Admiral Valdemar wrote:Failing that, let it fall on the Australians. They love it.
Great, now I've got this image in my hand of a burning spy satellite crashing into Ayer's Rock...
Ya'll handled Skylab pretty well.
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Well as a recent hollywood blockbuster has shown us, satellites falling into the sea can have terrible consequences for nearby cities...
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Hell, Put it on pay-per-view and have the federal government take the betting action on whether it will hit or miss.
That oughta do something about our deficit....
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Have a MIG-31 shoot a sputnik-shaped ASAT missile at it
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Ubiquitous wrote:Well as a recent hollywood blockbuster has shown us, satellites falling into the sea can have terrible consequences for nearby cities...
Which blockbuster was this?
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I would love to read what the spy satelleite was saying as it went down, (if it still had power and was anthropomorphic)
"OK the Earth's still there just zooming in on and.... what the Earth is getting bigger! Seriously! Check it out! It's getting, it's coming closer! It's getting even bigger! I'm in the mothafucking athmosphere! It's getting even BIGGER! Unless of course... oh.... oh well you could have warned me..."
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"Hey, cool, the ground! I've always wanted to go there. I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
*whump*
So, it might contain hazardous substances, might land somewhere inconvenient and might be able to be shot down?
It's nice to know they're sure about these things.
According to wikipedia, "the Mohorovičić discontinuity is the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle."
According to Starbound, it's a problem solvable with enough combat drugs to turn you into the Incredible Hulk.
Officials said the satellite could contain hazardous materials and it is unknown where it might hit the Earth.
Isn't this just a basic math problem for all the smarty pants monitoring the situation?
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
Hit it. Blank Yellow (NSFW)
Several Soviet reconnaissance satellites with nuclear reactors onboard have crashed (a rocket system was supposed to boost them into very high orbits) and burned up on reentry…. And the effect on the world has been zero. The worst any current US satellite is going to have is an RTG, which would be designed to survive reentry intact.
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It's where it lands that's the issue. An RTG, even if not blown open and scattered to the four winds, will still give you a nasty bump if it falls on you. I should hope they had enough control to allow the orbit to decay with a degree of accuracy that puts it over the vast spaces that are totally uninhabited by humans anyway.
Hmm. I know it is kinda morbid, but I hope this thing ends up going for a major, highly populated city. Not because I want to see people die, but I want to see how the military is capable of coping with it. I want to see what they do to try to destroy it. I would imagine there will be enough time to evacuate people from the immediate impact area and the only bad thing would be property damage.
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
Hit it. Blank Yellow (NSFW)
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- PeZook
