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Huge Tumbling Satellite Could Fall to Earth Over US Tonight or Saturday, NASA Says (UPDATED)
Space.com ^
| 9/23/11
| Tariq Malik
Posted on 09/23/2011 10:07:53 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
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To: Evil Slayer
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:09:49 AM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Evil Slayer
Dang, I thought it was gonna fall on China or India! Now we have to worry about this???
To: Evil Slayer
Is it too early for me to start selling pieces of it on E-Bay?
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:10:18 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Evil Slayer
There is a pass over San Diego at 7:47 PDT tonight. It makes a beeline for my home in Idaho on that track as well.
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:11:27 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Evil Slayer
OH NOES!, OH NOES!
THIS IS HUGH AND SERIES!
My BEEBER IS GONNA GET STUNED!
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:12:42 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Evil Slayer
Odds of being hit by a piece of it 1 in 3200.
Seem kinda high to you?
To: Evil Slayer
Awesome! Fireworks at halftime of tonight’s homecoming game!!!
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:14:26 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
To: Evil Slayer
"I can't deal with this!......"
To: Buckeye McFrog
Odds of being hit by a piece of it 1 in 3200.Current odds in Vegas are 3150-1.
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:16:21 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
To: Evil Slayer
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:17:29 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
To: USNBandit
If it lands somewhere in Washington DC, after an earthquake, hurricane, floods, etc., I’d wonder if we’re being told something.
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:18:33 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: count-your-change
Go ahead and put up an prank Ebay listing for pieces of the satellite and see how long it takes for Ebay to pull it!
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:19:51 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Not sure about you guys, but I’m gonna go take a shower.
To: Myrddin
Where did you find the tracking? I wonder if it will be tracked here like the doomed shuttle was.
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:22:37 AM PDT
by
IM2MAD
To: Buckeye McFrog
Seem kinda high to you? From the article...
"NASA officials have said the the chances that a piece of UARS debris hits and injures one of the nearly 7 billion people on the planet are about 1 in 3,200. However, the personal odds of you being struck by UARS satellite debris are actually about 1 in several trillion, NASA officials have said."
The 1 in 3,200 is not an individual risk. If it was, there would be a mass casualty event wherever it fell.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Hmmm, 300,000,000 people in the USA so does that mean (300,000,000 / 3200) 93,750 people are going to be hit?
(hint trick question)
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:23:04 AM PDT
by
jpsb
To: Buckeye McFrog
Odds of being hit by a piece of it 1 in 3200.
Seem kinda high to you? Ah, your statement would mean 2 million people will get clobbered by this thing.
Now, if that could be focused on San Francisco and Manhattan, that may not be such a bad thing...
...but I think NASA meant that there's a 1/3200 chance that ANYONE on the planet gets clobbered by this falling satellite.
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:23:12 AM PDT
by
Yossarian
("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
To: Evil Slayer
The newsies are pretty excited about this.
To: J. Worthington
And wash off all that sparkly, satellite-fairy dust off of you?
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posted on
09/23/2011 10:27:31 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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