“UMG and Disney have a long-term, multi-faceted partnership that includes distribution, licensing, and creative collaboration for Disney's music” Never mind the quality, feel the licensing.

Hi, Michael. This edition was also on France's @campradio.bsky.social on September 23rd. Link below: www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/bipo...

And may the general viewer note that Clodagh S. offers a thoroughly beguiling solo rendition of this perfect song accompanied on her own guitar. Just add Italian wine.

15/ None of the above has yet been put to the test under conditions of multinational conflict.

14/ It is largely a matter of voluntary co-ordination within individual national policy. Nor is there any arbitration. Operators, upon detecting a collision risk, rely entirely upon reaching mutual agreement on the correct course of action.

13/ There are also hundreds of thousands of smaller, untracked fragments. All of this debris is travelling at over 17,000 miles / 28,000km per hour. There is no binding international rule governing how individual operators respond and act to collision risk.

12/ There is also the small matter of 35,000+ pieces of debris larger than 10cm in diameter which have to be actively tracked.

11/ Nor is there a common data control standard for the various nation states engaged in low earth orbit initiatives.

10/ Note at this point that unlike in our congested shipping waters there is no concept of lanes in orbital systems, no single point of globe governance and no effective limits on what states, or corporations can put up there.

9/ Russia, similarly, is rumoured to have its own megaconstellation project in the works. In addition to Starlink, another Western initiative is Amazon’s own Kuiper system - already numbering over 3000 satellites.

8/ China is in the process of developing its own ‘megaconstellation’ called Guowang, which may potentially number 13,000 satellites.

7/ The ITU, however, doesn’t perform an approval role. They merely allocate radio frequencies and orbital slots. There is no globally coherent policy - and therefore no global cap - on the number of satellites allowed into low earth orbit.

6/ Radio frequency spectrum and orbit slots are allocated by the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency based in Geneva. Individual governments act as notifying administrations to the ITU in a process involving multiple regulators and operators.