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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..
Loosers Weepers..
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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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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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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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!
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
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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