Twitter Locus
Monday, August 24th, 2009 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineMore astronauts are Tweeting! AstroTwins Mark Kelly (ShuttleCDRKelly) and Scott Kelly (StationCDRKelly). I'm now following them both, have tweeted both, and today Scott Kelly tweeted back. His original tweet was:
So in a look-at-me-I'm-a-space-fangirl way, I asked him if this was a mathematical joke rather than a typing error. But he replied! First tweet from an astronaut.
But now I'm wondering if it is actually possible to be attacked by a locus? Can the more mathematically-minded people confirm this? IIRC a locus can take the form of a point, a line, or a plane, so it sounds like it could happen. Does a giant locust constitute a locus within space-time?
No reply yet from Mark Kelly, which was even more of a pathetic fangirl tweet. So I'm assuming he'll choose to ignore that one.
So in a look-at-me-I'm-a-space-fangirl way, I asked him if this was a mathematical joke rather than a typing error. But he replied! First tweet from an astronaut.
But now I'm wondering if it is actually possible to be attacked by a locus? Can the more mathematically-minded people confirm this? IIRC a locus can take the form of a point, a line, or a plane, so it sounds like it could happen. Does a giant locust constitute a locus within space-time?
No reply yet from Mark Kelly, which was even more of a pathetic fangirl tweet. So I'm assuming he'll choose to ignore that one.
