'We are no longer the knights who say Ni. Now we say icky, icky, icky, spatang, nuuuwamm. (And them some gibberish I could never figure out)



'Geek' LW

"possibly raining down 300 pound chunks of space debris over North America"

How about using a super-strong butterfly net.
How agile are you, anyway?!!

Pete2

Nobody's THAT agile!

See the glow and get whacked by the chunk in the same fraction of a second.

But the bloody mess might mark the spot for the scientists to find the chunk.

No time for regret, anyway.

Sue

Though trying to catch red hot chunks of metal at several hundred miles an hour sounds like fun, alas, not this time for me. It ain't gonna rain Frigidaires on us (as in US).

Luckily, there are several billion of us "someone's" on the planet, so the likelyhood of me being that specific someone that gets hit is fairly low.

I remember those Skylab days too. I recall you could buy "Skylab warning hats". They were a tinfoil cone that you wore on your head. And if Skylab was about to hit you, it would hit the hat first, causing a crunching sound, therefore giving you .0007 nanoseconds warning to step out of the way.

Yes, but it could be 100% for someone!

Sue

If someone's car hits me, the owner is responsible.

So the owner of the satellite should be responsible for the hole in your roof, the hole in your floor, the hole under the house, etc, right?

Sue

I would think so.
But do you really trust NASA to come over and repair the drywall in your house - and then do the re-painting job? It could be a bit frightening.

BTW ... we're within a day of splashdown now. Maybe you should run some kind of betting pool! :-)

Pete2

He He, they would ask congress to budget for a new drywall and house repair division, study for years the best way to repair, then request quotes and award the job to the three lowest bidders to each repair a section and make a mistake converting the color code for the primer so you will have three different colored sections of wall

Well, dang it, all bets are off. Now there is a chance it will fall on the US .

Also, this article claims that international law requires that NASA pay for any damage incurred post re-entry. Having provided consulting services to NASA for more than a decade I'd be happy to represent your claim, hopefully not posthumously. But what are the chances? One in 20 trillion or so.

Stay tuned...