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Scientists warn ANOTHER out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards the Earth
The Mail Online ^
| 10th October 2011
| Allan Hall
Posted on 10/10/2011 2:32:08 PM PDT by Baladas
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As if you didn't have enough to worry about already . . .
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:32:19 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: Baladas
To: Baladas
Why don’t they outfit these things with self destruct devices that would trigger if they go ‘x’ amount of time without getting a ‘ping’ from home? Seems like it would be easy enough.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:36:39 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: KoRn
Problem with that plan is that it turns one hunk of really dangerous space junk into thousands of hunks of really dangerous space junk.
The Chinese blew a satellite up using a missile during a test a few years ago and really pissed the World off. The stupid part, of course, is that the Chinese were basically making it hard for other Chinese astronauts to safely go to space.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:39:20 PM PDT
by
RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
To: KoRn
If you recall the last one had 26 pieces surviving re-entry.
Re-entry is a pretty violent event, so if that's insufficient, then you'd likely require 26 shape charges, to destroy each separate piece.
Not likely they want that little added system tagging along for the duration of the mission.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:43:54 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
To: Baladas
To: RinaseaofDs
Yep even really tiny things moving at high speeds are dangerous.
A few years back a 14,000mph flake of paint chipped a space shuttle windshield.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:44:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
To: RinaseaofDs
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Aliens are immune to being blown up.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:47:02 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I am a Cainiac)
To: Baladas
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:54:32 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Baladas
Don’t worry.
If I see it coming towards you, I’ll take the hit.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:54:36 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Baladas
Harrison Ford is plummeting to earth????? Oh it’s ROSAT not Rozat Sabich.
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posted on
10/10/2011 2:57:26 PM PDT
by
Cyman
To: Jonty30
Dont worry. If I see it coming towards you, Ill take the hit. Are you talking about the image/alien/Destructo in message #6? If so have at it.
To: Baladas
Well, one less bit of space junk.
To: Baladas
To: Baladas
But they lost contact with it in 1999.Why, just as I told you, it's Bush's fault!
To: Baladas
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posted on
10/10/2011 3:30:07 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(I never win at Scrable.)
To: RinaseaofDs
“Problem with that plan is that it turns one hunk of really dangerous space junk into thousands of hunks of really dangerous space junk.”
A hunk a hunk of burnin’ love?
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posted on
10/10/2011 3:38:37 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Baladas
Are we going to have an excellent live thread following this thing to re-entry like we did with the last satellite?
What makes it even more fun is that there is only a 1 in 2000 chance of it hitting someone!
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posted on
10/10/2011 3:46:37 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: ProudFossil
Baladas, in the first post, seemed a bit concerned that he was fated to die from a piece of satellite.
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posted on
10/10/2011 4:31:23 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
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