Don't Get Hit By The Falling Satellite Today!

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Doesn't look like I'll be getting hit unless the piece manage to crash through the roof of my office. I'd be amazed if any one did actually get struck by a piece and if they did, would NASA have a law case filed against them?
 
shem
Doesn't look like I'll be getting hit unless the piece manage to crash through the roof of my office. I'd be amazed if any one did actually get struck by a piece and if they did, would NASA have a law case filed against them?
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Can't see how.


It is an old thing from the disatant past and they have calculated that it will crash into the pacific, if it were to crash into a city they would send a missle to destory it before hand.
 
Grayfox
Can't see how.


It is an old thing from the disatant past and they have calculated that it will crash into the pacific, if it were to crash into a city they would send a missle to destory it before hand.
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Dude, it's 20 years old, that's hardly the 'distant past' :rolleyes:

They don't know where it will hit and won't have a more accurate idea until a few minutes before hand. There's a 1 in 3200 chance of it hitting someone. Those are not great odds.
 
Grayfox
Can't see how.


It is an old thing from the disatant past and they have calculated that it will crash into the pacific, if it were to crash into a city they would send a missle to destory it before hand.
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Anywhere between John O'Grates and Falklands Islands is in the Pacific ocean?
 
shem
I'd be amazed if any one did actually get struck by a piece and if they did, would NASA have a law case filed against them?
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I'm pretty sure you could sue them big time for getting hit by a piece of US government property! But you would have a hard time proving its a piece of that satellite because it would be a ball of burnt metal.

Edit, reminded my of this.... :sly:

 
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Dead like me comes to mind.

I generally don't give a crap about such news. Was the same panic on twitter when an asteroid nearly hit us a few weeks back. blablabla (does blablabla take an h?)

Nobody will be killed. It's like Fox said, if it were to crash anywere near a populated area they would blow the satellite up.

And yes you could sue them even if the satellite would be a 100 years old. the same as an architect is responsable his whole life for all his construction
 
*ibo* S3 Racer
Nobody will be killed. It's like Fox said, if it were to crash anywere near a populated area they would blow the satellite up.
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How will they blow-up falling debris?

If they knew where it was going to fall, which they don't, and decided to blow it up before it began to break up in the atmosphere, then they'd/we'd face the same problem of large fragments of debris falling back to earth. Leaving it to it's own destiny, they can at least have a better idea of where it falls. Blowing it up (if that was even technically and financially viable) would just scatter the debris further afield.
 
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Robin.
The Daily Mail giving its usual, 'were all going to die' journalistic take on the event. :lol:
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There's a reason why it's called The Daily Fail.





Because if fails. Daily.





You know, in case you didn't get it the first time.
 
TheCracker
How will they blow-up falling debris?
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Yep... I'm not getting how they can blow something up when they can't even tell where and when it will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Knowing where something is is kind of important when you're trying to hit it with a missile.

The good news is that they should know (very roughly) where it will land about 2 hours before it lands... the bad news is that they don't know when that will be :ouch:

Also, if I get hit by a piece of the satellite and killed this evening, you can rest assured that I will be writing a very strongly worded letter to NASA.
 
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Touring Mars
Yep... I'm not getting how they can blow something up when they can't even tell where and when it will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Knowing where something is is kind of important when you're trying to hit it with a missile.
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An SM-3 anti-ballistic missile or an ASM-135 anti-satellite missile would do it.

Though NASA don't have enough money to rent them from the USAF.
 
Famine
An SM-3 anti-ballistic missile or an ASM-135 anti-satellite missile would do it.
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If science fiction/disaster films about giant meteorites have taught us anything, it's that missiles can be armed and fired en masse at a particular point somewhere in outer space on short notice.

Famine
So long as they take out Grazer One.



(too obtuse? :D)
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"Our psychological profile on you says you will. However, if you wish to prove that profile incorrect, watch closely as an intensly hot needle penetrates the lens of one of the most beautiful eyes in the world."

That scene gave me nightmares for years.
 
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ProjectVRD
I wonder if that is where the 1 in 3200 came from, perhaps with 3,200 satalites already brought back to earth only one has hit somebody.
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I think the odds are based on the chance of parts of the satellite hitting populated land as a proportion of the wide band of the planet (57 north to 57 south) it could potentially land in.

Anyway, the odds of it hitting you as an individual are massively lower. One in several billion.

That, and NASA has revised its estimate of where the satellite is likely to fall: the Pacific now, apparently.
 
If a piece of it is the size and weight of a tennis ball, I would so go out and catch it before it hits the ground. :lol:
 
A 1 in 3200 chance :confused:

If my math is correct, then approximately 2,031,250 people will be struck by a piece of satellite.
 
Sam48
A 1 in 3200 chance :confused:

If my math is correct, then approximately 2,031,250 people will be struck by a piece of satellite.
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It's not.

It's a 1 in 3,200 chance of it hitting anyone, given that it's coming down in what's pretty much the populated area of the planet. This means that there's a 1 in 19 trillion chance of any given person being hit by a piece of satellite.
 
homeforsummer
Think you could catch a 250mph tennis ball? ;)
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250mph? *whips out mechanical arm*

I used to play catch with my friends and they would send the tennis ball super super high into the air and I'd only miss them occasionally, with my bare hand..
 
Famine
It's not.

It's a 1 in 3,200 chance of it hitting anyone, given that it's coming down in what's pretty much the populated area of the planet. This means that there's a 1 in 19 trillion chance of any given person being hit by a piece of satellite.
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I see. So a 1 in 3200 chance is a worst case scenario.
 

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