GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land 122
Virtucon writes "The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer or GOCE Satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend. It weighs over a ton and unfortunately the Scientists don't exactly know where it will land. You can track it here. It should re-enter sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Makr Hopkins, chair of the National Society's Executive Committee said: 'The satellite is one of the few satellites in a Polar Orbit. Consequently, it could land almost anywhere.' The GOCE mission was to create an accurate gravity map of the Earth."
The tracking website is down... (Score:5, Funny)
Use the map (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Use the map (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Legal aspect (Score:5, Funny)
Well, it all depends.
If it lands in the US, it could be considered a lawsuit.
If it lands on South Korea, it could be construed as a blow from the Sacred Unicorn of the North.
If it lands in Russia, it will end up on You Tube for weeks.
If it lands anywhere else, it will be Obama's fault.
Re:The tracking website is down... (Score:5, Funny)
And that's news? :)
Re: Legal aspect (Score:3, Funny)
NASA Satellite Falls On Car (Score:4, Funny)
No problem (Score:2, Funny)
As long as it doesn't contain a toilet seat...
Reason to live (Score:4, Funny)
So you mean there's a chance it could come down on my mother-in-law's head?
Re:Random chance of live/property destruction? (Score:2, Funny)
Schroedinger insurance: When you open to paperwork to check wither you are covered, an exclusion clause spontaneously appears.
Re:Define "irony" (Score:4, Funny)
It's not gravity that's the problem - it's air resistance. Earth's atmosphere doesn't have a distinct edge, and you have to get pretty frelling far out before the particle count drops low enough not to matter to things going 10,000+mph. Certainly a lot farther than the measly few dozen miles to low Earth orbit.
Well the orbital path does make large parts of the globe safe.
That is why Carly and I are flying my jet to Nova Scotia just to be safe.
Not the solution (Score:5, Funny)
There's probably a better way to research gravity than randomly throwing satellites at the earth...