ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoBy 2035, falling satellites will kill or injure someone every two years, says FAAwww.gizchina.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down194
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minus-squaredb2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·1 year agoInjure? Injure?? If someone gets nothing but a boo boo from a falling fucking satellite then they need to go buy a lottery ticket right away.
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoSatellites will have thoroughly fragmented by the time they reach the ground, you’d be hit by a piece of a satellite. Assuming the study being referenced wasn’t actually badly flawed, which it appears to be.
minus-squareThe Menemen!@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoOne can get hurt without a direct hit. E.g. when a window bursts from a shockwave and hurts people inside a building.
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1954-extraterrestrial-bruiser-shocked-alabama-woman-180973646/
Injure? Injure?? If someone gets nothing but a boo boo from a falling fucking satellite then they need to go buy a lottery ticket right away.
Satellites will have thoroughly fragmented by the time they reach the ground, you’d be hit by a piece of a satellite.
Assuming the study being referenced wasn’t actually badly flawed, which it appears to be.
One can get hurt without a direct hit. E.g. when a window bursts from a shockwave and hurts people inside a building.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1954-extraterrestrial-bruiser-shocked-alabama-woman-180973646/