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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: geronl on September 20, 2016, 03:51:00 am
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China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
China's space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next year
In a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of its space station.
China's Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years now, but recently it was decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface. In a press conference last week, China announced that the space station would be falling back to earth at some point in late 2017.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/
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Cheap Chinese garbage.
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Whatever goes up, must eventually come down. Any idea where it might come down (Mecca would be a good target).
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This is sad. I hope it falls in the ocean.
I wouldn’t want it to fall on a land mass and hurt someone.
Wouldn’t a lot of it burn up when it gets into Earth’s atmosphere?
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Whatever goes up, must eventually come down. Any idea where it might come down (Mecca would be a good target).
China has no control over when or where it comes down. They are still way behind where the US and USSR were in the 80's
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This is sad. I hope it falls in the ocean.
I wouldn’t want it to fall on a land mass and hurt someone.
Wouldn’t a lot of it burn up when it gets into Earth’s atmosphere?
Earth is mostly ocean and yes, most of it burns up on the way down
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China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth
China's space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next year
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22936/tiangong-falling-to-earth/
Well...I'll be needing a new roof by then anyway. :smokin:
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This is sad. I hope it falls in the ocean.
I wouldn’t want it to fall on a land mass and hurt someone.
Wouldn’t a lot of it burn up when it gets into Earth’s atmosphere?
I wouldn't mind being mildly injured by it.
I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem getting off $10 million to prevent me from costing them 100 mil.
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China has no control over when or where it comes down. They are still way behind where the US and USSR were in the 80's
I was thinking more of the Godly sort of guidance, or the beneficence of blind luck (or blind justice, more like).
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Good excuse to have another Skylab type party again. The one we had in 1979 was a blast!