The University of Maryland Astronomical Society - - A group of students at the University of Maryland who are either astronomy majors, or interested in the field of astronomy. The group meets every so often to discuss recent news in astronomy and/or space flight and is open to all who are interested.
Student 1: "Hey, is there a group on campus dedicated to astronomy?"
Student 2: "Yeah, the AstroTerps, go to CSS and ask around about joining, anyone who's interested can be a member."
Student 2: "Yeah, the AstroTerps, go to CSS and ask around about joining, anyone who's interested can be a member."
by orbital physicist November 6, 2009
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Most of the people defending this anti-trans bigot are puppet accounts with stock photos of women for avatars. Literal fake women supporting transphobia: typical astroTERFing!
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The combination of astroturf and TERF. The spamming of feminism-themed transphobic opinions in media at a scale disproportional to actual opinion.
With recent polls suggesting that more women are accepting of trans women than not, what we see on Twitter every day may as well be astroterf.
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Did you see all the fools astroderping for Amazon recently? Similar to astroturfing except the people posting are too dumb to get away with it.
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