WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from November 18, 2024

Listener comments!
	5:29pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonsmonauts!
	6:00pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:02pm Hugo (NL): Hi mark, fellow stardust beings
	🤖 6:03pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi space junkies!
	6:03pm StringOFperils: Oh great! This subject really needs to become front and centre!
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Welcome back, Mark! Evening Techyons!
	🤖 6:03pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Mark Hurst and all!!!
	6:05pm ultradamno: Dental x-rays seem helpful
	🤖 6:06pm MarciB: I'm afraid of what Sam will share with us-I doubt anything can be done ;(
	🤖 6:07pm Handy Haversack: ↳ ultradamno @6:05 We were just discussing that there's no evidence that annual dental x-rays provide any benefit at all! Apparently, Europe doesn't do that? But studies show that they provide no benefit and certainly aim a lot of radiation at one's brain. So ... there's that.
	6:08pm ultradamno: That's how you get superpowers.
	6:08pm Spikey BXL: I remember the February episode! Cue "Runaway collisional cascade" as a prog song or band name again. Hi Mark, hi Sam!
	🤖 6:08pm Webhamster Henry: SKYLAB!!!
	6:09pm Sam: “Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department” says Werner von Braun.
	6:09pm The Butterman: Just saw the ISS!
	6:09pm ultradamno: meetmydentist.com...
	6:10pm ultradamno: But to get on less divisive territory: fluoride in the drinking water
	🤖 6:10pm Handy Haversack: ↳ ultradamno @6:08 This was also part of the discussion!
	6:10pm joe mulligan: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:07 I turn down x-rays at the dentist every time, until there's a fight. then I allow an x-ray a year or so later than that
	6:11pm Sam: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:07 No no no! X-rays are absolutely essential. I lived in France for 9 years, never had dental x-rays, and when I moved back I had to get 4 implants and a couple root canals.
	6:11pm joe_rosevear: Hey, howdie!
	🤖 6:12pm MarciB: I get dental xrays every few years - maybe every 4-5, so that doesn't seem excessive. But it's never confortable or the process fast enough!
	6:12pm Mark Hurst: ultra, DiL, Hugo, Bas, StringOP, Handy, WtSG, Marci, Spikey, webham, Sam, Butterman, joe, joe_r - welcome to all of you!
	🤖 6:12pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Sam @6:11 Those Dental X-Rays find out a lot! However, I'm looking forward to when they can be replaced (can they? I dunno) with Terahertz imagery, non ionizing, and in many senses a great diagnostic!
	6:13pm joe mulligan: ↳ Sam @6:11 that$ what the denti$t$ will tell you. even the implants and root canals have a radical and conservative side when it comes to when they need to be done
	6:13pm ultradamno: How about the lead blankets they put over you when they do it...that's got to be a good one.
	🤖 6:13pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:12 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... << I'm the kind of guy who gives references!
	6:13pm HCF: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:07 My dentist in Germany does annual X-rays, targeting those areas in my mouth with old fillings that are poised to fail at some time.
	🤖 6:13pm PaulRobeson1924: Hi Hi Hi
	🤖 6:14pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Sam @6:11 I don't really have a dog in the fight, but my scientist friend was citing studies that there's no proof of benefits to annual x-rays from peer-reviewed studies. Make dental care free, and I'll come up with an opinion on x-rays.
	6:15pm HCF: So happy to able to listen live...usually I listen to the podcast due to the time-zone difference in my normal location. Hi Mark and all!
	🤖 6:15pm Deano de los Muertos: Howdy Mark and Sam and folx
	6:16pm Sam: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:14 Every time I went to my French dentist he’d take a quick peek and say everything was fine and send me on my way. No cleanings, no x-rays, I thought my teeth were perfect and it was the exact opposite.
	6:16pm Ciggy: Every day I get a Space X notification for a new satellite launch.
	🤖 6:16pm PaulRobeson1924: www.f150online.com...
	6:16pm Listener Robert: I hope we're going to hear about alternative ways to do it.
