2 months ago, my family and I drove from Saskatchewan to coastal BC.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

2 months ago, my family and I drove from Saskatchewan to coastal BC. A few weeks later, we flew to Aotearoa New Zealand. Today we're flying from Christchurch to Invercargill. Tomorrow we're taking a ferry from Bluff to Rakiura Stewart Island.

This will be a trip within a trip within a trip within a trip. Wish me luck! #ProfSamLectureTour

https://allevents.in/invercargill/astronomy-vs-the-billionaire-space-race/200029496473111# (talk is actually at 7pm, not 9am)

https://southlandnz.com/event/beatrice-hill-tinsley-lecture%3a-astronomy-vs-the-billionaire-space-race/5617/

[newstik@social.heise.de]

@sundogplanets sounds awesome!

[timo_micro@scicomm.xyz]

@sundogplanets have a wonderful trip! Amazing birds during the day, southern skies at night, sounds lovely.

[nead@social.vivaldi.net]

@sundogplanets Reminds me of Rock, Paper, Scissors! Only it's Plane, Ferry, Car! (or some semblance thereof)

[me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca]

@sundogplanets Living the George Carlin routine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

Kia Ora, Invercargill!

Rakiura Stewart Island tomorrow! Then back to Invercargill on Saturday.

Oh my gosh I'm tired. #ProfSamLectureTour

[dch@bsd.network]

@sundogplanets Rakiura is one of my favourite places in NZ. I'm one of the rare few who has done the stunning Southern Circuit, it was a memorable experience, including my only daylight encounter with a Kiwi.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

Will I be able to wake up, get family out the door, make it to the ferry terminal, find wifi access, log in to an important zoom meeting, convince important people at the meeting to submit a comment to the FCC (that I and a collaborator wrote for them), and check in for the ferry by 9:15am? Tomorrow morning is going to be... exciting. #ProfSamLectureTour

[militant_dilettante@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I hope, everything goes smoothly.

[msmerope@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets we believe in you 😉

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

On the plus side, the Portuguese translation of the Conversation article I co-authored last week about Kessler Syndrome (my part) and space policy (Gregory Radisic's part) has half a million reads(!!) so that's cool.
https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

And hopefully there will be another Conversation article I co-authored in the last 5 days out tomorrow! Learn more ways why launching a million satellites is a terrible awful stupid idea!

[rfancio@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets 🤞🏻💪🏻🤞🏻💪🏻🤞🏻

[ygathgoch@cloudisland.nz]

@sundogplanets when I was on Rakiura years ago, there were usually quite a few people outside the library using the free wifi. I’m not sure about close to the ferry terminal though, @xas any suggestions?

[zleap@techhub.social]

@sundogplanets

Will a recording of this be available?

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@zleap If there is ever good recording from the places I'm giving the talks, I'll post it. I haven't had a spare hour to record it by myself.

[zleap@techhub.social]

@sundogplanets

Thanks, and no problem, good luck with the presentation, hopefully will be well attended.