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Title: Heads Up!
Post by: Ben on October 16, 2017, 12:52:40 PM
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
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: AJ Dual on October 16, 2017, 03:13:52 PM
GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: just Warren on October 16, 2017, 03:27:44 PM
And 30 minutes later you'll want to de-orbit another satellite.
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on October 16, 2017, 03:40:58 PM
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 16, 2017, 03:13:52 PM
GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!



 :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: Fly320s on October 16, 2017, 04:59:12 PM
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 16, 2017, 03:13:52 PM
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.

Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: lee n. field on October 16, 2017, 05:53:33 PM
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 16, 2017, 03:13:52 PM
GROUND CONTROR TO MAJOR TONG!
ORBITAR DECAY, SUM-TING-WONG.
WHEN IS TIME, HIT RE-ENTRY GONG!


 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

You tellible.
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: 230RN on October 18, 2017, 02:11:23 PM
I just hope it don't come down anywhere near the Norks.
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: K Frame on October 19, 2017, 07:24:28 AM
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 16, 2017, 03:13:52 PM
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...
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: HeroHog on October 19, 2017, 10:31:13 AM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 19, 2017, 07:24:28 AM
Wow... just wow.

Pardon me while I fall off my desk chair laughing...

IK,R?  :rofl:
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: K Frame on October 19, 2017, 11:20:30 AM
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...
Title: Re: Heads Up!
Post by: Scout26 on October 19, 2017, 03:31:55 PM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 19, 2017, 11:20:30 AM
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...