The Satellites Are Falling, The Satellites Are Falling!

What will you do with your peice of space junk?

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    I guess that most everyone has heard about NASA's falling satellite.  Last update I heard yesterday said that they still didn't know where it was going to land, but that there was a 1-in-32,000 chance that it, or its debris, would hit somebody (Please correct me if I am wrong or a new update has been released!).  How many of y'all are going to watch the skies for it?  If a piece of it lands in your yard, through your car windshield, or punches a hole in your roof, what will you do with it? 

    I'm thinking of hanging my piece on the wall as a trophy.  It's not every day that free satellites (or their pieces!) fall from the sky!  :grin:

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Going the way of Skylab.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

    Cool pic!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Its official, a piece of the satellite struck my house and hit my shrine to aliens.  Time to sue NASA and make myself riiiiiiiiiiich!

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Hmm... well, aside from the fact that they still own the material, no matter where it lands, it's also a massive radiation hazard that you probably don't want to keep around. The only thing worse would be keeping little gems from the Mercury testing site.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I"m quite practical.  The radiation is saving me money on my electric bill ~ hugs his irradiated lump of warmth~

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting sareth01, reply 5
I"m quite practical.  The radiation is saving me money on my electric bill ~ hugs his irradiated lump of warmth~

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Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

2 words: pancreatic cancer.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Draakjacht, reply 7
2 words: pancreatic cancer.

Two words: who cares? ;)

The reason for the satellite is falling is also two words: Kostura cannon. :omg:

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Aww, I can't be the ever-present wet blanket hovering overhead, waiting to drop my weight on the heads of the gleefully unsuspecting?

You're no fun.

But yeah, I figure the odds of it hitting me are pretty slim, so I'm going to enjoy the oh so bright shooting star... as it falls on someone else.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

    Piece of fallen satellite = eBay gold  :erk:

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

yeah, until the Feds show up. We had that all over Texas when the shuttle decided to visit.

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Twinkle twinkle little star

how I wonde---KABOOM!

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

OH MY GOD THE STAR JUST EXPLODED! GET THE CHILDREN INSIDE! WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN!?!

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

    Wow, that's morbid!  o_O

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

We try our best.

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

   "Try?  Try not!  Do or do not!  There is no try."  -  Yoda

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KerrdogJ, reply 14
Wow, that's morbid!

It be done, bitch!

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

    Hey!  Let's try and keep the language clean!  >:(

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

It is. I scrubbed it thoroughly. See, all sparkly.

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

Unless a spacecraft is designed to properly enter/reenter an atmosphere, chances are that it will break up into trillions of bits due to velocity based atmospheric erosion.

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

Did we come back to a topic?

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Draakjacht, reply 21
Did we come back to a topic?

 

If this line of conversation is continued indefinitely, then only momentarily.

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

    Lifeboy soap and a Daisy Red Rider!  :grin: