Possible major satellite collision tomorrow *Doom off, the satellites missed each other

I've always been disconcerted that we never really know what it is that's falling from the sky towards us...

Don’t smoke so I twiddled my thumbs while singing the National anthem.

If there IS a collision with a possible subsequent crash, will the dome protect us?

Are these just a couple old Soviet pieces of junk of no value?
Or has something modern and in-service been hacked/attacked and being forced to crash?

Forget the subs -- the missing nuclear material should have been enough to give Clancy a heart attack.

No, and not unless the old Cosmos design was actually one of these:
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
I don't think it's one of those, there are many different types of Cosmos satellites. Cosmos 1461 isn't mentioned in this page listing the various nuclear US-A launches:
[link to www.astronautix.com]

I got shit up there to dude.

Shhhhh Don't tell any one mmmk

BINGO

As if the hogs were cringe factor 20 --- dman you ;)

That is... oh I don't have a good word -- disconcerting and ewwwwwwwww.

And imagine Andromea Strain -- we don't know what those 2nd and 3rd world posing as 2nd world countries are putting in their satellites!!!!????!!!!

Doom off!
"(17 Sep 1430z) The close approach predicted at 1402z on 17 Sep 2018 has passed without incident. 18 SPCS/CSpOC has confirmed that the primary satellite is being tracked as a single object, indicating that no collision has occurred."
[link to www.space-track.org (secure)]
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let's all hope an pray that it will be the satilite link to all TV stations ... and that while it is down, people will WAKE UP ... and never turn their TVs on again

Damn, that sucks.


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"BUMMA" ???


Whhhhaaaaaaa

Sure does better have a beer or two.

Anyway thanks Astro.

Your a Cool Dude.

B Good.

Alas, we must march on and continue to have gps, weather satellites, and global communications.

Whatever shall we do?

Thanks for the short term doom and the all clear :) you are a good space dog!!!

timz zup. nothing happened.

Hahaha wakanda forever. Lol

The upcoming and probably unavoidable space collision reminds me of this clip, as more and more satellites become disabled, due to succeeding collisions, similar to the effects of having the HAL 9000 computer put to sleep.


[link to www.youtube.com (secure)]

In the future, space faring peoples getting through both the asteroid belt, and the Van Allen belts will be a cakewalk, as compared with the dynamic and ever changing debris field of this new layer of man-made objects floating around the earth.

When will this happen, exactly? We probably won't know anything has happened until different satellites fail to respond.

thank you astro! that was fun!

If I had any more thumbs down today, I would shove it up your account.

You lack timing and civility.

Hmmmmmm......How Con-VEEN-ient!

Typical Astro thread, get us all worked up and then kill the doom buzz.

What ?

You reckon he's got shares in the Movie Business ??

Hey, 28.9% odds weren't bad odds for space doom, and since I knew about it I thought you all should definitely know about it in case it happened.

We all appreciate the heads up Astro. Thank you.


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It was kinda fun! Yeah, thanks for the updates Dr. Astro.

All's well that ends well! We have survived doom once again!