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AITA for not retrieving my research equipment?

posted in r/AITA by u/notmyfirstchoiceun

sounds bad but hear me out. my lab partner (26.3 f) and i (25.6 g) are both in our final year of grad school, majoring in environmental studies. our advisor gave us the option of doing the final project together so we took it because hey, if great minds think alike, that should give us twice the edge for defending our thesis. plus half the paperwork for everything else lol

anyway, we had already made some plans to travel over break to some pretty pristine wilderness, so we figured we would take the opportunity and set up some equipment while we were there. data could get collected while we worked on other stuff, we'd swing back after a couple weeks when we were ready to process it, we'd write our thesis, boom. grad school in the bag. no sweat.

well, it started off alright. getting permits took a little longer than we planned but things came through in the end. we got our devices set up and left them to do their thing. the plan was to come back in three weeks....which kind of turned into three months. believe me, it was out of our hands completely, my license was suspended (not relevant) and by the time i got it back our permit had lapsed so we needed another one just to get back into the natural area.

anyway, we were able to scrape our data off the collecting devices remotely during the wait, and it honestly wasn't that impressive. literally a rehash of the data published in every other study over the last five years. nothing unique at all. when we found this it, there was still a week to go during the permit review process, and my partner and i talked it over and decided to just cut our losses. and yes, before you ask, the equipment was fully biodegradable; leave nothing but footprints, yanno?

anyway. our advisor was kinda disappointed but conceded that it made sense for the situation, as long as we don't expect to have equivalent tech for any future endeavors the rest of the academic year. fair enough. i was talking about it with my friend though and they got pretty judgy, said i should have cleaned up after us and that there could still be environmental consequences over the few decades it would take to break down. tbh i don't think it would take even that long, but it's been weighing on my mind. they suggested i post here to get a once-and-for-all answer. so, AITA?

tl;dr did a remote study that didn't turn up anything useful, left our data collecting stuff behind to degrade naturally instead of going through the hassle of picking it up. AITA?

2.3k UPVOTES | COMMENTS (473) | sort by: BEST reducereuserehydrate Current environmental studies undergrad here. Students like you are why we can't have nice things. YTA :/

BovineBlaster INFO: When you say "natural area", are you talking about a public continental grassland or an uncontacted planetoid? -> notmyfirstchoiceun (OP) technically the latter but again, we got the necessary permit -> -> BovineBlaster Ok. You know the "necessary permit" (all five of them) to conduct studies in these areas outlines specific disposal methods for anything that crosses the atmospheric boundary? And failure to comply at any point voids issuance completely?

In the eyes of the Eight, this isn't a casual act of defacing, this is dancing dangerously close to unwarranted elevation. YTA. I suggest you start looking for an attorney or a ride out of the solar system. Maybe both. -> -> -> notmyfirstchoiceun (OP) oh shit lol

lol-lmaoeven OP YTA and i'm losing it over you clearly referring to organically-hosted AAIs as "biodegradable" -> venusianspaghetti Not technically incorrect??

-> messagemepicsofurdinner how much money does OP even have to just throw this stuff away???

xXsexyuranusXx "Literally a rehash of everyone else's data" oh my god ohhhh my god how are you in grad school

-> notmyfirstchoiceun (OP) :/

didyousaytentacles NTA those slides in the permit office don't care about anything but gatekeeping & aren't even good at it. i regularly swing by a protected reserve to fuck with the locals like the good old days and they've never once caught me -> 22491893736pqe HUH

(UPDATE) AITA for not retrieving my research equipment?

posted in r/AITA by u/notmyfirstchoiceun

hey guys. i posted here about a week ago and really appreciated all your comments, i read most of them even if i haven't had time to reply. seemed pretty resounding that i was the AH so i met with my partner and advisor and i'm happy to report we worked out a solution. advisor in particular was pleased, i guess they were lowkey reconsidering sponsoring the rest of my research (yikes!!).

anyway, we'd put our hands together and did some research, turns out the type of data collector we were using (which i DID NOT SPECIFY!!! yall have gone way too wild with your speculating lollll) can be rendered inert via remote signal. it's dfinitely a bit trickier to send than to receive, but we managed to make it work. so, as of yesterday, we sent the kill code!

i was told that once the receiver stops pinging back, we're good to go, so just waiting for that to deactivate. should take another day or so based on distance. will update once it's confirmed. thanks everybody!

EDIT: no, i'm not actually going back to get it, there's nooooo way they'd approve a permit to do that lol. my advisor promised this was the next best thing and would still keep us in compliance with galactic decrees.

EDIT 2: equipment stopped pinging! we're all good! off to celebrate! thanks everybody!

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BovineBlaster That's worse. You get how that's worse?

EDIT: Lot of folks asking me to elaborate, so guess I'll give my mini-lecture. For background, I did my studies on developing new remote research methods and currently work in a conservation-adjacent field (not specifying for privacy reasons), so this whole thing has literally been my life.

So, remote kill codes - unless administered by an argon-level field technician - have a base success rate of 90%. That number decreases with distance, so the further away you are, the more likely it is something will go wrong. Unless OP violated council law surrounding atmospheric entry, that code had to have been transmitted over such a distance as to have maybe a 20% likelihood of success. Optimistically.

Maybe it worked and went off without a hitch. I really hope it did. But from a statistical viewpoint, it's wayyy more likely they just wiped broadcasting capabilities, and that there's still a functional research-grade autonomous artificial intelligence living amongst the planetoid's population.

-> reducereuserehydrate Thanks for the explanation. Whenever I think the situation can't get further downhill.........

UUSEERNAAMEEEE Glad to hear you got things figured out. Hope it doesn't come back to bite you.

cjangingthestars ok who wants to start a betting pool on how much the lawsuit's gonna take from OP after this planet starts elevating a dozen cycles ahead of schedule

[Article] "Class-4 Planetoid To Make Contact Soon?"

posted in r/planetarynews by u/Abductwheeeee

Hey All! Thought this was neat. Summary as follows:

The tertiary planet of solar system Epsilon-27 may be nearing self-propelled elevation, according to researchers in the quadrant. Despite being located within a strict conservation zone, monitoring instruments in the area have detected mathematic-based broadcasts consistent with twenty-seven other first contact events. Estimates suggest they may be eligible for council examination within three local cycles if this trend keeps up.

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Zargothsleftbuttcheek "The tertiary planet of solar system Epsilon-27".......hey does anyone remember that student from r/AITA a few months back who bungled their data collection and retrieval? Did we ever figure out where they did that? This sounds really, really familiar. -> luckystars-thankingem I recall someone did some digging and figured out what university they were based at, bet it wouldn't be hard to extrapolate from there. Hang on.

Edit: If you check public records for research proposals at UAG you'll find one for this area that lines up with that OPs timeline. You're absolutely onto something. Yikes.

-> -> Zargothsleftbuttcheek Goodness....grabbing some krill ASAP because something's definitely gonna hit the fan soon

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sealsealsealsealseal :eyeroll: it took me two seconds to check whether those coordinates are legit or not try harder next time. paging u/HelpdeskAutomod

unmitigateddelights Fascinating. You live like this?

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