By 2035, falling satellites will kill or injure someone every two years, says FAA
Discover the shocking findings from the FAA report on falling satellites. Learn about the potential risks, causes, and proposed solutions.
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Injure? Injure?? If someone gets nothing but a boo boo from a falling fucking satellite then they need to go buy a lottery ticket right away.
It can hit in someone's vicinity causing them injury. It would rarely be a direct strike.
Satellites will have thoroughly fragmented by the time they reach the ground, you'd be hit by a piece of a satellite.
Assuming the study being referenced wasn't actually badly flawed, which it appears to be.
One can get hurt without a direct hit. E.g. when a window bursts from a shockwave and hurts people inside a building.
I recommend you never buy a lottery ticket - because clearly you don't understand how luck works.
If a satellite were to smash through the roof of my office and land harmlessly on the floor, I reckon I'd be quite startled and might bump my knee on the bottom of the desk...
There's definitely a risk of injury, and you're far more likely to be injured than killed.
I'd probably also have to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars to repair my home, since I don't think insurance covers falling satellites and I'm certainly not going to try and sue a company on the other side of the world when they probably didn't do anything against the law anyway. Bruised knee would be the least of my problems.
The lottery chances are independent of the other event I believe so why not go for it
With my luck, I'd buy the winning lottery ticket and then get hit by a satellite the following day.
Nah, if a satellite crashes through my roof, I'm definitely gonna be a first time lottery ticket buyer that day.
Why? Wouldn't you have spent all your luck for that day?