Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️
@larrynittler.bsky.social
Hermeochemist, Interstellar Dust Buster, and Cosmic Organist.
Professor @SESEASU
asteroid 5992
Opinions are my own.
pronouns: he/him/his
Professor @SESEASU
asteroid 5992
Opinions are my own.
pronouns: he/him/his
Why do people write additional posts to correct typos instead of just deleting the original and re-posting it? is there some algorithm that makes such re-done posts less visible?
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Why do people write additional posts to correct typos instead of just deleting the original and re-posting it? is there some algorithm that makes such re-done posts less visible?
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Squirrel
Mockingbird
Housefly
Another squirrel
A Fish (not sure of species)
Squirrel
Mockingbird
Housefly
Another squirrel
A Fish (not sure of species)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Walrus
Lynx
Weka
Beluga whale
Wolverine
Walrus
Lynx
Weka
Beluga whale
Wolverine
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Squirrel
Mockingbird
Housefly
Another squirrel
A Fish (not sure of species)
Squirrel
Mockingbird
Housefly
Another squirrel
A Fish (not sure of species)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
Sun Ra
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Odetta
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Smiths
Sun Ra
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Odetta
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Smiths
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
The Ramones
Kristen Hersh
The Rollins Band
Obituary
Julianna Hatfield
Alternate five:
Debbie Harry
Morrissey
Death
Aimee Mann
GWAR (Hell-o lineup)
The Ramones
Kristen Hersh
The Rollins Band
Obituary
Julianna Hatfield
Alternate five:
Debbie Harry
Morrissey
Death
Aimee Mann
GWAR (Hell-o lineup)
B-52s
New Order
Pussy Riot
Disney On Ice
Tyler The Creator
Renee Rapp
New Order
Pussy Riot
Disney On Ice
Tyler The Creator
Renee Rapp
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
Sun Ra
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Odetta
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Smiths
Sun Ra
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Odetta
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Smiths
"Starship" is quite a name for a rocket that can't even escape low-earth orbit. Maybe it's a tribute to the rock band
Starship doesn’t have enough launch fuel to escape low-earth-orbit, so SpaceX’s plan for Artemis III is to launch one, and then launch a bunch more Starships (at least 14!!) with a cargo of extra fuel, and gradually refuel the first one in orbit so it can get it the moon
That’s the actual plan
That’s the actual plan
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Starship" is quite a name for a rocket that can't even escape low-earth orbit. Maybe it's a tribute to the rock band
Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships.
Of all the wrongiest wrong things anyone has ever posted, this is the wrongest 🥧
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Of all the wrongiest wrong things anyone has ever posted, this is the wrongest 🥧
You can actually hear him slurring his words as he wrote this
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
You can actually hear him slurring his words as he wrote this
1. Star Wars II: The Wrath of Jar-Jar
2. Dirty Dancing 3: Alderaan Nights
3. My Dinner with Chewbacca
4. The Hothman Cometh
5. Cannonball Run II
2. Dirty Dancing 3: Alderaan Nights
3. My Dinner with Chewbacca
4. The Hothman Cometh
5. Cannonball Run II
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
1. Star Wars II: The Wrath of Jar-Jar
2. Dirty Dancing 3: Alderaan Nights
3. My Dinner with Chewbacca
4. The Hothman Cometh
5. Cannonball Run II
2. Dirty Dancing 3: Alderaan Nights
3. My Dinner with Chewbacca
4. The Hothman Cometh
5. Cannonball Run II
"You'll be visited by three sprits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"You'll be visited by three sprits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
🧪
Huh.
A volcano in Ethiopia where there is no record of eruption for about the last ~10,000 - 12,000 years (short on geological timescales) erupted and there happened to be an Earth Observing satellite overhead at the time to catch it!
[alt-text: images showing volcanic plume rising from eruption]
A volcano in Ethiopia where there is no record of eruption for about the last ~10,000 - 12,000 years (short on geological timescales) erupted and there happened to be an Earth Observing satellite overhead at the time to catch it!
