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Maybe Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon and ........
Mar 26, 2018, 12:21 PM
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at a rate faster than a speeding bullet. No, it's not Superman. It's "Tiangong-1:, the 8.5 tom Chinese satellite that can't defy gravity and is speeding toward earth seeking a landing spot. The odds of it hitting you or me are extremely high but so are the odds of my winning the lottery. It's due to land within the next week or ten days. The problem is that the Chinese have no means to control the orbit for descent so there is no way to predict with any high degree of accuracy the exact landing spot.
If it enters the atmosphere at night, there should be a spactacular fireworks show if you are in the right spot but, there will no doubt be some parts that do not burn up and will at land at some currently unknown spot. Most scientists familiar with these sorts of things believe the remnants of the sattelite will fall in one of the oceans, If any of thse fragments land near you, don't pick them up immediately because they will be hot
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Made in China...
Mar 26, 2018, 12:53 PM
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... nuff said.
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Odds may theoretically be low, but there's way it will NOT
Mar 26, 2018, 1:12 PM
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land in America right next to all the other wonderful things from there: Snakehead fish, Bradford pear ####### trees, Kudzu, Chinese Tallows, Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs, Asian carp, emerald ash borers, Asian citrus psyllids, and others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_the_United_States
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We had our own a few years back. Remember Skylab?
Mar 26, 2018, 1:45 PM
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Hope it falls in some uninhabited land, or preferably ocean, area.
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That's my favorite Bond movie.***
Mar 26, 2018, 4:09 PM
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Re: Maybe Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon and ........
Mar 26, 2018, 3:35 PM
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With earth being about 70% water, there is a good chance that it will be a big splash down. Hopefully we can capture some of there top secret recording from said satellite if it splashes down closer to the USA waters. We can always say that we didn't listen to any recordings if any!!!
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Re: Maybe Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon and ........
Mar 26, 2018, 3:38 PM
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Are they going to issue oven mitts ;just in case?
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Re: Maybe Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon and ........
Mar 27, 2018, 9:02 PM
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Nope, it will be BYO if you spot it!!!
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Re: Maybe Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon and ........
Mar 26, 2018, 4:03 PM
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Perfect landing spot would be Willy Brice.
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Izzat like
Mar 26, 2018, 6:32 PM
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"Smoking a Roach???"
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Maybe it'll land on Kim Jong-un
Mar 26, 2018, 6:40 PM
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high hopes, I know.
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Yeah, or Trump***
Mar 27, 2018, 7:08 PM
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He'll be wishing he was still cover in Stormy Daniels...
Mar 27, 2018, 7:15 PM
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...b00bs. That would deflect it and keep him safe.
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Re: Yeah, or Trump***
Mar 27, 2018, 7:17 PM
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Or you, dumb@$$
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It's going to hit a Walmart.....
Mar 26, 2018, 6:46 PM
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Best guesstimate.
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They'll put it on sale....
Mar 27, 2018, 12:08 PM
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and odds are, my wife will be there to buy it, since she's in there at least once a day, seems like.
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Tell her she bought this satellite. When you pick yourself
Mar 27, 2018, 4:53 PM
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Tell me how it went. ????????
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Re: Maybe Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon and ........
Mar 27, 2018, 7:04 PM
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You are 1 million times more likely to win the Powerball jackpot than you are to be harmed by debris from Tiangong-1.
FYI this "space station" is roughly 1/10 the weight of Skylab, which also fell to Earth in an uncontrolled descent. It's ~1/50 the weight of the International Space Station.
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It won't hit me and kill me....
Mar 27, 2018, 7:12 PM
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Those who know me aren't that lucky.
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