Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House 406
toggleflipflop writes "In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house. No one was hurt.
More details in this article. Apparently inhabited by an eternal optimist: 'The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year,' the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
According to the People's Daily's article on the subject nothing seems to have gone wrong."
First Image (Score:5, Informative)
Misleading summary (surprise surprise) (Score:3, Informative)
Regardless, China probably figures that deorbiting satellites into sparsely populated areas is perfectly safe because really, if it takes out a family or two, well, there's more where they came from. (Note to angry reactionists: I'm Chinese.)
Re:it could get worse... (Score:2, Informative)
http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Data/Winx/stories/
Re:it could get worse... (Score:4, Informative)
Learn more in JSR's space report (Score:5, Informative)
It tells us FSW 20 - The FSW recoverable satellite launched by China on Sep 27 returned to Earth at 0248 UTC on Oct 15, falling through the roof of a house in the village of Penglai, Sichuan province
Re:No thanks. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The roof is on fire! (Score:2, Informative)
Grammar Nazi alert (Score:2, Informative)
LOOSERS is not a word. You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
lose = opposite of win or find
loose = opposite of tight
Re:Misleading summary (surprise surprise) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:it could get worse... (Score:2, Informative)
I guess if shit happens, its most often not a laughing matter...
Re:First Image (Score:5, Informative)
Unless you're talking about the abuses perpetrated by Saddam Hussein at Abu Ghraib before the US occupation, you're manufacturing facts.
The prison abuse scandal broke in late April 2004 when CBS 60 Minutes II aired several photos showing abuse against US-held prisoners at Abu Ghraib. One year before that, April 2003, US forces were still in the process of securing the bulk of Iraq from whatever parts of the Baathist regime were still fighting at the time. Abu Ghraib and the other prison camps were not fully in place until late 2003, and the reports of prisoner abuse spanned the period from October to December 2003.
Amnesty International did request that an independent investigation be put in place as early as June 2003. They objected to the general conditions of the prison camps, but did not make accusations of violent torture at that time. However, even Cooperative Research [cooperativeresearch.org] notes that photos and other evidence of the abuses at Abu Ghraib were not leaked to the military until January 2004 and to the media in April 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_
There is also no reason to believe that CBS would wait for months to break this story, as just a few months later they hastily broke another anti-Administration story that turned out to be false.
Re:No thanks. (Score:1, Informative)
Note to self: next time in the bookies, bet on the horse that out of the last 10 races fell over twice, turned round once and finished last 7 times.
If there's such a word as misinformed, there should be misinformative too. For a definition see the parent post.