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Space Koala

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Space Koala

@SpaceKoala

Space memes, fusion schemes, and x-fundie dreams Recurrent laryngeal nerve's #1 defender

Magacommunism reeducation camp

Joined August 2011

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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Oct 28, 2024
I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13
Peyman Milanfar
@docmilanfar
Oct 27, 2024
My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't. One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box 1/2
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Jul 11, 2025
Dinosaurs would get bodied the second they showed up anywhere it was legal to hunt them.
BasedSpaceGoji
@Based_SpaceGoji
Jul 10, 2025
What Jurassic Park/World opinion will leave people looking at you like this?
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Apr 18, 2025
There's a very real chance that most life arises on planets with gravity so high that crewed spaceflight just isn't practical.
øtherside
@otherside_X42
Apr 17, 2025
Good Luck getting to Orbit, Losers LMAOOOOOO
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Mar 19, 2024
This has got to be one of the hardest lines ever dropped by xkcd. xkcd.com/1520/
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Oct 16, 2025
Some days you really feel like we're seeing the future happen right before our eyes.
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Tokamak Energy
@TokamakEnergy
Oct 15, 2025
Plasma is better in colour! Watch one of our latest #plasma pulses in our ST40 tokamak, filmed using our new high-speed colour camera at an incredible 16,000 frames per second. Each pulse lasts around a fifth of a second. What you’re seeing is mostly visible light from the
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Dec 2, 2024
Bro really went
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Jul 19, 2025
Hint: it's not the billionaires saying no
Humble Flow
@HumbleFlow
Jul 18, 2025
Dear billionaires, what's preventing you from commissioning buildings like this?
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Apr 19, 2025
How did you serve on Europa?
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Oct 26, 2025
Nuclear export controls be like
Temu Oppenheimer
@1llegalEngineer
Oct 25, 2025
I desperately need someone living in chicago area to help me ship two 15kV 54uF Capacitors to Europe for my nuclear supercriticality experiments I can pay but I need someone to pick it up I can trade it for uranium or heavy water if interested
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Nov 10, 2025
I've seen and made memes with this image for a while, and only today learned that the artist Richard Hescox titled it "A Pacifist" And they say art is dead.
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Jul 31, 2025
The fact America doesn't have the lunar landing on our dollar bills is a travesty
Chris Hadfield
@Cmdr_Hadfield
Jul 31, 2025
Canada has been to space so many times it's on our money.
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Nov 30, 2024
"Magic doesn't exist" *Inscribes tiny runes into magic rocks to making thinking machines using processes beyond the understanding of almost all mortal minds*
ASML
@ASMLcompany
Nov 28, 2024
From early design to volume manufacturing, our computational lithography software enables chipmakers to optimize the chip patterning process. Layer by layer, chip by chip, wafer by wafer, computational lithography is helping push microchip technology to new limits.
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Apr 19, 2025
Replying to @ryanseanbadger
There's a great difference between life existing somewhere, and being able to launch a crewed spacecraft from there.
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Space Koala
@SpaceKoala
Jul 31, 2025
Look at our department in charge of nuclear energy, bro. They're handing the future to China, bro.
U.S. Department of Energy
@ENERGY
Jul 31, 2025
She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment✨
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