The sky is falling

[PrintDriver]

Get out your parasols and tinfoil helmets.
http://www.space.com/12893-dead-nasa-satellite-falling-space-junk.html

They expect any number of 300lb pieces to hit the ground.
Someday.
Somewhere.

[garricks]

somewhere between northern Canada and southern South America.

How precise.

[PrintDriver]

Yeah, well, sometime between the end of September and early October is precise too....
:rolleyes:

I saw one come in once. It was a huge fireball and it looked like it was coming right at me. Stopped the truck on the side of the road and just watched. Wishing I had a camera. It actually landed somewhere in Illinois. But it sure was an impressive thing to see. As I was driving on, some guy called it in on the radio and they were making jokes that perhaps he needed to adjust his tin helmet and wondering if the Star Trek convention was in town.

[KitchWitch]

So I'm off work next week for a nice, relaxing few days and I've got the beginnings of a cold AND space debris is going to land on me? TYPICAL. Thanks, NASA.

[Brie]

I've been hearing about this...kinda scary that they can't pinpoint the area at least a little more...I saw some space junk come down once also (in south florida). Not sure where it landed, but it was an amazing fireball

[Red Kittie Kat]

My 14 yo niece told me about this yesterday. She is more informed than I am :D

So this means I can't be without my camera from now until the end of October ... just in case ;)

[PrintDriver]

Well, from now until it falls down. Unless you want to carry the camera around to the end of October.....

[Audentia]

If I've learned anything from HBO if I get hit with space debris or otherwise weird things from the sky then I get to become a reaper.
Here I come space junk, pick me! pick me!

[Bladez]

Does this make anyone else think of Meteor Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njP6YczRgsA&feature=related)?

[Bob]

I 'think' the story on NPR put the odds of it hitting a human at one in 30,000. The odds of hitting any specific person (as in, you) put it well into the one in the trillions. They interviewed a woman (from Missouri, I think) who is the only person EVER to be hit by a piece of space junk. A piece of mesh brushed her shoulder when she was walking home one night.

Your odds of getting killed by a meteor? About once every thousand years or so? I think I once read it was one in ten trillion.

The last official episode was in 1954. Mrs. E. Hulitt Hodges, Alabama. Napping on her sofa when a large chunk of a meteor crashed through the roof, bounced off a large radio, and smacked her on the leg, leaving a very large and severe bruise. She survived.

Her sofa didn't.

[Yossarian]

The article says that if you find any debris you should leave it alone and contact authorites. Still NASA property, can't sell it, blah blah blah — fair enough. I read a different article about this that mentioned, along with those reasons, that you shouldn't touch it because it might have sharp edges. Thanks for the vote of confidence there, NASA.

[KitchWitch]

I say finders keepers. NASA threw it out, it's up for grabs.

[Kool]

I wouldn't touch one just in case this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DQx6JUk40) happened :eek:

[Red Kittie Kat]

I miss Creepshow :D

[Lith]

Kind of along the same lines...

http://news.discovery.com/space/drought-reveals-shuttle-columbia-debris-110804.html

[garricks]

MISSOURI!?! I'm pancaked. (maybe literally!) :D

[balou]

A good article in NY Times on this today...here's a bit of it...(love the last sentence)... "By Thursday afternoon, NASA had narrowed the time of re-entry on Friday to between noon and 6 p.m. Eastern time. The satellite circles the Earth four times in six hours, but none of the Friday afternoon orbits pass over North America. That increases the odds, still infinitesimal, for people living in areas of Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe that do lie along the trajectory.

Rabbi Carroll, for one, thought that NASA’s reticence in narrowing down the impact site to be clever disaster management.

“I think that NASA knows exactly where and when it’s coming down,” he wrote. “If they let the word out, a thousand idiots will gather at the impact site, waiting to get whacked. And their lawyers can sue NASA. ”"

[PrintDriver]

Balou!!!!!

[balou]

Pd!!!

[PrintDriver]

So it's coming down today, now.
http://www.space.com/13058-nasa-falling-satellite-uars-impact-today.html
Not over North America.
The rest of you better watch out though.
:D

[garricks]

Balou!!!!!

Pd!!!

http://youtu.be/JcTd25SFtbA

LOL! (Good to see you balou!)

[balou]

http://youtu.be/JcTd25SFtbA

LOL! (Good to see you balou!)

Funny!

[PrintDriver]

Maybe more like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmq-8rcEKg

[garricks]

LOL! That was three full iterations, right? Longest 1:15 ever.

And now I've got to watch that movie this weekend. It's just a jump to the left...

[Bob]

Here, this lengthen your life then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcTd25SFtbA

[PrintDriver]

Garricks posted that in #21. LOL.

[balou]

Good one!!

[garricks]

Wow, I ninja'd the Great and Powerful Broacher™*?!?

I'm buyin' a lottery ticket on the way home tonight.



*Patent(s) pending

[Red Kittie Kat]

“I think that NASA knows exactly where and when it’s coming down,” he wrote. “If they let the word out, a thousand idiots will gather at the impact site, waiting to get whacked. And their lawyers can sue NASA. ”"

Now that I would believe! lmao :D

[Bob]

Wow, I ninja'd the Great and Powerful Broacher™*?!?

I'm buyin' a lottery ticket on the way home tonight.

*Patent(s) pending


Don't bother. Already bought one for you.

(You lost, sorry.)

[garricks]

Dammit! Ninja'd again!

[Ang]

I say finders keepers. NASA threw it out, it's up for grabs.

Isn't it legal to rifle through people's garbage? That's why they say if you a serial killer, not to throw anything out, because the cops can go through your garbage and find a letter you threw out and getcha!

So I agree, if NASA really wanted it they should have towed it in... hmph...

[Yearnful]

Looks like they found that Satellite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fgTyiaDmytw

[Kool]

^^^ That was great http://koolsplace.com/images/smileys/lol.gif

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao!!!! That is too funny ... nice find Krazy :D

[Kool]

Didn't the oldest kid from "Eight is Enough" get hit by a satellite on "Northern Exposure", I remember they had to buld a special casket because it "fused" with his body.

EDIT: Here it is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMlq5IJ265M) :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

oh man I used to love that show ... I totally forgot about the Rick "crawling up on the roof" :D