Not Again ! ! ! N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o ! ! !

DonDiego recently escaped death from above when the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) fell to Earth.

Now another satellite is aiming at poor old DonDiego as its orbit inexorably decays.
The German ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit - a German word translated as "Appalachia is doomed") orbiting x-ray telescope "weighing nearly three tons has spun out of control and is plummeting homewards."
DonDiego finds the phrases "three tons" and "out of control" disquieting when he reads them in the same sentence!



But it gets worse:
"The German Aerospace Center has warned that 30 'individual pieces weighing a total of 1.6 tons may reach the surface of the Earth'.
ROSAT’s heat-resistant mirror in particular may not burn up upon re-entry and falling debris may include razor-sharp shards."
Hmm, . . . "razor-sharp shards" heading earthward at 17,000-miles-an-hour. And DonDiego resides on an exposed ridge with a wooden roof.

DonDiego wishes everyone well, . . . and hopes most LVA posters survive unscathed.

Ref: The Daily Mail

I also wish DonDiego and most of LVA to avoid German doom from the heavens.

Steel umbrellas might be a good invention...

It may have been ROSAT when it was launched, but now it's KYAGB (as in Kiss Your Ass Good Bye).

I'm sure its not the rosat but i just saw the brightest and longest lasting falling star on the way home from the grocery store. I estimate its length of being visible to the eye at about a second and a half.All all ones i've seen have only lasted a froction of a second. It was pretty cool to see,especially because the sky was pretty clear and and pretty dark.

JOHN

If you feel they are out to get you it's simple. Take about twenty steps to the right or left and you should be fine!

Good Luck!
Ric at Joes

you still around, DD??
wear a tin foil hat.. thats always helped me.

I could do 3 tons standing up. Plummeting out of control? Pfft! It's the velocity that scares me.

But what if you were fine, and those twenty steps put you in harm's way?

No whining!!! Take it like a man!!!

Get a first baseman's mitt and try for the grapefruit size pieces.