https://youtu.be/ngAVcnGLyTU?si=DOaZSaqkqOgxd4ci
Posted on 04/18/2024 2:37:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
NASA confirmed an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home was indeed garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station.
The cylindrical object crashed through Alejandro Otero's roof in Naples, Fla., on March 8, and the sound of the crash was recorded by the homeowner's Ring camera.
The object was taken by NASA to be examined, and the space agency has now confirmed it was indeed the remains of a 5,800-pound cargo pallet of depleted nickel hydride batteries that was jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021.
"The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024," NASA said in a statement. "However, a piece of hardware survived re-entry and impacted a home in Naples, Florida."
The 1.6-pound piece of debris, measuring about 4 inches long, was identified as "a stanchion from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount the batteries on the cargo pallet," NASA said.
NASA said the ISS will conduct an investigation to "determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed."
NASA is trashing the planet!
Was it a tool bag?
wiki:
"Otero is a Spanish surname, and an occasional given name, derived from the Spanish word for height, and indicating a family history of having come from a geographically high place."
I’m not ‘allowed’ to burn trash in a 55 gal barrel.
My wood stove is supposed to have a catalytic converter.
Sounds more like fusing everything together into a white-hot four-ton asteroid. It's a wonder that didn't blow the neighborhood off the map.
I misread title and thought it was trash from ISIS.
Which country pays for the damage? Certainly the homeowner did not have ISS Trash damage insurance.
What about the rest of us? Can we go back outside now or do we all need a class action attorney to take down the most wasteful program ever?
Thanks for the link. Zimmerman is always good.
https://youtu.be/ngAVcnGLyTU?si=DOaZSaqkqOgxd4ci
Thanks for the Zimmerman link
“Well, if I remember high school geography....about 3 to 1.”
Closer to 1 to 3.
Iād find me the biggest shyster lawyer I could and sue them.
“nickel hydride” = NiMH?
I’m guessing that though heavier and less energy dense, there is much less risk of fire than from lithium types?
...Until re-entry, that is. ;-)
The battery packs would break up. Thin steel cases (even if, say, 14 ga.?) would burn away quickly too. A solid chunk from a stanchion - yeah, looks like at least in certain circumstances, that could knock your noggin!
Heinlein’s “Loonies” bombed the Earth with 100 ton boulders encased in steel. He never did specify how thick the steel was... Babylon 5’s Centauri bombed the Narn homeworld with “mass drivers” that looked like boulders, too. A lot of the weapons in that series were specified in fairly good detail, but I never saw anything on the mass drivers. They were supposedly outlawed as WMD, but never mind that other species, even the humans, had weapons deployed that were just as destructive. (Sometimes they were just a whole bunch of big nukes — the “Shadows” had what amounted to super-duper nuclear bunker busters, and the Vorlons had a weapons beam that could blow planets apart...)
Well, if Hell is at the beginning of the Earth’s mantle, the surface of this thing could have been even hotter... The Earth’s core is another story.
Huh, does one end up deeper if a greater unrepentant sinner than just your average unbeliever? ;-)
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