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7-ton NASA satellite set to fall
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| 09-07-2011
| By Alan Boyle
Posted on 09/07/2011 12:09:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
“The zone of risk.” I really like that phrase.
“So, where do you folks live?”
“Ah, we live about 20 blocks north of ‘the zone of risk’.”
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:13:39 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: Red Badger
I know where I’d like to see it land!
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:13:51 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Red Badger
Skylab under Carter, and now UARS under Obama. What is it with DemocRAT Presidents and valuable space assets being discarded?
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:14:55 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: COBOL2Java
“There’ll be plenty of Skylab for everyone!”
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:17:08 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: Red Badger
Please ping me in time to put my helmet on.
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:19:33 PM PDT
by
Graewoulf
( obamatrauma"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.)
To: Red Badger
The NASA page where they will post the updates is at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:20:04 PM PDT
by
ZGuy
To: Red Badger
Russian news reports suggested that Moscow was "in the zone of risk," but that projection was based merely on the inclination of UARS' orbit. The "sone of risk" is probably the entire earth between 57°N and 57°S, but the Russian news report pumped up the warning to Moscow.
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:25:00 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Due to the earthquake the president has officially implemented Rule 18-1.)
To: Red Badger
Moscow is in the zone of risk. If Moscow is in the zone of risk, then the entire populated area of the earth is in this zone of risk. Except maybe for those scientists living in Antarctica. The thing to recall is that STS 107 Columbia broke up over reasonably populated areas of Texas and did not hurt anyone on the ground. The zone of risk is currently a huge target.
"Do you feel lucky?"
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:28:40 PM PDT
by
tpmintx
(The people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who VOTE for a living.)
To: KarlInOhio
I wonder how you spell the equivalent of FUD in Cyrillic?
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:30:42 PM PDT
by
Fixit
(One Term Too Many)
To: RexBeach
I remember when Skylab was going to come down, a couple of guys in Spokane did this...
An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target to shoot at, it's bound to miss. That is our greatest protection."-TIME Magazine, July 16, 1979
I remember that banner. It said "Official U.S. Government Skylab Target" in red above a big, red bullseye. They also sold t-shirts and posters. I bought a poster (heck, it was only a buck) and brought it with me to Maine that summer. I put it outside the bunkhouse where my cousins and I slept.
Hey...it worked. No pieces of Skylab came down in either Spokane OR Maine.
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:31:08 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers”~Sarah Louise Palin)
To: Red Badger
The satellite was decommissioned in 2005. "They had put it in a disposal orbit at that point, and that disposal orbit reduced its orbital lifetime by about 20 years," Dickey said. If they were able to do that, why were they not able to deorbit the thing at that time and dump any surviving debris in the Pacific or wherever else might be appropriate?
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:33:03 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: hoagy62
Ah, those were the days!
“Hey, is that the sun up there?”
“I don’t know. I’m a stranger in town!”
-Larry, Moe and Curly
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:37:13 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: RexBeach; ZGuy; Graewoulf; COBOL2Java; tpmintx; SWAMPSNIPER; KarlInOhio
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:37:34 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:37:59 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
To: Red Badger
Prepare to be hit by a giant flaming hunk of your tax dollars. Yay we're doomed!
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:40:11 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Red Badger
Why don’t we take the shuttle up and fix it ?
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:41:34 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
To: COBOL2Java
First came the “Summer of Recovery”
Now 0bamao brings us the “Fall of UARS”
Kind of a metaphor for the decline of NASA generally.
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:45:48 PM PDT
by
repentant_pundit
(Maybe THIS summer will finally be the "Summer of Recovery")
To: COBOL2Java
This was (decommissioned 2005) not a "valuable space asset." It was literally a leftist propaganda machine.
The $750 million mission measured the concentrations and distribution of gases important to ozone depletion, climate change and other atmospheric phenomena.
To: al baby
Timing is suspious, given the comet elinen. Just saying.
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posted on
09/07/2011 12:47:34 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(I like it that FR still spell checks "obama")
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