	6:17pm Mark Hurst: Hi HCF :)
	🤖 6:17pm Noir Lover: Let's just hand the planet over to the next apex predator already. We can probably stream the ceremony on Netflix.
	6:17pm Edward: I'm looking up right now. I can't see 1 satellite. I don't get it...
	6:17pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Interview with Sam Lawler" stare at the night sky for a minute and you'll see these LEO/Starlink trains like watching planes arrive to the overcrowded landing strips at SFO
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: ↳ joe mulligan @6:17 Yep... Starlink trains coming up later in the interview!
	6:19pm Listener Robert: ↳ Listener Robert @6:16 I mean doing what Starlink's supposed to do while putting less material into orbit than Starlink.
	6:19pm StringOFperils: A tandem issue with Star Link is Elon has you surrounded, and you can't get out. They're implemented today as representing super-fast internet, but do I trust Elon (Mr. F you) Musk? What might this comprehensive satellite net be used for tomorrow?
	🤖 6:20pm chresti: Hi Mark and Sam! Techtonians!
	6:20pm Edward: However, I do see cell towers all day every day. Cancer sticks.
	6:20pm StringOFperils: ...Star Link also makes Earth-based astronomy much less viable, if not impossible
	6:21pm Sam: ↳ Edward @6:20 Nothing ruins the night sky like the scourge of ultrabright LED lights.
	🤖 6:22pm Webhamster Henry: "Because WE CAN!"
	🤖 6:22pm Bas NL: Think of all the rocket fuel spent on launching these satellites! I think it's about a ton per pound.
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bas NL @6:22 Some sort of government-level efficiency group should really look into that.
	6:23pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:08 BOOM!
	6:23pm StringOFperils: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:23 Wahhhhh.....auugggggggggggghh
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:23 Instant request!
	🤖 6:23pm Bas NL: Satellite pinball! :)
	6:23pm Dano59: oh, well - Saskatchewan. Let it happen in Ohio and see them talk about regulation.
	6:23pm Spikey BXL: If you love earth, put a ring on it
	6:24pm cbunny: that’s kinda what happens to me when i drink too much Kessler.
	6:24pm ultradamno: Ultra-bright LED lights in my rear view mirror are worse, never mind the sky
	6:24pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Dano59 @6:23 We've had space junk fall in both North Carolina and Florida, where the junk fell into someone's house.
	6:26pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Bas NL @6:23 Play the game long enough and you'll get multiball!
	6:27pm coelacanth∅: to say a single collision doesn't exponentially increase the chances of more collisions is like saying 2 cars crashing on an icy road doesn't increase the chances of more crashes. ... but i'm sure this guy's a "genius" so...
	6:27pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:23 Yep - you called it, Spikey
	6:28pm Dano59: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:24 I've noticed - but no crisis or danger is immediate enough to address if it's left up to our politicians. And Musk only mucks up anything that will address it. I doubt 'sustainable solutions' is in the Tesla/SpaceX vocabulary.
	6:29pm ultradamno: It starts with space junk in your yard, then your crops are extra big but inedible...
	6:29pm Spikey BXL: Call the Space Cowboy?
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Dano59 @6:28 True, sadly
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: Hit by a Musk satellite? Free internet for life!
	6:30pm Sam: ↳ ultradamno @6:29 We need to build a wall! In the sky!
	6:31pm Sam: Oh, they don’t send the men in black to erase your memory?
	6:31pm StringOFperils: Earth X is bad enough.
	6:32pm wenzo: They wouldn’t even say what kind of donuts they liked.
	6:32pm Franco Twinkie: She's funny!
	6:33pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:32 interesting pronunciation of "virginia"
	6:33pm StringOFperils: A piano falling on someone always gets a laugh.
	🤖 6:33pm Webhamster Henry: That satellite removal story is so "Close Encounters" -y.
	6:34pm Mark Hurst: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:33 Sam is based at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada.
	6:34pm Dano59: wow. just wow. That interaction. with the cleanup crew reminded me of 'Endangered Species'
	🤖 6:34pm chresti: That stuffin space link is cool!
