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Anyone Else Slightly Nervous About the School-Bus-Sized Satellite?

MamatoJacksonMamatoJackson
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I'm pleased that we are on the bottom floor of a three story apartment building but I imagine the damage would still be quite severe.

Eep. 

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Re: Anyone Else Slightly Nervous About the School-Bus-Sized Satellite?

  • MainelyFoolishMainelyFoolish member
    Not really. Most of the world is covered with water, and of the remaining land mass, much of it is undeveloped. The chances of it hitting someone are really, really small.

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  • MamatoJacksonMamatoJackson
    That was a little tongue-in-cheek but I am irrationally nervous.
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  • MamatoJacksonMamatoJackson

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    I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm scared.

    https://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/21/huge-nasa-satellite-will-fall-to-earth-today/ 

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  • MrsAJLMrsAJL member

    There is about a 1 in 3700 chance of the satellite hitting a human and about a 1 in a trillion chance that it will actually hit you (or me).  So, yeah no. Not worried. 

    Keep in mind that while it's school bus sized in orbit, it's probably not going to be that big by the time if reenters our atmosphere. I lot of it will have disintegrated.

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  • susanmosleysusanmosley member
    imageMrsAJL:

    There is about a 1 in 3700 chance of the satellite hitting a human and about a 1 in a trillion chance that it will actually hit you (or me).  So, yeah no. Not worried. 

    Keep in mind that while it's school bus sized in orbit, it's probably not going to be that big by the time if reenters our atmosphere. I lot of it will have disintegrated.

    But someone has to be that one....and you know what they say about having that "it'll never happen to me mentality" - all I can say is you better watch out

    (I'm sticking with the tongue in cheek tone of this post) 

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  • Dr.LorettaDr.Loretta member
    No. The chances are one in a gazillion.
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  • bim38106bim38106 member
    First I heard about this was last night on Nightline (I think it was). They were saying how it's actually pretty common for stuff to fall out of the sky! And they interviewed the ONE person who's actually been hit with a piece of sky-debris (a hand-sized chunk of metal, which, surprisingly, didn't harm her at all). Crazy!
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  • MamatoJacksonMamatoJackson

    DH said there was a couple in the 50's who had a meteorite fall through their roof and directly in between them in bed.

    *twitch* 

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  • McAllie5McAllie5

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    I should specify that crap falling from the sky is my irrational fear. It makes me all twitchy.

    No joke. Earlier this week I couldn't fall asleep because I kept thinking about an airplane engine falling through our house and killing us. Like in Donnie Darko. I was seriously trying to figure out my strategy for getting upstairs to DS's room should the falling object destroy our staircase. It involved climbing onto the garage rooftop and breaking into DS's bedroom window. The only problem is, we keep our garage locked and if in the mess of debris our keys are lost, then we can't get in to the garage to get the ladder to get on the roof. DH would have to somehow climb up there using the neighbor's fence...

    Yes, I am insane. This is how I lose sleep. Over impossibly irrational scenarios. Not worrying about things like sex predators or disease or car crashes or fire. Although in a fire, the rescue may be very similar to that... 

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  • pinksweetpea2pinksweetpea2 member

    imagebim38106:
    First I heard about this was last night on Nightline (I think it was). They were saying how it's actually pretty common for stuff to fall out of the sky! And they interviewed the ONE person who's actually been hit with a piece of sky-debris (a hand-sized chunk of metal, which, surprisingly, didn't harm her at all). Crazy!

    I heard part of that interview on NPR yesterday and it was pretty hysterical.  I can't remember where she was from- maybe Iowa, anyway, when they told her she asked if it was near her area again. LOL 


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  • almostjenniferalmostjennifer member
    If I get hit with a school-bus sized sattelite falling from space...it was apparently just my time to go. 
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