Brutkey

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Other megaconstellations are starting to catch up a bit now. Which is why the CRASH Clock (our team's measure of how long it would take for a collision if all satellite maneuvers suddenly stopped) is so ridiculously short: 5 days in our updated calculation

OneWeb has 654 up out of 7,000 planned
Kuiper has 180 out of 3,000 planned
Xingwang has 160 out of 1,000 planned

Satellite numbers from https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Sorry that was depressing and everything is already terrible. I would normally post a photo of my goats, but they are far far away right now.

So, here are some very happy goats in Victoria we found yesterday, happily eating Christmas trees.

A view of a barnyard pen at a petting zoo, filled with very small, very wide goats of many different colours. In the background is a very fancy barn-shaped goat house that is painted red. There are Christmas trees tied to the fence around the barn-house, and several goats are happily nibbling them.