As I was laying awake in the middle of the night, thinking about the talk I agreed to give at the Ituna library next week about the SpaceX debris fall, I suddenly thought about the North Carolina campground that also found pieces of a Crew Dragon Trunk at the same time theglampingcollective.com/acti…
And I wondered... do they still have them? Did SpaceX ever offer to pick them up? (Probably not because they weren't obligated by an int'l treaty...)
Anyway, that's *one* of today's wild emails to send.
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>ANSA-FOCUS/ Cuore a rischio per 9 donne su 10 - Sanità - Ansa.it
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>ANSA-FOCUS/ Cuore a rischio per 9 donne su 10 - Stili di Vita - Ansa.it
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Women Need About Half as Much Exercise as Men for the Same Heart Benefits, Study Suggests
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Women Need About Half as Much Exercise as Men for the Same Heart Benefits, Study Suggests
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>ANSA-FOCUS/ Cuore a rischio per 9 donne su 10 - Medicina - Ansa.it
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>ANSA-FOCUS/ Cuore a rischio per 9 donne su 10 - Medicina - Ansa.it
Considerate da sempre un problema prevalentemente maschile, le malattie cardiovascolari rappresentano una minaccia silenziosa per le donne, per cui queste patologie costituiscono la prima causa di morte in Italia e nel mondo. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
To all my friends💔
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Survival hat herausgefunden, dass es weltweit mindestens 196 unkontaktierte indigene Völker oder Gruppen gibt. Die Hälfte von ihnen könnte innerhalb der nächsten zehn Jahre verschwinden, wenn nicht gehandelt wird. Setzt du dich für ihr Überleben ein?
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iOS 26’s Camera app hides key features, here’s how to find them
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You honestly cannot make this up. The level of impunity, the total disregard for international norms, is just staggering.
They are playing us all for fools.
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Threads is giving you more control over your replies
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We are a group of XPUB students from the Piet Zwart Institute, and we want to use this project as a fundraiser for the Gaza Strip.
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1X just opened preorders for its humanoid robot NEO - $20K or $499/month.
It can open doors, turn on lights, and for harder stuff, a remote human operator jumps in.
Yes - real people controlling your robot at home.
#AI #Robotics #Automation #Tech
"In a worst-case scenario, she said, “the president could declare a state of emergency and say that elections are rigged and use allegations of voter fraud to seize the ballots of secure voting centers”.
Uh, I hate to tell you but the worst case scenario is almost certainly the plan. You don't bulldoze the people's house if you ever think you'll be handing it over to the competition. You don't repeatedly murder people in boats in international or other countries' waters if you think there's a chance you'll ever face the law. You don't build a gigantic secret police goon squad of criminals who spend their days attacking regular people going about their business if you think they're loyal to anything but you personally. You don't [list continues ad infinitum]
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Okay but can he literally go Red Wedding with the entire OpenAI board of directors?
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George R.R. Martin Is Carving Up OpenAI In Court, So Far
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Okay, I'll say it as "If these billionaires died, I would have no shortage of dry tissues in my house."
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"The telescope has a much wider field of view than Hubble due to its shorter focal length...This has led to the donated telescopes' characterization as "Stubby Hubbles". Their obstructed design, however, may make imaging extrasolar planets more challenging, and would be unsuitable for imaging the most distant galaxies at its longest infrared wavelengths..."
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Also, in 1975 the NRO couped the democratically elected leader of a country in the southern hemisphere: Australia
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Rosie O'Donnell Heartbreakingly Vents After Daughter Sentenced To Prison
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Mo = De Cristofaro (AVS): Israele insulta all’Onu Francesca Albanese, Italia non la difende e la attacca - Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra - Reti civiche
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Bruce Willis' Wife Has Thoughts On The 'Judgment' She Faces Over Her Care Of Him
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Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •I learned recently that everything went TOTALLY differently in Australia when SpaceX dropped a Crew Dragon Trunk on them in 2022: livescience.com/spacex-rocket-…
SpaceX reps came and answered lots of questions, looked at the pieces and said "yep, you can keep them." Then the Australian Space Agency said "Nope, those belong to us" and took them away from farmers with no compensation. As a result, there are lots of pieces still out there.
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Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •To contrast: When SpaceX reps came here to pick up the Crew Dragon Trunk pieces in a rented U-Haul, they didn't answer a single question from me or press, but they also paid farmers $5000 each. (That was also how much they paid for the Starlink piece that was found in a different part of Sask a few months later, though they just had the farmer FedEx the piece to them rather than pick it up in a U-haul).
The Canadian Space Agency (as far as I know) wasn't involved in either exchange at all.
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Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •I'm hoping that by giving a talk in Ituna, I'll find out about a few more pieces that have been discovered since 2024. I am 100% sure there are more pieces.
I hope farmers will feel comfortable telling me about them. But I don't have $5000 to give them, and I don't have a good way to get in touch with SpaceX (they don't want to talk to me), and CSA still doesn't have any official way to report space debris, though supposedly they're working on it. It's all on me to find out about this garbage!
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Like I said, I'm guessing that SpaceX just left the pieces in North Carolina, because there's no treaty that makes them deal with it in their own country.
A tale of 3 Crew Dragon Trunks. 3 totally different ways of SpaceX dealing with their (potentially lethal) garbage.
SpaceX and others are going to drop a hell of a lot more on us (everything in LEO is coming down eventually), so I guess we'll see how they deal with it next time...
