Satellites Collide In Orbit

DrEnter writes "According to this story on Yahoo, two communications satellites collided in orbit, resulting in two large clouds of debris. The new threat from these debris clouds hasn't been fully determined yet. From the article, 'The collision involved an Iridium commercial satellite, which was launched in 1997, and a Russian satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be nonfunctioning. Each satellite weighed well over 1,000 pounds.' This is the fifth spacecraft/satellite collision to occur in space, but the other four were all fairly minor by comparison."

Comments

Re:This was bound to happen.

[DustoneGT]

In New Mexico, senior citizens driving a Toyota Prius have the status of the Chevy Suburban in Oregon.

Re:First collision

[Captain Splendid]

In Soviet Russia satellite collides YOU!

I don't know about anybody , but for me, 'in soviet russia' jokes usually fall into two categories for me: funny or annoying. This is the first one that just left me going "meh".

My point is, I think we can safely retire it, seeing as the joke is now so tired it's become bland. It's like the Who of Slashdot memes.