Space junk (likely from ISS) impacts Florida house

[Marc_G]

Check this out: a piece of debris, possibly battery remains, probably from ISS, punched a hole in a Florida house:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/...pace-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/

 

[Hobie1dog]

"Falling space debris has never killed anyone. According to ESA, the annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion."

 

[MClark]

1 in 100 billion for individual
8 billion people
1 in 12 someone draws the short straw.

When the zillion Starlinks start coming home roofers will be busy.
Cheaper to fix damage than to prevent it from happening?

 

[Blast it Tom!]

"Falling space debris has never killed anyone. According to ESA, the annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion."

That was close enough!

 

[Antares JS]

When the zillion Starlinks start coming home roofers will be busy.

Starlinks are specifically designed to completely disintegrate on reentry.

 

[lakeroadster]

Must have been Taco Tuesday on the ISS last week....

 

[Rob Campbell]

NASA needs to get out the check book.

 

[mjennings]

Definitely not an ideal way to win closest to the pad. Glad no one was hurt!

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Definitely not an ideal way to win closest to the pad. Glad no one was hurt!

Maybe it was returning home to spawn?

 

[Lord Rory Gin]

"Falling space debris has never killed anyone. According to ESA, the annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion."

I'd be more worried about a Boeing falling out of the sky...

 

[Art Upton]

I'd be more worried about a Boeing falling out of the sky...

Blinkin could not fly his out of Paris due to problems with the plane, they had to drive to Belgium

 

[lr64]

Maybe, when they jettison something like that pallet, it should have a very small retro rocket, plus a heat activated stick of dynamite to make smaller pieces once it's re-entering the atmosphere and not a source of orbital space junk. Ok, I'm sure they have something relatively safe that gives more bang per pound than dynamite, but same idea.

 

[brockrwood]

https://qz.com/iss-battery-fragment-hits-florida-home-1851382985

 

[brockrwood]

Check this out: a piece of debris, possibly battery remains, probably from ISS, punched a hole in a Florida house:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/...pace-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/

Shoot. I am always late to the party…

 

[kuririn]

https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/space-junk-likely-from-iss-impacts-florida-house.185613/

 

[teepot]

Falling batteries from space sure beats falling blue ice.

 

[cwbullet]

Merged two threads on same topic.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Falling batteries from space sure beats falling blue ice.

Maybe NASA will start pushing crates of freeze-dried astronaut poop overboard, and some lucky schmuck will get bonked by a flaming space turd.

Oh, look! A shooting star!

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Any crap NASA retires
Will fall on you

Like a bolt out of the blue
Batteries and bags of poo
When you wish upon a star
They land on you​

 

[311stylie]

"Falling space debris has never killed anyone. According to ESA, the annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion."

Hope they bought a lotto ticket that day...

 

[brockrwood]

I'd be more worried about a Boeing falling out of the sky...

Leave poor Boeing alone. Haven’t they been through enough lately?

 

[cwbullet]

Leave poor Boeing alone. Haven’t they been through enough lately?

They have had enough for a few weeks.

 

[Keisling]

Man, I'm never lucky enough to get a free souvenir from space AND a new roof.

 

[techrat]

"Falling space debris has never killed anyone. According to ESA, the annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion."

Unless you're the main character in the TV show "Dead Like Me"

I don't think anyone has ever been killed by a meteorite either, although there has been property damage.
Your chances of being individually killed by something from outer space are pretty small. However, your chances of being killed as part of a mass-extinction event by something from outer space are much much higher. And yet we are doing nothing about it.

 

[CalebJ]

And yet we are doing nothing about it.

What did you have in mind?

 

[techrat]

What did you have in mind?

I recall reading an article saying that there are less paid workers searching for Near Earth Objects than staff your average McDonalds. This is critical infrastructure. And there should be a worldwide effort to have more folks doing this type of work. And it should be funded by the U.N. or there needs to be some worldwide organization, like NATO, that specifically is tasked with dealing with this.

The more we KNOW about what dangers are out there, the more time we have to prepare a response. We've spent trillions of dollars over 50 years preparing for WWIII, can't we spend a few Billion over the next 100 years to make sure we aren't going to be wiped out by an errant chunk of rock?

 

[teepot]

It always worries me when NASA finds an asteroid a week or two before it flies between the Moon and Earth. The DART mission was a step in the right direction.

 

[cwbullet]

 

[OverTheTop]

https://www.9news.com.au/world/nasa...-station/7658f09e-200f-4576-a455-bce35e25fa70

Object was a battery pallet support mount.

 

[Huxter]

Wow, so stainless steel part? Pretty tough stuff!

 

[SolarYellow]

The more we KNOW about what dangers are out there, the more time we have to prepare a response. We've spent trillions of dollars over 50 years preparing for WWIII, can't we spend a few Billion over the next 100 years to make sure we aren't going to be wiped out by an errant chunk of rock?

What exactly would a response entail? It's coming or not. We aren't going to stop it.

I worry more about hardening our grid against a major solar event, which is something we could, in theory, actually do to some extent.