Jon TroncDec 29, 2022
Hank Green
The space of time between Mendeleev’s first stab at a periodic table and Einstein’s paper on special relativity was smaller than the time between the release of Goonies and today.
Dec 28, 2022 at 8:21pmWeb
Show threadFM  🧦Dec 28, 2022
@hankgreen gotta go fast
Show threadelisa Dec 28, 2022
@hankgreen it's all relative 🤷‍♀️
Show threadJillian PriceDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen I am fascinated at how your brain works
Show threadWinkletterDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen I agree, it's well past time for a Goonies sequel.
Show threadTrisResistsDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen
Thanks for that perspective Hank. 😂
Show threadStephan Zielinski ❓Dec 28, 2022
@hankgreen wouldn't have taken as long if mendeleev hadnt freaked out the other chemists waving his stupid knife around
Show thread☕️ NerdfighterNichole 🧦Dec 28, 2022
@hankgreen sometimes science moves fast!! 🤷🏻‍♀️
Show threadTStarnesDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen Thanks Hank. I forgot I was old for a second, but you've highlighted it again just in time for the new year. 😆
Show threadDaniel SimondsDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen Goonies?
Show threadelisa Dec 28, 2022
@djsimonds it is a movie from the 1980s
Show threadsounds made by chip bagsDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen wow. That is a stark reality I was not prepared to read today.
Show threadkestrel Dec 28, 2022
@hankgreen so what went wrong
Show threadSproDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen .....Wow.
Show threadPaul MartinDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen The comparison I usually go for is the space of time between Glenn Miller's loss and the Beatles splitting up. So much changed in music in that short time.
Show threadKarlDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen glad you’re here!
Show threadRMS06510Dec 28, 2022
@hankgreen yeah, everything kind of came together all at once. It almost seems like subatomic quantum stuff was an interesting footnote, while cosmology & nuclear was the big 20th century story
Show threadNoah LiebmanDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen something I hadn’t fully realized until reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb last year was that they went from figuring out what atoms are to realizing neutrons exist to a working “gadget” in like 50 years. Meitner’s theoretical explanation of fission wasn’t until 1938/1939.
Show threadjack the nonabrasiveDec 28, 2022
@hankgreen a twin traveling at close to c relative to their other twin NEVER SAYS DIE
Show threadFyzzlefryDec 29, 2022
@hankgreen Thanks for that.
Show threadAlice ZhangDec 29, 2022
@hankgreen 😲 The periodic table is that recent?!
Show threadDavid WheelerDec 29, 2022
@hankgreen Same as Pong to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Show threadteleozoicDec 29, 2022
my takeaway: i've been alive since before Goonies and barely accomplished shit. the real benefit to humanity would have been a catalog of all the material Einstein learned from, where's that, @hankgreen ?
Show threadBrian HyndsDec 29, 2022
@hankgreen “Hey you guys! E=mc^2!” ... Man, this makes me feel old, though.
Show threadDani (She/They)Dec 29, 2022
@hankgreen To be fair those two things aren't that related.
Show threadTía CocoDec 29, 2022
@hankgreen dang! What have I been doing with my life?
Show threadMoshe ZadkaDec 29, 2022
@hankgreen I guess more relevant (same span of time) is to Einstein's paper about brownian motion, which is largely considered the paper that cemented the "atomic theory of matter" as confirmed.
Show threadDavid SenkDec 30, 2022

@hankgreen and we went from “first flight” to “walking on the moon” in a single lifetime.

Bring back more science funding. Let smart people do cool shit, who knows where it will end up.

Bell Labs was an absolute world wonder in its heyday. Practically unlimited budgets for smart people doing cool shit got us the transistor, Unix, etc!

Show threadAnekiJan 2, 2023
@hankgreen staaaahp
Show threadskottkJan 2, 2023
@hankgreen but the effort it took Einstein to publish a single toot made digital social networks all but impossible. Think of all the toots we’ll never see from that dark age!
Show threadDustin Malama GarciaJan 10, 2023
@hankgreen God, this… something