Or someone let us know since my guess is if a piece lands on you, you might be indisposed.
A five tonne, 20-year-old satellite has fallen out of orbit and is expected to crash somewhere on Earth on or around 24 September, according to Nasa. Nasa says the risk to life from the UARS – Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite – is just 1 in 3,200.
Hurtling at 5m (8km) per second, it could land anywhere between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south of the equator – most of the populated world. However, most of the satellite will break or burn up before reaching Earth.
Scientists have identified 26 separate pieces that could survive the fall through the earth’s atmosphere, and debris could rain across an area 400-500km (250-310 miles) wide.
Nasa said scientists would only be able to make more accurate predictions about where the satellite might land two hours before it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
If you dodge that, there’s still camera lenses falling from the sky in Petaluma. Too bad it didn’t happen outside the new TWIT studios when John was there. That would have made for an interesting show.
Focus alphie. No, no don’t look at the TV, eyes over here. We’re talking satellites here. That’s right, SA-TELL-ITES. Big thingies that float in the sky. That’s right little fella, try saying “satellites”. Good boy. Get a cookie.
Evidently NASA’s muslim outreach is going well, now they are bombing us also:
http://csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0714/NASA-chief-says-agency-s-goal-is-Muslim-outreach-forgets-to-mention-space
That’s real change Obama can be proud of.
#21 Don’t worry, no one looking at the size of that one, thinks of you.
#22. U are so mean! Alphie, If that satellite falls on you I will be there to help you. I’ll grab your hair and drag you to safety. If you got a toupee, rest assured I’ll find a hook and make sure it’s in there good to ensure a successful rescue.
Can’t we use StarWars (SID) to shoot it down?
#24, no, but what would be the point? It is already going down. Any explosion will send some parts further down and others away and split it up into pieces that will impact a larger area.
Imam Mommar Obama didn’t want this to happen, till after he lost the election:
http://attackwatch.com
I’m surprise Obama hasn’t demanded we pass another stimulus package, to repair our deteriorating satellite infrastructure. “If you love me, pass my bill”!
http://attackwatch.com
jezzzbus alf get a life or at least on topic.
I hope it lands in Pakistan.
Focus again alphie. SA-TELL-ITE. Or maybe space scooters for you bible science types.
Completely off topic, but of interest to people here:
Kurt Vonnegut ebooks from the Kindle store are on sale right now. I loaded up.
#2 – You are doing the math backwards. There is a 1 in 3200 chance that it will hit a single person at all, so for it to hit YOU specifically, there is a 1 in 6 billion times 3200 chance (1 in 19 trillion chance). And it’s Obama’s fault. Big government and their damn scientific satellites that keep falling out of the sky!
#31 Telling others to focus while you prattle on about another socialist, as inconsistent as you, his books aren’t free.
Draw gate down, lights flashing, but its foobar a train is coming.
#32 If private business put it up, they would be able to take it down, lest they be sued.
#32 When private enterprise creates a job, another taxpayer is born, who uses little or no government services and so lessens the deficit.
When Government creates a job, a person leaves welfare etc, and now costs 10 fold more as pay with benefits are much greater…increasing the pressure to raise taxes and raising the budget deficit.
And to add injury, the Government worker justifies their pay by regulating and otherwise hindering wealth/job creation in the private sector.
That is why Calvin Coolidge/JFK/Reagan policies of less taxes and regulation lifted the economy out of recession, and FDR/Obama stopped wealth creation and downgraded the economy into the Greatest Recessions.
Oh yeah- we’ve all send JCD grumpy, cranky, happy, cheeky, but never really, really scared or freaked out. I’d tune in just to see that.
#32, thanks for clearing that up. That seems an awfully low probability. This could happen 1600 times and we’d have a 50-50 chance of a person being hit?
This massive change in precipitation is clearly due to global warming. I think Al Gore mentioned it in his Climate Reality Day video. How did this site miss that?
Ha, back in the Skylab days, I had my first piece of writing published – I wrote a humorous peice for our local paper suggesting that we get residents of one of our smaller and more decrepit towns to wear magnets on their heads, so the town could get some reparation bucks from the government. Ka-ching!
Backward, turn backward, o time in thy flight – sigh, memories of my youth.
Humorous “piece”. Typo, sorry. I do know how to spell