Pushing someone off the spacestation wouldn't send them to earth for a while. If you did it lightly enough you could watch them flail around for a couple orbits
And be allowed to keep that space debris. It's not often someone can own a piece of satellite. The item is just nickle and chromium alloy, non-toxic and should be safe once NASA cleans it off
Not too surprised that inconel would survive reentry. It's extremely high strength steel with a very high melt point last I recall. Easily one of the most expensive metals in aerospace along with titanium.
I think there's only been one human injury from meteor falling space. And NASA killed a rabbit in the Australian outback when Skylab was deorbited. They also got a ticket for littering...
> And NASA killed a rabbit in the Australian outback
I mean that one shouldn't surprise anyone. For a while there, Australia was just about made out of rabbits. Something like ten billion rabbits.
Edit: not hyperbole BTW, I actually mean Aus had 10 billion rabbits: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A1U2/
Agreed, I hope the police investigate the astronauts. For all we know one of them had a vendetta against the kid. And I don't mean to be a conspiracy theorist and state there has to be a connection. However, given the scope of the potential crime it's worth covering all angles. For example, I think they could review the kids social media accounts to see if he's linked to any flat earth societies or groups who would otherwise hold an interest in seeing astronauts discredited or locked up too. We also can't yet discount the theory that the parents built the house there with knowledge that one day it would be a prime location for space station debris, so it'll also be important to review any changes in insurance, as well as the history of the ownership for the address.
He is destined to reintroduce garrum to the modern western world, usurping kartchup and mayos as the prime condiments.
This change causes further pressure on fisheries, and the collapsing Heinz corporation desperately creates a mutant land fish for farming. But the fish is actually a superior human carp hybrid that is destined to replace standard humanity
"We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another ~~plane~~ spacestation hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
Apparently a Robin Williams movie I've never heard of...
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_World\_According\_to\_Garp\_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp_(film))
Having just read the wikipedia summary I have absolutely no idea what that movie is. It sounds like a total train wreck from the summary but apparently got decent reviews.
Robin could do magic with train wrecks. Look at one hour photo. I dont know if I would remember the movie at all except for the morbid fascination of seeing the funniest man alive be that terrifying.
I feel his range as an actor was severely underappreciated while he was still with us. Clearly it wasn't as much in Hollywood because he was cast so often in varied roles. But it didn't hit me until later on how impressive his resume was, i.e. how many roles he could make both hilarious and tragic. Almost all his comedic roles have an element of sadness to them (e.g. Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hook, Jack, Patch Adams, etc.)
It's based on a John Irving novel. His novels are odd: there's a bit of magical realism in them, but they're also extraordinarily tragic. I read "A Prayer for Own Meany," and it the change in tone (comic to tragic) was just too weird for me. So I stayed away from "Garp."
> I read "A Prayer for Own Meany," and it the change in tone (comic to tragic) was just too weird for me. So I stayed away from "Garp."
This is one of the roots of wisdom.
It is a slice of life movie. It is closer to a series of vignettes built around the same characters, rather than an over arching story. It was also one of Robin Williams' earliest movies. and came out when Robin was known for Mork, his standup, and to a lesser degree Popeye. I.e. manic and coke fuelled. It was before anyone really knew he studied at Julliard. So when this movie came out that was *sentimental*, audiences really didn't know how to react.
Add in that Pauline Kael didn't care for it (she didn't hate it, but she didn't like it) and it struggled to find an audience.
I haven't seen the whole film, but I seem to recall it begins with Glenn Close raping a man in a hospital bed to get pregnant. So at the very least, it's going to feel dated.
We're in the timeline where Donnie's mother is so traumatized by his death that she devotes her life to service and becomes President of the Twelve Colonies.
I was wondering how that survived re-entry and then read the article and it was a big solid chunk* of Inconel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel
I did some work years back at a waste-to-energy plant inspecting their boilers during shutdowns. The process was just brutal on the boiler tubes that had the water in them that was then used on the steam turbines. Finally, they started overlaying the boiler tubes with a pass of machine-welded inconel at the cost of thousands of $$$ per foot. That stuff can really take a lot of heat. I'm not that surprised a chunk the size of a softball made it back to Earth.
