Jarred Green

@jarred.green

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PhD student in Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. Gamma rays. Deep learning. Web dev. Chocolate milk fanatic. LA -> Munich 🏳️‍🌈🍉✡️🎢 🚨Nerd alert! Home: jarred.green GitHub: github.com/astrojarred

A screenshot of a Wikipedia article entitled “Imperial Boomerang”.

The imperial boomerang or Foucault's boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.

Three large gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes pointed up towards a starry sky. The Milky Way and comet NEOWISE can be seen in the background.