@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Just had an excellent interview for the New Zealand Young Farmers podcast about farming careers, non-farming careers, why farmers are so important for dark sky access, why farmers are more reliant on Starlink than most people and how to change that, why farmers are the ones most impacted (sometimes literally) by space debris, and having good relationships with the land you live on and the sky you live beneath. That was fun!
Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.
Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.
SpaceX is truly awful.
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