That's it, I'm staying inside on September 23rd.

[mookiemookie]

U.S. space officials say they expect a dead satellite to fall to Earth in about a week.

NASA scientists have calculated the satellite will break into 26 pieces as it gets closer to Earth. The odds of it hitting someone anywhere on the planet are 1 in 3,200.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2011-09-17/nasa-satellite-debris/50439656/1

[Betonov]

Good, it's on the 23rd. I have a picnic on the 22nd so I dont care :D

[Rhodes]

It's a weather ballon!

[nikimcbee]

So, if you get hit, I get first dibs on you FF guys.:hmmm:

[mookiemookie]

So, if you get hit, I get first dibs on you FF guys.:hmmm:

Done :yeah:

[August]

If it hits me you guys can divide up my submarine book library.

[Skybird]

It's a weather ballon!
At least it's not Lupus.

http://blog.pixelarium.ch/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/drhouse.jpg

:D

[Oberon]

In other news sales of umbrellas have risen by 75%...

[nikimcbee]

If it hits me you guys can divide up my submarine book library.

Do you have any extra lobstahs? I'll gladly take those off your hands.:hmmm:

[mookiemookie]

Break out the bread helmets!

http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/097/324/original/enhanced-buzz-15345-1296838997-6.jpg

[papa_smurf]

TAKE COVER!!!!

[JU_88]

LOL - ouch, I expect the chances are that most (if not all) of it will end up in the sea. :woot:
The worst thing it could hit would be an airbourne commerical airliner! :o wonder what the chances are of that...

[CCIP]

LOL - ouch, I expect the chances are that most (if not all) of it will end up in the sea. :woot:
The worst thing it could hit would be an airbourne commerical airliner! :o wonder what the chances are of that...

Not that likely, probably, since they said that they'll know the approximate area where it'll fall within 2 hours before the thing falls. I should hope 2 hours is enough for air traffic to be alerted/diverted. If there's one industry that can never be too careful about safety, it's definitely them.

[nikimcbee]

Go out and see if you can catch it on your tongue, like a snowflake.:hmmm:

[papa_smurf]

You think they could aim it for somewhere empty - like Australia:D

[Rhodes]

Incoming!!!!
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5193/1200979491.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/1200979491.jpg/)

[razark]

Go out and see if you can catch it on your tongue, like a snowflake.:hmmm:
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF097-Astronaut_Fall.jpg

[nikimcbee]

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF097-Astronaut_Fall.jpg


:har::har::salute:

[magicstix]

If the chances are 1 in 3,200 of it hitting someone, then TWO MILLION PEOPLE will be hit by satellite debris! OH THE HUMANITY!!!

[Lord_magerius]

So this is how you all make excuses for not coming out on my birthday :nope: :O:

[mapuc]

So this is how you all make excuses for not coming out on my birthday :nope: :O:

your friend will join your birthday party, as long it's held some 300 yards below the surface :rotfl2::rotfl2:

Markus

[TarJak]

You think they could aim it for somewhere empty - like Australia:D

Been there done that with Skylab.

[Hottentot]

If the chances are 1 in 3,200 of it hitting someone, then TWO MILLION PEOPLE will be hit by satellite debris! OH THE HUMANITY!!!

I sure hope it doesn't hit here: there are only 220,000 people in my home town. :o

[Platapus]

If the chances are 1 in 3,200 of it hitting someone, then TWO MILLION PEOPLE will be hit by satellite debris! OH THE HUMANITY!!!


It might be a good idea not to hang around those two million people then. :yep:

[Torplexed]

Been there done that with Skylab.


In 1979, after Skylab's impact in the Australian outback, the Shire of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering, a fine which remained unpaid for 30 years. The fine was finally paid in April 2009, when radio show host Scott Barley of Highway Radio raised the funds from his morning show listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

Uncle Sam....whudda deadbeat. :D

[Reece]

What ever you do use indoor toilets!!:dead:

[TarJak]

In 1979, after Skylab's impact in the Australian outback, the Shire of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering, a fine which remained unpaid for 30 years. The fine was finally paid in April 2009, when radio show host Scott Barley of Highway Radio raised the funds from his morning show listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

Uncle Sam....whudda deadbeat. :D
http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/skylab%20-%20700_tcm2-26960.jpg
Well it was a big piece of litter!

