[swen] chinese space station to crash to earth in 2017

[weaver123]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/chinas-tiangong-1-space-station-out-of-control-crash-to-earth

http://www.zdnet.com/article/china-loses-control-of-space-station-now-hurtling-towards-earth/

I wonder what could go wrong?

[Ad Bot]

[Gojira]

it's mostly gonna burn up. the only real problem is they don't know where debris might land.

[Lego lad]

what a let down

[Frequency]

I foresee 2017 being worse than 2016

darn, and I had an irrational belief that 17 was my lucky number

[Nonnel]

good.

[ThatRandomGuy]

The atmosphere should take care of most of it, it's just the little bits that escaped from burning we have to worry about. Odds are most debris will land in the ocean

[SeventhSandwich]

This space station weighs 8,500kg. In comparison, the Russian Mir space station weighed ~130,000kg and was also decommissioned by crashing it into the Earth. Debris basically all burned up and there was no real worry of accidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir#Debris

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

How else would they decommission it, anyway?

[LeisureSuit912]

How else would they decommission it, anyway?

With lasers.

[SeventhSandwich]

With lasers.

real talk though, if they broke it up in space, it would create a ton of space debris.

worst case scenario, it would create a lot more space debris.

[Yosher]

ALL OF YOU UNGRATEFUL HUMANS WHO TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME

[Maxwell.]

I foresee 2017 being worse than 2016

darn, and I had an irrational belief that 17 was my lucky number

wtf

because of a space station breaking up?

[Frequency]

wtf

because of a space station breaking up?

Nah several reasons, but the station breaking up made me think of it.