Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years

Posted by timothy on Monday March 29, 2004 @07:08PM from the happy-birthday-to-you-happy-birthday-to-you dept.

easyCoder writes "In this space.com article, it mentions a RORSAT satellite that has been leaking radioactive coolant, leaving little droplets of it in orbit around our planet. However, further down, it also mentions this, quoted here for maximum impact: 'After a RORSATs tour-of-duty was over, the reactor's fuel core was shot high above Earth into a "disposal orbit." Once at that altitude the power supply unit would take several hundred years before it reentered the Earth's atmosphere.' Wow. So ... our great-grandchildren can expect a lovely day, partly cloudy with the occasional nuclear reactor plummeting down from outer space."

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You sir, are a dumbass by StarsAreAlsoFire · 2004-03-30 03:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You fucking dumb ass. Even if it WASN'T radioactive to start with, by the time it crashes into the earth, hundreds of years hence, it WOULD be. Seeing as it is politly orbiting directly through the Van Allen belts a few times a day and getting smacked by high energy electrons. Amoungst other things. Hell, small drops of dense liquid would probably be an awesome He3 collection system.

Thr RISK, dickweed, is from being hit by a fucking drop of NaK at seven kilometers per second. Or more. As the ARTICLE iterated a number of times. But of course, you decide to focus on the nuclear aspect. Get a clue. Stop spreading FUD.