I had 3 hours straight of back-to-back intense meetings on various aspects of satellites destroying astronomy with different groups of people. This dishcloth I knitted during the meetings expresses my sentiment perfectly.
@sundogplanets I just want you to know that I am SO grateful you are out there doing this work. It's so important and your voice really, really matters.
@sundogplanets
F’ing excellent !!
@sundogplanets it's not that I'm against satellites per se, but you are right: junking the orbitals is not acceptable.
I've wondered about this too. I guess space observatories are the only answer? Not good. Couldn't the arc of the sky be... regulated.. ???
@sundogplanets did you create the pattern or get it on Ravelry? I feel a burning need to make this my next knitting project.
@sundogplanets No idea how the satellite trend can be reversed. But it's worth the fight for soooo many reasons.
But for astronomy, could one way to help be to have various types of telescopes in space -- in higher orbits than the telecom satellites? Maybe even a few space based observatories?
@sundogplanets ... I love productive meetings...
@sundogplanets you can sell them on etsy and probably retire
You are taking the words right out of my mouth…
@sundogplanets I have uncontrollable anxiety. And I do NOT like meetings. In fact, in departments I've ran, I've put a moratorium on them. But sometimes you have to. And I do knot work, to alleviate it, and I've always got a few pieces of rope I'm messing with. But once, this dude is like "I don't think this meeting is going well" why? "Because the lead engineer is over there tying a noose" Yes. But it was a nice noose.
@sundogplanets Knitting and astronomy immediately reminded me of
@astro_geo !
Wondered if there could be perhaps an update episode on satellites at some point? ^^
I think you should place this masterful hand-crafted artefact in the far back reaches of a dry desert cave, so that future archeologists can decipher the zeitgeist of our age.
