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    Duck and Cover day

    Now this will have been done before:-

    BBC News - Who, What, Why: Can you dodge a falling satellite?

    "The debris will include three batteries, four wheel rims and four fuel tanks, and their speed when they hit the ground or the ocean will vary. "

    It's a satellite, why does it have wheels?

    #2
    Originally posted by RSoles View Post
    Now this will have been done before:-

    BBC News - Who, What, Why: Can you dodge a falling satellite?

    "The debris will include three batteries, four wheel rims and four fuel tanks, and their speed when they hit the ground or the ocean will vary. "

    It's a satellite, why does it have wheels?
    In case aliens capture it and need to wheel it around their spaceship.

    Duh.
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #3
      Originally posted by RSoles View Post
      Now this will have been done before:-

      BBC News - Who, What, Why: Can you dodge a falling satellite?

      "The debris will include three batteries, four wheel rims and four fuel tanks, and their speed when they hit the ground or the ocean will vary. "

      It's a satellite, why does it have wheels?
      Was it put up there by space gypsies? It'd fit in nicely at Dale Farm.

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        #4
        Originally posted by RSoles View Post
        It's a satellite, why does it have wheels?
        At risk of being berated for a sensible answer in general...

        Most likely gyroscope wheels which would have been used to control the satellite's attitude
        It's about time I changed this sig...

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          #5
          I was more interested in the gold coated mylar reflective sheets. You can have the rims.

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            #6
            Originally posted by MrRobin View Post
            At risk of being berated for a sensible answer in general...

            Most likely gyroscope wheels which would have been used to control the satellite's attitude
            How do I get hold of these here gyroscope wheels? My attitude stinks

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              #7
              What surprises me most is that NASA still can't accurately say where it will fall - you'd think long notice and observation plus fast super computers would allow them to do that.

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                #8
                Ah but didn't they say ' Not over the continental USA'?

                ... so that's ok then....

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post
                  .. It'd fit in nicely at Dale Farm.
                  crash land

                  (The space station would have been even better, as long as it stayed in one piece on reentry.)
                  Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by AtW View Post
                    What surprises me most is that NASA still can't accurately say where it will fall - you'd think long notice and observation plus fast super computers would allow them to do that.
                    It's the atmosphere that complicates things and no supercomputer can work out what that's doing

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