Time for us all to break out the same umbrellas we used when sky-lab rained down... :)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/19/us-space-debris-nasa-idUSTRE78I5GE20110919 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/19/us-space-debris-nasa-idUSTRE78I5GE20110919)
INCOMING!!!!!
Well that's fun.
Considering the population of the earth is just under 7 billion, isn't 1:32,000 pretty good odds to get whacked?
"Never tell me the odds!" :)
i hope it lands in an ocean.
haha M-5... :D
Holy space junk! I will be looking up all day Friday.....
Quote from: MARKO on September 20, 2011, 04:44:54 PM
Holy space junk! I will be looking up all day Friday.....
But...if it falls on Australia, you'd have to look down all day Friday! :)
you have a point........ up down all around.
Marko
So we need to be ready to catch stuff falling from the sky tomorrow? Cool!
(er, I'll be inside...under the kitchen table)
Surely we ought to avoid this sort of problem by making NASA go up there and clean up after itself? It works with my kids (sometimes).
Where is Bruce Willis when we need him?! This would be a nice test of some anti-satellite missile system. Break it up into little bits that will all burn up.... ;)