soooo um...is ANYBODY else freaking out about this?!

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  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
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    FUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!!!!!!!! No wait, it might fall there....To the City!!!!! Wait, i could bounce off of buildings and hit me....TO THE SEWERS!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait....I'm already there on a daily basis....with my mind.

    Really? you're stressed over this when the step you take you could just keel over and die? You dont know and can't control the future. Only the present. Live it.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
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    I would run and hide if I were you, but I'm not, so I won't.
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
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    after working with the government on a few projects, its not anything falling from space that you need to worry about..... just sayin'!
  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
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    A tsunami?? It's an expected 1200 lbs that won't cause anything other then a ripples in the ocean.


    More catastrophic movement will occur as we all try to get a better look at Meg than this will ever create
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    I have a tiny umbrella like Wile E. Coyote. I am confident that it will protect me.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    I'm not worried about it. I'm sure the government is tracking it and has everything under control.

    :smile:

    :indifferent:

    :huh:

    :frown:

    Okay, now I'm worried about it.
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    Seriously? You must live a charmed life cause most people I know have like 20 million other more pressing things to worry about (rent, health, job, family, etc.).

    lmao my my what a presumptuous thing to say, seriously. the condescension is completely unnecessary. i'm just asking for peoples' input, not your uneducated opinion of me. k thanks :)
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nasa-satellite-expected-to-hit-earth-this-week/2011/09/18/gIQARnpVdK_story.html

    because i am. there's so many complications that could come with a satellie entering and hitting the earth. what if it hits a heavily populated city? what if it hits an ocean and causes a tsunami? am i overthinking it? this thing is 12,500 bloody tons!

    It is pounds, not tons. That is a HUGE difference

    completely agree. that was definitely a hell of a mistype
  • Nerdy_Rose
    Nerdy_Rose Posts: 1,277 Member
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    If you read the article, there is an approximately 1 in 3,200 chance of any one human being getting hit.
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    I would run and hide if I were you, but I'm not, so I won't.

    thanks for the insight. enlightening. truly.
  • kennie2
    kennie2 Posts: 1,171 Member
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    Wont it just burn up in the atmosphere?
  • Amysgetnfit
    Amysgetnfit Posts: 231
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    I'm kinda hoping some of it hits my house. I need a new roof.
    hey that's what I was hoping for!
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    If you read the article, there is an approximately 1 in 3,200 chance of any one human being getting hit.

    lmao. where. where in my original post did i say i PERSONALLY was worried bout me, one human, getting hit by this thing. read the original post. a lot of you guys are taking this post entirely too seriously.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
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    I would run and hide if I were you, but I'm not, so I won't.

    thanks for the insight. enlightening. truly.

    I felt equally enlightened by your original post, bless your heart. :flowerforyou:
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    how about that comet and that niburu thing?

    inform me homie, i hadn't heard about that one?
  • kennethmgreen
    kennethmgreen Posts: 1,759 Member
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    The good news is that UARS will probably splatter into the open ocean, because Earth is a water planet. And humans, for all their sprawl, occupy a very limited portion of its surface.

    NASA did a calculation of the odds that someone would be struck by UARS debris. It’s very unlikely: about a 1-in-3,200 chance that one person somewhere in the world would be hit.
    That quote is from the very story you linked to in your original post.
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    I would run and hide if I were you, but I'm not, so I won't.

    thanks for the insight. enlightening. truly.

    I felt equally enlightened by your original post, bless your heart. :flowerforyou:

    lmao. i'm sure. thanks for the insincerity. and for taking this entire thing to heart, like i knew most of you would. i found the responses to this interesting.
  • Suziq2you
    Suziq2you Posts: 396 Member
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    I'm kinda hoping some of it hits my house. I need a new roof.

    I was thinking I could use a new car.....
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    The good news is that UARS will probably splatter into the open ocean, because Earth is a water planet. And humans, for all their sprawl, occupy a very limited portion of its surface.

    NASA did a calculation of the odds that someone would be struck by UARS debris. It’s very unlikely: about a 1-in-3,200 chance that one person somewhere in the world would be hit.
    That quote is from the very story you linked to in your original post.

    again. lighten up people. jesus christ.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
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    The last time something like this happened, they actually launched a missile into space to destroy it (or at least break it into small enough pieces that would burn on re-entry). http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technology/rtn08_nl/highlight4/index.html

    Since I know they could do it again if needed, and they aren't, I'm not worried.

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