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Tin hat time!

  • 17-09-2011 3:58am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14952001
    Nasa satellite UARS nearing Earth 'could land anywhere'

    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.

    I wonder if NASA would come and clean up my back garden if it lands there!


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  • #2
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Hell I'm keeping it if it fallsin my back garden!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    Hell I'm keeping it if it fallsin my back garden!

    Might be radioactive!


  • #4
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    I could then use it to run my flux capacitor!


  • #5
    Pataman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Pataman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Might be radioactive!

    AHHH I will instead sell it to the Iraq (Iraquai???) government " for research purposes"


  • #6
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Somewhere on earth? RUN!


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  • #7
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,072 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    What are the odds that it lands on Gaddafi?


  • #8
    Pete M.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    Pataman wrote: »
    AHHH I will instead sell it to the Iraq (Iraquai???) government " for research purposes"

    You mean you'd just sell it back to the yanks?
    Think you mean the Iranians bud :cool:
    I'd say the local scrap yard would be delighted to see this yolk rolling in.
    Say there'd be plenty of copper aboard.


  • #9
    Pataman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Pataman


    OOps meant Iranians, anyway they are all mad Ted


  • #10
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    It'll land in the sea. Probability says so.


  • #11
    gypsy_rose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭gypsy_rose


    Isn't that what rose the dead in Night Of The Living Dead? :(


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  • #12
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I keep an ol army helmet in my bedroom for just such an eventuality ...


  • #13
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Knowing my luck it'll hit my fukn car or something.


  • #14
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Seemingly we'll know a few hours before hand, where it will hit. Can see a mad rush that day.

    :D


  • #15
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Knowing my luck it'll hit my fukn car or something.

    I'd claim of their insurance, they do state it remains US property.

    ;)


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