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

SkateboardFi
SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
edited October 2 in Chit-Chat
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!
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  • jtsmou
    jtsmou Posts: 503 Member
    how about that comet and that niburu thing?
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    IMHO - you're totally over thinking it. Why stress so much over something you have no control over? It's like stressing over the weather... Do what you can to prepare just in case and just see what happens. Chances are just as good that it'll fall harmlessly to some unpopulated area or in the ocean where there's no one around and it won't cause any trouble.
  • p0pr0cksnc0ke
    p0pr0cksnc0ke Posts: 1,283 Member
    Its all over next December... DUH! :yawn:
  • cartern1
    cartern1 Posts: 270 Member
    You have no control over it so relax
  • Enforcer25
    Enforcer25 Posts: 350 Member
    Nope, I figure when my time is up, it's up, although getting hit by a satellite isn't a way I would think I could go, it's to small to cause a tsunami and I don't live near any oceans. Hitting a populated city could be very bad. I hadn't really thought anymore about it until I read your post, but still not worried.
  • rmartin72
    rmartin72 Posts: 1,085 Member
    Please do not worry, Please do not let it stress you out!!
  • SpaceMarkus
    SpaceMarkus Posts: 651
    Not that I'm a former Rocket Scientist or anything *cough* but whatever does survive reentry most likely will be too small for you to worry about. Unless, of course it's the off chance that it hits you right square in the head.

    Meteors hit our atmosphere all the time. All we usually do is look up and go "ooooo, pretty!" :)
  • jsjaclark
    jsjaclark Posts: 303
    they expect it to break apart upon entry into the earth's atmosphere and expect most pieces to burn up so what hits the earth will be relatively small. The chance of it hitting you is at least 1 in a million.

    My brother works for NASA and if there was a real danger, he would let us know.
  • starboardzor
    starboardzor Posts: 312
    Oh cool, I didn't know about this! Exciting!
  • ArchyJill
    ArchyJill Posts: 548 Member
    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.).
  • momma3sweetgirls
    momma3sweetgirls Posts: 743 Member
    I wasn't freaking out about it until you brought it to my attention!!!!!!!!! I was happy living in my little 'news-free' bubble! If anyone needs me, I'll be in the basement until Sunday!
  • kknudson
    kknudson Posts: 60 Member
    Wherever the real Donnie Darko is, I bet he is seeing some STRANGE things right now.


    But in all seriousness-

    Will it burn up a little as it enters the atmosphere like comets? Also, I imagine they are tracking that thing's every move. I would say there's no need for hyperventilation.
  • echeindl
    echeindl Posts: 320 Member
    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
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I'm kinda hoping some of it hits my house. I need a new roof.
  • kappy_hollowell
    kappy_hollowell Posts: 399
    Not a care about this in the world for me.
  • RockinHorseRanch
    RockinHorseRanch Posts: 83
    awwwwwww I don't think it's going to hit me... If I did I would finish off the chocolate muffins..lol
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    I'm totally not freaking out about it in any way.
  • TooFatToFit
    TooFatToFit Posts: 285 Member
    I hadn't heard about it either, but it's not the kind of thing that freaks me out anyway. I like to worry about stupider, less significant things than that...well, okay I don't like to, but that's the way I'm made. I don't flinch thinking of bears when hiking, or the end of the world, or pandemics. It's the dumb things that get me all worked up.
  • TooFatToFit
    TooFatToFit Posts: 285 Member
    awwwwwww I don't think it's going to hit me... If I did I would finish off the chocolate muffins..lol

    This was awesome. :laugh:
  • messyinthekitchen
    messyinthekitchen Posts: 662 Member
    A tsunami?? It's an expected 1200 lbs that won't cause anything other then a ripples in the ocean.
  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
    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
    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
    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
    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
    I have a tiny umbrella like Wile E. Coyote. I am confident that it will protect me.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    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
    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
    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
    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
    I would run and hide if I were you, but I'm not, so I won't.

    thanks for the insight. enlightening. truly.
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