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  • Proud Faroese
    Forum Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 509

    #1

    Who should be hit by the satellite?

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    The bus-sized satellite NASA dubbed the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) will make its way to Earth sooner than originally believed. NASA said, “[T]he 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.”

    UARS launched in 1991 and the satellite was shut down in 2005, NASA said, because its mission had been completed.

    There’s good news and bad news in an article at space.com:

    “NASA expects at least 26 large pieces of the massive satellite to survive the scorching temperatures of re-entry and reach Earth's surface. Titanium pieces and onboard tanks could be among that debris, but the UARS satellite carries no toxic propellant (NASA used up all the fuel in 2005).”

    Here are a few highlights:

    Area for strike potential on Earth is about 500 miles (804 kilometers) long.
    There’s a 1 in 3,200 possibility some of the debris could hit people or structures on the ground, but take comfort because NASA said that’s pretty remote.
    UARS will end up in a region somewhere between the latitudes of northern Canada and southern South America.
    NASA is hoping for a water splashdown because about 75 percent of Planet Earth comprises water.



    I hope that Obama gets hit by it!
    17
    Obama
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    6
    Steve Jobs
    0%
    2
    Lady Gaga
    0%
    4
    Justin Bieber
    0%
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    J.K Rowling
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    Mitt Romney
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    Hillary Clinton
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  • Brother Enoch
    The Godliest Man in Godless Canuckistan
    True Christian™
    • Jun 2008
    • 4392

    #2
    Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

    I vote 'all of the above'.

    The odds of a person somewhere on Earth being hit are 1:3200 and with 6.9 billion people on the planet that means my personal odds are 1: 21,000,000,000,000. Can't take any chances with odds like that so I've got the wife digging a shelter as we speak. Might melt some of the flab off her.

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    • Lost Sheep McUinnean
      Linguistics and Translation Consultant
      True Christian™
      • Nov 2009
      • 2193

      #3
      Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

      Why ias IRELAND not on the poll?
      IRELAND should be on the poll.
      It should be.
      No doubts.
      No hesitation.
      IRELAND should be included.
      In fact IRELAND should just be ALL of the options.
      It's not that big.
      God should just obliterate it and send it to the depths of the sea.

      Just machine gun the survivors.
      (They'll be from Cork. the only bit of Irleand likely to float)

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      • Alphonse Alban
        Apostle to the Samites and Laplander Eskimos.
         
        • Feb 2011
        • 5724

        #4
        Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

        Everybody knows that there are no such things as satellites.

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        • Lost Sheep McUinnean
          Linguistics and Translation Consultant
          True Christian™
          • Nov 2009
          • 2193

          #5
          Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

          Originally posted by Alphonse Alban View Post
          Everybody knows that there are no such things as satellites.



          Yeah, but them weather balloons....IRELAND!

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          • Zechariah Smyth
            Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
            True Christian™
            • Feb 2011
            • 15251

            #6
            Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

            I just hope it hits some of the "scientists" who sent this thing up there in the hopes that they can control the weather. Who are they kidding? GOD CONTROLS THAT!!!

            (Psalms 148:8) "Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word!"



            Yours in Christ,

            Zech
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            • Proud Faroese
              Forum Member
              • Aug 2011
              • 509

              #7
              Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

              Originally posted by Lost Sheep McUinnean View Post
              Why ias IRELAND not on the poll?
              IRELAND should be on the poll.
              It should be.
              No doubts.
              No hesitation.
              IRELAND should be included.
              In fact IRELAND should just be ALL of the options.
              It's not that big.
              God should just obliterate it and send it to the depths of the sea.

              Just machine gun the survivors.
              (They'll be from Cork. the only bit of Irleand likely to float)
              I would include Ireland if it was a person.

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              • Lost Sheep McUinnean
                Linguistics and Translation Consultant
                True Christian™
                • Nov 2009
                • 2193

                #8
                Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                Originally posted by Proud Faroese View Post
                I would include Ireland if it was a person.

                Let's be honest, they all look the same under the freckles so I think you can group them together. Plus the resulting tsunami should reach the Faroes in about 4 hours I think. I mean it's only got a straight line to follow, not as if it had travel AROUND the world or anything!

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                • Didymus Much
                  Unsaved trash, Arrogant Atheist Dick
                  • Jun 2010
                  • 14079

                  #9
                  Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                  I looked at the last entry on the list and momentarily mis-read it as "Hillary Clinton's pantsuits".

