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Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House
toggleflipflop writes "In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house. No one was hurt.
More details in this article. Apparently inhabited by an eternal optimist: 'The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year,' the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
According to the People's Daily's article on the subject nothing seems to have gone wrong."
Are they meaning the house-crashing was on schedule?
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Boy, is that guy going to be disappointed next year when a satellite doesn't crash into his house. Bad luck all year!
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Do they get to keep the satellite ??
Finders Keepers..
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in belgium, some 10 years ago, a russian Mig bonkered into a house after the pilot did an emergency jump out some 5000km away above russian territory... Imagine sitting at the table and all of a sudden a warhead plops on your plate. not to mention the secret service eating your guts out 20mins later.
I'm too lazy, otherwise I would google some info about it. No doubt soe karma whore will do it below
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"In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house"
They built a satellite designed to crash into a house? OK...
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Apparently inhabited by an eternal optimist: 'The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year.'
Hmm, must have had good insurance... and a crappy house.
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We don't need no water, let the motherf***er burn!
Burn, motherf***er, burn!
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
In Communist China the satellite lands on you!
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
No, of course they didn't plan on landing it on this guy's roof. Check out the picture -- they were obviously aiming for the courtyard, and, if you ask me, they did a really good job of getting pretty close.
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Sure they do, and the first prize is a baby boy.
Must of subcontracted to the same guys who outsourced parts for Genesis.
Chinese Contractor: Here! We have parts left over from american space craft!
Chinese Space Agency: Well, don't just stand there, send them to us!
[3 Years Later]
Genesis: The ground sure is coming up fast! I wonder why my chutes have gon.... GAK!
[2 Month Later]
Chinese Space Craft: The ground sure is coming up fast! I wonder why my chutes have gon.... GAK!
Maybe other countries will take notice and start expanding their space programs... just to drop "errant" pieces of spacecraft on dissenters.
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I don't particularly mind satellites, as long as they come in through the front door, whipe their feet on the welcome mat, and politely drink their tea. Its the kind that crash through your roof or window that I can't stand. They're just plain rude.
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Are we sure this guy didnt have a really big high powered ACME magnet pointed straight up??
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Is that their new dedicated subscription?
So, what if the bad luck was something like, um, a satellite falling through your roof?
JtM
"Ad infinitem et ultra!" - Buzz Lightyear
So thats why the box at the end of my dish is called a satellite receiver...
i guess the chinese didn't want to be outdone by the US crashing a probe into the Nevada desert.
Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive.
Oh, you mean like FOX-News?
the crashing satellite improved his
home's Feng Shui. As a bonus, it
also drove out all the evil spirits.
Give the man a break, already.
Actually, Satellites crashing may not be a bad idea.
I could sell one of these things off ebay and buy me some sweet loving.
But I suspect that in China, the only sweet lovin' I'd get would be from them gubmint men in red.
The satellite destroyed the building in Sichuan province, but officials say no-one was hurt.
Officials say that no one with families powerful enough to demand reperations from the government was hurt.
"The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year," the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"The satellite landed in our neighbor's home. Since the government is making us say we lived there, maybe they'll make sure we have good luck this year to keep us from blabbing."
For the benefit of the humor-impaired and tinfoil-hat crowd... I'm joking.
It's a fixer-upper, but it gets excellent satellite reception.
Or said it at all, for that matter.
"The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year"....."oh look! the excess hydrazine is spilling from the ruptured fuel tanks! What gloriousness, the great revolution truly has delivered blessings from heaven upon us! A thousand thanks to you Wen Jiabao!"....."my family's belongings are pulverized and burning with such splendid red flame! such must be divine providence showing we have truly reaped the benefits of the Great Leap Forward! We are so thankful for all the wonderfull fortune bestowed upon us from the eternally benevolent Great Government! I only wish I could have been present in the house at the time this wonderful sanctification occured!!!"
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
..what Huo Jiyu REALLY said was, "Damn this government and their sweat shop mass production satellites! If there were only democracy, capitalism and competitive markets in the Chinese aerospace industry, this wouldn't have happened to me... WHY ME?? Fortune comes in threes, so I can't WAIT for what's in store for my next two."
Where does that idiot get off thinking he's going to have good luck this year. Oh, crap, wait. Confusious say he who gets hit by satelite have direct TV free for one year.
Yes, that was the exact purpose of the mission. You see the guy had been evading taxes, and well, the Chinese can be known to go a bit overboard when making a point. It was a two part mission really, to show how precisely they can land their satellites, and to remind the population that they had better pay their f*&#ing taxes. Any other bright questions you need answers to?
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When have they? You smoke to much crack...or not enough. I'm not sure which it is with you, but you don't smoke the right amount.
It was the house that blew up and knocked the satellite out of the sky.
In soviet China, houses crash satellites...
Life is not for the lazy.
Don't blame them, I wouldn't want to go into the desert either. This way it's easy to locate!
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what are the odds of that happening again??
The real problem in China has nothing to do with the space programs precision in retrieving equipment from orbit.
It's the mail service; the flyer explaining to the house owner that they were intending to land the capsule in his courtyard hadn't been received yet.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
there is something fishy here...
The man confessed to have uttered "How can things get any worse" a second before the satellite crashed into his house.
I was amazed to find a "Comment on the story" link at the bottom of the People's Daily article. Could it be? They would actually allow people to freely post their opinion on their prominent site?
Well, I wrote a comment asking why the minor fact of the satellite crashing through someone's freaking living room was silently ommited, but when I tried to submit it I got a page saying "Database query error"...
How convenient!
cherry blossom falls
like satellite onto roof
better luck next year