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Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Frayed Knot Sep 23 2011 07:36 AM

Nice to know that scientists have the targeted point of impact (points really because it's going to break up and spread itself around a bit) narrowed down to an area slightly smaller than 'somewhere on the planet'. Last I heard Antarctica was safe but just about everywhere else in is play. Twenty Cranebucks for the first guy to come to Crane World Headquarters with a piece of glowing space junk that just fell into his/her backyard. Fifty if it actually falls on your head sometime today, although admittedly that'll make prize collection a bit tougher.

Ceetar Sep 23 2011 07:40 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

next monster movie: Little town somewhere. Piece of sattelite falls to earth, guy picks it up and says "hey, lookie at this!" and puts it in his garage. unbeknownst to him, there was a little alien goo growing on it, and his garage is just the right conditions for it to germinate and grow. Weird things start happening, like his dog going missing, his cellphone not working near his home. The garage, which he's been neglecting, is gradually being taking over by Alien goo and turning itself into a replica of the Alien's home planet. Pods start growing out of the green muck, and you start to see the silloutte of a body inside of them, growing. cue typical alien mayhem.

Frayed Knot Sep 23 2011 08:09 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Ceetar wrote: next monster movie: Little town somewhere. Piece of sattelite falls to earth, guy picks it up and says "hey, lookie at this!" and puts it in his garage. unbeknownst to him, there was a little alien goo growing on it, and his garage is just the right conditions for it to germinate and grow. Weird things start happening, like his dog going missing, his cellphone not working near his home. The garage, which he's been neglecting, is gradually being taking over by Alien goo and turning itself into a replica of the Alien's home planet. Pods start growing out of the green muck, and you start to see the silloutte of a body inside of them, growing. cue typical alien mayhem. Steven Carrell plays the clueless suburbanite who finds/stores the junk alongside his numerous other unfinished projects. Angus T. Young is the geeky comic-book reading teenager down the street who occasionally picks up a few bucks here and there helping Carrell figure his computer glitches and is also the first to recognize the seriousness of the impending goo takeover - but of course has trouble convincing anybody in authority about it because of his spotty HS attendance records and general anti-social ways. Maria Bello is the divorced mother of a small child who first believes Young's character. That he's clearly smitten with her helps provide the driving force behind his insistence that the threat is real and sparks his coming out of his shell, not to mention his mom's basement. In the end, even as he saves the town and her son, his fantasies about her don't come true although it's clear that her attention alone was enough of an encouragement so that he starts going back to school on a regular basis and he gains enough confidence to begin to talk to girls his own age for the first time. Bello's eight year-old gets his friends to stop making fun of our hero behind his back as he realizes that there are different ways to be a male role model and that maybe mom is right and that it's time to stop idealizing his overly-macho and too-often absent father.

MFS62 Sep 23 2011 08:29 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

No, and I didn't get beamed up by the UFO that flew over my house, either. (Check the CPF archives for the story). Later

Frayed Knot Sep 23 2011 10:20 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Latest news has the satellite slowing down so it's not expected to crash to earth until late tonight. So instead of having to duck while you're out for lunch you'll simply be killed in your sleep. Much better IMO.

metirish Sep 23 2011 11:07 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

As heard just now on an Irish radio station " scientists however are warning that the chances of the satellite hitting any of the planets seven billion people is remote" I feel fine now.

TransMonk Sep 23 2011 12:35 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

metirish wrote: I feel fine It all leads back to R.E.M. this week.

metirish Sep 23 2011 12:42 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

TransMonk wrote: metirish wrote: I feel fine It all leads back to R.E.M. this week. It won't be the end of the world as we know it then.

Willets Point Sep 23 2011 12:47 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

I laugh about this world in my satellite eyes.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 23 2011 12:59 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Good. I'd hate to have it disrupt the annual Honus Wagner Ball.

metirish Sep 23 2011 01:01 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Good. I'd hate to have it disrupt the annual Honus Wagner Ball. who's Honus Wagner?

Frayed Knot Sep 23 2011 01:10 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

metirish wrote: ... "scientists however are warning that the chances of the satellite hitting any of the planets seven billion people is remote" Either the thing's going to hit you or not. That makes the odds 50/50 doesn't it? I actually heard odds at a lot better than "remote", like 3,200 to 1 or so. Not large, but better than hitting the lottery. And even if you did hit the lottery today odds are that you'd be killed by a falling satellite on your way to cash the ticket so don't bother. Problem is that this thing is going to break up into a number of pieces (some source estimated 26* and spread debris over as much as 500 miles and that's what raises the odds a bit. * seemed like an odd estimate to me. Not 25, not 27, not "a few dozen", but specifically 26.

soupcan Sep 23 2011 01:42 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Anybody remember when Skylab fell in the early '80's or thereabouts? There was a lot of hubub about people getting pelted then as well but it broke up into a bazillion pieces and landed mostly in a remote part of Australia. A friend of mine's dad was a B-list celebrity and had been invited to be a judge at the Miss Universe contest or something that was in Sydney or something at that time. The judges were given fragments of the fallen ship as souvenirs. My friend's dad came home with these little fibreglass splinters and gave them to a few of us kids. I remember thinking, 'this is what everybody was freaked out about?' No idea where it is now.

