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Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So they saved the cost of paying Japan to launch one more HTV mission, and all it's going to cost is whatever this guy receives? It just seems out of character for NASA to leave things to chance like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I assume JAXA ordered a fixed number of HTVs, those were built and then the construction line was closed down, probably before 2018. Just ordering another one was probably not possible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That guy handled that muuuuch calmer than I would have

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same, I would be fuckin ecstatic if a piece of the ISS crashed into my house

I would demand a full guided tour of Kennedy Space Center for me and my family as compensation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The rod of god?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hahah More like the ol Joe Dirt drop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Hurt de Dirt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

His son almost got Donnie Darko'd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure this was a Metalocalypse episode