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Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Wooo! After a gorgeous hike up and down PKOLS (Mt. Douglas), my first (last-minute) talk of my ridiculous lecture tour has fallen into place... for tomorrow night! Good thing I"ve got a talk that I've given a bunch of times that only needs minor updates.

I'll share info once I get confirmation from the organizers that it's fine to invite the general public.

#ProfSamLectureTour

A curvy, red-trunked arbutus tree with bright green leaves leaning on a very straight douglas fir tree in the woods. A view looking out into mostly straight-trunked douglas fir forest on a steep hillside, with a few curvy bright-green-leaved arbutus trees mixed in. Close up view of bright green moss with some native succulents mixed in, growing on granite. A view from on top of a small mountain, looking out over scrubby, leafless garry oak trees, over the ocean, toward the gulf islands. The sky above is cloudy.
Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

My talk on "Astronomy vs. the Billionaire Space Race" is for the RASC Victoria chapter's weekly astronomy cafe, and is open to the public (though you are encouraged to join the RASC. If you like astronomy stuff they are a great group!)

More info about the location (the Fairfield Community Centre in Victoria at 7pm) and the meeting my talk will be part of is here: https://victoria.rasc.ca/astronomy-cafe/

#ProfSamLectureTour

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

If you want a preview (or are among the 99.9999% of people who aren't able to watch in person), here's a nicely recorded talk I gave almost a year ago (RASC Toronto uses VDO ninja! Good open-source stuff).

The numbers of satellites and pieces of debris on the ground have been updated, as well as adding a short discussion of the CRASH Clock, but it's all basically the same message: https://www.youtube.com/live/6MDI7rEgb6g

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

My talk went very well, what a great group of people! RASC Victoria hosts an informal hybrid "astro cafe" every week!! After my talk was over, one person gave a super interesting talk about what's happening inside a particular nebula image, someone talked about the upcoming Artemis mission, and someone talked about interstellar rockets and played a song on a slide guitar they wrote about it! That was delightful

Plus, I got to meet at least 3 people from mastodon in person. Excellent!