May 2026: Trust Nobody, Check Everything

About this episode

This episode features discussions on dark sky protection and the implications of new orbital data centers.

This episode's guests: Yana Yakushina, lawyer, researcher, and dark sky protection educator.Barrington Russell, founder of DarkSkySites.com.Paul Marchant, Statistician.Bill's News Picks: Moonlight: a neglected driver of primate sleep ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.A04615, New York State Assembly.Musk Offers Sneak Peek at Orbiting Data Centers. They're Bigger Than the ISS, Michael Kan, PCMag. Blue Origin Joins the Race for Orbital Data Centers With 51K Satellite Plan, ...

People in this episode

Guests: Yana Yakushina, Barrington Russell, Paul Marchant

Topics covered

• dark sky protection
• data centers
• primate sleep ecology
• orbital technology
• statistical analysis

Keywords

• dark sky
• data centers
• primate ecology
• statistics
• orbital technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DarkSkySites.com, PCMag, Blue Origin

Books & works: Moonlight: a neglected driver of primate sleep ecology

Places: New York State Assembly

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