Brad Snowder @Skywise@octodon.social

Ptolemy was once the world's leading authority on astronomy. He invented a device made of 2 intersecting rulers for smacking people who disagreed.

I like to remind myself that every hour I'm forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13.

Johann Bode and Johann Titius were astronomers back when pretty much everyone was named Johann. They made a thingy about planets.

Sometimes a comet's orbit gets perturbed. That’s astronomy talk for when gravity does something annoying.

I have a trade deficit with Starbucks.

We are unfortunately unable to bring you any new and interesting recipes from Brad.

Brad's Beans with Bacon
1. Cook some beans.
2. Cook some bacon.
3. Put the bacon in the beans.
It's bean with bacon time.

Brad's Beans
1. Get some water.
2. Put some beans in the water.
3. Cook until the little buggers get soft.
It's bean time.

Brad's Soup
1. Put some water in a pan.
2. Put it on the stove and get it hot.
3. Put a bunch of stuff in the water.
4. Cook until the stuff gets all soupy.
It's soup time.

Pluto is not a real dog.

Elvis was part Cherokee and thus related to Moses, according to the Mormons. Take your time.

You know how you can feel the subway train is coming by the sudden change in barometric pressure? That's the same as how I know the fifth graders are approaching the planetarium.

Venus is very hot because of the greenhouse effect, which is something first proposed by Carl Sagan back before things like rocks and air and sunlight became political.

Like Chipotle’s restaurant, Mercury has almost no atmosphere. So the side facing towards the Sun is sizzling hot and the side facing away is icy cold like a microwaved leftover burrito.

Earth – fifth largest planet and the cheapest to explore.

"This is not a democracy so shut up and bring me an asteroid." ~ Jupiter – king of the gods

A planet is a celestial body that…
1. Goes around a star.
2. Is sort of round-ish.
3. Has cleared out its neighborhood like a boss.

A dwarf planet is a celestial body that…
Has a name that rhymes with Bluto, maybe a couple of other words.

America would you say you are very satisfied with being lied to, somewhat satisfied, sort of kind of satisfied, or just plain satisfied?

We don't know everything about the early universe, but we are pretty sure there was swirly goo in the cosmic poo.

Time keeps everything from happening at once.