Mir Deathwatch

Well, everybody and his brother wants to let us know that Mir is coming down, really, they mean it this time. Pick your favorite site to track its descent: Yahoo | NY Times | United States Space Command | Heavens Above | BBC. But Frederic Freidel provides an oddly personal note: what goes up must come down.

Jacek Fedorynski took a look at Guess When Mir Will Splash and drew up this nice histogram of the guesses. He also notes that the median guess for Mir's return to Mother Earth was 2001-03-19 10:11:01, so the collective wisdom of slashdot was off by a few days.

Nowhere in this slashdot story do we mention either the stupid Taco Hell advertising campaign or the space fungus or the Crashing Mir Space Station Detecto-Hat.

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MIR Stuff

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This article in Yahoo on the Countdown slates re-entry between 1:20 AM and 1:30 AM EST, Friday, March 23.

A site with a real future, www.mirrentry.com

Heavens Above, which has charted the orbital decay.

On the Marx-Spinning-In-His-Grave front:

Leading up to the event have been word of passengers paying $5,000-10,000 a seat to fly around the area in hopes of catching a glimpse (of course, they'll have to be on the correct side of the plane.)

Should the core of Mir hit a 40' square target, Taco Bell will give everyone in the USA a free Taco

An alert eBayer, always right on the cutting edge of capitalism has offered up the Crashing MIR Space Station Detecto-Hat Made of the best stainless steel double-handled colander five dollars could buy... (No word yet from Rambus on patent infringement.)

Lastly I hope that the mutant space fungus will be burned up on re-entry. I don't want to wake up drooling beside a pod.

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