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5 Responses to “Flaming space junk narrowly misses jet”
seriously though, there’s a lot of crap up there, and yes the sky is a huge solid angle but still you’d think this might start to happen more frequently.
headline in a few years: “Hubble skeleton downs plane carrying funding director”.
I’m surprised more space junk hasn’t been brought down by meteor-stuff and then all that together taking out lots of stuff … Big solid angle might have something to do with it … and the whole ocean being 2/3 of the planet … Would be interesting to figure out what has been reported though, especially what “the man” hasn’t told us.
I imagine that realization is terribly disillusioning for you Jenn, and I’m sorry. But yes, at select (few) times in history, governments make a top-level decision regarding the public release of information - either to limit uninformed over-reaction and panic or to prevent the information from being put to illegal/dangerous use by our enemies. I’m sure you understand, and most would agree that they are much more qualified to make such decisions.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:59 am Using
wow, that would be a little exciting.
seriously though, there’s a lot of crap up there, and yes the sky is a huge solid angle but still you’d think this might start to happen more frequently.
headline in a few years: “Hubble skeleton downs plane carrying funding director”.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm Using
The crazy thing is that apparently the re-entering crap was louder than the engines. I gotta say that would be a little bit scary.
There’s a lot of non-satellite crap that rains down every day too (tons) so I’m a little bit surprised that no planes have been taken out by that.
Maybe they have though and “the man” just hasn’t told us.
March 30th, 2007 at 11:41 am Using
I’m surprised more space junk hasn’t been brought down by meteor-stuff and then all that together taking out lots of stuff … Big solid angle might have something to do with it … and the whole ocean being 2/3 of the planet … Would be interesting to figure out what has been reported though, especially what “the man” hasn’t told us.
March 30th, 2007 at 8:47 pm Using
“the man” doesn’t tell us things??????
oh dear.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:16 pm Using
I imagine that realization is terribly disillusioning for you Jenn, and I’m sorry. But yes, at select (few) times in history, governments make a top-level decision regarding the public release of information - either to limit uninformed over-reaction and panic or to prevent the information from being put to illegal/dangerous use by our enemies. I’m sure you understand, and most would agree that they are much more qualified to make such decisions.