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Carly Sagan

If we view blowing up our atmosphere as “entertainment,” we are not going to make it as a species. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

@carlysagan It would've been extra "entertaining" if it had downed one of the planes that had to divert or be grounded, or had landed on someone's head.

@CStamp the worrying thing here is that space debris is falling all the time and if a small speeding bullet of debris hit an aircraft just right, we may never know the cause of loss. I’ve tried to voice this in industry and have been ignored.

@carlysagan @sundogplanets has been speaking up about the satellite problem and how Musk's space debris is a danger. She's been bringing a lot of awareness to the issue, so that's something.

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I can't help feeling that this tweet was an extension of the principle that "when someone uses the 🤣 emoji they are angrier than they have ever been before in their lives."

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This photo traumatically reminds me of what happens after the moon explodes in “Seveneves”. (Not a spoiler)

@carlysagan Ooh, Elon Musk rage-bait. Thanks for not putting his name in the post so my content filters don't catch this and I have to see it against my will.

@carlysagan I would be entertained - if he was in the rocket.

@carlysagan That's American tax payer money being blown up in the sky and this moron Elon thinks it's entertaining.

@carlysagan If Elon Musk was not so despicable personally, I would find it difficult to cheer the destruction of the product of hundreds or thousands of engineers. Let's try to keep it classy.

@carlysagan whys he using the sparkle emoji thats cultural appropriation

@carlysagan I don't know about anyone else, but I'm damned if I ever get in a vehicle sold by someone who calls catastrophic failure and destruction "entertainment".

@epicdemiologist exactly!! It’s never going to hold people. There’s no way anyone with a functioning brain cell would sign up for entertainment-star-emoji-death. We already know it can’t land bc it’s too tall. The El*n bros aren’t that dumb, are they?

@carlysagan You don't get it. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

@carlysagan We need to find out whether flight termination was triggered or not and why. If Starship failed but remained whole, it should not have self-destructed as it had enough speed to make it into the Atlantic or Indian ocean (SpaceX would know this on a continuous basis). If the ship explode on its own, then nothing you could do to prevent debris from falling on caribeean.

@carlysagan Elon has the same sense of humor of Nero who played the lyre after he set Rome on fire

@carlysagan @Isnotgood This by itself is a reason to follow you.