China's Space Station May Be Out Of Control

[mrjarrell]

It's certainly uninhabited but, according to some reports it may be out of control and heading for a re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. The Chinese are silent on the matter.

China space station Tiangong-1 could secretly be hurtling towards Earth, astronomers say | News | Lifestyle | The Independent

 

[Kirk Freeman]

We'll never save Matt Damon now.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Hopefully well get the heads up if it passes within viewing range of North America!

 

[jblomenberg16]

Hopefully well get the heads up if it passes within viewing range of North America!

EAT, looks like the normal track is actually right over us.

SATVIEW - TIANGONG 1 - Norad 37820U - Tracking satellites and Spacejunk in Real time

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

Maybe we can shoot it out of the sky? That'd make for one hell of a fireworks show.

We'll never save Matt Damon now.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Rocket science is hard.

 

[Cameramonkey]

We'll never save Matt Damon now.

Good!

http://www.people.com/article/matt-damon-speaks-out-guns-more-sensible

 

[KG1]

I hope that Chinese hurtling hunk of scrap lands on Matt Damon.

 

[cbhausen]

One thing we know for sure. Communist regimes never tell the truth.

 

[SEIndSAM]

I blame MBills.....

 

[BogWalker]

"Made in China"

 

[Woobie]

I hope that Chinese hurtling hunk of scrap lands on Matt Damon.

No, I need him to make more Bourne movies.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Looks like the hackers grabbed the wrong folder when they penetrated the NASA archives. It was probably a millenial who was never taught world history.

"hey, I found a folder called "spacelab". It looks like a space station, so these must be the plans to the US space station."

 

[TheHive]

Hopefully well get the heads up if it passes within viewing range of North America!

EAT, looks like the normal track is actually right over us.

SATVIEW - TIANGONG 1 - Norad 37820U - Tracking satellites and Spacejunk in Real time

Sat view is very cool***Thanks for the link!

 

[Speedybruin4]

I blame MBills.....

If Mbills was mod this wouldn't happen. I bet some kind of rice would fix it.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

If Mbills was mod this wouldn't happen. I bet some kind of rice would fix it.

That was kinda my take on it. I bet all the rice on the the station got coiled in zero g. Recipe for disaster.

 

[PaulF]

Now we need Bruce Willis to reluctantly come out of retirement to lead a hand-picked team of [strike]losers[/strike] "specialists" with no prior near-orbit experience to land a customized space shuttle on it and blow it up with a nuke.

and Ben Afflek.

 

[KG1]

No, I need him to make more Bourne movies.

Jason Bourne is dead to me.

 

[Speedybruin4]

Now we need Bruce Willis to reluctantly come out of retirement to lead a hand-picked team of [strike]losers[/strike] "specialists" with no prior near-orbit experience to land a customized space shuttle on it and blow it up with a nuke.

and Ben Afflek.

I may be interested as long as the offer of never paying taxes again still stands.

 

[KLB]

Hopefully well get the heads up if it passes within viewing range of North America!

EAT, looks like the normal track is actually right over us.

SATVIEW - TIANGONG 1 - Norad 37820U - Tracking satellites and Spacejunk in Real time

That could be a bad thing if it really is out of control.