Phil Metzger ✓
@DrPhiltill · Orlando, FL · joined 10 Dec 2012
Director, Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research & Education @UCF. Prev: co-founder NASA KSC Swamp Works. Space Mining. Space Settlement. Science.
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The Moon is Earth’s attic where the family history is stored. One of the many reasons we need to get back to the Moon!
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The Moon may keep an 80–100 million-year notebook of exploding stars. A new Physical Review Letters model of impact gardening shows how supernova debris gets buried and mixed in lunar regolith, and where Artemis deep cores should look.
https://t.co/4lxsJMenuH https://t.co/NAmPtr
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Wow, this is a great result from the @JAXA_en Hayabusa2 mission, which returned samples from asteroid Ryugu!The parent body of Ryugu (before it was shattered) had liquid brine under its surface that included Nitrogen-bearing molecules. This helps explain how N was delivered to
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On the path to lunar surface nuclear power by 2030: “Antares Selected for $161M Strategic Breakthrough Award to Demonstrate Space Reactor.”
https://t.co/7ykMwJY6T9
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U.S. seeks broader space cooperation with India: asks India to be a partner in the Artemis Moon base and encourages commercial space partnerships.
https://t.co/YwTj5bwHiR
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@DrPhiltill Hey Phil, why are you purposely dodging questions from national security expert @MvonRen regarding your debunking efforts on UAP?
As a Director, Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research & Education at @UCF, you certainly seem to be completely ignoring scie
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@DrPhiltill So much fun stuff to sift through...👍
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@DrPhiltill I haven't seen the first two yet, nor read through the threads presented here, but based on all the headlines in this thread I'm looking forward to looking at all of them.
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@DrPhiltill This is amazing. Thank you for sharing all this!
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Three collections of threads from over the years, sorted by how interesting (IMO). I hope you enjoy!
1. IMO, the best 🧵s.
https://t.co/PGIE3r1XqL
2. The 2nd best set.
https://t.co/Ygvlbezy0H
3. The 3rd best.
https://t.co/VMkJf4xgCd https://t.co/fuy7U8dJbI
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35/ Thruster blast tests on lunar landing pad concepts.
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34/ Classification is true science, and not insulting other cultures when naming planets.
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33/ Lost access to the Apollo data tapes, and what we did instead.
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32/ Why (we think) we kept the space shuttle launch pad tanks full for 40 years.
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27/ How I changed from skeptic to cautious believer in SBSP.
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26/ Why taxonomy matters: both for cognitive processes and for educating the public.
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25/ Some initial work on the economics of lunar water mining.
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24/ Critique of a critique of doing Mars missions. Geopolitics, technical competence, and more.
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22/ Why recent criticism of SBSP is not valid.
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21/ We are at a tipping point in moving civilization into space.
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20/ Easter egg hidden in Space Station test software.
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19/ Art on the old CIA listening station in Berlin.
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14/ Searching for a Space Shuttle Columbia part in canyon lands compared to the Chinese spy balloon.
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13/ How many planets in our Solar System…450? And why that matters.
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11/ Translating into modern English an inspirational quote from the 1600s about flying to the Moon.
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10/ How technology creates wealth so hoarders become poor.
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9/ Critique of the Grabby Civilization model. (BTW, I’m still refining a critique of the Doomsday Argument and the Self-Sampling Assumption, which underly this.)
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Against accounts of the same size
6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views3 858this account6 224median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.82%this account1.93%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %3.00%this account1.15%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 858 | 6 224 | 0.62× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.82% | 1.93% | 1.98× |
| Engagement rate | 3.00% | 1.15% | 2.61× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
34411 Nov
328
2.6K
2.5K
308.2K
623
49
7024 Jan
1001 Jul
4K14 Sep
3.6K
3.8K
6K
4.6K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.58%11 Nov
0.30%
0.19%
0.36%
0.16%
0.48%
2.04%
2.86%24 Jan
3.00%1 Jul
0.53%14 Sep
3.05%
3.23%
0.43%
3.00%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.15%.
What the audience does
Likes62.7%795 in total
Reposts11.0%139 in total
Replies5.0%63 in total
Bookmarks21.4%271 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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