Making the news today....

[Doug Tait]

That nptc assessor looks serious

[sime42]

Why's he got a mask on?

[Mark J]

Will Musk's Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome? - Big Think

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Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

 

[woody paul]

2 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

That nptc assessor looks serious

Crime investigater so he doesn't contaminated anything. 

Not  bad cuts for a lad seen professional do worse. 

Edited September 29, 2023 by woody paul

[sime42]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Will Musk's Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome? - Big Think

BIGTHINK.COM

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Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

 

Interesting. Not heard that before.

 

"It’s an entirely avoidable disaster, but unless we prepare now, in advance of any foreseeable disasters, we run the risk of mortgaging our entire species’ future in space, all because we failed to take the necessary precautions."

- so that's another thing to look forward to in a few years then.

[Doug Tait]

6 minutes ago, woody paul said:

Crime investigater so he doesn't contaminated anything. 

Not  bad cuts for a lad seen professional do worse. 

 

Have to say the most unbelievable thing about this story so far is that there's CSI looking at a felled tree. All these folk that have saws and chippers nicked and get nothing more than a crime number for insurance must be wondering...

[Mick Dempsey]

Conspiracy theorists on Twitter loving it.

One guy reckons they’re going to build houses or a railway or something.

Presumably they’ll bulldoze Hadrians wall as well.

[oldwoodcutter]

That youngsters felling has certainly brought the tree huggers out, sorry I mean the stump huggers,  wonder who’s having the firewood?

Edited September 29, 2023 by oldwoodcutter

[carlos]

8 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

 

Have to say the most unbelievable thing about this story so far is that there's CSI looking at a felled tree. All these folk that have saws and chippers nicked and get nothing more than a crime number for insurance must be wondering...

does seem a bit ott for a felled tree!!!

[Blackbriarwoods]

2 hours ago, sime42 said:

Why's he got a mask on?

He's an undercover NPTC assessor