	🤖 6:34pm Webhamster Henry: Deorbiting the ISS: www.nasa.gov...
	6:35pm StringOFperils: The RCMP. Probably a good way to get your name on a 'list'
	6:35pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:34 oh, "regina"! haha...i even backed up and re-listened to it
	6:36pm StringOFperils: Elon needs to stoop and scoop.
	🤖 6:36pm Handy Haversack: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:35 " ... Mulva?"
	6:36pm wenzo: If any space junk lands in my yard I’m keeping it.
	🤖 6:36pm Deano de los Muertos: Let me be the first to say it: this Elon guy is a piece of crap
	6:37pm Dano59: "SpaceX has not admitted it" -- unsurprising.
	6:37pm Spikey BXL: Fly tipping across the universe
	🤖 6:37pm PaulRobeson1924: Power only has to answer to power
	6:37pm Hugo: You're not the first
	6:37pm ultradamno: One has to wonder if Musk will make it all the way to being confirmed for heading up his made up government efficiency post before Trump sacks him for stealing focus
	6:37pm Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Not surprising Elon doesn't answer questions / take responsibility.
	🤖 6:38pm chresti: Call Satellite Busters!
	6:38pm wenzo: Let me be the 848,467,443rd person to say… Musk is a piece of dog shit
	6:38pm Hugo: Perhaps muks will fly to Mars and won't come back?
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: I saw it with my own eyes - SpaceX uses plywood as one of the ingredients in their rocket cockpits.
	6:39pm ultradamno: I'm starting to like Grok as an answer for the best tech question, I've never used it, but it keeps doing things to dig at Musk fortune.com...
	🤖 6:40pm Will thee SG OCNY: Yet to comment, what a company.. lol
	6:42pm Spikey BXL: Jordan's satellite would probably have perpetual hang time
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Sam should have a show! She has a great radio voice. I'm thinking ... WORDS IN SPACE ... !
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Rubenstein is a good writer. We published a book she wrote on the multiverse.
	6:44pm Fishman: But at the root of this is that Elon Musk is right, and we are all stupid. At least in his sick mind
	6:44pm Hugo: She sounds like a surfer girl, very cool
	🤖 6:45pm Deano de los Muertos: “Ask the government for help” is not a very encouraging answer
	6:45pm Panther: Am I the only one who thinks this woman is not very knowledgeable? She just gives anecdotal information.
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: So if government treated high-speed internet as a basic utility and delivered it everywhere just like electricity, that would take away all justification Musk might gin up ...
	6:45pm Hugo: Very,very smart surfer girl
	6:45pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:43 I second that! I could listen to Doctor Samantha to all day.
	🤖 6:46pm PaulRobeson1924: The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow
	6:48pm ultradamno: mastodon.social...
	6:48pm Spikey BXL: Thx for the update, Sam. Merci Mark
	6:49pm Edward: The sky is falling!! Look out. It sucks being victimized
	6:50pm ultradamno: Once we get to Mars we will be one step closer to moving to Ganymede
	🤖 6:50pm Webhamster Henry: It's supposed to be a good night for Leonids in case you want to see some natural skyfall.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: I'm going to start cooking. Thanks, Mark! Thanks, Dr. Sam! This was great.
	6:51pm StuartR: Catchy tune.
	🤖 6:51pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Sam!
	🤖 6:52pm DjLorraine: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:39 Well breathing formeldehyde is not good either
	6:53pm Edward: If anything hits you there's nothing you can do. It's llegal to sue them.
	6:53pm VantuckyEd: umm how many of these satellite have radioactive isotopes in them?
	🤖 6:54pm PaulRobeson1924: The internet, so far, is a bigger flop than the moving image!
	6:54pm StringOFperils: We have moons. Many many moons. We have more moons than anybody ever had in history ever. I'm the father of moons actually. Really great moons. The best moons you're gonna love 'em.
	6:54pm Toothgrinder Tom: Kessler syndrome = Keppler’s syndrome?