[Penguin]

Good, it's on the 23rd. I have a picnic on the 22nd so I dont care :D

If the chances are 1 in 3,200 of it hitting someone, then TWO MILLION PEOPLE will be hit by satellite debris! OH THE HUMANITY!!!

official Slovenian population: (http://www.stat.si/eng/tema_demografsko_prebivalstvo.asp) 2.053.916

this doesn't look good... :hmmm:

[mookiemookie]

I wonder how they came up with the "1 in 3,200" chance. Did they measure the surface area of the debris and the surface area of a human's head, taking into account population densities and etc etc etc. :doh:

[geetrue]

They say this thing is as big as a school bus ...

Watch it fall on a school bus :salute:

[mookiemookie]

They say North America is safe:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/21/7879772-nasa-satellite-wont-fall-on-us

[Oberon]

Nonsense, it always hits America.

[August]

I wonder how they came up with the "1 in 3,200" chance. Did they measure the surface area of the debris and the surface area of a human's head, taking into account population densities and etc etc etc. :doh:

Dunno but from the article:

In the past, Nicholas Johnson, the head of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office, has estimated that the chances that any of the UARS debris would hit anybody were 1 in 3,200 — which translates into a 1-in-20 trillion risk for any particular person.

[mookiemookie]

Dunno but from the article:

I'm wearing a helmet that day. Can never be too sure. :ping:

[papa_smurf]

The US space agency (Nasa) says that its out-of-control climate satellite is expected to crash to Earth sometime on Friday evening (GMT).
There is still much uncertainty over when and where the satellite will re-enter the atmosphere.
Experts say they will get a more precise idea in the last 12 hours before the satellite is due to return.


Thats cutting it a bit fine, better order in a hard hat just in case.

[Torplexed]

With Japan's luck lately, it'll likely crash there. Maybe right on top of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. That'd just cap off their year.

[TLAM Strike]

In 1979, after Skylab's impact in the Australian outback, the Shire of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering, a fine which remained unpaid for 30 years. The fine was finally paid in April 2009, when radio show host Scott Barley of Highway Radio raised the funds from his morning show listeners and paid the fine on behalf of NASA.

Uncle Sam....whudda deadbeat. :D

Wonder if they ever fined the Soviets for that moon lander that crashed down under... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_434)

[Rilder]

Maybe Nasa should use it to threaten the Government?

"All you have to do is give us funding and we'll make sure the satellite doesn't hit you, Obama, infact give us a good funding increase and we'll take care of those pesky conservative candidates, don't worry we'll make sure a piece hits Sarah Palin regardless" :rotfl2:

[Oberon]

CIWS full auto time.

[Rhodes]

If it falls in Madeira, the hole(budget) may swallow it!

[Skybird]

"Brus-sels! Brus-sels! Brus-sels!" :yeah:

[papa_smurf]

S officials now say the fall to Earth of Nasa's six-tonne UARS satellite could occur early on Saturday (GMT). Estimates of where debris might fall will be narrowed hours before impact.
And a UK team studying the trajectory says the most likely time for re-entry could be after 23:00 GMT Friday, and as late as 03:00 GMT on Saturday.


Looks like Sarah Palin is safe..... come on Australia:D

[papa_smurf]

I like how to odds of been hit are 1 in 3002, thats better than winning the national lottery in the UK!

[MothBalls]

It’s Safe to Go Outside: NASA Says Its Falling Satellite Will Miss the U.S.OK, so it's safe to go outside in the US, and the way they headlined it, it's like that's all that matters, it won't hit the US.

But, if you live in Canada, Africa or Australia you might be screwed;At 7:30 p.m. Friday, NASA posted an update that said the satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, was expected to re-enter between 11 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday.

“During that time, the satellite will be passing over Canada, Africa and Australia, as well as vast areas of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans,” the update said. A day earlier, NASA had said it expected re-entry on Friday afternoon. Original Story http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/science/space/24satellite.html?_r=1

If you do get hit, no worries; If by vanishingly small chance, the NASA satellite hit your house, by international treaty, NASA would be responsible for paying compensation for any damage and injuries. However, it doesn't say a think about paying fines for littering.

[Torplexed]

But, if you live in Canada, Africa or Australia you might be screwed;

It's happened before. Anyone recall Kosmos 954, the nuclear powered Soviet satellite that burned up over the Canadian Northwest Territories in 1978? Canada billed the USSR six million for radioactive cleanup. After some foot-dragging the Soviets eventually coughed up three million.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

[magicstix]

I think the only thing we can be sure of with this satellite is that NASA has no freaking clue...

[razark]

I think the only thing we can be sure of ... is that NASA has no freaking clue...
Some days...

[Oberon]

R.I.P UARS

(Remains In Pacific)