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Kevin 🚀

@astro-kevin.com
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Spacecraft operator, democracy & bureaucracy enjoyer Previously at NASA, Stanford, UT Austin

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 04/10/2026
Thanks, abc7
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 01/10/2026
Tom wambsgans from succession asking a conservative media host “just checking the till here, aren’t we missing one” after the host leaves out Jews as victims of World War II
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 28/09/2026
disc horse bot is on a heater rn
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 21/09/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/09/2026
So it was a Palantir AI tool that contributed to this horrific war crime
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 12/09/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/09/2026
The nonsense “space lasers” gets the headline and then the last sentence of the article is just
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 04/09/2026
They’re calling me the anti-Jerry Looks like my time in Texas and CA has averaged out l
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 03/09/2026
gork does this mean twitter doesn't deserve public trust?
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 01/09/2026
If you take this and replace the awe/wonder with sneering arrogance, you get SpaceX investor dude bros
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 01/09/2026
Ok phew this is promising, for now
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 31/08/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 30/08/2026
Uhhhh…. that doesn’t sound very good
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 30/08/2026
We can either stop emitting greenhouse gases and use Lagrange points for things like the Roman telescope. Or, we can continue to light our world on fire and trust that the guy who, according to some studies, killed as many as 14M people, will send out his “sentient” satellites to fix everything.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 29/08/2026
Same energy
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 28/08/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 24/08/2026
This is correct but it’s also malpractice to have to buried so low without mentioning that the architect of project 2025 is now heading up OMB.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 24/08/2026
Good lord
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 24/08/2026
People who treat this technicality as their personal space 9/11 should grow up, and that includes NASA itself, which is over on threads being weird about it
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 22/08/2026
They keep inventing worse and worse replacements for the perfectly fine word “sandwich”
Menu screenshot with “wichs & burgers” section
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 19/08/2026
Help I’m going to a garden party this weekend and want to build an outfit around this sport coat. Anyone have advice?
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/08/2026
Lmao
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 13/08/2026
Re-read JFK's "choose to go the Moon" speech and this paragraph struck me- you don't see many Democrats willing to own the costs associated with trying to build a better world, and then commit to going after it anyway even though the rewards aren't always clear. A real lack of "faith and vision"
To be sure, all of this costs us all a good deal of money. This year’s space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400,000,000 a year — a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United States, for we have given this program a high national priority — even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 11/08/2026
Someone should tell the NYT that this is where the real Centrists live
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 24/07/2026
This is what center-right weirdos look like criticizing the DSA
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 23/07/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/07/2026
Rest in piss Milton Friedman
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 18/07/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 14/07/2026
There’s never been a more sports/history/politics crossover app
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 14/07/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 13/07/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/07/2026
This is the guy who wants to be able to point sunlight anywhere on earth at any time
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/07/2026
Senators should be more than news aggregators or extensions of special interest whims
Guy standing alone in courtroom meme
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/07/2026
Guy with hand on shoulder about to deliver bad news meme
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 09/07/2026
“What?” - Joe Biden
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 08/07/2026
Quick succession, high fidelity measurements during a solar storm show that the solar wind can dominate the magnetic field, at least in the altitude that TRACERS is flying
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 08/07/2026
Cool paper from the NASA TRACERS science team showing that solar wind has a significant effect on the magnetosphere, even on short time scales agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 07/07/2026
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 06/07/2026
Starlink is also responsible for the vast majority of conjunction events (which require an operator response) between satellites
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 06/07/2026
We still have a chance to keep space usable, but it would require treating space, especially LEO, as a finite resource and really picking and choosing what types of missions will benefit life on Earth the most.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 06/07/2026
Here are a few of the most striking plots from the @esa.int space environment report. Over 75% objects in space are now Starlink satellites. Without regulation, key orbits will become overwhelmed and unusable. This problem is only getting worse as other space billionaires attempt to compete w/ Musk.
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 02/07/2026
Found Elon's burner
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 30/06/2026
Yeah man totally normal engineering development process to coopt an engineering version of an old mission for another planet and cobble something together for a different environment and different science goals. (I’m going insane just reading this)
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 29/06/2026
This was quite obvious to most everyone on this site
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 29/06/2026
Every day I wake up and my impostor syndrome is undone by NYT opinion columnists
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 29/06/2026
Yeah man some of us were not stupid enough to believe this. And the reckoning that's coming will make woke 1 look like child's play. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/06/2026
Someone needs to get Zach Woods on here STAT
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/06/2026
“How does a high percentage chance become a low percentage chance?????” There’s this crazy concept called “things change”
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 09/06/2026
There’s no good reason for taking this position and it makes me wish there had been a decent primary challenger to you, Ted
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 07/06/2026
Approved by the shiny post labeler
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