Interview #1 done for Space.com
Email interviews count, right? Interview #2 done for Newsweek.
Interview #3 done for Scientific American
Do talks count? I just gave a lunchtime talk for Mission Control - I think that's the first time I've given a talk to a satellite building company. My main message (deliver your services with fewer satellites, and make those satellites last as long as possible) was definitely heard, and repeated back to me by the CEO! So that's satisfying. https://missioncontrolspace.com/about/
Hilariously, this talk happened because an employee read the cow-culation paper and loved it! https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324
Oh gosh why did I say I would give ANOTHER talk today.... this one is for the local Science Centre, mostly for older retired folks who like science but are not scientists. In yesterday's talk it was a refreshing change to not have to explain orbits - those satellite engineers know how that works, probably better than me! But I will definitely need explain orbits today... Luckily I have a longer time limit for the talk so I'll just add back in a bunch of slides I hid.
Official interview #4 will be a live phone interview on QR Calgary radio in 45 minutes
Official interview #5 will be a joint email interview with my co-author for moneywise.com
One thing I am quite delighted about is that the reason I'm not getting as many interviews as I predicted is because a whole bunch of the lovely astronomers I work with on satellite pollution advocacy are getting interviews! I am so happy to see that! Good job, journalists.
@sundogplanets I would've guessed 5 to 7, so...
Thank you for all of us for your tireless service in this regard! Seriously. Important things get buried in the news cycle so easily without constant prodding. This one is important for the entirety of humanity!
@sundogplanets
Congratulations!
Excellent! You're getting through them 👏👍
@sundogplanets You're *killin'* it, Sam.
@sundogplanets yes but they must have two typos, one blatant misspelling and one grammatical clanger for it to count to your five a day
@sundogplanets They absolutely do!
