Mastodawn

Feeling extremely burned out on my academic work, which lately has been almost 100% focused on satellite pollution. So I spent all weekend doing farm work instead, which was mostly very pleasant.

Turns out pulling weeds and shoveling literal shit is WAY fucking better than writing useless-but-important FCC comments about incredibly fucking dangerous shit (metaphorical shit) techbros want to launch into orbit.

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Prof. Sam Lawler May 11

And then we had a little farm accident. Everything is fine, but with a moment of hesitation or a misstep, that could have turned out EXTREMELY bad.

(A nice reminder that farming is actually quite dangerous. And farming is incredibly important, obviously.)

Everything can change in a moment. So what to spend my time on?

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WTL

@sundogplanets Glad everyone's safe. Farming can be *so* dangerous. <looks at tractor's PTO>. I so appreciate the time you take to talk to the public about the … space trash problem.