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Chelsea Whyte

@chelswhyte.bsky.social
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Senior Editor at New Scientist. Co-host of Dead Planets Society podcast

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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had no idea! How cool
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was this just like one Jesuit minister was super into geophysics and then they started a society? I'm fascinated
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The what? You know so many things robert
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
wowwww
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That and elderly folks, I guess? People really respond well to that plush seal robot thing that's a therapeutic companion
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
children!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was once on a very delayed flight out of NYC and they tried to get us to follow instructions after 7 hours of back to back 15 minute delays. People started pounding on the windows in the terminal shouting LET! US! FLY! Through the mayhem they also requested we board in groups. Absolute insanity
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I should have known, they both have such a neon aura
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How have I never been told before now that Olivia Newton-John was related to Max Born!!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Okay NOW I'm in
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Doesn't quite have the same ring
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
yep
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My favorite New Scientist story about Mercury begins: It should be signposted "Welcome to hell".
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
SAY ITS NAME
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I do thank all of you for alerting me to this glorious moment in sports history. Apols, I wouldn't be born for another year, and everyone in my life has failed me by never telling me about it before now :)
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
yesssss
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is an INCREDIBLE amount of mayhem. I want this at every sporting event. SEND OUT THE BANDS!!!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe they got the idea from the song -- seems to be 1982 (and, what an image) news.stanford.edu/stories/2022...
news.stanford.edu
Alumni panel marks 40th anniversary of ‘The Play’
The Stanford Historical Society recently convened Stanford and Berkeley alumni to recount the bizarre events surrounding the end of the 1982 Big Game – which has since become one of the most iconic pl...
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
!!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
what's the best visual in the lyrics of a song? i gotta say, the idea of the marching band refusing to yield to a crowd trying to take the field (American Pie) always makes me chuckle. i'm picturing saxophones flying, tubas swinging wildly to hit oncomers, the flag girls going absolutely berserk
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes to this, and for all places here and in the cosmos. I want my car to read me a poem instead of telling me to turn at the next stop sign
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Imagination never runs out
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
we can make up names. we have all of the brains here on Earth. we use up Craig and Gregory? Next one's Craigory
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is very good and everyone should listen to you
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
every star or galaxy should be given a regular ol' person name like Shelley or Greg, not some string of numbers
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Titan is a planet in my heart
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
MOON TARP! MOON TARP! now how much Kevlar or whatever are we gonna need
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Why does this thing look like a lobster fractal, like a Pokemon that got outta hand
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This was the best thing I've ever seen with my own eyes, hands down
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I wanna take your class
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wow, Ship, this is fantastic. Somehow I missed it until now
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yeah but on the other hand, reporting where it's so loud your sources have to write their quotes for you? Nice
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fantastic!!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It contains the greatest lyric: We run things, things don't run we
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Which song, and please say We Can't Stop
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I saw him perform in Boston and my memory is similar. His voice felt like it filled the universe
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Remember how it felt in the 90s to wait for an image to load line by line on the internet? That's the feeling I get when I have to verify I'm a human for every new tab I open
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
mike it makes my stomach hurt but i can't stop listening
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was a very stressful couple of months. We called animal control to pick up the carcasses and they said no, but told us to bury them and call back in a year when they were skeletons that they'd use for education. We moved before we had the chance but there's a little skunk graveyard at that house!
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We lived through a summer where the dog got 4 or 5 skunks and this was the mixture that worked the best. We got very good at making it quickly that year
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
but if you don't think about it, it will suddenly be RIGHT over your shoulder
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My percussionist twin brother plays a lot of things I couldn't hack, but sometimes there are avant garde pieces where it's like dropping rocks in buckets of water, which I could def pull off. And I would nail Cage's 4'33'', which I have watched "performed" many times out of sisterly obligation.
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I suspect Pinterest played a part but this is just a gut feeling
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Amazing!! So cool
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Brian, do it
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Could you... write one?
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You and me both, Paul
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If we don't get answers to this, I know I will spend my later years in a rocking chair mumbling to myself "what hath airbud wrought"
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Or did we happen upon some forbidden knowledge
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Chelsea Whyte @chelswhyte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It is a dog who plays basketball, and whose creation may have unleashed a strain of chaos cinema we are still experiencing
static.klipy.com
Air Bud Dunks in Basketball Game
ALT: Air Bud Dunks in Basketball Game
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