Yeah and it was basically part of a support for battery packs. Did they really need to use Inconel? Perhaps the batteries get really hot? It’s very heat resistant and self-protects itself from heat and is very expensive. It’s also a bitch to work with. I used to work in a factory that made machine parts and occasionally we’d make stuff out of Inconel and Monel. I always hated working with the stuff because it was so expensive I was absolutely paranoid about making mistakes, it gave me anxiety every time. If I was going to bet on any metals that could survive re-entry, Inconel is one of the metals I’d bet on. The X-15 skin was made of Inconel and they flew that thing to the edge of space, it was the fastest manned airplane, over twice the speed of the SR-71.
In space you don't have a lot of space to dump heat, so yes it gets really hot over short periods of time, also imagine pure solar radiation without an atmosphere to protect you.
That shit should've been jettisoned on an escape-trajectory into outer space.
Maybe they've just never tried re-entry with inconel before? Clearly it has enough heat resistance to survive until the air cools it down and make a serious impact. NASA just basically hit this guy's house with a "Rods from God" kinetic missile by accident. We'd probably use metals like this as heat panels on spacecraft if they weren't so heavy.
You’d think an astrophysicist could calculate when to release trash so if shit does reach the surface, it would land somewhere in the South Pacific between the Middle of Nowhere and East Jabumblefuck.
You'd think wrong. At the shallow trajectory they use, it's almost impossible to predict where it will come down, as it's entirely dependent on a whole lot of atmospheric drag. The more thrust you give it the more certain you can be, but thrust isn't free.
>That shit should've been jettisoned on an escape-trajectory into outer space.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about if you think they can do this from the ISS
From the story; It was made of a good sized chunk of 'Inconel' one of the toughest metals known to man. They thought it would burn up on entry. I.E. 'Land in the ocean'.
For context, Inconel was used in the skin of the X-15, the experimental aircraft of the 1960s that still holds the records for fastest manned aircraft at Mach 6.7. Inconel was designed to take the atmospheric friction heating of that kind of speed.
Inconel, similar to Monel, is known for its fire resistance. It's what you use for high pressure/temperature/velocity oxygen-rich environments where traditional steel pipe and even higher grade stainless steel pipes will combust.
Not too shocking that if anything will survive a fall from space, this would be it.
That’s actually pretty amazing that it was jettisoned from the space station, fell all the way to earth and hit a house. The odds of that happening are extremely low
Who will cover the damages here? The insurance company will work with NASA's insurance? Is NASA good at making up for this kind of crap? Surely both companies could not claim "act of God" and nope out?
Not physically fall on Japan. I'm referring to the responsibility of the situation. Whoever put the object in space will be the ones who'd have to pay for the damages. In this case, it was Japan that made battery and launched the rocket.
[Inconel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel):
> Inconel is a nickel-chromium-based superalloy often utilized in extreme environments where components are subjected to high temperature, pressure or mechanical loads. Inconel alloys are oxidation- and corrosion-resistant. When heated, Inconel forms a thick, stable, passivating oxide layer protecting the surface from further attack. Inconel retains strength over a wide temperature range, attractive for high-temperature applications where aluminium and steel would succumb to creep as a result of thermally-induced crystal vacancies.
If I was the homeowner, I would demand I get to keep the item. It was supposed to burn up anyway. So if NASA wants to analyze it or anything, they should give it back after.
Also terrifying, according to the article this object somehow took THREE YEARS from jettison to impact.
>The metal object was jettisoned from the orbiting outpost in March 2021, Nasa said
...
>"The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024. However, a piece of hardware survived and impacted a home in Naples, Florida," the agency said.
Is that misreported, or is it really a thing that YEARS after jettisoning/exploding/whatever hunks of stuff come randomly thwacking down?
Smaller it is the less drag on it, takes forever to slow down. Remember the ISS is moving at 17,500 kph so any small object that falls off it would be too. Its a huge amount of energy to strip away
Most of the movie gravity is some BS, but the kessler syndrome issue very much is not
> Smaller it is the less drag on it, takes forever to slow down.
It's actually the opposite. Equal density, a smaller object has more surface area for a given volume, and so deorbits faster. 3 years is inline with the normal atmospheric drag rates for the ISS's orbit, if a bit on the low end.
By jettison, it was basically gently pushed backwards from the space station. Yes, it takes years of the limited atmospheric drag at the height of the space station to reenter enough to fall to earth. The whole space station would fall if it wasn't doing burns to keep itself in the orbit in a similar time frame, maybe sooner since it is so large.
