Falling Satellite

[Silly Sausage]

Cool, just seen this on the news...
BBC News - UARS satellite: New images of tumbling US spacecraft

Geezer on the telly says don't touch or take any of the bits, they're the property of the US govt. Haha, dream on pal.
If they fall in my backyard I'm having em.

 

[Dan]

Me too! lol

 

[Kamikaze]

A 10 metre long 60 ton satellite dropping through the ozone will mostly burn up in the atmosphere, but I wouldn’t want it to hit my back garden, because when it does it will still be the size of a small car. Most satellites use some kind of an RTG generator and unless you like leukaemia don’t go touching any parts of it. :tounge_smile:

 

[Dan]

I'm not buying it. I'm touching it if I get chance to. In fact I'm moving it to a secure location and will flog tickets to go see it. (Perhaps that'll compromise the secure location a bit though - idea needs more thought)

 

[Knobhead]

Pity I can’t get access to a plasma cutter now. £1000-00 a slice!

Think I’ll be playing Tasmin Archer tomorrow morning.


Or even better it will fall in line of a certain street in Nottingham and wipe out two pubs.

 

[Kamikaze]

We won't know until two hours before where it's coming down and then we will have to be quick to get our hands on it before the pikeys do. :yes:

 

[Phil]

we should all have a quid punt on picking a location where its going to land and closest gets it knowing my luck i would win as the dam thing dropped on me :cry_smile:

 

[jar]

Can anybody hack NASA coms and guide it to BBES headquarters ?.

 

[Kamikaze]

It’s coming over-head us right now, falling at a rate of about one mile every two minutes. Done some calculations and I’m going for the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand.

 

[nickblake]

Ebay ,,, 60 ton satalite second hand one careful owner bidding starts at £1 ..... im off to buy a hard hat

 

[Phil]

I will go for the north Atlantic ocean

 

[Phil]

Ebay ,,, 60 ton satalite second hand one careful owner bidding starts at £1 ..... im off to buy a hard hat

how much is postage Nick

 

[nickblake]

postage dont bother me with that im trying to find a box big enough to put it in:smartass:

 

[Knobhead]

I'm ready

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[Kamikaze]

I don’t need a hard hat boss. I passed the satellite plumb bob test and I suffered no ill effects.

 

[nickblake]

lol just seen what the smiley means i put on after my post ,sorry phil dint mean to call you a smartarse lol

 

[Phil]

lol just seen what the smiley means i put on after my post ,sorry phil dint mean to call you a smartarse lol

:tounge_smile: neither did I lol :smartass:

 

[Kamikaze]

Honestly, I'm not scared but I'm sleeping under the table downstairs tonight.

 

[brspark]

That will surely save you from a piece of debris the size of a fridge travelling at 1000mph.

 

[brspark]

I've took my doors off lent them against a wall and covered them in mud, if it was good enough to save me in the event of a nuclear bomb :beatnik: a fridge is no problem

 

[Phil]

Honestly, I'm not scared but I'm sleeping under the table downstairs tonight.

jesus whats the table made out of? Kryptonite

 

[Phil]

I have just booked 55 flights to different locations that NASA say it may fall on. currently the mother in law is sat in the departure lounge with baited breath thinking shes off on the trip of a lifetime

 

[Kamikaze]

jesus whats the table made out of? Kryptonite

It’s surprising just how comfy and ehmm….romantic one can make a sleeping bag under the dinning room table. Although the misses still insists there was no imminent end of the world fridge hurtling towards us and it was just another one of my kinky fetishes. :crazy::biggrin:

 

[Air Conditioner]

Capital News » Satellite landed, exact site not yet known

So despite all the technology the governments and space agencies have and despite the fact that governments can read a number plate from space they can't track falling debris the size of a fridge!!! Unbelievable!!
It makes you wonder what else they can't track such as misiles etc.
Maybe I am not as watched as what I think I am. Yippee!!

 

[Kamikaze]

Capital News » Satellite landed, exact site not yet known

So despite all the technology the governments and space agencies have and despite the fact that governments can read a number plate from space they can't track falling debris the size of a fridge!!! Unbelievable!!
It makes you wonder what else they can't track such as misiles etc.
Maybe I am not as watched as what I think I am. Yippee!!

I see from the article they have a space law professor. He will come in handy during negotiations between the federation and the Klingon empire when they’re arguing the ---- over a lump of puh-takh. :smile5:

 

[Knobhead]

To late for NASA looking now, it will have been weighed in!

:waving:

 

[Kamikaze]

NASA are just about to talk about Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Re-Entry.

NASA - NASA News Audio Live Streaming

 

[Phil]

just my dam luck. the old bag went west and it dropped east oh well only another 30 years or torment

 

[Phil]

must say my pin on the map was dam close though

 

[Kamikaze]

must say my pin on the map was dam close though

 

[zifran2]

Apparently satellite parts fell somewhere near Calgary in Canada.

 

[Air Conditioner]

Just went on to google to get an update. Every time I clicked on a website it wouldn't load properly. So now I'm wondering if there really was a satellite or is that what NASA want us to believe. Just like in Roswell when they said that the UFO was a weather balloon.
Where are Mulder and Scully when you need them??

 

[wade88]

speaking of weather balloons.....that reminds me of one of the most inspiring, yet utterly inconceivably stupid stories i ever read about....LAWN CHAIR LARRY.

Check this clown out. Tony, if you read this, Larry made Heath Robinson look like a boy scout with this aviation awesomeness!

1982 At-Risk Survivor: Lawn Chair Larry

 

[wade88]

If reading that article doesnt entirely make your day...your dead inside

 

[Silly Sausage]

1982 At-Risk Survivor: Lawn Chair Larry

HAHAHA!!! That's brilliant.

"Then, armed with some sandwiches, Miller Lite, and a pellet gun, he strapped himself into his lawnchair."

 

[wade88]

The bit i found just mind blowing was how to climbed to 16,000 feet - and he didnt wear a jacket....little chilly i bet.

 

[Silly Sausage]

The bit i found just mind blowing was how to climbed to 16,000 feet - and he didnt wear a jacket....little chilly i bet.

Having topped out on Mont Blanc twice (just shy of 16000ft), if it's windy it can get quite chilly!
On the other hand, cloudless sky & no wind, you can be wandering around in a t-shirt, gets quite warm. The air's so thin you just fried by the sun.

Surviving getting tangled in the powers and not getting fried was quite lucky.

This was funny, "he did not float lazily up to 30 feet. Instead he streaked into the LA sky as if shot from a cannon"

Came to a sad end though didn't he.

 

[wade88]

Yea mate he did. Shame really, but i guess once youve circum navigated LA in a make shift Air balloon....not much else really worth achieving in life is there. He obviously felt he had accomplished all he needed to lol

 

[Kamikaze]

Well, there is another one on it's way down. Less than a month after the UARS satellite grabbed the headlines, the German space agency says one of its abandoned satellites will dive back to earth later this month, but no one knows where it will land. The ROSAT X-ray astronomy observatory is smaller and less massive than the UARS but NASA predict it will spread three times more debris and pose a greater threat to people than UARS. My guess this time will be October 25 and the Pacific Ocean. :biggrin:

 

[Air Conditioner]

Another one!!!!
Or are we under fire from ET???:73: