Debris from massive Chinese rocket expected
to crash into Earth this weekend
New York Post,
by
Yaron Steinbuch
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/7/2021 2:23:24 PM
The piece of a massive Chinese rocket that is hurtling towards Earth is expected to plunge through the atmosphere this weekend — but China insists it is highly unlikely to cause any harm.The location of the Long March 5B rocket’s descent back to Earth “cannot be pinpointed until within hours of its reentry,” the US Space Command said.Experts have said that debris could fall anywhere from as far north as New York to as far south as New Zealand.The US Space Command, which is tracking the 23-ton piece of rocket, is projecting it to reach Earth Saturday.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sardonic 5/7/2021 2:27:35 PM (No. 778296)
Didn't they say that about Covid as well?????
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 5/7/2021 2:34:15 PM (No. 778302)
I believe it's bigger than Skylab. Even so, most if not all will probably burn up in the atmosphere. What's left, will have a new Chinese virus attached to it. Demosluts will rejoice.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2021 2:46:39 PM (No. 778318)
The best news is that 70+% of Earth's surface is water....so it starts out with a 70% chance of not hitting any land. Then a HUGE portion of the dry land is uninhabited or very sparsely inhabited. Probably only something like 5% that a hit would cause any significant disruption.
Still....unguided, rolling the dice.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/7/2021 3:14:31 PM (No. 778352)
One of these days China will tell us one of their defunct satellites will drop from space onto some place in the USA, but it will be a surprise packed with nuclear explosives.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 5/7/2021 3:16:34 PM (No. 778357)
China displays its usual concern about how its activities affect the rest of the world. Can we expect more of this as they launch more modules to their space station?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
proactus 5/7/2021 4:07:35 PM (No. 778399)
If it hits a sign in a major league ballpark to they win a suit?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/7/2021 5:13:03 PM (No. 778450)
China is of course by conventional wisdom a technological powerhouse. They are actually PLANNING to go to the MOON !!! Fifty years after we did it. And their used up overweight rocket boosters come crashing down randomly. SpacEx, a private American Corporation is now landing ours back on the pad they launched from, and repeatedly. China has the tech expertise to build what they can copy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2021 5:16:38 PM (No. 778454)
#7, that's "steal and copy".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
danu 5/7/2021 5:24:40 PM (No. 778463)
would it be asking too much to aim for de blobbio and the coma bros? just a suggestion.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/7/2021 5:42:45 PM (No. 778482)
someone steer it directly toward Beijing, please. someone please tell me how an "undeveloped" country like Communist China has a space program? isn't an undeveloped country something like Somalia?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/7/2021 6:07:20 PM (No. 778499)
Gosh, let me apply my vast engineering skills to this. Design in 5 cheap bombs and 3 cheap timers. If you can get the dam thing in orbit you should be able to obliterate it on the way back.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/7/2021 6:24:15 PM (No. 778513)
The only thing they seem to know is that it's coming down.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/7/2021 6:29:11 PM (No. 778514)
I wonder how many are thinking the same thing.
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The ChiComs launched one of these that was half this size last year. It also wound up 'lost in space' for unknown reasons. Most of it burned up in the atmosphere, but 12-meter steel beams spears came down in the Ivory Coast. Didn't kill anybody, luckily.
Hopefully we'll get "lucky" with this one also.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Namma 5/7/2021 7:24:39 PM (No. 778554)
Guess Clinton forgot to sell the rest of our secrets to China. Maybe the price wasn’t right
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kono 5/7/2021 8:01:37 PM (No. 778590)
Hm, kind of like an innocent-looking ballistic missile. Won't they have to get the emp device into such a trajectory before setting it off?
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The last time this happened with any degree of threat we fired a missile from an Aegis cruiser in the Pacific, intercepted the satellite dead on at over 100 miles in altitude, and blew it into thousands of small pieces that had no chance of making it through the atmosphere. When you think about it, that's a very impressive feat - and a great arrow to have in our quiver.
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