[Newsbot]

Title: Falling satellite chunks will miss North America
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-09-22 20:59:47
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

lol So many conflicting stories today. Too many variables to predict it.
It will miss NA according to this article.

It might hit, according to this one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/ ... sfeed=true

It might hit the US according to this one:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 72646.html

It will hit the US today, according to this one:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/ ... rth-today/

One of them will be wrong.

[Proculation]

$1:

NASA expects any surviving components to land between 57 north degrees latitude — about 300 kilometres south of the boundary between the territories and the provinces — and 57 degrees south latitude.

That's a margin of error of 66 degrees or about 7326km. Pretty good "estimation".

[Brenda]

Damn, HUGE chance one of those pieces might hit straight in the head!!

[DanSC]

Proculation Proculation:

$1:

NASA expects any surviving components to land between 57 north degrees latitude — about 300 kilometres south of the boundary between the territories and the provinces — and 57 degrees south latitude.

That's a margin of error of 66 degrees or about 7326km. Pretty good "estimation".

This just means the inclination of the orbit was 57 degrees. This estimate covers 100% of all the area the satellite passed over.

[raydan]

Brenda Brenda:

Damn, HUGE chance on of those pieces might his straight in the head!!

[Brenda]

hit*

You don't speak gibberish very well, Ray, do ya

[raydan]

...and you don't write good when you're drunk.

[Brenda]

raydan raydan:

...and you don't write good when you're drunk.

Nah, not drunk. Yet
Just an exhausting day of Dutch bs

[ShepherdsDog]

How do you write that in Dutch...Buulla Schiita?

[Brenda]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

How do you write that in Dutch...Buulla Schiita?

Actually, we use the same word, but if I would translate it literally, it would be "koeiepoep" or more "stierenpoep" (since a bull is not a cow )

[ShepherdsDog]

cow poop...or steer poop. by the way, the Welsh have applied to the EU to get their vowels back from the Dutch.

[Hyack]

It's down......

$1:

Re-entry was believed to have occurred between 11:45 p.m. EDT Friday and 12:45 a.m. EDT Saturday. There were reports on Twitter of debris falling over Okotoks, a town south of Calgary in western Canada.

[Batsy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

cow poop...or steer poop. by the way, the Welsh have applied to the EU to get their vowels back from the Dutch.

There's no need. The Welsh language has five vowels, as many as English.

By the way, Welsh has 28 letters in its alphabet:

A B C CH D DD E F FF G NG H I L LL M N O P PH R RH S T TH U W Y

[Batsy]

Hyack Hyack:

It's down......

$1:

Re-entry was believed to have occurred between 11:45 p.m. EDT Friday and 12:45 a.m. EDT Saturday. There were reports on Twitter of debris falling over Okotoks, a town south of Calgary in western Canada.

Damn. I was hoping the satellite would land on Dale Farm.