Scientists warn out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards Earth

[tawadi]

Source: dailymail.co.uk

Scientists warn out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards Earth

By Allan Hall

Last updated at 4:17 PM on 10th October 2011

Earth has been told to brace for a possible satellite collision as an orbiting telescope weighing nearly three tons has spun out of control and is plummeting homewards.

ROSAT, a German X-ray telescope built with British and American technology, has been orbiting the Earth since 1990 and has provided invaluable data on stars. But they lost contact with it in 1999.

It is now predicted to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at the end of this month.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2047382/ROSAT-satellite-Out-control-3-ton-telescope-hurtling-Earth-high-speed.html

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The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

[Odin2005]

1. Typical Daily Fail sensationalism.

[RedEarth]

18. +1

[Arugula Latte]

2. Can someone please put a giant magnet on top of Dick Cheney's house?

[greiner3]

4. Great;

However, he'd just shoot it.

[formercia]

6. I can see Dick out there with his Skeet Shotgun

Oh, the Humanity!!

[Roy Rolling]

14. bad news for Cantor

..."Deadeye Dick" just invited Cantor to a shoot-along

[Ikonoklast]

5. OK, that was funny.

But Cheney probably used his Gravity Ray to knock it out of orbit to begin with, the Krauts were watching him with it.

[Arugula Latte]

28. And his sharks with frickin' laser beams will disintegrate it before it hits his house.

So there's that glitch, too.

[cstanleytech]

13. Waste of time imo seeing as he and Bush already did the deed as it were.

Now if your plan involved a time machine to take out their grandparents before their parents were born it might have legs.

[thereismore]

22. Maybe the magnetic field generated by his "heart" will be enough. nt

[Myrina]

23. +10

TYVM :rofl:

[caledesi]

3. Be afraid. Be very afraid! N/T

[iandhr]

7. Pretty soon this will happen

Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth


WASHINGTON—In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and American Preservation Act, which was signed into law last year to destroy the immense asteroid currently hurtling toward Earth.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/republicans-vote-to-repeal-obamabacked-bill-that-w,19025/

[jtuck004]

8. Man, some days it's like you're the 3 pin in a giant game of bowling. /nt

[Voice for Peace]

9. maybe it will land on Wall Street.

just beyond the occupation.

[They_Live]

10. uh, can't we use that Star Wars

missile defense program that we've been shelling out for?

[Journeyman]

11. Good question. . .

[cstanleytech]

12. It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

[brooklynite]

15. If it's not due for three weeks, it's not hurtling...

Ambling, perhaps.

[Vattel]

17. Lol. "Giant telescope ambling its way to earth" doesn't make as good a headline

[christx30]

19. I like mine better:

"Giant telescope moseying it's way to Earth." with the sub head "Might stop for smokes along the way."

[tclambert]

16. Brace for impact! Duck and cover! Stop, drop, and roll!

Wait, how big is the Earth again? More than FIVE MILES from one end to the other? Well, that's a lot of room. The satellite will probably miss me. I'm going shopping. Kthxbai.

[bongbong]

20. It's in the Bible!

"And in the Last Days, assorted debris that was put into the heavens by the Weapons Industrial Complex, mostly consisting of secret spying apparatus, will rain upon the earth. As the small atomic fires within* turn into dust, they shall render all the peoples of the earth into very good copies of bloodstained Hallows Eve costumes. Amen."

* (the not-so-secret way with which most of the spying apparatus was powered)

[Javaman]

21. Personally, I welcome our warn out-of-control three ton telescope overlords. nt

[peacetalksforall]

24. What is the weight difference between the asteroid that might crash and this

satellite?

[peacetalksforall]

25. Given the record, a person has to ask if the satellite is a third Pearl Harbor which will be guided

down.

[PuffedMica]

26. Maybe it will land on the home office of the DailyMail

[awoke_in_2003]

27. This is what we get for bombing the moon...

:) (don't know if you remember that one). Seriously, though "Earth has been told to brace for a possible satellite collision"? Somehow, I think Earth will survive. Maybe a few of its inhabitants won't, but the odds are low on that one, too.

[waddirum]

29. "Earth Has Been Told..."

Why the passive voice. Who told earth? Jupiter?

[Vidar]

30. Now where did I put that Devo album?