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Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow
A refrigerator-sized tank of toxic ammonia, tossed from the international space station last year, is expected to hit earth tomorrow afternoon or evening. The 1,400-pound object was deliberately jettisoned — by hand — from the ISS's robot arm in July 2007. Since the time of re-entry is uncertain, so is the location. "NASA expects up to 15 pieces of the tank to survive the searing hot temperatures of re-entry, ranging in size from about 1.4 ounces (40 grams) to nearly 40 pounds (17.5 kilograms). ... [T]he largest pieces could slam into the Earth's surface at about 100 mph (161 kph). ...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."
Right, because there's no difference between a car being *driven* on a designated roadway, and debris uncontrollably headed in an unknown direction. Your critical-thinking skills are...lacking.
If I had mod points, I'd be pretty fucking sexy right now. Rubbing my tits and shit. Yeah, you'd like that. I'm a coke whore by the way. Give me a ring.
Obviously you were attempting humor, however, when trying to be funny you should put at least a modicum of effort into it. The fact that we have a fossil record at all is great case for gravity. The fact that gravity can be observed first-hand and without any specialized equipment pretty much proves it exists. Your didactic rant to poke fun at Intelligent Design fell flat. Next time you attempt to employ apagoge you will need to make a much better showing.
Then stop riding in the goddamn street, motherfucker. It's common courtesy. Ride on the damn sidewalk. go ahead, scaredy-cat. Just try it, I promise that passing policemen will not stop and ticket you. It's trivial to slow down and safely manuver around people.
It's dumbasses like you who think they can play right-of-way chicken games with multi-ton armored shells. Even pedestrians know how to stay the fuck off the road when they don't belong there. And your obnoxious tight neon outfits and dickhead helmets make the road a much uglier place than it already is.
Just hope the big chunk lands near front and center at some huge Barack Hussein Obama political rally. Not only would that give Obama supporters watching the event on the idiot box a dose of reality, it would probably raise the average IQ of that area of the country by a significant amount.
"You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie