🚀🟥⏯️Watch the #REPLAY of the captivating interview of the archaeologist of #space Alice Gorman @drspacejunk by @TiphineLucas, that addresses #spacejunk, #colonialism and #aboriginal & #indigenouspeople issues⬇️1/🧵
#ecoleanthropocene2021 @EcoleUrbaine
#ecoleanthropocene2021 @EcoleUrbaine
2/🌏#Earth is surrounded by a constellation of tens of thousands of #satellites in orbit, but also of billions of #spacejunk of more or less large size, fragments coming from rockets or satellites, travelling at a very high speed: important risks of #collision.
3/💥#Kessler syndrome: we are rapidly moving towards a tipping point where the volume of space debris in low orbit is such that collisions are frequent, generate other debris and exponentially increase the probability of collisions.
4/💥#Kessler syndrome: Beyond a certain tipping point, #Space exploration and the use of satellites would be impossible. Humans had not anticipated their rapid dependence on spatial services such as #telecommunications, #navigation or #meteo
5/ #technologies are being tested to "clean" the low orbit: they aim at destroying debris, so they also represent #weapons against satellites. High diplomatic risks in case of misfire🧨💥
6/✨When we speak of #sustainability in #Space, we are thinking of the continuation of human activities, it is not a question of #care for space itself.
7/💫☄️Let's consider #Space as an #environment, i.e. with interactions between processes and objects (natural or human-made).
#interconnection: any action on one part of the spatial system may affect another part.
#interconnection: any action on one part of the spatial system may affect another part.
8/🚮⛩️ #spacejunk or human cultural #Legacy? #Archaeology studies what humans leave behind: often #waste.
#spacejunk tells our values, our imaginations about #Space and tells the story of earthly human communities.
#spacejunk tells our values, our imaginations about #Space and tells the story of earthly human communities.
9/🚀#Space history was made possible by #Colonization, in #Algeria and #Guyana for #France for example: before #Kourou, France used the firing ranges of #sahara lhistoire.fr/la-france-spat…
10/🧑🚀The narrative of the #Space conquest is excluding the colonized peoples. In #Australia, aboriginal peoples were actively excluded from space history because they were considered "primitive".
11/ The idea of a conquering "humanity" that explores #Space as a new frontier is problematic: only certain categories are counted in this "humanity". This conception has long excluded people of color #POC & many ex-colonized and #indigenouspeople.
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