Willets Point Sep 23 2011 01:50 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

"In the fall of 1999 Claire Tourneur woke up in some strange places..."

Benjamin Grimm Sep 23 2011 01:52 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

The odds are one in 3200 that it will hit a living human being. The odds that it will hit a specific individual are 3200 multiplied by the population of the Earth, which is a huge number.

Willets Point Sep 23 2011 01:55 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The odds are one in 3200 that it will hit a living human being. The odds that it will hit a specific individual are 3200 multiplied by the population of the Earth, which is a huge number. But nowhere near the incredible odds of anyone picking four consecutive correct answers in a classic rock song contest.

seawolf17 Sep 23 2011 02:01 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Willets Point wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: The odds are one in 3200 that it will hit a living human being. The odds that it will hit a specific individual are 3200 multiplied by the population of the Earth, which is a huge number. But nowhere near the incredible odds of anyone picking four consecutive correct answers in a classic rock song contest. Unless you're talking about a Top 3200 Rock Songs, in which case it's probably pretty good.

themetfairy Sep 23 2011 02:03 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

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TransMonk Sep 23 2011 02:53 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Just heard on NPR that Paddy Power is giving odds on where it lands. Ireland is 66:1

metirish Sep 23 2011 03:29 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Jesus, short odds on a small country in the North Atlantic.

metirish Sep 24 2011 06:26 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Just checking in, everyone is accounted for?

Frayed Knot Sep 24 2011 06:32 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Fell in the Pacific apparently. Damn! I was hoping it would hit something; Trump; Congress; the cast of 'Jersey Shore'

MFS62 Sep 24 2011 07:23 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

This is scary: http://news.yahoo.com/falling-six-ton-s ... 25135.html The thing weighs 6 tons, was 35 feet long and 15 feet across. And over an hour after it landed, they still don't know where? Attention citizens, that is bigger than an enemy ICBM that we have been spending billions on to be able to detect for years. They still don't know where? They can track a pigeon if it flies too close to the President. But they don't know where this fucking thing came down? That thought is scarrier than the thought of being hit by the satellite. Later

batmagadanleadoff Sep 24 2011 07:48 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

MFS62 wrote: This is scary: http://news.yahoo.com/falling-six-ton-s ... 25135.html The thing weighs 6 tons, was 35 feet long and 15 feet across. And over an hour after it landed, they still don't know where? Attention citizens, that is bigger than an enemy ICBM that we have been spending billions on to be able to detect for years. They still don't know where? They can track a pigeon if it flies too close to the President. But they don't know where this fucking thing came down? That thought is scarrier than the thought of being hit by the satellite. Later They know. They're just not telling.

Frayed Knot Sep 24 2011 10:52 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

MFS62 wrote: This is scary: http://news.yahoo.com/falling-six-ton-s ... 25135.html The thing weighs 6 tons, was 35 feet long and 15 feet across. And over an hour after it landed, they still don't know where? Attention citizens, that is bigger than an enemy ICBM that we have been spending billions on to be able to detect for years. They still don't know where? They can track a pigeon if it flies too close to the President. But they don't know where this fucking thing came down? That thought is scarrier than the thought of being hit by the satellite. Well, that 6 tons/35 foot thing is the size the thing WAS prior to breaking up and burning up into who knows how many smaller pieces. Also, the Pacific ocean is a pretty big place. It's not quite like monitoring the air space over D.C.

Edgy DC Sep 24 2011 11:53 AM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

And when big heavy things hit water, they don't lie there smoking. They go blub.

MFS62 Sep 24 2011 12:12 PM Re: Anyone here get hit by a falling satellite yet?

Edgy DC wrote: And when big heavy things hit water, they don't lie there smoking. They go blub. But they have bright, luminous trails that show up in the night sky. And their trajectory can be tracked to within a few feet. And, before it breaks up, something like that can be seen on radar. And its path can also be tracked and a landing spot predicted. So, to say "They don't know where it landed" is outright foolish. Unless, as Batmags said, they don't want us to know, so souvenir hunters won't abscond with anything. Later