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NASA: Huge Defunct Satellite Will Fall to Earth This Week
NASA Space News ^ | 19 September 2011 | Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor

Posted on 09/20/2011 3:51:51 PM PDT by LucyT

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1 posted on 09/20/2011 3:51:59 PM PDT by LucyT
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2 posted on 09/20/2011 3:54:45 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Could it be arranged to fall on Al Gore’s palace?


3 posted on 09/20/2011 3:56:33 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: beethovenfan

I choose San Fransisco. Who's with me?

4 posted on 09/20/2011 3:58:27 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: LucyT

Thanks, Lucy. Taking four grandchildren camping Friday for three days. If it looks like Rushmore Shadows Campground is in the “kill zone”, please send me an urgent message.

I’ll make sure that we all don my Calphalon pots on our heads. I would hate to have our hotdogs and s’mores disrupted.


5 posted on 09/20/2011 4:02:43 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: LucyT

Boy, wouldn’t it be hilarious if it landed right the **** on...

Nevermind!


6 posted on 09/20/2011 4:03:14 PM PDT by chris37 (representative)
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To: LucyT

They are probably deliberately de-orbiting that bird while they still can, just to be sure there is no hard evidence, before the whole AGW fraud is exposed and the prosecutions begin.


7 posted on 09/20/2011 4:03:58 PM PDT by infool7 (Let us water the tree...)
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To: LucyT
That 1 in 3,200 chance of hitting someone seems way too high.

The odds of being hit by lightening are 1 in 1,000,000 in a given year and lightening is going on somewhere on a daily basis. Add to that the earth is 70% water and only 28% of the remaining 30% total land mass is populated and I'm thinking those odds are off. More phony panic being created?

Just thinking out loud and ducking for cover as it comes down....

8 posted on 09/20/2011 4:05:56 PM PDT by Reagan is King
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To: Reagan is King

With all the moozlum “outreach” at NASA maybe some moozlums can “catch” it for us.


9 posted on 09/20/2011 4:07:49 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Good idea! I’m thinking the Gaza Strip might be a good landing zone?


10 posted on 09/20/2011 4:09:22 PM PDT by Reagan is King
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To: beethovenfan

The current FR betting pool has these places listed where the satellite might land.

The White Hut
Mecca
Al Gore’s house (either of them)
The Breck Hair Girl’s house
UN Buildings in NYC or Geneva

Any other suggestions?


11 posted on 09/20/2011 4:25:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: beethovenfan

“Could it be arranged to fall on Al Gore’s palace?”

That and the WH and the Capitol building.


12 posted on 09/20/2011 4:35:49 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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Thanks, Lucy, for the ping.

Hmm...Mecca or the UN...

The UN or Mecca...

Tough, tough call.

Produces coin: heads, UN; tails, Mecca.

Tosses.

Tails.


13 posted on 09/20/2011 4:39:06 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Your list sounds great to me. You did leave out the capitol building, but I believe everyone is on their way home on Fridays so sadly it will be empty.

Speaking for myself, the Breck Hair Girl’s house is in the past since he will be going to the slammer.


14 posted on 09/20/2011 4:47:45 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Reagan is King
1 in 1,000,000 is your average chance of getting hit by lightning in a given year. Implies that 6,000 people will get struck in a year.

This 1 in 3,200 is the chance that out of 6+ billion people, someone will get hit by debris, the odds that there will be at least one person. By comparison, the odds that at least one person on Earth will be struck by lightning are almost 100% - the chance that no one at all will get struck in the next year are 0%.

The math for this would be 1 - the chance of an individual getting hit (say, 1 - 0.00000000005 = .99999999995), taken to the power of the number of people on Earth (and remember that when fractions less than 1 are multiplied together, they move towards 0), then that value subtracted from 1.

15 posted on 09/20/2011 4:48:06 PM PDT by Styria
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To: Fantasywriter

“Tough, tough call.

“Produces coin: heads, UN; tails, Mecca.”

That indeed is a tough call. If the coin said Mecca, it is Mecca as called.


16 posted on 09/20/2011 4:53:47 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: LucyT

I remember when Skylab was falling. It passed over the US 16 times each day. I assume likewise for this satellite.


17 posted on 09/20/2011 4:57:15 PM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

It’s too much to hope for, but the sheer deliciousness of their heads exploding, if that idiotic black rock took two in the hat, is just so tantalizing. If only it could be. I’m sure they’d try to retaliate against NASA or something, but still. The Muslim outrage/lunacy would be the best entertainment going.


18 posted on 09/20/2011 5:11:32 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: infool7
"They are probably deliberately de-orbiting that bird while they still can"

Unlikely, that thing is out of fuel and out of control, from what I've read. It is gonna come down wherever gravity and drag say for it to. I'm OK if it lands on Obamalamadingdong's head.

19 posted on 09/20/2011 5:26:46 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: LucyT

20 posted on 09/20/2011 5:32:12 PM PDT by mnehring
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