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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on October 16, 2017, 12:52:40 PM
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The Chinese Tiangong-1 space station is due to de-orbit in the next couple of months.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/10/16/chinese-runaway-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-months-expert-warns.html
Sounds like re-entry will be somewhat Skylab-like, for those old enough to remember the Skylab brouhaha. While probability would have had Skylab hit the vast ocean, it ended up spreading itself over part of Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
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GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!
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And 30 minutes later you'll want to de-orbit another satellite.
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GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!
Check insurance and may odds be with you.
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GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
You tellible.
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I just hope it don't come down anywhere near the Norks.
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GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!
Wow... just wow.
Pardon me while I fall off my desk chair laughing...
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Wow... just wow.
Pardon me while I fall off my desk chair laughing...
IK,R? :rofl:
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Wasn't Sum-Ting Wong the "name" that one of the major news outlets used when an Asian based plane went down a couple of years ago? They were deeked completely, and they caught HUGE hell for it?
Yes!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377570/KTVU-staff-members-fired-Asiana-racist-gaffe-including-producer-tweeted-moments-later-oh-s-.html
Holy crap, I didn't realize that people lost their jobs over it...
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Wasn't Sum-Ting Wong the "name" that one of the major news outlets used when an Asian based plane went down a couple of years ago? They were deeked completely, and they caught HUGE hell for it?
Yes!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377570/KTVU-staff-members-fired-Asiana-racist-gaffe-including-producer-tweeted-moments-later-oh-s-.html
Holy crap, I didn't realize that people lost their jobs over it...
Just like in the Ron Burgundy movie, they just read what is on the Tele-Promp-Ter, without even thinking...