	6:54pm Toothgrinder Tom: I’m pouring myself another whisky.
	6:55pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ DjLorraine @6:52 No it's not. But I'm sure Elroy isn't concerned with anyone's health. Someone should ask RFK Jr. what he thinks about space junk.
	6:56pm ultradamno: Whatever it is, Kennedy will change it if he has too a57.foxnews.com...
	🤖 6:56pm PaulRobeson1924: Thank you Mr.Mark
	6:56pm greg g: Thank you Mark Hurst and Sam Lawler! Scary yet engaging and glad for the humor. Keep up the good work!
	6:56pm ultradamno: ...err, *to
	6:57pm bleubombersune: Thanks Mark
	6:57pm HCF: Thanks for another great show.
	6:58pm Bryan: I had to tune in for Sam Lawler. I'll be sharing the archive link with others.
	6:58pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Mark. I for one, don't want space junk to fall on my cats.
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone, good comments!
	6:59pm StringOFperils: Thanks Mark and SL. Keep looking up!
	6:59pm james the gann: Great show!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: ↳ james the gann @6:59 Thanks, james the gann
	🤖 7:00pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark and Sam!
	🤖 7:01pm DjLorraine: With may farady catsuit, thanks Mark!
	7:01pm Fishman: OMG! One of the most annoying Yes tunes ever
	7:02pm Roberta: What’s the name of that book again by Mary someone?
	7:05pm Bryan: Roberta: see the links above the playlist

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from November 18, 2024

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November 18, 2024: Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk

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Today: Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Musk's space junk

Thousands of Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in the next few years, adding huge amounts of metals and chemicals to our sky. Astronomer Samantha Lawler returns to Techtonic to explain why satellite "mega-constellations" are causing havoc for astronomers and will soon affect all life on earth.

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• When Space Junk Fell on My Neighbor’s Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us (by Sam Lawler in Scientific American, July 11, 2024), about just one incident of space junk:

The trunk’s outer layers of woven carbon fiber billowed and unraveled as it fell, likely insulating and slowing the plummeting pieces so abruptly that friction from the atmosphere failed to destroy them as SpaceX engineers had planned.

Objects breaking apart high overhead often leave debris trails spanning hundreds of miles; the hefty fragments in Sawchuk’s equipment shed were a testament to many smaller ones undoubtedly generated by this event that are yet to be discovered. People will be finding additional pieces for years, if not decades.

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Astronomer Samantha Lawler on Starlink space junk
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Momus	The Enshittification of Everything	Ballyhoo	American Patchwork	0:53:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:29pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonsmonauts!
	6:00pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:02pm Hugo (NL): Hi mark, fellow stardust beings
	🤖 6:03pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi space junkies!
	6:03pm StringOFperils: Oh great! This subject really needs to become front and centre!
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Welcome back, Mark! Evening Techyons!
	🤖 6:03pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Mark Hurst and all!!!
	6:05pm ultradamno: Dental x-rays seem helpful
	🤖 6:06pm MarciB: I'm afraid of what Sam will share with us-I doubt anything can be done ;(
	🤖 6:07pm Handy Haversack: ↳ ultradamno @6:05 We were just discussing that there's no evidence that annual dental x-rays provide any benefit at all! Apparently, Europe doesn't do that? But studies show that they provide no benefit and certainly aim a lot of radiation at one's brain. So ... there's that.
	6:08pm ultradamno: That's how you get superpowers.
	6:08pm Spikey BXL: I remember the February episode! Cue "Runaway collisional cascade" as a prog song or band name again. Hi Mark, hi Sam!
	🤖 6:08pm Webhamster Henry: SKYLAB!!!
	6:09pm Sam: “Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department” says Werner von Braun.
	6:09pm The Butterman: Just saw the ISS!
	6:09pm ultradamno: meetmydentist.com...
	6:10pm ultradamno: But to get on less divisive territory: fluoride in the drinking water
	🤖 6:10pm Handy Haversack: ↳ ultradamno @6:08 This was also part of the discussion!
