EPTOn September 24 2011 00:24 wBsKillian wrote:
I'll stay inside, just to be safe ;'D
I'll stay inside, just to be safe ;'D
Might aswell never ever leave your house again then!
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mengsk83
Germany519 Posts
Might aswell never ever leave your house again then! | ||
Whitewing
United States7483 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:46 enemy2010 wrote: Are you sure? I won't. Your risk of dying is drastically higher than that every time you get in a car, so sure, why not? | ||
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mtn
729 Posts
CONSPIRACY !!!! <3 Joke. And on the serious note, People should take pictures when it enters our beloved planet ;p I can bet all my money that It will be the most beautiful thing that we ever saw :p | ||
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enemy2010
Germany1972 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:49 Whitewing wrote: Your risk of dying is drastically higher than that every time you get in a car, so sure, why not? Cause when I drive a car, i have "kind of" control over my life. I can kind of control the situation. When i pull the trigger on the gun, there is no way out. Its "die" or "live". And if an action implies at least 0,000001 % a chance that i might die 100%, i wouldn't do it. | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:46 enemy2010 wrote: Are you sure? I won't. Very sure. Let's say I'm going to live 70 years more, that works out for about 220 000 days. So, I'm losing one onehundred millionth of a day of lifetime on average. That's less than one milisecond. | ||
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Robje
Netherlands1044 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:53 hypercube wrote: Very sure. Let's say I'm going to live 70 years more, that works out for about 220 000 days. So, I'm losing one onehundred millionth of a day of lifetime on average. That's less than one milisecond. But why shoot? You don't have to shoot, there is no reward  | ||
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jdseemoreglass
United States3773 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:53 enemy2010 wrote: Cause when I drive a car, i have "kind of" control over my life. I can kind of control the situation. When i pull the trigger on the gun, there is no way out. Its "die" or "live". And if an action implies at least 0,000001 % a chance that i might die 100%, i wouldn't do it. You have no control at all over the other driver's on the road. Just driving onto a road implies some small chance that that you will 100% die, as opposed to 60% die I guess On September 24 2011 05:55 Robje wrote: But why shoot? You don't have to shoot, there is no reward The reward is feeling like a bad ass for looking death in the face and not flinching  | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:53 enemy2010 wrote: Cause when I drive a car, i have "kind of" control over my life. I can kind of control the situation. When i pull the trigger on the gun, there is no way out. Its "die" or "live". And if an action implies at least 0,000001 % a chance that i might die 100%, i wouldn't do it. You might most of the time. But in a small minority of cases you can't. Hard to say how often, but much more often than the number given in this example. Like thousands of times more often, at least. | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:55 Robje wrote: But why shoot? You don't have to shoot, there is no reward That's a fair question and I probably wouldn't do it if there was no reason. But mostly because I wouldn't want to waste 2 minutes with the whole exercise, not because I was worried I got killed. | ||
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On September 24 2011 05:56 jdseemoreglass wrote: The reward is feeling like a bad ass for looking death in the face and not flinching I'll just imagine I did it a hundred times next time I cross the road, lol. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/YeyvQ.jpg) After all, it would never pose any danger from falling, and would protect the earth in the event of disastrous impacts from space, right? | ||
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
On September 24 2011 00:27 Qlud wrote: Follow current position Here and predicted impact Here Right now its set on mid-africa lol makes you wonder if they planned orbital decay location would be in africa where it doesn't matter and they can still go and try and pick up the debris | ||
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Cain0
United Kingdom608 Posts
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
On September 24 2011 06:58 Cain0 wrote: This thing is going to fly right over my city. Same. Hope it makes a spectacular crash! | ||
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KillerDucky
United States498 Posts
On September 24 2011 06:27 SpoR wrote: lol makes you wonder if they planned orbital decay location would be in africa where it doesn't matter and they can still go and try and pick up the debris They updated the estimated landing spot -- it moved from the middle of Africa to the middle of the *Pacific* ocean. It will land ~5 hours from now -- +/- 3 hours! The prediction site shows blue and yellow lines for the orbital track, and it could land anywhere along the yellow/blue lines. They go around the Earth roughly 4 times. In short, they don't really know where the hell it will land. | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
As of 10:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 85 miles by 90 miles (135 km by 140 km). Re-entry is expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and 12:45 a.m., Sept. 24, Eastern Daylight Time (3:45 a.m. to 4:45 a.m. GMT) http://www.nasa.gov/rss/uars_update.xml | ||
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hp.Shell
United States2527 Posts
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
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Weebem-Na
United States221 Posts
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HyperLink
Canada172 Posts
On September 24 2011 06:58 Cain0 wrote: This thing is going to fly right over my city. Reporting from Vancouver, BC, Canada... So far I'm alive. If I'm dead from falling space debris I will update shortly... | ||
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