Comments on: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite to fall back to Earth Friday after 20-years in orbit http://www.slashgear.com/upper-atmosphere-research-satellite-to-fall-back-to-earth-friday-after-20-years-in-orbit-20181121/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/upper-atmosphere-research-satellite-to-fall-back-to-earth-friday-after-20-years-in-orbit-20181121/#comment-137280 Anonymous Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:47:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=181121#comment-137280 The satellite will be doing a few night passes over the US for the next few days according to the iPhone app “GoSatWatch”. Should be a good show if you happen to see the reentry.

]]> By: odannyboy http://www.slashgear.com/upper-atmosphere-research-satellite-to-fall-back-to-earth-friday-after-20-years-in-orbit-20181121/#comment-137279 odannyboy Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:43:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=181121#comment-137279 Is this rocket science? I think it just might be!
So, how is it that they have no clue where parts of the the bus sized object will impact?

If you catch a chunk, do you get to keep it? I’m gonna sell mine on ebay. That’s the ticket.
Seriously, if it looks like there’s a possibility of seeing the burning in the night sky, I’d like to see it.

Interesting article.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/upper-atmosphere-research-satellite-to-fall-back-to-earth-friday-after-20-years-in-orbit-20181121/#comment-137186 Anonymous Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:45:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=181121#comment-137186 Warning, pedantic statistics lesson coming up:

“The chances of the debris hitting a person are 1-in-3200. Those are some pretty high odds if you think about it. You are much more likely to be hit by a chunk of this debris than you are to win the lottery.”

NO, YOU aren’t. the odds of A person (out of the 7 billion we have) getting hit is 1 in 3200, the chance of one of all these people “winning the lottery” is over 1 in 1 because we can be sure that more than one person in the world will win one of the countless lotteries on the planet (even at a very conservative 300 lotteries worldwide (the USA has over 50 already) and all of those having only one winner, the chance of winning the lottery is a million times bigger than the chance of getting hit by a piece of this satellite).

]]> By: Robert Norris Hills http://www.slashgear.com/upper-atmosphere-research-satellite-to-fall-back-to-earth-friday-after-20-years-in-orbit-20181121/#comment-137156 Robert Norris Hills Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:57:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=181121#comment-137156 I heard that re-entry is being blocked by Apple as they believe this technology is in breech of several of their patents relating to the design of the iphone4.

]]> By: Robert Norris Hills http://www.slashgear.com/upper-atmosphere-research-satellite-to-fall-back-to-earth-friday-after-20-years-in-orbit-20181121/#comment-137157 Robert Norris Hills Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:57:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=181121#comment-137157 I heard that re-entry is being blocked by Apple as they believe this technology is in breech of several of their patents relating to the design of the iphone4.

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