The spatula is falling! The spatula is falling!

[wraithfodder]

Wow, who would have thought?

Read this article on space junk floating around the planet at Wired . Here's an excerpt:

1. Spatula
While spreading some goo as a test of heat-shield repair materials, spacewalking astronaut Piers Sellers accidentally lost a spatula he had been using. The mishap took place during the space shuttle Discovery's 2006 STS-121 flight to the International Space Station, on a mission to test new safety techniques after the 2003 Columbia disaster. "That was my favorite spatch," Sellers reportedly said. "Don’t tell the other spatulas."

Whoa... so you could be sitting there in your yard, reading a book, when suddenly, a burning spatula comes down from the heavens, and poof, you're toast! ;)  No wait, that sounds like a sequel to Dead Like Me where the lead got nailed by a space station toilet seat...

Anyway, also read today that there are 18,000 pieces of clutter up there, orbiting the Earth, which was brougt up when that Russian ex-spy satellite clobbered a U.S. Iridium satellite. Guess they're both toast. More space clutter!

A Twitter recommendation: https://twitter.com/ZooBorns - all about newborn critters at zoos. It's nice to see something, well, nice! I mean, look at this little fella.

Comments

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

hehe they actually put out warnings here to 'watch out' hehe

but the warnings are over now hehe

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Just think, Gene Roddenberry's up there too... somewhere !

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

hehe

he's probably looking down and laughing

[k8t85.livejournal.com]

We were THIS close (seconds!) to sounding the emergency alarm b/c we were going to get hit by a piece of a Russian rocket body (launched on Tuesday) today!!!! NORAD called in at 10:30MST and told government officials that impact would occur at approx. 10:46MST. Approx. 110kilometers east of Calgary, AB (where I live).

Thankfully it changed course and landed in the Atlantic Ocean!

Question: What do you do when something like that is going to happen? Duck and cover? Go underground?

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

i'm in saskatchewan .. we got some warnings to that we were suppose to 'look out' lol

first its meteorites now its space debris lol

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Heh, watch out for those falling BSG toasters ;)

[parisindy.livejournal.com]

hehe amen

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Nuke some fettuci alfredo and enjoy yourself! Yeah, I mean, if a chunk of something is coming down, you may never see it or you'll run around like a squirrelon the road and go right in its path ;)

[medievalcamelot.livejournal.com]

My husband just said, "they need to send up a big vacuum. Wait! Space IS a big vacuum!" Then he laughed like ALF.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

hA!