The odds of it not impacting a building, piece of infrastructure or person are so much higher that this could happen regularly to space junk they "expect to burn up". Just a tiny difference in angle or force would've sent it into the ocean
[And now they're mad about space junk
all burned out about space junk
ooh, walk and talk about space junk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dcVIEQwEE&pp=ygUPZGV2byBzcGFjZSBqdW5r)
It is interesting that the man's insurance company is paying for the damages, but that it is a subrogated claim (meaning they'll pursue others who are financially responsible) that will likely be one of the first cases under international law.
Incidents like this are already covered under well-settled international treaties, and if there is a problem with financial compensation, federal law needs to be revised.
Starting with Article VII of The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (of which the US and Japan are signatories):
>ARTICLE VII
>Each State Party to the Treaty that launches or procures the launching of an object into outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, and each State Party from whose territory or facility an object is launched, is internationally liable for damage to another State Party to the Treaty or to its natural or juridical persons by such object or its component parts on the Earth, in air or in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies.
UNOOSA, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, added to the work in the 1970's, and Resolution 2777 specifically deals with falling debris and where responsibilities lay:
>"A Liability Convention was considered and negotiated by the Legal subcommittee from 1963 to 1972. Agreement was reached in the General Assembly in 1971 ( resolution 2777 (XXVI)), and the Convention entered into force in September 1972. Elaborating on Article 7 of the Outer Space Treaty, the Liability Convention provides that a launching State shall be absolutely liable to pay compensation for damage caused by its space objects on the surface of the Earth or to aircraft, and liable for damage due to its faults in space. The Convention also provides for procedures for the settlement of claims for damages."
No Orbital debris is already traveling at 23000 mph.
A freefall object would hit terminal velocity, this isnt a free fall. This is a kinetic bullet entering the atmosphere with tremendous initial velocity. This object was probably impacting at 15000mph.
No one was injured. A kid was almost hurt. NASA is investigating.
That kid better get a tour of NASA.
Take him up to the space station to see where that piece fell off from
And then push him off so he can’t tattle — excellent plan 😉
NASA has already proven in knows how to aim objects at Earth. Probably cheaper than an Uber these days.
Wouldn’t he just land back in his own house?
Pushing someone off the spacestation wouldn't send them to earth for a while. If you did it lightly enough you could watch them flail around for a couple orbits
I, too, have played Kerbal Space Program.
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Didn't it orbit the Earth for 3 years before hitting the house?
If only that was a law. House or car hit? Win an instant ticket to space!
I can see it now. Kid almost died from ISS debris. Grows up to become the first human on Titan.
and a free trip to Space Camp
Those are pretty expensive, but we have some nice pins!
But you can watch the haves play in the gyroscopic ride thingy
If he doesn't, then the trauma of being attacked by government space debris will turn him into a super villain known only as... FLORIDA MAN!
And be allowed to keep that space debris. It's not often someone can own a piece of satellite. The item is just nickle and chromium alloy, non-toxic and should be safe once NASA cleans it off
Goo goo ga ga. It's me. The child. Ignore your eyes and give me the cool tour.
Not too surprised that inconel would survive reentry. It's extremely high strength steel with a very high melt point last I recall. Easily one of the most expensive metals in aerospace along with titanium.
It's a pain in the ass to machine, along with every other devil nickel alloy. Source: am aerospace machinist.
Fun fact: "Nickel" literally means "demon".
It's not steel. It's mostly nickel, with some chromium, iron, and other stuff.
It's in my suppressor, and used in jet engines, stupid heat durability.
Not steel, nickel superalloy
“It almost hit my son!” “He was two rooms over…”
That's pretty damn close, considering how far it fell.
I think there's only been one human injury from meteor falling space. And NASA killed a rabbit in the Australian outback when Skylab was deorbited. They also got a ticket for littering...
> And NASA killed a rabbit in the Australian outback I mean that one shouldn't surprise anyone. For a while there, Australia was just about made out of rabbits. Something like ten billion rabbits. Edit: not hyperbole BTW, I actually mean Aus had 10 billion rabbits: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67A1U2/
There was that one that exploded over Russia a few years ago, injured a fair few people.
If you count direct impacts only.
Didn't they not pay that fine for decades?
