[NormsRevenge]

Risk to life 1 in 3,200. not bad odds.

Good luck! Keep your head up and butt down Friday evening late is my best guess .. could be a close one brewin' out there for someone.. Here's to a good light show..

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

UARS Updates

Update #8
Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:44:51 AM PDT

As of 7 a.m. EDT Sept. 22, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 115 mi by 120 mi (185 km by 195 km). Re-entry is expected sometime during the afternoon of Sept. 23, Eastern Daylight Time. The satellite will not be passing over North America during that time period. It is still too early to predict the time and location of re-entry with any more certainty, but predictions will become more refined in the next 24 to 36 hours.

[Mr. K]

You would think they would have enough sense to steer it into the ocean

Do they have NO control over it at all?

[b4its2late]

Maybe we'll all luck out and it'll score 3 points for a good field goal from above.....

[Red Badger]

(their slow fall back into the Earth's atmosphere)

17,000 miles per hour isn't exactly slow...........

[tcrlaf]

“Out-Of-Control Climate Satelite About To Crash to Earth!”

The allegories just write themselves.....

[dfwgator]

[JRios1968]

As I understand there’s a 1 in 21 TRILLION chance of it hitting Flo from the Progressive insurance commercials.

[UCANSEE2]

As far as it falling on anyone in the US, not very likely. The UARS orbits mostly over the oceans and Russia.

(facts are good)

Source: UARS Orbit Data

[djf]

One in 3200?

But there are about 6.4 billion people on Earth...

THE SATELLITE IS GONNA KILL 2,000,000 PEOPLE!!!!

[Sir Napsalot]

NASA scientists/engineers/mooooooslem outreach-ers:

“We are 99.98% sure that it will crash within the next 100 years.”

How’s that?

[andy58-in-nh]

What’s the spread on which crashes first: the satellite or the stock market?

[US_MilitaryRules]

Where is the “Southern Ocean”?

[mrsmith]

The reentry burnup of a climate satellite is ... man-made climate warming LOL!

[Jack Hydrazine]

So if I start to see the light about the time this thing should land is that a good thing?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Meanwhile, Al Gore is cringing in the deepest fallout shelter he can find, curled up in a little ball while sobbing, saying that the satellite is going to destroy the Earth, killing everyone, and me! It’s going to kill me! (sob!)

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

I’m hoping it destroys the muslim mosque sitting on-top the temple mount.

[Scythian]

BREAKING:

I have a contact at NASA, this is no joke. He said that they received a disturbing transmission from the satillite that alarmed command and control to such an extent that they tried to detonate the satellite, yes, it had that capabilitity. But something when drastically wrong. I am taking a huge personal risk here, he snuck out the transmission and gave me a link to it, I feel it's too important not to share this no matter what the consequence are, here is a link to it (transmission recording). After listening to it you might want to call your loved ones and tell them you love them.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The FR betting pool has this list of potential targets so far.

The White Hut
Mecca
Achmedinjad’s place
Either of Al Gore’s houses
Syria

Feel free to add to the list!

[DManA]

Experts say they will get a more precise idea in the last 12 hours before the satellite is due to return, and a precise location within 1 hour after it hits.

[Retired Greyhound]

Has anyone bid on The Pacific Ocean yet?