Michael Porter Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).
How does your work benefit from satellites?
I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another” 
Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game 
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)
Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard 
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#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography
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during the past 70 years is exceptional, and the previous period of equally high activity occurred more than 8,000 years ago. During the past 11,400 years almost all of the earlier high-activity periods were shorter than the present episode. 
understanding of solar dynamo mechanisms and hence precise prediction of near-future 
,. We are in a race against time, since we cannot know when the ‘perfect storm’ may occur – and it seems as if we are overdue a large event."