	6:10pm joe mulligan: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:07 I turn down x-rays at the dentist every time, until there's a fight. then I allow an x-ray a year or so later than that
	6:11pm Sam: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:07 No no no! X-rays are absolutely essential. I lived in France for 9 years, never had dental x-rays, and when I moved back I had to get 4 implants and a couple root canals.
	6:11pm joe_rosevear: Hey, howdie!
	🤖 6:12pm MarciB: I get dental xrays every few years - maybe every 4-5, so that doesn't seem excessive. But it's never confortable or the process fast enough!
	6:12pm Mark Hurst: ultra, DiL, Hugo, Bas, StringOP, Handy, WtSG, Marci, Spikey, webham, Sam, Butterman, joe, joe_r - welcome to all of you!
	🤖 6:12pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Sam @6:11 Those Dental X-Rays find out a lot! However, I'm looking forward to when they can be replaced (can they? I dunno) with Terahertz imagery, non ionizing, and in many senses a great diagnostic!
	6:13pm joe mulligan: ↳ Sam @6:11 that$ what the denti$t$ will tell you. even the implants and root canals have a radical and conservative side when it comes to when they need to be done
	6:13pm ultradamno: How about the lead blankets they put over you when they do it...that's got to be a good one.
	🤖 6:13pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:12 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... << I'm the kind of guy who gives references!
	6:13pm HCF: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:07 My dentist in Germany does annual X-rays, targeting those areas in my mouth with old fillings that are poised to fail at some time.
	🤖 6:13pm PaulRobeson1924: Hi Hi Hi
	🤖 6:14pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Sam @6:11 I don't really have a dog in the fight, but my scientist friend was citing studies that there's no proof of benefits to annual x-rays from peer-reviewed studies. Make dental care free, and I'll come up with an opinion on x-rays.
	6:15pm HCF: So happy to able to listen live...usually I listen to the podcast due to the time-zone difference in my normal location. Hi Mark and all!
	🤖 6:15pm Deano de los Muertos: Howdy Mark and Sam and folx
	6:16pm Sam: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:14 Every time I went to my French dentist he’d take a quick peek and say everything was fine and send me on my way. No cleanings, no x-rays, I thought my teeth were perfect and it was the exact opposite.
	6:16pm Ciggy: Every day I get a Space X notification for a new satellite launch.
	🤖 6:16pm PaulRobeson1924: www.f150online.com...
	6:16pm Listener Robert: I hope we're going to hear about alternative ways to do it.
	6:17pm Mark Hurst: Hi HCF :)
	🤖 6:17pm Noir Lover: Let's just hand the planet over to the next apex predator already. We can probably stream the ceremony on Netflix.
	6:17pm Edward: I'm looking up right now. I can't see 1 satellite. I don't get it...
	6:17pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Interview with Sam Lawler" stare at the night sky for a minute and you'll see these LEO/Starlink trains like watching planes arrive to the overcrowded landing strips at SFO
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: ↳ joe mulligan @6:17 Yep... Starlink trains coming up later in the interview!
	6:19pm Listener Robert: ↳ Listener Robert @6:16 I mean doing what Starlink's supposed to do while putting less material into orbit than Starlink.
	6:19pm StringOFperils: A tandem issue with Star Link is Elon has you surrounded, and you can't get out. They're implemented today as representing super-fast internet, but do I trust Elon (Mr. F you) Musk? What might this comprehensive satellite net be used for tomorrow?
	🤖 6:20pm chresti: Hi Mark and Sam! Techtonians!
	6:20pm Edward: However, I do see cell towers all day every day. Cancer sticks.
	6:20pm StringOFperils: ...Star Link also makes Earth-based astronomy much less viable, if not impossible
	6:21pm Sam: ↳ Edward @6:20 Nothing ruins the night sky like the scourge of ultrabright LED lights.
	🤖 6:22pm Webhamster Henry: "Because WE CAN!"
	🤖 6:22pm Bas NL: Think of all the rocket fuel spent on launching these satellites! I think it's about a ton per pound.
