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) [ā¦]
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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Definitely not my best interview. But I did manage to make myself pretty excited about seeing the perspective from the astronauts looking back at the Earth as they swing around the Moon. That kind of perspective is the best part of astronomy or spaceflight [ā¦]
Currently playing the how-much-can-I-learn-about-Artemis-II-and-everything-related-in-8-minutes-before-the-interviewer-calls-me game
*Secret hilarious project* will be live in a few hours. I will hopefully be hiking around somewhere pretty without internet. But I'll write all about it when I'm back!
First, I have to talk about Artemis II for Radio New Zealand (and hopefully actually mostly steer the conversation toward [ā¦]
[food, alcohol]
*Secret hilarious project* required wine and cake to get over the finish line. Done! (I will share more about it tomorrow, when it stops being *secret* but hopefully continues to be *hilarious*)
Just turned in my University of Canterbury office key and got my last flat white from the really great place on campus. Time to submit the *hilarious secret project,* do one more Radio NZ interview tomorrow, and enjoy my last 3 days in NZ before I go back to [ā¦]
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Just submitted my personal Reflect Orbital reply comment to the FCC. And I managed to not throw my laptop out a window.
Reflect Orbital is a fucking terrible idea that will cause real physical harm with no benefit whatsoever.
Follow up: I didn't read carefully. This may have been caused by an internal explosion rather than a debris collision (similar to what happened to another Starlink satellite a couple months ago). So... SpaceX will make Kessler Syndrome happen even faster with their exploding satellites, I guess [ā¦]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hannorein/116319800679957972
Pew pew pew Kessler Syndrome here we come! (Ok yes, we're already in Kessler Syndrome, this is Kessler Syndrome: small collisions happen more and more frequently)
