Quote: Although there will only be a 20-minute warning before it strikes, NASA spokespeople have stressed that the risk to human life and property from UARS is small.
The giant satellite is expected to break into more than 100 pieces as it enters the atmosphere, with most of it burning up. Debris is expected to scatter over an area 800 kilometres long, with the biggest chunk weighing about 140 kg.....
The risk to human life will be small? Fuck me as if 140kg landing on my head wouldn't hurt!
WakeOfAshesPosts: 21,665destroyer of motherfuckers
edited September 2011
a 7 ton thing isnt going to land on anyone. Like they said, most will burn up in reentry and there is a small possibility that something the size of a quarter might hit earth and then hit someone. Not that it matters much... a quarter at that speed will have almost the same affect as a large box. Both will kill you. however the quarter might still allow an open casket.
a 7 ton thing isnt going to land on anyone. Like they said, most will burn up in reentry and there is a small possibility that something the size of a quarter might hit earth and then hit someone.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
a 7 ton thing isnt going to land on anyone. Like they said, most will burn up in reentry and there is a small possibility that something the size of a quarter might hit earth and then hit someone. Not that it matters much... a quarter at that speed will have almost the same affect as a large box. Both will kill you. however the quarter might still allow an open casket.
This isn't a frictionless environment. Something the size of a quarter most probably wouldn't be able to reach the speeds your describing. Unless it's actually possible for quarters to reach speeds of 200+ mph now, I don't know their terminal velocities.
a 7 ton thing isnt going to land on anyone. Like they said, most will burn up in reentry and there is a small possibility that something the size of a quarter might hit earth and then hit someone. Not that it matters much... a quarter at that speed will have almost the same affect as a large box. Both will kill you. however the quarter might still allow an open casket.
This isn't a frictionless environment. Something the size of a quarter most probably wouldn't be able to reach the speeds your describing. Unless it's actually possible for quarters to reach speeds of 200+ mph now, I don't know their terminal velocities.
i dont know if it true, but i have heard from multiple sources that if you dropped a penny off the CN Tower in Toronto it would kill anyone it hit on the ground
WakeOfAshesPosts: 21,665destroyer of motherfuckers
a 7 ton thing isnt going to land on anyone. Like they said, most will burn up in reentry and there is a small possibility that something the size of a quarter might hit earth and then hit someone. Not that it matters much... a quarter at that speed will have almost the same affect as a large box. Both will kill you. however the quarter might still allow an open casket.
This isn't a frictionless environment. Something the size of a quarter most probably wouldn't be able to reach the speeds your describing. Unless it's actually possible for quarters to reach speeds of 200+ mph now, I don't know their terminal velocities.
I didn't describe any velocities in my generic comment. You're right in that the limiting factor is the terminal velocity of a object the size of a quarter. I don't know what that is, nor do I have any interest in pulling out a physics books and calculating it out. I'd just think that if I was hit by a quarter traveling s 100 mph, I'd think that would fracture a skull or puncture skin. maybe not.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
a 7 ton thing isnt going to land on anyone. Like they said, most will burn up in reentry and there is a small possibility that something the size of a quarter might hit earth and then hit someone. Not that it matters much... a quarter at that speed will have almost the same affect as a large box. Both will kill you. however the quarter might still allow an open casket.
This isn't a frictionless environment. Something the size of a quarter most probably wouldn't be able to reach the speeds your describing. Unless it's actually possible for quarters to reach speeds of 200+ mph now, I don't know their terminal velocities.
i dont know if it true, but i have heard from multiple sources that if you dropped a penny off the CN Tower in Toronto it would kill anyone it hit on the ground
That would be true if there wasn't friction due to the air, which, unfortunately and uncomedically, exists.
All through HS I wanted to be a planetary scientist. I took all the math, all the science, and when I got to physics my senior year, I realized it wasn't going to work out.
It's on my list of things I will never fully understand with football and stocks.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
I didn't describe any velocities in my generic comment. You're right in that the limiting factor is the terminal velocity of a object the size of a quarter. I don't know what that is, nor do I have any interest in pulling out a physics books and calculating it out. I'd just think that if I was hit by a quarter traveling s 100 mph, I'd think that would fracture a skull or puncture skin. maybe not.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
Answer is around 110 mph, which is surprisingly quick for a quarter.
I dunno, something tells me the dudes at NASA are better at this than I am, so I'll leave this one to them, but I certainly don't want to be hit in the dome with a quarter sized object going that fast.
That reminds me...when I was in junior high, I was sitting at a lunch table with the "cool" kids, and one of them did this thing where they snap their fingers with a coin between them and the coin bounced off the table and hit me square in the forehead. It hurt like a bitch. Since I was at the "cool" table, I was trying to brush it off as funny even though it hit so hard I thought my face was bleeding. I ended up crying. It was one of those situations where mentally you don't react with crying, but your body's reaction is to produce tears.
WakeOfAshesPosts: 21,665destroyer of motherfuckers
lol. okay... so now what happens to the human skull when his with a quarter traveling 110 mph? Are you going to take this one for science too? You stand on the side of the road... I'll pass at 110 mph, and toss out a hand full of quarters.... Whose going to youtube this shit?
That reminds me...when I was in junior high, I was sitting at a lunch table with the "cool" kids, and one of them did this thing where they snap their fingers with a coin between them and the coin bounced off the table and hit me square in the forehead. It hurt like a bitch. Since I was at the "cool" table, I was trying to brush it off as funny even though it hit so hard I thought my face was bleeding. I ended up crying. It was one of those situations where mentally you don't react with crying, but your body's reaction is to produce tears.
thats why i avoiding the cool / popular kids at a young age, eventually going to a high school that all the uncool kids went to. great decision on my part. didn't have to deal with asshole jocks at my vocational high school
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Although there will only be a 20-minute warning before it strikes, NASA spokespeople have stressed that the risk to human life and property from UARS is small.
The giant satellite is expected to break into more than 100 pieces as it enters the atmosphere, with most of it burning up. Debris is expected to scatter over an area 800 kilometres long, with the biggest chunk weighing about 140 kg.....
The risk to human life will be small?
Fuck me as if 140kg landing on my head wouldn't hurt!
I am no physics expert!
All through HS I wanted to be a planetary scientist. I took all the math, all the science, and when I got to physics my senior year, I realized it wasn't going to work out.
It's on my list of things I will never fully understand with football and stocks.
No.
For SCIENCE
I dunno, something tells me the dudes at NASA are better at this than I am, so I'll leave this one to them, but I certainly don't want to be hit in the dome with a quarter sized object going that fast.