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bas NL @6:22 Some sort of government-level efficiency group should really look into that.
	6:23pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:08 BOOM!
	6:23pm StringOFperils: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:23 Wahhhhh.....auugggggggggggghh
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Spikey BXL @6:23 Instant request!
	🤖 6:23pm Bas NL: Satellite pinball! :)
	6:23pm Dano59: oh, well - Saskatchewan. Let it happen in Ohio and see them talk about regulation.
	6:23pm Spikey BXL: If you love earth, put a ring on it
	6:24pm cbunny: that’s kinda what happens to me when i drink too much Kessler.
	6:24pm ultradamno: Ultra-bright LED lights in my rear view mirror are worse, never mind the sky
	6:24pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Dano59 @6:23 We've had space junk fall in both North Carolina and Florida, where the junk fell into someone's house.
	6:26pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Bas NL @6:23 Play the game long enough and you'll get multiball!
	6:27pm coelacanth∅: to say a single collision doesn't exponentially increase the chances of more collisions is like saying 2 cars crashing on an icy road doesn't increase the chances of more crashes. ... but i'm sure this guy's a "genius" so...
	6:27pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:23 Yep - you called it, Spikey
	6:28pm Dano59: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:24 I've noticed - but no crisis or danger is immediate enough to address if it's left up to our politicians. And Musk only mucks up anything that will address it. I doubt 'sustainable solutions' is in the Tesla/SpaceX vocabulary.
	6:29pm ultradamno: It starts with space junk in your yard, then your crops are extra big but inedible...
	6:29pm Spikey BXL: Call the Space Cowboy?
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Dano59 @6:28 True, sadly
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: Hit by a Musk satellite? Free internet for life!
	6:30pm Sam: ↳ ultradamno @6:29 We need to build a wall! In the sky!
	6:31pm Sam: Oh, they don’t send the men in black to erase your memory?
	6:31pm StringOFperils: Earth X is bad enough.
	6:32pm wenzo: They wouldn’t even say what kind of donuts they liked.
	6:32pm Franco Twinkie: She's funny!
	6:33pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:32 interesting pronunciation of "virginia"
	6:33pm StringOFperils: A piano falling on someone always gets a laugh.
	🤖 6:33pm Webhamster Henry: That satellite removal story is so "Close Encounters" -y.
	6:34pm Mark Hurst: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:33 Sam is based at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada.
	6:34pm Dano59: wow. just wow. That interaction. with the cleanup crew reminded me of 'Endangered Species'
	🤖 6:34pm chresti: That stuffin space link is cool!
	🤖 6:34pm Webhamster Henry: Deorbiting the ISS: www.nasa.gov...
	6:35pm StringOFperils: The RCMP. Probably a good way to get your name on a 'list'
	6:35pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:34 oh, "regina"! haha...i even backed up and re-listened to it
	6:36pm StringOFperils: Elon needs to stoop and scoop.
	🤖 6:36pm Handy Haversack: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:35 " ... Mulva?"
	6:36pm wenzo: If any space junk lands in my yard I’m keeping it.
	🤖 6:36pm Deano de los Muertos: Let me be the first to say it: this Elon guy is a piece of crap
	6:37pm Dano59: "SpaceX has not admitted it" -- unsurprising.
	6:37pm Spikey BXL: Fly tipping across the universe
	🤖 6:37pm PaulRobeson1924: Power only has to answer to power
	6:37pm Hugo: You're not the first
	6:37pm ultradamno: One has to wonder if Musk will make it all the way to being confirmed for heading up his made up government efficiency post before Trump sacks him for stealing focus
	6:37pm Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Not surprising Elon doesn't answer questions / take responsibility.
	🤖 6:38pm chresti: Call Satellite Busters!
	6:38pm wenzo: Let me be the 848,467,443rd person to say… Musk is a piece of dog shit
	6:38pm Hugo: Perhaps muks will fly to Mars and won't come back?
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: I saw it with my own eyes - SpaceX uses plywood as one of the ingredients in their rocket cockpits.
