NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet. The pallet was jettisoned from the International Space Station (ISS) on January 11, 2021. On March 8, 2024, it made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The hope was that …
"A spent booster from a Chinese Long March 5B, weighing in at around 20 metric tons, came down in uncontrolled fashion in 2021"
According to the official history of the Chinese Communist Party, all Chinese rocket launches have been perfect. Your comment actually violates Chinese law for criticizing the Communist government.
(And I hate to be pedantic, but there were two Long March 5B boosters that came down in 2021)
It's pretty clear what's going on here. NASA were aiming for Orange Florida Man, but didn't realise he's currently in court in New York (or somewhere?). They are clearly in league with the CIA and FBI and it's a deep state plot.
Why can't you sheeple wake up and see what's really happening right under your eyes!?
I live a couple of miles away from Bristol (the original one, not some odd leftpondian town) almost under the accepted flight path: however, multiple times a day planes fly directly over the house - I live in constant fear of being Donnie Darko'd at some point, especially if it's a Boeing overlying us.
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A number of years ago, a friend of mine called me at home to make sure I was ok. Apparently a small aircraft had crashed less than half a mile from our apartment! I had no idea at the time; didn't even hear it.
The pilot died in the crash, but had made a heroic attempt to safely land, and did succeed in missing the 5-lane road full of rush-hour traffic. He skidded into a parking lot right next to it, ensuring no one else was injured.
Is there no way to aim this stuff? It doesn't have to be a perfect shot, but it seems like it should be possible to make an reentry vehicle to guide debris into an approximate place in the ocean. Preferably something better than what they did with skylab (which was to just put it over the southern hemisphere because that's mostly ocean).
Well, obviously that will be the case for some stuff. Extinction-level meteors will sear through the atmosphere as they please, and some little things may float down to earth like an autumn leaf. I’m just interested to know what the case is for typical space junk items.
we tell our kids to take their rubbish home with them.
In the USA NASA blow a trumpet when a fucking robot chucks into Earth orbit a "pallet" carrying tons of their space rubbish. ALSO, knowing full well that it will rain down on all of our heads - as dust and ash if we are fucking well lucky. Lumps of heavy metal if we are not !
And then they go passing the blame onto one of the few companies that get most of the big bucks for big the deals to build this shite in the first place. Again knowing full well that they (BOING) continually build very expensive shite - to toss into the air ..
With the current political climate in the USA, I'm fairly surprised that they didn't arrange for it to drop on Gazza, or Russia, or Haiti, ........or China.
Just saying......
Pity it didn't land on the UK Houses of Parliament, it might have made an improvement to it's workings, or needed an additional passage adding to the Rwanda Bill.
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Al fazed, it didn't arrive on November 5th. I think it's interesting that the Earth is shooting so much stuff into space and seeing so many items fall back to our planet even when comets go past us. But we only see a few rocks (meteorites) from the rest of the universe, never any old alien cell-phone batteries thrown away in the universe.
We throw some much trash around the universe but see nothing that we didn't create.
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