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                  • lukasekman
                    True Christian™
                    True Christian™
                    • Mar 2011
                    • 614

                    #10
                    Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                    I pray that it hits Steve Jobs base, and take out some of the masterminds of the cult of posh nerds. Apple spend their money on atheist lawyers to stop competition. They think they know better how to use touch devises than we do. The market will be more free and less gay without Apple.

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                    Apple CEO is gay - Important DFV security considerations
                    Higgs field theory disproved - Universe is a cotton field
                    Viagra forces man to have his penis amputated

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                    • thaliaB
                      Unsaved trash
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 4

                      #11
                      Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                      The satellite has been in what NASA calls a “heavily decaying orbit,” and it estimates that UARS will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere sometime between Sept. 22 and 24. Most of the satellite is expected to break up in the atmosphere and burn up, but as many as 100 separate pieces won’t burn up entirely. Some of the pieces will be as heavy as 300 pounds. UARS satellite pieces have 1 in 3,200 chance of hitting Earth. The only continent that is not within the fall zone is Antarctica. The chance that each individual piece will hit a person is about 1 in 20 trillion. NASA is providing hourly updates on the status of the UARS satellite. Even with that, the best estimate is that NASA will be able to provide two hours’ warning on the UARS re-entry. Solar activity is blamed for the speed of UARS’s fall. The increased solar activity is also blamed for troubles with communications satellites. Though UARS is falling from the sky quickly, it is just one of the estimated 22,000 pieces of “space junk” orbiting the Earth.

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                      • Pastor Ed Lowman
                        Southern Hospitality Exemplified
                        Always kind and loving
                        True Christian™
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 1838

                        #12
                        Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                        This sounds like another space fantasy from those nutty, deluded pedophiles at NA-SATAN.

                        The idea that some big, heavy metal object has been floating around up in the sky since 1991 and now just happens to break into pieces and fall down...who really believes it? LIEberals. Not this preacher.

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                        • Brother Enoch
                          The Godliest Man in Godless Canuckistan
                          True Christian™
                          • Jun 2008
                          • 4392

                          #13
                          Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                          Originally posted by thaliaB View Post
                          The chance that each individual piece will hit a person is about 1 in 20 trillion.
                          I guess I should update my will.

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                          • Liam the ex-drunk
                            Former Mary Hailer who has seen The Light©
                            Forum Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 403

                            #14
                            Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                            Originally posted by Lost Sheep McUinnean View Post
                            Why ias IRELAND not on the poll?
                            IRELAND should be on the poll.
                            It should be.
                            No doubts.
                            No hesitation.
                            IRELAND should be included.
                            In fact IRELAND should just be ALL of the options.
                            It's not that big.
                            God should just obliterate it and send it to the depths of the sea.

                            Just machine gun the survivors.
                            (They'll be from Cork. the only bit of Irleand likely to float)
                            I agree with you 100% brother. Here's why - Redheads. Ireland has a polulation of 100,000 redheads for every 10 'normals'. And we all know that red heads are the devils minions.

                            Drunks - God hates drunks - as proven in Isaiah 28:1 and Galatians 5:21 which are only 2 examples.

                            Laziness - 99.9% or Irish people are lazy - God hates lazy people, which is written Proverbs 13:4 and Proverbs 23:21

                            Papists - Ireland is full of them and Cafflicks are the worst false Christians

                            So, I really do hope that the very high up aeroplane crashes on Ireland and when it does it breaks up into about 4.6 million pieces and sends every ginger, drunk, lazy, papist straight to hell.
                            Matthew 10:34
                            Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

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                            • Dan U. Holier
                              True Christian™
                              True Christian™
                              • Jul 2011
                              • 1180

                              #15
                              Re: Who should be hit by the satellite?

                              Originally posted by thaliaB View Post
                              ...The chance that each individual piece will hit a person is about 1 in 20 trillion. ...
                              Boy, you severely underestimate the power of prayer.

                              Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

                              Mark 11:22-23 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God; For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

                              I pray to God to send forth the wrath of His indignation upon kenyan imposter! Glory be!
                              Ask not what your Lord can do for you. Ask what you can do for your Lord.


                              ... your choice entirely (Matthew 12:30)

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