To: McGruff
Thomas Reiter, director of human spaceflight and operations at the European Space Agency, just told me that if the Russians cannot regain control over the spacecraft, it could be up there for a week and a half max. Normally, these vessels are jettisoned on controlled re-entry paths over the south Pacific, so that any fragments that survive burnup land in the ocean. This would be an uncontrolled re-entry, so some pieces could make it to land.
But the danger to people is very slim. More than two-thirds of Earth are covered in water and only about 3% of the land is occupied by urban areas.
9 posted on
04/29/2015 6:46:57 AM PDT by
McGruff
(It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
To: McGruff
But the danger to people is very slim. More than two-thirds of Earth are covered in water and only about 3% of the land is occupied by urban areas.
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Yet every bad weather event is caused by man.
16 posted on
04/29/2015 7:37:07 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: McGruff
But the danger to people is very slim. More than two-thirds of Earth are covered in water and only about 3% of the land is occupied by urban areas.I wonder if GoFundMe will allow me to crowdsource a fund to pay off the Russians to have the spacecraft nail D.C.?
19 posted on
04/29/2015 7:56:23 AM PDT by
Rodamala
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