BREAKING on New Scientist: After UARS, a *second* dead satellite is headed earthward - and it has a greater risk of injury

THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING

Why did the chicken cross the road? To avoid being hit by a falling satelite.

The US Government recently declassified the Spy Satelites used from Late 60s to the early 80s. The think looks like a Winnabago. Probably put it out there since they look like they could be reentering due to gravitational anamolies in the solar system.

No Fricking way! is this going to be a regular ocurrance now?
What a month we are having!

Spin this spit!

Fuckin' flying winnebago?


I knew lonestar and barf would return someday!

HOORAY!

This is beginning to seriously worry me. I mean what is the form of protection common people have against having tonns of spce junk landing on their homes if not, on their head? can they sue somebody?!

its a small one and all of the pieces will burn away...

fear mongering

Get back to us when THE MOON is headed earthward! Dead moons are such a pain...

The siberian asteriod that levelled 10sq km of trees wasn't that only 2kg in weight?


150kg. Omfg. Hope it doesn't hit a city.

Please read the article before commenting: "some 532 kilograms of it in 26 pieces are forecast to survive – including a 150-kilogram instrument mounting. "

Half a tonne of super-hot space junk on someone's head or home from that height is not gonna be a joke!

The Tunguska Event!

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

With the lies that NASA is engaging in, under the pretext that to tell the truth would cause people to panic, hopefully NASA headquarters gets wiped out by the incoming.

The sky is falling, the Sky is Falling!!!!





On a more serious note, how many have to fall out of the sky at roughly the same time before we can rule out coincidence?

+1000

Great find OP. +1

Thank You :-)

this has been spoken by ancient prophecies.. satellites start to fall

Is the beginning of the War in the Heavens??

sucks nobody answered my question but..

Thread: question about the satellite

thats what i saw 2 nights ago.. forget all the extra stuff.. now i know its probably just another satellite

there might be more junk coming. the sun is the cause. there has been a unexpected up tick in solar activity. with out the shuttle we can not go and retrieve any of them.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in February 2010, made the finding: About 1 in 7 flares experience an “aftershock.” About ninety minutes after the flare dies down, it springs to life again, producing an extra surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation.

“We call it the ‘late phase flare,’” says Woods. “The energy in the late phase can exceed the energy of the primary flare by as much as a factor of four.”

What causes the late phase? Solar flares happen when the magnetic fields of sunspots erupt—a process called “magnetic reconnection.” The late phase is thought to result when some of the sunspot’s magnetic loops re-form. A diagram prepared by team member Rachel Hock of the University of Colorado shows how it works.

The extra energy from the late phase can have a big effect on Earth. Extreme ultraviolet wavelengths are particularly good at heating and ionizing Earth’s upper atmosphere. When our planet’s atmosphere is heated by extreme UV radiation, it puffs up, accelerating the decay of low-orbiting satellites. Furthermore, the ionizing action of extreme UV can bend radio signals and disrupt the normal operation of GPS.
from space waether.com
[link to science.nasa.gov]

Last Edited by psyoptics on 09/23/2011 10:12 AM

i think we are not getting the real news here... are they somethingelse incoming or are the satellites being fried?

Not that we would anyway. It would be cheaper for NASA to pay off the survivors than to launch a shuttle to prevent any problems.

and it's an x-ray satellite too>> radioactive

Well satellites are beng fried for sure. New Scientist won't lie. Not sure if there is something else that may be incoming....suspicions have been around that a Brown Dwarf bigger than Jupiter may be lurking on the edges of the solar system. Also, according to NASA, mystery cosmic rays from a "near by" source (a micro-Quasar perhaps) have been detected: [link to science.nasa.gov]

yep TV station are already substituting weather forecast (since satellite are falling) with satellites impact forecast


And let's see the sky for tomorrow saturday 24th September

As we see on the map a huge amount of debris are moving now on north west europe that will impact on central europe in the afternoon

radiation will rise on impact areas

fuck

I just bought another gps antenna

will some satellite survive?

return it now

Depends on what kind of Solar blast they get subjected to, nothing may survive out there in our orbit :-)

Besides all the original GPS satellites sent over by US circa 1983 , are due to go end-of-life between 2011 and 2013. No mission to replace them have been planned before 2015. Boeing was iven the contract to send up a new constelltion in 2007 but that was also scrapped.

[link to www.physorg.com]

The United States plans to invest over 5.8 billion dollars in GPS space- and ground-based systems through 2013 but the GAO expressed concern that "over the next several years many of the older satellites in the constellation will reach the end of their operational life faster than they will be replenished."

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Yeah but the bullet usually gets to you faster than the check.