Originally Posted by wyndhy

a US spy satellite (about the size of a bus and travelling at 29,000 mph and costin 4 billion-trillion dollars) is losing orbit. do we know when it'll hit? late feb, early march. do we know where it'll hit? not yet. of course since roughly 3/4 of our great blue marble is water, there's a 1 in 4 chance it'll hit land. do we know if it's got nuclear power or other hazardous materials? sorry, that's classified. could hostile forces get sensitive info? maybe. why haven't we heard much about it? well, there was a bit of a report but then a lame duck SOTU address came upon the scene and guiliani, et al dropped out of the race so there were other, more important things to talk about.

but have no fear! "appropriate government sources are monitoring the situation" so sayeth the national security counsel. ohhhhmmm.

phew. for a second there, i was worried.


more indepth info than my rather dramatic recap can be found here http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/e-305.htm