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NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt
An earlier report that debris from the recently deorbited UARS satellite had landed in Canada may have been premature. Apparently, the picture of when (and therefore where) the satellite deorbited is back to being clear as mud. Most likely, says NASA, the debris will never be found, but is thought to have landed in the Pacific Ocean. If you're an optimist interested in finding your very own piece of space debris, though, you might be interested in this map based on various re-entry scenarios (hat tip to Robert Woodcock); in the U.S., the Northwest is your best bet.
What I don't get is why we try to bring them down when they are already in space. wouldn't the smarter move be to just point them outwards and tell them to burn until they run out of gas. After all it IS space we are talking about here, one big black empty pile of nothing.
I mean if you didn't want the drifting through the cosmos for some reason you got a big fireball in the center and Jupiter the other way to aim at, but in the end who cares as long as it is away from us right? It seems better than polluting the Pacific with space crap constantly.
Of course the BIG problem is gonna be cleaning up all the little pieces of dead shit along with dead birds we have polluting everywhere. From what i've read all the little pieces of metal, paint chips, dead birds, boosters, and all the other assorted crap is damned near reaching critical levels for the good orbits. We are really gonna have to get together as a planet and work out a way to clean that mess up! Did you know the Vanguard sat we put up there in 1958 is STILL up there? it is amazing how much garbage there is between the USA, Russians, and of course them dumbass Chinese blowing that one up and making a huge fucking mess.
If we don't clean that mess up soon frankly it isn't gonna matter where we WANT to de-orbit birds to, as they are gonna get so trashed that we'll lose control of them long before their life was up anyway.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
... that it would land on Westboro Baptist Church. Can you imagine old Phelpsy doing a service and them BAM, the whole place is blown to smithereens by a stray solar panel? That would be sign of a just God if there were one...
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