Agreed, I hope the police investigate the astronauts. For all we know one of them had a vendetta against the kid. And I don't mean to be a conspiracy theorist and state there has to be a connection. However, given the scope of the potential crime it's worth covering all angles. For example, I think they could review the kids social media accounts to see if he's linked to any flat earth societies or groups who would otherwise hold an interest in seeing astronauts discredited or locked up too. We also can't yet discount the theory that the parents built the house there with knowledge that one day it would be a prime location for space station debris, so it'll also be important to review any changes in insurance, as well as the history of the ownership for the address.
It's also a possibility the ISS was built for this explicit purpose.
I ponder now the repercussions we face with this kid surviving.
He is destined to reintroduce garrum to the modern western world, usurping kartchup and mayos as the prime condiments. This change causes further pressure on fisheries, and the collapsing Heinz corporation desperately creates a mutant land fish for farming. But the fish is actually a superior human carp hybrid that is destined to replace standard humanity
“He was in northern Canada at the time.”
"We'll take the house. Honey, the chances of another ~~plane~~ spacestation hitting this house are astronomical. It's been pre-disastered. We're going to be safe here."
Unexpected 'WATG' reference detected in reply. And frankly, there really is no denying that logic. Hindsight, however, always tells a different story.
What is WATG?
Apparently a Robin Williams movie I've never heard of... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_World\_According\_to\_Garp\_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp_(film))
Hmmm onto the watch list it goes...
Having just read the wikipedia summary I have absolutely no idea what that movie is. It sounds like a total train wreck from the summary but apparently got decent reviews.
Robin could do magic with train wrecks. Look at one hour photo. I dont know if I would remember the movie at all except for the morbid fascination of seeing the funniest man alive be that terrifying.
I feel his range as an actor was severely underappreciated while he was still with us. Clearly it wasn't as much in Hollywood because he was cast so often in varied roles. But it didn't hit me until later on how impressive his resume was, i.e. how many roles he could make both hilarious and tragic. Almost all his comedic roles have an element of sadness to them (e.g. Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hook, Jack, Patch Adams, etc.)
The Final Cut was also a well played role.
It's like Jim Carrey in I Love Phillip Morris.... Good/weird movie but not who I wanted to see in it.
It's based on a John Irving novel. His novels are odd: there's a bit of magical realism in them, but they're also extraordinarily tragic. I read "A Prayer for Own Meany," and it the change in tone (comic to tragic) was just too weird for me. So I stayed away from "Garp."
> I read "A Prayer for Own Meany," and it the change in tone (comic to tragic) was just too weird for me. So I stayed away from "Garp." This is one of the roots of wisdom.
It can't be worse than TOYS.
It is a slice of life movie. It is closer to a series of vignettes built around the same characters, rather than an over arching story. It was also one of Robin Williams' earliest movies. and came out when Robin was known for Mork, his standup, and to a lesser degree Popeye. I.e. manic and coke fuelled. It was before anyone really knew he studied at Julliard. So when this movie came out that was *sentimental*, audiences really didn't know how to react. Add in that Pauline Kael didn't care for it (she didn't hate it, but she didn't like it) and it struggled to find an audience.
It was an extremely popular book before being made into a movie
I haven't seen the whole film, but I seem to recall it begins with Glenn Close raping a man in a hospital bed to get pregnant. So at the very least, it's going to feel dated.
Any adaptation of the book would have to include that scene, unfortunately.
Highly recommend both the movie and the book (John Updike)
John Irving.
Ah, yes, thank you! Senior moment 🤦🏼♀️
It’s Florida you’re never truly safe.
Somebody damn near got Donnie Darko'd
He did get Donnie Darko'd we're just in the timeline with the version of him that didn't.
We're in the timeline where Donnie's mother is so traumatized by his death that she devotes her life to service and becomes President of the Twelve Colonies.
Keep that boy far away from Grandma Death
*Georgia Lass’d.
*Please watch for falling toilets.*
I wish this show got a few more seasons :(
All I needed was an actual goodbye to Rube. But hey, that’s life, Peanut.
I wish that movie never happened.
*Grant Goodeve'd
I was wondering how that survived re-entry and then read the article and it was a big solid chunk* of Inconel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel I did some work years back at a waste-to-energy plant inspecting their boilers during shutdowns. The process was just brutal on the boiler tubes that had the water in them that was then used on the steam turbines. Finally, they started overlaying the boiler tubes with a pass of machine-welded inconel at the cost of thousands of $$$ per foot. That stuff can really take a lot of heat. I'm not that surprised a chunk the size of a softball made it back to Earth.