	6:39pm ultradamno: I'm starting to like Grok as an answer for the best tech question, I've never used it, but it keeps doing things to dig at Musk fortune.com...
	🤖 6:40pm Will thee SG OCNY: Yet to comment, what a company.. lol
	6:42pm Spikey BXL: Jordan's satellite would probably have perpetual hang time
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Sam should have a show! She has a great radio voice. I'm thinking ... WORDS IN SPACE ... !
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Rubenstein is a good writer. We published a book she wrote on the multiverse.
	6:44pm Fishman: But at the root of this is that Elon Musk is right, and we are all stupid. At least in his sick mind
	6:44pm Hugo: She sounds like a surfer girl, very cool
	🤖 6:45pm Deano de los Muertos: “Ask the government for help” is not a very encouraging answer
	6:45pm Panther: Am I the only one who thinks this woman is not very knowledgeable? She just gives anecdotal information.
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: So if government treated high-speed internet as a basic utility and delivered it everywhere just like electricity, that would take away all justification Musk might gin up ...
	6:45pm Hugo: Very,very smart surfer girl
	6:45pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:43 I second that! I could listen to Doctor Samantha to all day.
	🤖 6:46pm PaulRobeson1924: The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow
	6:48pm ultradamno: mastodon.social...
	6:48pm Spikey BXL: Thx for the update, Sam. Merci Mark
	6:49pm Edward: The sky is falling!! Look out. It sucks being victimized
	6:50pm ultradamno: Once we get to Mars we will be one step closer to moving to Ganymede
	🤖 6:50pm Webhamster Henry: It's supposed to be a good night for Leonids in case you want to see some natural skyfall.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: I'm going to start cooking. Thanks, Mark! Thanks, Dr. Sam! This was great.
	6:51pm StuartR: Catchy tune.
	🤖 6:51pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Sam!
	🤖 6:52pm DjLorraine: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:39 Well breathing formeldehyde is not good either
	6:53pm Edward: If anything hits you there's nothing you can do. It's llegal to sue them.
	6:53pm VantuckyEd: umm how many of these satellite have radioactive isotopes in them?
	🤖 6:54pm PaulRobeson1924: The internet, so far, is a bigger flop than the moving image!
	6:54pm StringOFperils: We have moons. Many many moons. We have more moons than anybody ever had in history ever. I'm the father of moons actually. Really great moons. The best moons you're gonna love 'em.
	6:54pm Toothgrinder Tom: Kessler syndrome = Keppler’s syndrome?
	6:54pm Toothgrinder Tom: I’m pouring myself another whisky.
	6:55pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ DjLorraine @6:52 No it's not. But I'm sure Elroy isn't concerned with anyone's health. Someone should ask RFK Jr. what he thinks about space junk.
	6:56pm ultradamno: Whatever it is, Kennedy will change it if he has too a57.foxnews.com...
	🤖 6:56pm PaulRobeson1924: Thank you Mr.Mark
	6:56pm greg g: Thank you Mark Hurst and Sam Lawler! Scary yet engaging and glad for the humor. Keep up the good work!
	6:56pm ultradamno: ...err, *to
	6:57pm bleubombersune: Thanks Mark
	6:57pm HCF: Thanks for another great show.
	6:58pm Bryan: I had to tune in for Sam Lawler. I'll be sharing the archive link with others.
	6:58pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Mark. I for one, don't want space junk to fall on my cats.
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone, good comments!
	6:59pm StringOFperils: Thanks Mark and SL. Keep looking up!
	6:59pm james the gann: Great show!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: ↳ james the gann @6:59 Thanks, james the gann
	🤖 7:00pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark and Sam!
	🤖 7:01pm DjLorraine: With may farady catsuit, thanks Mark!
	7:01pm Fishman: OMG! One of the most annoying Yes tunes ever
	7:02pm Roberta: What’s the name of that book again by Mary someone?
	7:05pm Bryan: Roberta: see the links above the playlist

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from November 18, 2024

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