Space junk from Chinese rocket was
about 15 minutes from hitting NYC
by
Tamar Lapin
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/13/2020 6:33:34 AM
Chunks of the massive Chinese rocket that recently took an uncontrolled plunge back into the Earth’s atmosphere narrowly missed hitting New York City, according to a report.
Had the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere about 15 to 20 minutes earlier on Monday, it would have rained debris on the nation’s largest metro area, according to Ars Technica, a technology-focused publication.The about 100-foot long rocket was launched on May 5, carrying an unnamed prototype of a newly-designed Chinese crew capsule.After about a week in orbit, the 20-ton core stage
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 5/13/2020 6:57:12 AM (No. 409564)
Whereas it actually came down 4,751 miles away.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 5/13/2020 6:58:51 AM (No. 409565)
Ya' think maybe this was a deliberate attempt to hit NYC ? This could be another attempt to destroy us.
They are very angry with USA because of President Trump's actions to put China in it's place.
I wouldn't be surprised at any thing they might do (along with the dims) to cause a Trump defeat in November.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/13/2020 7:02:25 AM (No. 409570)
Would anyone in NYC have noticed?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 5/13/2020 7:03:50 AM (No. 409571)
Its course was diverted by a swarm of murder hornets.
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There was a clever TV show (Reaper?) that started with a girl getting killed by a toilet seat from a space station in NYC.
Went off the air in it’s very funny prime.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/13/2020 8:17:05 AM (No. 409663)
Didn’t I read somewhere about frozen poop-ice, flushed from an airliner, killing someone? Yeah, here it is: (nobody got killed, but it was a pretty darn good shot!)
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=168777
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
czechlist 5/13/2020 8:31:21 AM (No. 409680)
We are leaving so much debris in low earth orbit that eventually we will reach a point where we can no longer access space. There is a fortune to be made by someone who can figure out how to remove this garbage ranging in size from paint chip to refrigerator all moving at 17500 mph
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/13/2020 8:34:27 AM (No. 409688)
during the bumbling presidency of jimmy Carter, NASA launched Skylab, which was to be a lab in the sky, but didn't know what to do with it.
and as it eroded in its orbit, and NASA didn't know where it was going to crash, kids in our neighborhood, and elsewhere, painted bullseyes in the streets.
if my memory serves me, Skylab crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1979, near australia.
The 1970s were not so good to us in the U.S. The decade was defined by bad music, bad hair styles, bad movies, bad cars, bad politicians, bad fashions - men's and women's.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 5/13/2020 8:48:36 AM (No. 409713)
Sorry it missed.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
klezmer 5/13/2020 8:53:05 AM (No. 409721)
#8, I remember we had an office pool regarding where it would land. I didn't win.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 5/13/2020 9:42:58 AM (No. 409785)
Meh. . . . no biggy. I hear New Yawk is empty cuz all the Yanks are in Florida hiding from the Kung Flu.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SavageRider 5/13/2020 10:08:54 AM (No. 409813)
So if the virus doesn't get you, Murder Hornets or Space Debris will. Are we trying to scare folks into not leaving their houses? Get out there and have fun not wearing a mask while you don't cough, sneeze or heavy breathe on anyone who doesn't live in your house.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/13/2020 10:21:50 AM (No. 409835)
Good to know how bad is their aim.
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#8 - Please don't remind me of my college years ('74-'78). Fortunately, the state of Maryland had just lowered the legal age for beer to 18. Numbness and the hope brought by a few good bands (Rush, AC/DC, et al) barely kept me going until the new wave arrived.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 5/13/2020 11:00:03 AM (No. 409890)
Proof that nothing wants to go to NYC. Actually if any did fall on NYC it wouldn't be any worse that blue ice falling from an airline.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/13/2020 11:59:46 AM (No. 409968)
Re #8. I remember that well. A good friend was the USAF spokesperson in charge of PR for the event. Also correct re Carter years and our “malaise” as he called it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/13/2020 1:17:09 PM (No. 410048)
There's a mostly uninhabited spot in the Pacific that's the graveyard of spent rockets and satellites, assuming they have the rocket fuel and momentum wheels running to aim and fire at the target. I suspect the Chinese junk had neither.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_cemetery
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
fishbone 5/13/2020 2:06:59 PM (No. 410097)
#7, the "garbage collectors" from Mel Brooks' movie "Spaceballs" comes to mind. May The Schwartz be with you. :-)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Mushroom 5/13/2020 2:20:41 PM (No. 410107)
#5, Dead Like Me. Two seasons..might still be on Hulu.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JackBurton 5/13/2020 4:03:13 PM (No. 410194)
I used to think that if L'il Kim did something to L.A. or San Francisco the results would, in the long run, not be negative.
Starting to think that about this China rocket and NYC.
With DEEPEST apologies to all of you who stay there.
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Wait. Was it over Gracie Mansion or the Governor's mansion ?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
KTWO 5/14/2020 2:00:30 AM (No. 410475)
A real non-story; missing by 15 or 20 minutes. So why mention NYC?
#7 makes a good point about space junk clutter.
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