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By 2035, falling satellites will kill or injure someone every two years, says FAA
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Injure? Injure?? If someone gets nothing but a boo boo from a falling fucking satellite then they need to go buy a lottery ticket right away.
It can hit in someone's vicinity causing them injury. It would rarely be a direct strike.
One can get hurt without a direct hit. E.g. when a window bursts from a shockwave and hurts people inside a building.
Satellites will have thoroughly fragmented by the time they reach the ground, you'd be hit by a piece of a satellite.
Assuming the study being referenced wasn't actually badly flawed, which it appears to be.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1954-extraterrestrial-bruiser-shocked-alabama-woman-180973646/
I recommend you never buy a lottery ticket - because clearly you don't understand how luck works.
If a satellite were to smash through the roof of my office and land harmlessly on the floor, I reckon I'd be quite startled and might bump my knee on the bottom of the desk...
There's definitely a risk of injury, and you're far more likely to be injured than killed.
I'd probably also have to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars to repair my home, since I don't think insurance covers falling satellites and I'm certainly not going to try and sue a company on the other side of the world when they probably didn't do anything against the law anyway. Bruised knee would be the least of my problems.
Nah, if a satellite crashes through my roof, I'm definitely gonna be a first time lottery ticket buyer that day.
Why? Wouldn't you have spent all your luck for that day?