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The Satellites Are Falling, The Satellites Are Falling!

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The Satellites Are Falling, The Satellites Are Falling!

What will you do with your peice of space junk?

from Sins Forums

    I guess that most everyone has heard about NASA's falling satellite.  Last update I heard yesterday said that they still didn't know where it was going to land, but that there was a 1-in-32,000 chance that it, or its debris, would hit somebody (Please correct me if I am wrong or a new update has been released!).  How many of y'all are going to watch the skies for it?  If a piece of it lands in your yard, through your car windshield, or punches a hole in your roof, what will you do with it? 

    I'm thinking of hanging my piece on the wall as a trophy.  It's not every day that free satellites (or their pieces!) fall from the sky!  :grin:

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Gauss rifle and a rubber chicken

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Draakjacht, reply 26
... a rubber chicken

 

...in command of a Titan class warship.

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Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

Wrong thread, dude.

Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Draakjacht, reply 29
Wrong thread, dude.

 

Perhaps, but why does it seem like everyone wants to derail it?

 

Why not have it on topic, such as discussing the physics of wind resistance which increases by the square of the velocity?

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

    Wind resistance in space???  o_O

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KerrdogJ, reply 31
    Wind resistance in space??? 

 

In low Earth orbit there is still some measure of the atmosphere. Not very much, but enough for the ISS to need to boost orbit periodically. However, when a spacecraft reenters or enters the atmosphere, there certainly is wind. The Earth's thick atmosphere breaks up asteroids via the resistance of gaseous phase molecules, able to be calculated by: force = 0.5 * shape constant * cross-sectional surface area * density of the air (which increases as altitude decreases) * velocity^2. The faster an object travels the more the force in opposition by the square of the velocity, and the more depth of atmosphere (causing more density of air) also the more force in opposition. If there is not a heat shield designed for atmospheric reentry, such spacecraft will just rapidly erode more than anything else.

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

ram pressure is a bitch

Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KerrdogJ, reply 34
    Humor is lost upon numerarius5988am. 

 

Correct. So?

Reply #36 from Sins Forums Top

So? It kills hijacked threads.

Reply #37 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Draakjacht, reply 36
So? It kills hijacked threads.

 

Seems to have revived a dead thread actually.

Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top

    So, to get back on topic, did anyone believe NASA's story about the satellite falling into the South Pacific?  Does anyone have the Feds at their house picking up shiny pieces of space metal out of their roof?

Reply #39 from Sins Forums Top

The thing about ebay is that we would probably hear about it. And with the majority of the planet being ocean, I can see the odds going that way. Personally, I have neither bts of a satellite nor feds showing up to go out of their way and prove anything to me.

Quoting numerarius5988am, reply 37
Seems to have revived a dead thread actually.

I don't remember us having this or the laster person standing thread come to a lull. If you mean that we post somwhere within a 24 hour period, it's probably cause we have lives.

Reply #40 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Draakjacht, reply 39
The thing about ebay is that we would probably hear about it. And with the majority of the planet being ocean, I can see the odds going that way. Personally, I have neither bts of a satellite nor feds showing up to go out of their way and prove anything to me.


    I figure that the odds are probably ocean landing too.  It's fun to speculate though!  :grin:


Quoting Draakjacht, reply 39
I don't remember us having this or the laster person standing thread come to a lull. If you mean that we post somewhere within a 24 hour period, it's probably cause we have lives.

    Yep; I only get to post maybe once a day.  Today's different - I have more downtime than usual.  It's amazing how far some threads will travel, and how convoluted they will become, in a twenty-four-hour period.  I sometimes don't even recognize the thread!  :omg:

Reply #41 from Sins Forums Top

I haven't posted here in almost a year, and this thread was on the second page when I saw it. :borg:

Reply #42 from Sins Forums Top

Check the OP. This thread has been here a week.

Reply #43 from Sins Forums Top

I suppose. Well then... The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Reply #44 from Sins Forums Top

You've been a bit confused on what thread you're posting on, huh? It's okay. Happens to the best of us.

Banned.

Reply #45 from Sins Forums Top

You've been a bit confused on what thread you're posting on, huh? It's okay. Happens to the best of us.

Banned.

Reply #47 from Sins Forums Top

It didn't show that when I first posted. How odd.

Reply #50 from Sins Forums Top

    I think that both of y'all are just losing your minds!  Too much time on a video game turns brains to mush - quick!  Put your fingers in your ears to keep them from leaking out!!!  :grin: