Space-junk hits Earth

[Arkaign]

Didn't someone already get killed by a block of frozen waste dumped from an airliner due to a malfunctioning toilet?

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Didn't someone already get killed by a block of frozen waste dumped from an airliner due to a malfunctioning toilet?

Wasn't someone also killed by a toilet seat from a space station?

Oh wait, that was Dead Like Me

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Like this incident?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: So
The fact is, we have the technology (on paper), TODAY, to colonize the entire solar system and to send robotic probes to alpha centauri that would send back video (granted, it'd be a 100year+ trip to AC) but it would require spending real money on it, not the current pocket change we throw at it (we spend more on the department of housing and urban development).

That's why I get annoyed with people who claim that NASA is sucking away all our money on the "worthless" endeavor of space exploration. Honestly, it's not really possible to drain more money away from NASA. Why not go after a department that still has some money left?

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Didn't someone already get killed by a block of frozen waste dumped from an airliner due to a malfunctioning toilet?

Wasn't someone also killed by a toilet seat from a space station?

Oh wait, that was Dead Like Me

I like you, Toilet Seat. You got moxy.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: Arkaign
Didn't someone already get killed by a block of frozen waste dumped from an airliner due to a malfunctioning toilet?

Wasn't someone also killed by a toilet seat from a space station?

Oh wait, that was Dead Like Me

I like you, Toilet Seat. You got moxy.

That was a good show that I will have to look into finding some more reruns of it.

 

[judasmachine]

harmless unless you were a fish right underneath it.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: So
The fact is, we have the technology (on paper), TODAY, to colonize the entire solar system and to send robotic probes to alpha centauri that would send back video (granted, it'd be a 100year+ trip to AC) but it would require spending real money on it, not the current pocket change we throw at it (we spend more on the department of housing and urban development).

That's why I get annoyed with people who claim that NASA is sucking away all our money on the "worthless" endeavor of space exploration. Honestly, it's not really possible to drain more money away from NASA. Why not go after a department that still has some money left?

When compared to the one trillion $ spent on the Iraq war... what NASA gets is pocket change, stuff that you'd find in a couch...

 

[Cattlegod]

Judging by my calculations, there is a 0.0003825% that someone will be hit by a bit of space junk each time one falls.


Calculation = (7 billion people * 3 sq foot/person) / (sq footage of earth) = (7 billion *3) / 5.49037E+15= 0.0003825%

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Wait...so when they don't need crap anymore they just throw it back to Earth? Isn't it entirely possible for someone to get hit by a tank of coolant falling from the sky? And it looks like we're going to have a pretty nasty man-made debris field around our planet to hamper navigation once we perfect space travel...

that will never happen

Neither will flying.

To be fair, he did say perfect. We will never perfect flying, either.

let me know when walking is perfected

Call the Ministry of Silly Walks.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: RichardE

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Wait...so when they don't need crap anymore they just throw it back to Earth? Isn't it entirely possible for someone to get hit by a tank of coolant falling from the sky? And it looks like we're going to have a pretty nasty man-made debris field around our planet to hamper navigation once we perfect space travel...

that will never happen

Neither will flying.

To be fair, he did say perfect. We will never perfect flying, either.

let me know when walking is perfected

If walking requires engineers and millions of dollars in research, sure.
Though I guess shoe companies would like us to believe it does.

The fact is, we have the technology (on paper), TODAY, to colonize the entire solar system and to send robotic probes to alpha centauri that would send back video (granted, it'd be a 100year+ trip to AC) but it would require spending real money on it, not the current pocket change we throw at it (we spend more on the department of housing and urban development).

Not saying I disagree with you, because I as well would rather switch the budgets of housing and urban development and NASA. Hell I would rather devote 50% of our tax dollar to scientific research with 1/2 of that going to space travel/exploration/etc. (btw if your sarcasm meter is broken that was a sarcastic statement. Although I do believe we should cut back on other expenses and increase scientific)

I have a question for you though. Do you propose we stop spending money on housing and urban dev and instead put that all to science, or were you simply using that to illustrate your point that we could and should spend more on NASA? I assume #2 of those options.

No expenditure is an either / or. I'm simply pointing out a department that would traditionally be thought of as relatively small, and has a larger budget that the supposedly "bloated" and "wasteful" NASA, which does some really impressive things with less money than it takes to do something that, while important, is not generally considered technically impressive.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Judging by my calculations, there is a 0.0003825% that someone will be hit by a bit of space junk each time one falls.


Calculation = (7 billion people * 3 sq foot/person) / (sq footage of earth) = (7 billion *3) / 5.49037E+15= 0.0003825%

Does your sq footage of earth number cover just landmass or the seas as well? If the seas as well, the number is very skewed since only a small number of people are on the water and debris is generally planned to come in over such as area. It really changes the calculation...