There are currently 5,591 Starlink satellites in orbit, launched in the last 5 years https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html

There are 5,595 known exoplanets https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ discovered in the last 30 years

Starlink is about to have more sats in orbit than known exoplanets, and with each launch, make it harder to do astronomy research

Imagine what astronomy (or any part of science) could do with the shittons of money that have been spent on occupying (and likely soon destroying) low earth orbit?

I am about to kick some journalists in the nuts real hard.

YOU failed to report on the dire warnings of scientists the past *checks the 6 IPCC reports* 33 years with your bloody "both-sideism" and now it's our fault?

Fuck you, the Hill. Fuck you very very much.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Cycles of Life, by Grant Snider

#GrantSnider #bikes

“Widen your moral fantasy.”
“Widen your sense of time.”
“Don’t be a coward.”
“Say to yourself upon awakening: ‘It is our business.’ ”
“The possibility of the Apocalypse is our work.”

How to Think Clearly About #Climate Change
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-to-think-clearly-about-climate-change.html

For the holiday, a thread on how to befriend crows.

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Befriending crows is a wonderful thing.

I have many crow friends at home and at work. They bring joy at unexpected moments and can rescue a miserable day even without shaking down the dust of snow that Robert Frost described.

This thread is an updated version of one I posted at the bird site in July 2019.

#birding #birdwatching #birds #urbanbirding #crows #corvids #crow #corvid #crowfriends

Wie Konservative das Wahlalter ab 16 diskutieren:

Was dafür spricht:

+ Demokratische Teilhabe für ca 5 Mio Menschen
+ Zeiten haben sich seit 1949 geändert
+ Fördert Politikinteresse
+ Gegengewicht zur alternden Gesellschaft

Was dagegen spricht:

- Die Jugend wählt uns nicht

"Ok wir sind dagegen"