Will I be clipped in the head by falling NASA debris?

[struggle4progress]

By: Scott Hollifield
Published: September 24, 2011
NASA says there is little chance a falling chunk of flaming satellite will hit me in the noggin, but, if it does, I can’t keep it as a souvenir or sell it on eBay ... http://www2.starexponent.com/news/2011/sep/24/will-i-be-clipped-head-falling-nasa-debris-ar-1332845/

[bluesbassman]

1. Can I have your Lottery tickets if it does?

:P

[struggle4progress]

2. My Benz, my Rolex, my Swiss chalet ...

if you can find em in the aftermath, you can keep em

[Kennah]

7. Can I have your job?

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I say we go outside and catch satellites on our tongues, just like it was snowing.

[pokerfan]

4. Went outside and looked for it about an hour ago

Didn't see it.

The old research spacecraft was targeted to crash through the atmosphere sometime Friday night or early today, putting Canada, Africa and Australia in the potential cross hairs, although most of the satellite should burn up during re-entry. The United States wasn't entirely out of the woods; the possible strike zone skirted Washington state.

In its ever-lower orbit, UARS apparently flipped position and stalled its death plunge.

"It just doesn't want to come down," said Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/ci_18964906

[pacalo]

6. Damn, I hope it falls in the ocean.

Yikes.

[dimbear]

5. Government property maybe, but there's a strong argument to be made that

it's been abandoned. I mean, whenever someone lets me fall to earth from a very high altitude I get that feeling.

[pokerfan]

8. The Law of Salvage would apply would it not?

AKA finders keepers!