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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
.. 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.
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."
> In Societ Russia, women like YOU!
Or...
In Soviet Russia, women LIKE YOU!*
(* Only with more facial hair)
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.
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.