[Uncle Chip]

I’ll notify Chicken Little.

[skinkinthegrass]

and that's why, I carry an Umbrella..to be safe....

[Izzy Dunne]

A satellite about the size of a Volkswagen van

Is that bigger or smaller than a Ford WindStar van?

[BenLurkin]

Courtesy of Brityank:

Real Time Sattelite Tracking:
GOCE Satellite ^

http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=34602

[bert]

I’d vote for San Francisco first and Philadelphia second.

[Vaquero]

guess we need government satellite insurance.

just go on line.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Berthault's Geology Guy on Real Science Radio

[Safetgiver]

I hope it hits my car, I want a new one. Oh, wait....they are insured by GEICO.

[RobinOfKingston]

We can neither deflect nor project the “touch-down point” of an object we put up, but we think we can do so with a naturally occurring object? Right!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Their Last Days

[Jack Hydrazine]

Hilarious quote from the article.

“Pieces of the satellite will begin to burn up and essentially become asteroids.”

You bet your asteroids it will! LOL!

GOCE Satellite - Science Performed Before Its Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS6g-d_SB0U

[Poison Pill]

Obama?

[Hardastarboard]

It’s a metaphor for the 0bama administration finally coming back to earth. Thank God.

[blueunicorn6]

“It’s going to land in the ocean and nobody will notice but a few fish.”

“What happened, Bud?”

“I don’t know, Dad. Flipper seemed to be trying to warn me about something when this Volkswagen bus came hurtling out of the sky and crashed into him!”

“Filthy, stinkin’, communist, dolphin-killing hippies!”

[Paladin2]

It's grown in size:

"A defunct satellite from the European Space Agency the size of a Chevy Suburban is set to plunge to Earth"

Looks like it's over 0/0 Island.

[Spruce]

Isn’t a satellite falling back to Earth how almost every bad sci-fi/zombie movie starts?

[txrefugee]

Mecca.

[SamAdams76]

Was anybody around to remember the Skylab mania that seized the country in the summer of 1979? That was when the Skylab fell to earth and most of the earth was in a panic - but being the 1970s, we panicked in a good-natured fun kind of way.

The night that the debris fell to earth, we had Skylab "parties" which offered up an excuse to get completely wasted on margaritas and pina coladas by the pool. I was only 17 years old then but being that it might be my last night on earth, my parents allowed me to partake - and I did!

People were walking around with special Skylab T-shirts that had a target on the back of them. Disco was big back then so we were listening to "Ring My Bell", "Bad Girls" and "We Are Family" at full volume. It was crazy! The Knack was just starting to get popular with "My Sharona" but it was only just cracking the charts when Skylab fell so disco was still at peak fever.

Ironically, the photo below of the Holiday Inn Restaurant (remember them?) Skylab party featured a Volkswagon - which is the size of the satellite about to strike us shortly.

[Disambiguator]

A satellite about the size of a Volkswagen van is on its way back down to Earth.

They used that size comparison because the satellite has Deadhead stickers on it.

/s

[oh8eleven]