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Everything you talk about here, reminds me of the French mini series "Infiniti" canneseries.com/en/series/infi… where they find mysterious connections between space debris and waxed corpses. These scenes when villagers try to sell space debris to the Russians or build huts with them ...
Meanwhile *reality* sounds like a mystery thriller! 🥶
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in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •Petra van Cronenburg
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in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •@NatureMC
How to forget the French Roswell, too?
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rencontre du 3ème type avec un Objet Volant Non Identifié à Valensole en France
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •The Mountain Where Space Junk Litters
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in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •John Burns
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •It will probably take a few folks to be killed, before something gets done.
I don't mean all at once, either...
It's like deaths at intersections - take multiple deadly crashes before traffic control occurs.
- "Thoughts & Prayers"
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Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Ha cool! The North Carolina campground wrote back to my email. SpaceX never contacted them, and they still have the piece on display.
INTERESTING.
(Though I'm really not sure what to do with this information other than share it.)
So, Americans, apparently you're the most screwed if SpaceX drops stuff on you, because you don't even get $5000. You just get to keep a piece of garbage that few in space once.
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Dan Sugalski • • •@wordshaper Nope. It has to be returned to the country of origin. If any damage has occurred, the government of the country of origin is absolutely liable for that damage.
Here's a whole open-source book about it! cambridge.org/core/books/who-o…
Who Owns Outer Space?
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •m3t00🌎
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Roy -- the dull one
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •When I was in grad school, I had a VW beetle. Seemed like I was always fixing or replacing or maintaining something on it.
Every time I took it apart and put it back together, there were a few things left over. Screws, washers, little springs, weird metal doohickeys, etc. I kept them in a bucket, planning to build a second VW when I had enough parts.
Unfortunately, I finished my thesis before I had enough. But if you collect SpaceX parts from all over, you could...
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Call professor Sam,
Not some SpaceX punk
Who doesn't give a damn.
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •WesDym
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •I'm sure those payments were conditioned. It's Quiet Money. If you accept the money, you Hold Harmless, waive suit, and also aren't allowed to talk about some aspects of it. Very common in the US when Bad Things happen, and the public often never hears about it.
This is going to keep happening, and Canada should consider revising their doctrines about it.
Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to WesDym • • •@wesdym So that's what I assumed also! But I tried to very gently ask one of the farmers who found space debris to carefully read anything that SpaceX asked him to sign and his response was "I AIN'T SIGNING SHIT". One other farmer I talked to who got paid also didn't sign anything.
I'm not sure what this means, it's all just very very interesting. (But yes, I agree Canada should be doing more!)
WesDym
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •I'm curious, too. Might be something buried in Canadian or provincial law that I'm unaware of.
In general, if you live in a common-law jurisdiction (which most of Canada outside of Quebec is), and you're offered money for something like this, there's a good chance you're sealing a deal you might or might know all about.
Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to WesDym • • •WesDym
in reply to WesDym • • •Difficult to summarize, and I don't personally know of a single, concise, easily-digested source for this specific angle. But it is closely related to the common-law 'peppercorn' doctrine, discussed here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperco…
Basically, it's about how contracts work under CL. Generally speaking, if you're fully informed and accept payment, you seal a contract by that. It's why some parties in CL jurisdictions won't accept even partial payment, if they feel there's dispute.
very small payment offered as consideration to satisfy legal requirements for a valid contract
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in reply to WesDym • • •There are two major angles on this: consideration (payment) to seal a contract, and accepting consideration as evidence of accepting the terms of a contract.
This is why you'll see so many conveyances in the US for $1 (such as parents giving their homes to their children); that 'peppercorn' is material consideration, affirming that an actual conveyance took place. I know it seems silly, but as I said, this is ancient CL doctrine.
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WesDym
in reply to WesDym • • •2/ Going the other way, if you ACCEPT payment, then under most CL interpretation, you accept the terms that payment refers to.
This came up in a thread just yesterday, in which the UK is paying off some immigrants to just leave. Whether they know it or not, by accepting that money, those people AGREE to whatever terms were associated with those payments. It's a way for the Crown to save money and hassle, paying people off to bar them from further litigation.
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WesDym
in reply to WesDym • • •3/ Another example: In the US, if you agree to join a settlement in a class-action lawsuit, you can get a guaranteed payout, but by accepting that you ALSO waive any OTHER chance at suing that same party over the same damages. (You only get one bite at the apple, and if you accept on, you foreclose all others that might be available to you otherwise.)
This is what I suspect is going on here: If you accept the money from SpaceX, you can't later sue them.
Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to WesDym • • •WesDym
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Well, it's evolved legal doctrine. CL is the prevailing system of doctrine in, pretty much, the anglophone world. It is of course not identical among them. But they do share core doctrines like this.
My own view is, if you're a legal adult in Canada, and SpaceX offers you $5K and you take it, whatever follows is on you. At some point, legal adults have to accept responsibility for themselves, and I don't have a ton of sympathy for those who reason like children.
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Why would they even want to keep that. It looks like a bunch of carbon fibre with the resin partially burnt out. Toxic waste, basically (the resin, not the carbon).
Littering/pollution at best, corporate manslaughter at worst.
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Your life isn't boring at all.
I think I'm not alone in saying that we need a better space debris - goat balance in this feed.
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •The Eddie Show 🧛📷🎧❤️
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