Funny reflection from earlier this morning: during the BBC Inside Science podcast interview this morning, I tried to give a comparison for how big the space junk pieces were. Without thinking about my audience, I said "It's about the size of a semi-truck hood" and all the British people on the call said "...a what?" and I managed to stammer out "Uh...a lorry? Is that what a lorry is?"
Anyway...that was today's hilarious failure in trans-atlantic sci-comm.
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