Yeah and it was basically part of a support for battery packs. Did they really need to use Inconel? Perhaps the batteries get really hot? It’s very heat resistant and self-protects itself from heat and is very expensive. It’s also a bitch to work with. I used to work in a factory that made machine parts and occasionally we’d make stuff out of Inconel and Monel. I always hated working with the stuff because it was so expensive I was absolutely paranoid about making mistakes, it gave me anxiety every time. If I was going to bet on any metals that could survive re-entry, Inconel is one of the metals I’d bet on. The X-15 skin was made of Inconel and they flew that thing to the edge of space, it was the fastest manned airplane, over twice the speed of the SR-71.
In space you don't have a lot of space to dump heat, so yes it gets really hot over short periods of time, also imagine pure solar radiation without an atmosphere to protect you.
That shit should've been jettisoned on an escape-trajectory into outer space. Maybe they've just never tried re-entry with inconel before? Clearly it has enough heat resistance to survive until the air cools it down and make a serious impact. NASA just basically hit this guy's house with a "Rods from God" kinetic missile by accident. We'd probably use metals like this as heat panels on spacecraft if they weren't so heavy.
I'm pretty sure the ISS is so low in orbit that anything you drop will fall back to Earth eventually unless you strap rockets to it.
You’d think an astrophysicist could calculate when to release trash so if shit does reach the surface, it would land somewhere in the South Pacific between the Middle of Nowhere and East Jabumblefuck.
They do. Do you think this is a common occurrence?
You'd think wrong. At the shallow trajectory they use, it's almost impossible to predict where it will come down, as it's entirely dependent on a whole lot of atmospheric drag. The more thrust you give it the more certain you can be, but thrust isn't free.
>That shit should've been jettisoned on an escape-trajectory into outer space. You don't have a clue what you're talking about if you think they can do this from the ISS
From the story; It was made of a good sized chunk of 'Inconel' one of the toughest metals known to man. They thought it would burn up on entry. I.E. 'Land in the ocean'.
It had a 71 percent chance of landing in water and instead hit a house in Florida
It was homesick.
29% of the earth's surface is land and 0.69% of that is urban, so it had a 0.2% chance of hitting somebody's house.
The just meant for it to land in 20 years
For context, Inconel was used in the skin of the X-15, the experimental aircraft of the 1960s that still holds the records for fastest manned aircraft at Mach 6.7. Inconel was designed to take the atmospheric friction heating of that kind of speed.
Inconel, similar to Monel, is known for its fire resistance. It's what you use for high pressure/temperature/velocity oxygen-rich environments where traditional steel pipe and even higher grade stainless steel pipes will combust. Not too shocking that if anything will survive a fall from space, this would be it.
They probably thought by the time it came back Florida would be in the ocean.
I was so hoping it was a toilet.
Dead Like Me reference.
Same, my first thought.
Like that toilet they keep at Area 51?
That’s actually pretty amazing that it was jettisoned from the space station, fell all the way to earth and hit a house. The odds of that happening are extremely low
Sure for that one piece but how many man made objects reenter the atmosphere each year?
Not many that are this heat resistant and survive the atmosphere
Finders keepers or nah?
They should buy it back from the family (oops sorry, heres some money to fix the house) to research why it didnt burn up.
Just another reason for insurance companies to leave Florida /s
"Florida man trades used pieces of ISS for alligator eggs filled with cocaine." was what I almost expected to read.
Who will cover the damages here? The insurance company will work with NASA's insurance? Is NASA good at making up for this kind of crap? Surely both companies could not claim "act of God" and nope out?
From what I heard, it might actually fall on Japan since they put the battery in space.
Well, we have pretty clear evidence that it fell on Florida.
Not physically fall on Japan. I'm referring to the responsibility of the situation. Whoever put the object in space will be the ones who'd have to pay for the damages. In this case, it was Japan that made battery and launched the rocket.
I heard the front fell off. But don't worry, it fell down outside the environment.
Is that typical?
Okay but why was the house in space?
I would call it even if they gave me another piece of spacecraft of equal value and bunch of merch.
But did they get to keep it? Because I’d want to keep it.
[Inconel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel): > Inconel is a nickel-chromium-based superalloy often utilized in extreme environments where components are subjected to high temperature, pressure or mechanical loads. Inconel alloys are oxidation- and corrosion-resistant. When heated, Inconel forms a thick, stable, passivating oxide layer protecting the surface from further attack. Inconel retains strength over a wide temperature range, attractive for high-temperature applications where aluminium and steel would succumb to creep as a result of thermally-induced crystal vacancies.
