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Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years
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."
Grand children? I'm celibate by popular demand you insensitive clod!
By then Skynet will be in control, let it be the "Machines" problem.
...wildly positive articles that Linux is just about to break big and take over the desktop from Microsoft. ;)
The Soviets have lost one or two before that have burned up, and no I'm not just talking RTG's. And since I only have 3 heads, not 5 and none of them is green, I'm not particularly worried.
Professor: About... 300 years.
Kid: ...so we have a little time.
This sig no verb.
By then, Nuclear war will have happened, and humans will be back to the stone age, or at least some quasi-magick age like in Thundarr The Barbarian. When this thing lands, an evil wizard will use its powers to "make lightning" come out of a stick or something.
That will be cool.
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Boy, I'm sure glad I gave up that career in space flight and instead opted for becoming a laid-off IT guy. And my guidance counselor said I couldn't make a good decision...
Mom says my
Am I the only one thinking about the Futurama "A big piece of garbage" episode? The best way to solve this would be to shoot up another reactor to deflect the falling one...
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
Since 3/4 of the surface is watter, it has a high chance of hitting the watter. Maybe by that time we have a satalite fall out fall down forcast appended to the wether forcast: "Don't go walking on the beatch near post 23.4, between 16:40 and 16:42."
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If pieces of this stuff lands in my greatx5 grand daughter's yard and it gives my greatx6 grandkid leukemia, who are they gonna sue? The Soviet Union's been Chapter 11 liquidated for over a decade by now.
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I don't know why, or how... but it must be Microsoft's fault.
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Somewhere in this article is the potential for a "Soviet Russia" line that's actually funny, and yet no one's posted it.
Mom says my
Have you met some grand kids.... they are little bastards. I say let 'em play catch the bright red ball.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Frikken sharks can't survive space...Duh
Then get them shark space suits!
Do I have to think of everything?
Execute? [Y/N] _
By doing what he did he secured that we as a race will have the capabilities to catch this sucker and render it harmless when it arrives.
Good forward thinking ;-)
Help fight continental drift.
This class of satellite -- no longer launched -- carried a nuclear reactor to power a large radar dish that enabled day/night snooping of Earth's oceans.
Yes, I'm sure that the Soviets were using this for day/night observation of Earth's oceans. Or possibly day/night observation of the missile silos in the US. But it's a tough call.
ok, that's it... i'm not having kids!
from the happy-birthday-to-you-happy-birthday-to-you dept.
I'm not sure what to think of this. The article has nothing to do with birthdays. However, it is, in fact, my birthday today (March 30th). As I see no other reason why timothy might have chosen that department, I can only assume that he's celebrating my birthday. I don't know whether to be flattered or disturbed by this.
.. from our children, and their children, and their children's children.. And this little legacy is just to teach them not to put their parents in crappy nursing homes in future.
Putting the article in Visa terms so that slashdotters understand it:
Satelite development: $6,000,000
Satelite construction: $1,300,000
Satelite launch: $500,000
Watching satelites get smashed into orbital junk by a droplet of going a gajillion miles per hour: complementery.
Listening to a bunch of morons complain about their grandchildren getting skin cancer because the droplet was radioactive: priceless.
And no, I didn't log in, or read the article; this is Slashdot. :)
yeah I am a bomb defusal expert with the government, and I want my kid (14 yr old) to follow in my footsteps.
I plant a different bomb under his bed each night and before he goes to sleep he has to defuse it. He hasn't failed yet, but I would be dissapointed in the progress of his knowledge and abilities if he did.
"We just collided with a satelite. We're venting oxygen. We have 2 minutes of air left."
"Oh no, it was a nuclear satelite! What about the radiation? Now we have 1 minute, 55 seconds of air left. I knew nuclear power was a bad idea."
Yeah and we'll all have flying cars!
And a pony!
Daniel
Carpe Diem
I think you mean nucular war
a RORSAT satellite that has been leaking radioactive coolant, leaving little droplets of it in orbit around our planent.
It's not an accident, it's our interplanetary nuclear defense system.
Two birds with one stone. I like the way you think.
One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
Because the children he's talking about will indeed be the 14 yearolds who inherit NORAD after the corn turns them all into psychotic killers, again.
Space suits for sea bass are cheaper to manufacture.
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
OK slashdoters... I challenge you to somehow link this story to President Bush. Bonus points for making it his fault.
3cx.org - A truly bad website.
It's right there ahead of 2011 and chasing 2013 hard.
***You learn something Every day. And then you die.***
And the pony is flying too! It has mutated from all the radiation dropping from the sky and grown wings!
Who would have guessed -- those weird colored My Little Pony creatures were correct after all!
you can run diesel engines on straight vegetable oil (as long as you keep it all warm and the seals aren't attacked).
Animal cruelty must STOP.
Any link to Fox news should include the disclaimer that they are strictly fair and balanced. And that this story is from a Cato Institute opinion writer.
Who are environmental groups tools of, exactly? Bambi?
BEWARE THE DAYSTAR!
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I've never seen someone compose a Slashdot post in Microsoft Word before (the broken 'smart quotes' gave you away).
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
As Larry Niven said, "The dinosaurs died out because they didn't have a space program."
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"OMG, there's *RADIOACTIVE STUFF* in the universe!"
Clearly the words of a Slashdotter with authority in the UN.
And, you think that these... what do you call them... "facts"... have any influence on some of these people screaming bloody murder about anything with the word "nuc-u-lar" in it?
Ha! ha! You is so silly!
I wonder what would happen if some of these dolts found out what the sun really is? They'd probably be lobbying that we send the FDNY up there to put it out immediately.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
More like batteries?
I think im using the wrong batteries then, mine dont have liquid metal coolant or rockets to eject themselves from my diskman.