-Chris
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Now there's something you don't hear about every day
Three years ago, NASA tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the International Space Station (ISS), hoping that it would burn up through Earth’s atmosphere. A few weeks ago, the space station’s trash finally did reenter through the atmosphere, but a piece of it may have survived and smashed through a house in Florida.
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Yeah, now days, you expect it to be a piece off a Boeing.
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If it turns out to be from the space station, look for NASA to try claiming "qualified immunity" to avoid paying damages.
ReplyDeleteNASA sez fuck recycling, toss it.
ReplyDeleteThe Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is numerous enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions. In 2009, Kessler wrote that modeling results had concluded that the debris environment was already unstable, "such that any attempt to achieve a growth-free small debris environment by eliminating sources of past debris will likely fail because fragments from future collisions will be generated faster than atmospheric drag will remove them". One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations. - wiki
ReplyDeleteThey have much larger objects just waiting for the command to enter earths atmosphere.....
ReplyDeleteAlways Florida.
ReplyDeleteSeemed like a good idea...
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