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 That's #craftivism at it's best! 👍🏼💪🏽
@sundogplanets I am from Gaza, where we have seen how deeply human life and the environment can be affected by conflicts and destruction. I understand the frustration of seeing something valuable like astronomy and our connection to the universe being harmed. Protecting knowledge, nature, and the beauty of our world is important for all humanity. I hope your efforts lead to positive change.
@sundogplanets I need more people like you on the meetings I keep getting dragged into.
@sundogplanets
Now that is funny 😂
And
Also sad I suppose.
Did anyone notice your furious knitting? 😀
Are you aware of this https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/ms07062601.html ?
@Daniel_Blake Yes, Starlink tried it and it made their satellite overheat and fry the electronics.
@sundogplanets Oh, that’s very unfortunate. ☹️
@sundogplanets you might want to use #knitting hashtag
@sundogplanets I'm planning to knit a couple of those to bring to my friends when I visit.
@sundogplanets "Click on the boxes that say 'FUCK'"
Sorry, Verification failed, please try again.
@sundogplanets wonderful way to communicate - protest knitting! 💪
@sundogplanets
I ove the tension changes as a linear and measurable metric of you r frustration, and i thank you for your sacrifice
@bloognoo HAHA I didn't even notice that, you're totally right.
If you ever need a side hustle I would pay untold amounts of money for such a knitted dish cloth
@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 thank you!
#Knitting #FibreArts Perhaps a #MastadonKnitALong is in order.
@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.
Also: Fuck you, SpaceX. Again.
(Yes, this is IN ADDITION to the 42,000 they're already approved for, and the ONE MILLION they asked for in February)
@sundogplanets
Two satellite sizes mentioned in the SpaceX Gen3 filing -
2,000 kg, 300 sq m area
2,500 kg, 400 sq m area
Current V2 mini satellite size is
800 kg, 116 sq m
@AkaSci Thanks for the numbers! I'll run sims of these before we submit FCC comments (not sure when the comment period will open... probably ridiculously soon since that's how the FCC seems to work for SpaceX)
@sundogplanets
There were a few other FCC filings for new/revised constellations on July 6.
https://fccprod.servicenowservices.com/icfs?id=ibfs_search&q=SAT-LOA-2026
Haven't had time to create a summary table yet.
@sundogplanets Im so starting to feel a bit claustrophobic due to 2- not one ai datacenter trying to hyper scale near me , satellites, and the the amount of bullshit in general is just plain toxic and kind of traumatic....say hi to the goats for me!
@sundogplanets I’m pretty sure this feckless fuck will also be stealing peoples processing power for his CSAM generator via his network.
@sundogplanets can I see the dishcloth again?
I guess they look at their stock price not going up, despite the push a few days ago from becoming part of some major indiced, and now they seem worried that people see the emperor actually being naked.
So why not throw in some PR with more space word salad and a big number?
