Watch Hefty Satellite Tumble to Earth

[BrownGaijin]

Well it wont hit the U.S but With my shitty luck I'll probably find a stray piece hitting my house anyways.

So, does anyone know an insurance plan that covers getting crushed by a satellite.

I hear that the San Francisco Chronicle was willing to give anyone $200,000 "if a subscriber suffered personal or property damage", when Skylab fell.

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Can't we just Ten some?

 

[Lady Larunai]

UARS is still much smaller than the Skylab space station which made its uncontrolled reentry in 1979 weighing in at 169,950 lbs. or 84.5 tons or a metric crapload. A few pieces of debris from Skylab were found scattered in Australian city of Perth, but no casualties were reported even though NASA had calculated the odds of such an accident at 152 to 1.

No human casualties.. One part of it did hit a cow though...

 

[CplDustov]

The risk of human injury is very slim, with NASA calculating a 1 in 3,200 chance that someone will be harmed.

Therefore, if my understanding of statistics is correct, that means one in every 3,200 people will be harmed. Which is over 2 million people worldwide! Truly NASA have no respect for human life, and only care about their vast profits.

I think they meant it as 1 in 3200 chance of ANYone getting hurt. More like in 3200 possible "parallel universes" in only 1 possible universe had that happen.

 

[Squilookle]

Seriously what is it with space objects always falling around Paris?

 

[mellemhund]

"The risk of human injury is very slim, with NASA calculating a 1 in 3,200 chance that someone will be harmed."

That's still appallingly high.

U fo real?

The chances of you getting hit by lightning while one a plane with snakes fighting terrorists are higher!

 

[The Lugz]

"The risk of human injury is very slim, with NASA calculating a 1 in 3,200 chance that someone will be harmed."

That's still appallingly high.

U fo real?

The chances of you getting hit by lightning while one a plane with snakes fighting terrorists are higher!

that's not exactly fair, the chances of that are actually quite high these days..

plenty of people have pet snakes, terrorists happen, lightning hits planes all the time, an estimated one strike per plane per year in the us, apparently.
it could happen!

'runs in circles' were DOOMED!!!!!

wait, what was i worried about again?
DEATH!!! AHHHH!!!, no that's a cat.
DEATH! AHH!!!! no that's a table.
phew.

people are fun

 

[BoogieManFL]

Okay.. Am I the only one asking myself:

"How the FUCK can you intentionally put something into a deteriorating orbit without doing so in such a way you know that it will land in a place where it won't do harm?"

I just hope that they did so knowing that it'd land in the ocean or somewhere out of the way and this is just all we're getting from the media.

 

[Endocrom]

Amorphous grey blobs are nice and all, but wake me when we have shots or video of something a little clearer.

 

[uguito-93]

A few pieces of debris from Skylab were found scattered in Australian state of Perth

I live in Perth, it's a city not a state...

I can see why there is some confusion... Perth alone is about 5386 km² in size (as of 2010)

That's a BIG city!

Then again the actual "city" part of the city makes up very little of that, its mostly suburbs spread out across a really large area.