[alt-text: images showing volcanic plume rising from eruption]
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
Reposted by Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Did Melville write during Trump II?
He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Did Melville write during Trump II?
Reposted by Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
The human brain uses a few hundred M&Ms worth of glucose every day
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The human brain uses a few hundred M&Ms worth of glucose every day
Good takedown of Harvard Man's alien spaceship BS including real science from @deschscoveries.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9o...
Avi Loeb is a Fraud Part 2: 3I/ATLAS Shrugged
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Good takedown of Harvard Man's alien spaceship BS including real science from @deschscoveries.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9o...
Has Speaker Johnson told any reporters yet that he hasn't heard about Trump's call to execute Dem congresscritters?
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Has Speaker Johnson told any reporters yet that he hasn't heard about Trump's call to execute Dem congresscritters?
Permission requested to cancel all meetings and spend day watching baby cheetah cam
nationalzoo.si.edu/news/litter-...
nationalzoo.si.edu/news/litter-...
Litter of Four Cheetah Cubs Born at Front Royal Campus, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia are celebrating the births of a litter of cheetah cubs.
nationalzoo.si.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Permission requested to cancel all meetings and spend day watching baby cheetah cam
nationalzoo.si.edu/news/litter-...
nationalzoo.si.edu/news/litter-...
Ok, I may teach at ASU and not Harvard, but I can 100% guarantee I will never have to start a class apologizing for getting caught emailing a known pedophile about how to seduce a student
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Ok, I may teach at ASU and not Harvard, but I can 100% guarantee I will never have to start a class apologizing for getting caught emailing a known pedophile about how to seduce a student
I note that the Trump Administration has issued 212 Executive Orders. Nowhere on the #LPSC2026 page does it state which of these EOS abstracts are required to be compliant with, or how this will be determined.
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I note that the Trump Administration has issued 212 Executive Orders. Nowhere on the #LPSC2026 page does it state which of these EOS abstracts are required to be compliant with, or how this will be determined.
Reposted by Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️
Thanks to Chris Young at Interesting Engineering for the chance to contextualize 3I/ATLAS. I would have preferred two thumbnails of the comet itself, but... enjoy.
interestingengineering.com/space/3i-atl...
interestingengineering.com/space/3i-atl...
3I/ATLAS: A city-sized alien spacecraft or simply the ‘coolest comet’ ever seen?
Harvard professor Avi Loeb claims 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft. Arizona State University professor Steven Desch is sure it isn't.
interestingengineering.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thanks to Chris Young at Interesting Engineering for the chance to contextualize 3I/ATLAS. I would have preferred two thumbnails of the comet itself, but... enjoy.
interestingengineering.com/space/3i-atl...
interestingengineering.com/space/3i-atl...
I urge every single person submitting an abstract, no matter the topic, to end with the sentence: "Also, DEI is good, actually"
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I urge every single person submitting an abstract, no matter the topic, to end with the sentence: "Also, DEI is good, actually"
Finally got a website up for my research group at ASU. Not too much there yet (except complete publication list). I despise "The [PI] Lab" naming scheme that is rapidly taking over physical science, and also cute acronyms, so I have a dumb acronym (L'Group for Larry's group) 🧪
larrynittler.space
larrynittler.space
L'Group - Home
larrynittler.space
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Finally got a website up for my research group at ASU. Not too much there yet (except complete publication list). I despise "The [PI] Lab" naming scheme that is rapidly taking over physical science, and also cute acronyms, so I have a dumb acronym (L'Group for Larry's group) 🧪
larrynittler.space
larrynittler.space
What do Donald Trump and Harvard University have in common? They only hire the best people!
(cf also Avi Loeb)
(cf also Avi Loeb)
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
What do Donald Trump and Harvard University have in common? They only hire the best people!
(cf also Avi Loeb)
(cf also Avi Loeb)