Quote Originally Posted by McLeodGanja
Thanks, but I was just going along the lines that if it does smack someone in the ass, it's most likely going to be one of the other 6 or 7 billion people on the earth, not to mention the animals. Nice post about that but I prefer to just gaze at the more distant and still white dots in the sky. I have seen those things and wondered why they were moving many times. I always used to think it was the space shuttle.

I was chewing this monkey at work and I was thinking several things.

Supposing you blow the shit out of a 20 ton satellite. How can they be sure that they won't bite off 10 and a half tons of the fuckle on an anti-zenith spiral?

I'm assuming that things from space that enter the atmosphere and burn out do so on the basis that they have the time to, since they are not flying downwards at a thousands mile an hour, but instead surfing the parallel fire of air friction.

I'm sure though that the cascade doomsday scenario is beyond Star Trek, it's a pretty big planet we are on and I think you'd need a lot more shit up there to create a problem.
I'm not sure whether satelites burn up more on shallow trajectories or step ones. Shaloow provides more time, but steep more heat.

As for the Start Trek doomsday space junk chain reaction cascade, it is somethihg I've been hearing about for a long time. Here's an article from about a year ago when the Chinese blew up their satelite and possibly endagered other satelites with the debris: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/sc...ce/06orbi.html