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A different kind of lottery


tsar4

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22 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

1:1,000,000,000 chance of it hitting you personally. 

China does this shit all the time though. A couple times already this year two of their rockets have had boosters detach and fall on peasant's homes.

They DGAF.

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15 minutes ago, mthor said:

Didn't this kind of thing go on when Skylab fell? Except not as scary because no internet so fewer chances to cause panic?

I think the story about Skylab was that it was "planned" to hit the Pacific Ocean.

 

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7 hours ago, tsar4 said:

I think the story about Skylab was that it was "planned" to hit the Pacific Ocean.

 

They had the advantage of not being hardline Communists bent on the good of the state.

This allowed them to install propulsion systems to steer the object away from human populations.

Unlike this group of intrepid space cadets:

https://youtu.be/rG79Y1XViIk

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