Chinese junk incoming!
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Up here at the rarefied latitude of 51 45N we can confidently leave our tin helmets on the hook in the hall. Link |
The US says you can't keep or try to sell US spacecraft that crash on your property. But if this thing lands in my back yard, can China keep me from parting it out and selling on eBay? Finders keepers and all that. You could make a small fortune if the thing landed in your yard.
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Could you afford to pay the import tariff on it?
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Skylab oxygen tank which arrived in Australia pretty much intact. If the snakes and spiders don't get you, the space junk will. Well, almost. That image, plus several others, available in supersized versions here: Space.com Link Link |
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First by sea. Now by air. Donald Trump calls this unfair trade and wants more tariffs.
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I've got my butterfly net ready.
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Only time that most of the US could be hit was in four passes in Sunday morning between 4 AM eastern and 930 AM pacific time.
Southern TX and southern CA get an opportunity around 1130 Central time. Hawaii gets only one chance at 1100 Hawaii time - about 1600 hrs Eastern. London never gets a chance. As usual, nobody wins the lottery. |
Could any Chinese secrets be found in the wreckage?
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:facepalm:
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"...somewhere between 43 degrees South, and 43 degrees North..."
That's really narrowing it down. |
Chinese junk incoming!
It's at 140 km altitude right now and currently losing one km per minute. But this won't be linear. It won't be crashing in 140 minutes. It's going to be (already is) exponential.
I'll be surprised if it's more than an hour before it crashes. But that's just a guess. Can't predict the future. |
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Tiangong-1 crash: Chinese space station comes down in Pacific Ocean Stand easy, chaps. |
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