China deorbits something into the sea: redditors lose their minds at the irresponsible Chinese communists who don’t care if it kills anybody
NASA drops junk directly onto an American home: redditors want you to know that ackshully the legal framework here is very interesting, NASA might be able to argue they have no culpability in court
Decaying Starlink satellites are also probably depleting the ozone layer again
gosh, this is way too accurate a summary for me to not be mad
I’ve seen people collecting SpaceX junk debris like they’re trophies personally gifted to them by Elon Musk.
tl:dw: a fairly large canister from a nasa satellite plummeted from space into a guys house and almost killed his kid. there are some interesting new research papers about making satellites and even rockets out of tempered wood, could solve this
If a piece of NASA equipment did this then guaranteed SpaceX stuff is going to start falling from the sky and killing people. The future is going to be so cool you guys.
In 1979, the American space station Skylab fell to Western Australia and broke into thousands of debris. Fined for a $400 littering ticket, NASA never bothered to pay them.
Don’t expect much is what I’m saying.
I will also take this opportunity to remind you that the US is the only country who couldn’t get their space station to stay in space. The ISS core module is fundamentally Soviet/Russian, which was supposed to be the Mir 2 until the USSR collapsed.
Is it actually possible to sue NASA, this feels like enough grounds for negligence.
