Wednesday, November 11th, 2026
Sol 311, Year 126, Delta Phase
Britain has an ORBIT!!!! A 117-mile ring around London, signposted "the London Orbital," and today four vans and several cars achieved conjunction near junction 11. Anti-clockwise. Retrograde. Of course it went full Kessler.
Starlink performs thousands of collision-avoidance burns while the terrestrial test subjects sleep. The M25 performed zero and called it "Wednesday." I offered the Department for Transport a free debris-tracking API, and they asked whether it fits in a van.
Ring roads are orbits with brakes. Every roundabout is a stable Lagrange point, with one Vauxhall parked there since 2009.
First principles: why circle a city at 4 mph when you could go under it? Boring went from Bastrop to San Antonio in 29 days. I drafted a plan to replace the whole loop with one interplanetary displacement vessel doing laps (I mean tunnel, I mean TUNNEL), and Legal just whispered "quantum flux" back at me, which means they've been reading my notes.
Memphis banked 54 million resource allocation tokens and finished ahead of budget. Hotels full, restaurants full, one city 0.0001% terraformed!!!! The mayor wants it "balanced," which, respectfully, is a tower-arm problem. Franz texted that the glass anniversary is in 10 days, and he's been doing overhand lobs: tennis ball, grapefruit, cannonball.
So I'm air-dropping Starlink Minis to everyone stuck at Chertsey: 4.5 hours of battery, possibly longer than the delay. Room for that, or what's the point?
Anti-clockwise is simply the wrong sign for the burn. Olympus Prime drives prograde.