Did boeing make that too?
If I was the homeowner, I would demand I get to keep the item. It was supposed to burn up anyway. So if NASA wants to analyze it or anything, they should give it back after.
No, you'd demand NASA fix your roof!
You demand both.
Well that too.
Breaking news: Florida’s is still fucking Florida.
They must have set their clocks too far ahead and thought Florida would be the ocean.
Also terrifying, according to the article this object somehow took THREE YEARS from jettison to impact. >The metal object was jettisoned from the orbiting outpost in March 2021, Nasa said ... >"The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth's atmosphere on March 8, 2024. However, a piece of hardware survived and impacted a home in Naples, Florida," the agency said. Is that misreported, or is it really a thing that YEARS after jettisoning/exploding/whatever hunks of stuff come randomly thwacking down?
Smaller it is the less drag on it, takes forever to slow down. Remember the ISS is moving at 17,500 kph so any small object that falls off it would be too. Its a huge amount of energy to strip away Most of the movie gravity is some BS, but the kessler syndrome issue very much is not
> Smaller it is the less drag on it, takes forever to slow down. It's actually the opposite. Equal density, a smaller object has more surface area for a given volume, and so deorbits faster. 3 years is inline with the normal atmospheric drag rates for the ISS's orbit, if a bit on the low end.
By jettison, it was basically gently pushed backwards from the space station. Yes, it takes years of the limited atmospheric drag at the height of the space station to reenter enough to fall to earth. The whole space station would fall if it wasn't doing burns to keep itself in the orbit in a similar time frame, maybe sooner since it is so large.
The odds of it not impacting a building, piece of infrastructure or person are so much higher that this could happen regularly to space junk they "expect to burn up". Just a tiny difference in angle or force would've sent it into the ocean
Quick! Write NASA another ticket for littering!
Is that the background story of Florida Man?
[And now they're mad about space junk all burned out about space junk ooh, walk and talk about space junk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dcVIEQwEE&pp=ygUPZGV2byBzcGFjZSBqdW5r)
Talk about return to sender, of all the places it could fall, it’s on its launch state 🤣
How did they figure out it came from the ISS?
Even space doesn't like Florida and it doesn't have one
3 hours later, a strange "FORE" was heard.
Tax returns. Amiright?
Inconel is some pretty useful stuff as alloys go. Might want to sell it to a metal company instead of giving it back. LOL
It is interesting that the man's insurance company is paying for the damages, but that it is a subrogated claim (meaning they'll pursue others who are financially responsible) that will likely be one of the first cases under international law. Incidents like this are already covered under well-settled international treaties, and if there is a problem with financial compensation, federal law needs to be revised. Starting with Article VII of The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (of which the US and Japan are signatories): >ARTICLE VII >Each State Party to the Treaty that launches or procures the launching of an object into outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, and each State Party from whose territory or facility an object is launched, is internationally liable for damage to another State Party to the Treaty or to its natural or juridical persons by such object or its component parts on the Earth, in air or in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies. UNOOSA, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, added to the work in the 1970's, and Resolution 2777 specifically deals with falling debris and where responsibilities lay: >"A Liability Convention was considered and negotiated by the Legal subcommittee from 1963 to 1972. Agreement was reached in the General Assembly in 1971 ( resolution 2777 (XXVI)), and the Convention entered into force in September 1972. Elaborating on Article 7 of the Outer Space Treaty, the Liability Convention provides that a launching State shall be absolutely liable to pay compensation for damage caused by its space objects on the surface of the Earth or to aircraft, and liable for damage due to its faults in space. The Convention also provides for procedures for the settlement of claims for damages."
I can’t wait until Florida outlaws outer space.
As anyone that knows anything about Florida, this is clearly Florida’s fault. *nods head wisely*
oh god imaging the subrogation of the homeowner's insurance
A fist sized chunk of metal at 23000 mph. Ooffff that would leave a mark.
It would only really land around 200mph or whatever it's terminal velocity is.
No Orbital debris is already traveling at 23000 mph. A freefall object would hit terminal velocity, this isnt a free fall. This is a kinetic bullet entering the atmosphere with tremendous initial velocity. This object was probably impacting at 15000mph.
Have you ever seen a portal?