Cried in frustration over my emails at 7:30 am on a Monday morning about stupid shit that's going to happen in orbit and my inability to do anything about it, and my apparent inability to even organize others to do anything about it. It's going to be great week, I can tell.
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@sundogplanets I know it is of cold comfort, but in solidarity, I was crying in frustration over emails at the same time that were about things right here on earth, that I also feel powerless over.
@sundogplanets Not sure these help, but I thought I'd pass them on:
"You're never wrong to do the right thing." -- Mark Twain
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it's hopeless." -- Chester W. Nimitz
Sending you warm fuzzies.
@sundogplanets You’re doing a lot and more than could be asked from any human being. Can we stop the near earth space from clogging? I don’t know, but it won’t be on your head.
Thanks for all you do
— just a space geek grown up in NASA/ESA times who’s horrified by the way commercialisation is going
@sundogplanets
But you do lots of things! So many Interviews and article and teaching your students and you will write a book, too! And all the other work you do in your „farm in the middle of nowhere“ and you care for your family and so on.
Thank you for your fight for a night sky with visible stars 😉
@sundogplanets The orbit ain’t the only thing humans are trying to fuck up irreversibly. Not sure that helps, but I figured I’d offer some broader perspective. 🫥
@sundogplanets Organizing is a skill just as much as astronomy is. Do you have a mentor or someone you look up to who might be able to advise you?
@sundogplanets you can lead a horse to water...
אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתָי:
If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self [only], what am I? And if not now, when?
- Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 1, Verse 14
לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.
It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.
- Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 2, Verse 16
@sundogplanets And finally and most importantly:
Illegitimi non carborundum.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
- Anonymous
@sundogplanets you do a pretty amazing job in spreading the words of good sense and science from 'a goat farm far far away' you know. These issues are huge and your shoulders are only so strong. The frustration is also huge I know (experience in other areas) but we are all 'but one person'. Keep doing what you do but watch out for the bit of frustrated mind that can start to blame yourself for somehow 'not being enough'. For that is, as we say here, "A load of old bollocks" 😁💕
