Mastodawn

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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@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."
👍🙂