U.S. monitoring plunging Chinese rocket set to make uncontrolled re-entry around Saturday

wnd.com ^ | 5/6/2021 | Andrew Jose

[rktman]

So the entire weekend? Aren't Friday and Sunday around Saturday. Phraseology 101! And, pretty sure there are some chunks that'll make it to the ground. Thinkin' back to all the Columbia debris that was recovered.

[butlerweave]

It should aim for Beijing

[DuncanWaring]

...orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees places it within range of possibly falling anywhere “farther north than New York, Madrid, and Beijing,

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Should be “possibly falling anywhere as far north as New York...”

It will fall somewhere between 41.5 degrees North latitude and 41.5 degrees South latitude.

[blueunicorn6]

Rockets keep fallin on my head

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The irresponsible cavalier attitude of the Chinese is no surprise. They export so much junk which would never pass American QC. The fact that they don't give an "F" is what ticks me off the most.

[bgill]

With my luck....

[Pollard]

could potentially land in the U.S., Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, India, China, or Australia

Well that narrows it down. They should use some other word than "land", like "crash". It's not like this landing is going to be "nominal".

[Magnum44]

So this weekends strategy is...

[Red Badger]

If it hits a house and does damage, will the Chicoms pay for it?..........................

[ByteMercenary]

Just in case, all the WDC Ds should be gathered in one place over the weekend for a planning session. Maybe we will get lucky ...

[pas]

So will an umbrella work to protect me?

[alloysteel]

If there is any cosmic justice at all, that is exactly where the space junk should land. The Chinese Communist regime most richly deserves such divine retribution.

If not Beijing, then most certainly Wuhan.

[a fool in paradise]

How much will the pieces from this be worth on ebay?

Or is the government going to claim all of it?

[rlmorel]

Bill Whittle did a great video this past year talking about how the ChiComs launched a rocket, right over and within sight of a grade school, and...the rocket came crashing back to earth.

It didn’t hit the grade school, but...it was right under where it launched.

Bill Whittle compared it to the way the West (that ostensibly DOES gives a crap about the lives of their citizens) launches rockets, we do it out over the ocean or in sparsely populated places.

They had a rocket fail and come down on a village back in 1996 that they said killed six people, but other sources say it was hundreds.

Hm. Who, oh, who should we believe?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Quote from article: "...possibly falling anywhere "farther north than New York..."

Rideau Cottage is located at 1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, Ontario. As Prime Mistake Justin Cockwomble is such a fan of communist China, perhaps he may get up close and personal to ChiCom technology.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

It should aim for Beijing

I know the Bible says that we shouldn't delight in the misfortunes of others, but Karma, as they say, is a b#tch.

[lurk]

The crash site will be about equal to the plane that went down in PA on 9/11.

[minnesota_bound]

Our navy should use it for target practice. Really.

[halfright]

I need a new roof...1st estimate on a 1560q ft house was 12 grand. Jesse James did it with a gun.

[DuncanWaring]

Article is wrong.

Here’s the line it won’t get north of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_parallel_north