy tweets because I'm working on a SECRET EXCITING PROJECT that I'll announce soon. (… https://t.co/w0BM8WG9sQ — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Recent shocking moment was realizing for the first time that the Big Dipper is a side view of a normal-looking ladl… https://t.co/MpiyvR0nA1 — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@sensarpensar 10 times farther away than NYC to the sun. NYC to Saturn. — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@John_Gardi Yeah it's a lame red dwarf. Can't even see it with the naked eye. — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@dusty_joe Another way to think about it: Imagine you scale down a city so it fits onto a table. The cars that were… https://t.co/rTliOuijp4 — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@dusty_joe Because the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s. So if you scale down the universe to the size where th… https://t.co/9vahgYTngV — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@Liv_Boeree and I are nerd rap battle about this. https://t.co/EXhKByA2Vn — PolitiTweet.org
Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree
Imagine our sun is the size of a tennis ball. Now put that tennis ball on a court in central park, NYC. Our next… https://t.co/U9kWjaEsam
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
If the sun is a basketball in New York, the closest star to us is a golf ball in Warsaw. On that scale, the speed… https://t.co/DXiCnueMM3 — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
If I could eat a GIF, I'd choose this one. https://t.co/58T6t5ytat — PolitiTweet.org
〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 @InertialObservr
On an elliptical pool table (with a pocket at one of the foci), you literally can't miss when shooting from the oth… https://t.co/9GTEsHLYHD
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
RT @Astropartigirl: If you touch two CLEAN blocks of the same metal together in space, they weld! Atoms in solid metals move a bit. Touch t… — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
@simongerman600 Impressed with Iceland. — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
Sounds about right. https://t.co/eEtWajCKxi — PolitiTweet.org
