Nasa refines satellite crash time ('out-of-control' climate satellite crash Pool anyone?)

BBC.co.uk ^ | 9/22/11 | Paul Rincon - BBC News

[NormsRevenge]

oh wow.. I hadn’t looked in a half hour.

Dow 10,688.72 -436.12 -3.92%

Gold 1,730.90 -74.60 -4.13%

tough call..

[roaddog727]

from the orbit map posted, it might just schwack Syria......

[NormsRevenge]

Just south of the Northern Ocean.. or sumthin’ geessh..

lol

[djf]

We can STILL hope it’s Flo!!

Pleeze! Pleeze! If there’s a God in heaven, let it be Flo!!

;-)

[mrsmith]

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

[al baby]

Just north of here

[Jack Hydrazine]

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

[GOPJ]

I’m with you - the numbers don’t add up unless the thing is carrying a bunch of nukes...

[Billthedrill]

As far as it falling on anyone in the US, not very likely.

I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to have my umbrella with me all day.

[GOPJ]

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

We're down 436 for the day so far...

[andy58-in-nh]

Financials are getting slaughtered, especially. It’s about as close to global capitulation as I’ve seen in a while. There is still some positive volume though, and we could see a bottom by tomorrow. But the fear is more than palpable out there...

[GOPJ]

Where is the “Southern Ocean”?

Good catch - there isn't one...

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s the water around Antarctica.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Satellite orbits are more or less stationary with respect to the “fixed” stars, not the rotating earth. Between successive 90 minute orbits, the earth will rotate approximately 22.5 degrees of longitude to the east, meaning, that for a person on the earth, the satellite will appear about 22.5 degrees in longitude further to the west between orbits. Over time, that satellite will cover almost the entire earth.

[NormsRevenge]

Here’s to a safe splashdown before Saturday evening worse case. We’re flying to Europe and would be crossing a flight path enroute.

That would make a heck of a video from an airliner window,, debris flying by... but I don’t want to be the one making it and we don’t need any new ruins in Europe, that would be a mess.

[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.

[JRios1968]

Odds are even better that it could hit Michael the Hutt Moore.

[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.

[icanhasbailout]

Too much to hope it lands on Beijing?