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Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 02:43:43 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

Just a reminder that Tuesday evening (my time) is my #SolsticeSchool talk for the Fediverse. Sign up here https://solsticeschool.scholar.social/2024/programme/ to hear the 15 minute version of the space junk falling on Saskatchewan saga, and what that has to do with 1960s international treaties, Starlink, and donuts, and then ask me questions for 45 minutes.
Spoilers (ha) in this thread https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112412755270980994 and SciAm article https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/
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  I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353 This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)
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  When Space Junk Fell on My Neighbor’s Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us
  
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  A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk

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