I'm having major anxiety/guilt about going to this conference in Toronto next week...this will almost certainly be the last research conference I ever fly to (and I only agreed to do this because I got TWO invited talks about satellite pollution, not even about my "real research" on TNO orbits). The timing is awful, it's absurdly beautiful on my farm, and I'm going to a horrible giant city UGH.
Any tips on not imploding into an anxiety-black-hole while I'm packed in close to so many people?
@sundogplanets go for as many walks as you can. I was in Toronto in the spring a couple years ago and the city is quite calm in the morning after rush hour. Take in the scenery of the buildings and little spaces between. Find calm inside the chaos
@sundogplanets can you get away to a little nearby green space? I think that patch of woods just north of Sid Smith is still there. I found a pseudoscorpion there once.
@nev I find pseudoscorpions in my house all the time! Was quite worried at first, since they look like ticks with pincers, but now I know they eat things that want to eat my books, so I just gently relocate them to my bookshelves every time I find one. I've never found one outside though :)
@sundogplanets oh hey, that's like 18 minutes from my front door! Right, see you there. Want me to bring you anything? Fisherman's Friend, air horn, pastries?
@sundogplanets >tfw 10,000 kilos of aluminum+etc starts burning up in the atmosphere every year in the 2030s
>tfw i recylce while elon pumps gallons hydrazine into the upper atmosphere
>tfw pollution starts slowing global warming while stripping away the ozone layer AGAIN
@cykonot It might actually speed up global warming, too! (aluminum particles might interfere with sulfate in the stratosphere). We actually have no idea what it'll do. Isn't that great?
@sundogplanets Cirrus blankeys + ozone hole?
Or sulfur particles with a reflective metallic core + soot + ozone hole?
Let's roll the dice 🙄🤡
For some reason, I feel like Elon could call this a free speech issue, and would not really be shocked if SCOTUS judged all pollution to be speech. Because, why not lol. Bribes are speech, CO2 can't be a pollutant, presidential immunity is real, etc.
Interesting times.
/Doomerism
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