Comments on: Beware of Falling Space Junk and Space Debris

By: baska

baska — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:23:30 +0000

On 19 Feb 2010, 400-500kg and a car-size space junk debris fell near Buren village 180 km from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital.

By: Mike Genetti

Mike Genetti — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:09:25 +0000

About the falling bus: Yes, parts of it may make it to the ground. Satelites have no heatshields, however. They are not intended for re-entry. Highly doubtful any hydrazine would survive the fall. Between the 2000F heat and massive physical stress imposed by the ensuing G-forces, you would be lucky to find anything on the ground, much less toxic fuel.
Common sense, folks.

By: HaXXeD

HaXXeD — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:08:09 +0000

Honestly who gives a fuck about falling bombs. The real problem with all of this is the inevitable collisions of different satellites/debris causing them to break into smaller debris. As this carries on it increases the rate of destruction since it has added new projectiles into orbit. After that goes on for a few years then you end up with a debris cloud surrounding the earth that would effectively cease all space missions until we found a way to remove it.

By: John Hall

John Hall — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:02:47 +0000

Space Debris is by no means a hew hazard and does not just cause problems to other satellites in orbit, but has been surviving so called burn-up and crashing ato Earth at random for many years. Our planet is and will continue to be vulnable to these daily impacts for many years to come. If you are interested to see more of my views etc then visit John Hall Space Debris on the web. http://sites.google.com/site/raisdebris/

By: Dahlia Waltz

Dahlia Waltz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:19:57 +0000

Thank you grow2bwiser. Statistics aside, why isn’t anyone else APPALLED at how much crap we have left floating around? It’s disgraceful. We deserve to have our own junk rain down on us in flaming chunks.

By: grow2bwiser

grow2bwiser — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:23:45 +0000

There is something fundamentally at missed here: the focus on statistically non-sense is none sense. The point is, we humans pollute everywhere we go. Luckily no falling debris has strike an commercial airliner–yet.

Everything that goes out into space should be brought back for recycling, period. They should invent space vehicles that can fly out and back from space instead of the neanderthal rocket burners. There are other consequences from the burn up–hitting some humans or destroying property aren’t the only ones. Space users be require to set aside equal amount of money as it takes to send an object out to space for clean up and retrieval. Every item send into space is to make money–that’s the bottom line. If there is no money to be made, they wouldn’t be interested in space. It’s just another common example of human irresponsibility and greed–gee, doesn’t that sound familiar.

By: Hopeful

Hopeful — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:13:35 +0000

Maybe we’ll get lucky and the satellite will not only fail to completely disintegrate, but will crush every member of this peanut gallery simultaneously when it hits. (fingers crossed)

By: Surprised Buckskin

Surprised Buckskin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:34:48 +0000

Wow all these people who posted don’t know shit but they’re posting as if they know exactly what they’re talking about. If you don’t know for sure, or if you’re just reposting what someone else wrote, do everyone a favor and don’t comment at all.

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:45:10 +0000

man you guys talk bull

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:53:29 +0000

Photoshopped.