RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/116295875711029533

I am so proud @Paulatics is part of my government!! Thank you for talking about this huge issue! This is such an excellent speech, and I hope this makes some sort of difference (as I'm pulling my hair out trying to help write responses to Reflect Orbital's horrifying FCC proposal for space mirrors)

Also, this speech means that I'm officially recognized by the Canadian Senate as a goat farmer and orbital dynamics expert. That's right up there with having an asteroid named after me!

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@stephanie @sundogplanets @Paulatics
Thank you so much @stephanie !! I get so much more from text.
@McRocker @sundogplanets @Paulatics You're very welcome! I wanted to *see* the goat farmer bit πŸ˜†

@stephanie @sundogplanets @Paulatics

I liked that the goat farmer career came before the professor career 🀣

@sundogplanets @Paulatics It is of course entirely your decision, but may I suggest "Goat Orbital Dynamics Expert?"

Purely in the interest of brevity, of course.

@jmax
That implies that she's an expert in goats in space, which is equally awesome πŸ˜„
@sundogplanets @Paulatics
@sundogplanets Thank you so much for bringing this whole matter to my attention and for meeting with me and my team. I literally could not and would not have been able to launch this inquiry without you. And I am grateful to Mastodon for connecting us in the first place.
@sundogplanets @Paulatics I am proud of both of you.
@sundogplanets @Paulatics And I admire that she is still masking in public. :)
@sundogplanets Unless it's the one that hits Earth...

@sundogplanets @Paulatics

"And when I spoke to doctors Bolley and Buyers a few months ago, they highlighted a separate grave risk - the danger of a piece of satellite
debris, smashing into a passenger plane traveling at jet speeds.

Now, I'm not Chicken Little. I'm not even Henny Penny. I know the sky is not falling and the risks are still low, but we are filling low Earth orbit with 10s of 1000s of new satellites without any clear sense of what will happen when, not if they come down."
πŸ‘πŸ™‚

@sundogplanets @Paulatics

"A 2023 study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used high altitude air sampling and found tiny particles of things including aluminum, silicon, copper, lead, lithium.

We are now using Earth's atmosphere and stratosphere as a garbage incinerator for space junk with no real idea of the long-term consequences, especially for our ozone layer.

Now, space may be the final frontier, but it's not entirely the Wild West."
πŸ‘

@AkaSci @sundogplanets @Paulatics
It's a scandal that the USA FCC is authorising most of these launches.

A regulator created to regulate radio spectrum in the USA, allocated by ITU (International Telecommunications Union, created in 19th C. and now part of UN).

The FCC is not fit for purpose for this.