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"UARS!" Will Probably Be the Last Thing You Say Before Satellite UARS Crashes on You
Tomorrow, the watch begins for incoming 13,000-pound satellite UARS. Who would have thought the future would be so much fun? A world-wide alert for plunging space trash! Oh right, almost every science fiction author. "If you do come across what you suspect is a satellite piece, NASA doesn't want you to pick it up. The space agency says there are no toxic chemicals present, but there could be sharp edges." Yeah, NASA doesn't want you to SUE THEM for cutting your finger on their pointy space trash (after it lands on your house). In other news, UARS has done a lot of science up there in the last twenty years! Thanks UARS. Please don't kill me.
I'm pretty sure my last word will be "Rosebud".
I may check out with "KHAAAAAAAAAAN!"
Sure, we're all laughing at the spectacle. But seriously, would there be a better way to go than getting crushed by a scientific-research satellite at the end of its long, productive life? I say no.
@skahammer As a terrestrial researcher not near the end of my productive life, I say that I have always found irony the laziest of space-tropes.
@Krugmanic Depressive: That's fine, I suppose. But if instead you wind up being ushered into the hereafter by the grille of a Honda Odyssey minivan, just remember that we had this exchange.