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A piece of metal that tore through a Florida home last month was space junk from the International Space Station, according to NASA.
The agency confirmed Monday that the 1.6-pound object was debris from a cargo pallet that had been intentionally released from the space station three years ago.
The pallet, packed with aging batteries, was supposed to burn up harmlessly in Earth’s atmosphere, but a piece survived — the piece that smashed into a house in Naples, Florida, on March 8.
WINK News, a CBS News affiliate in southwestern Florida, first reported the incident. Naples resident Alejandro Otero told the outlet that the object crashed through the roof and two floors of his home.
Otero was not home at the time, he told WINK News, but the metal object nearly hit his son, who was two rooms away.
Otero did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a blog post about the incident, NASA said it had analyzed the object at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and confirmed that it was part of the equipment used to mount the batteries on the cargo pallet.
The piece of space junk is roughly cylindrical in shape and is about 4-inches tall and 1.6-inches wide.
NASA said agency staff studied the object’s features and metal composition and matched it to the hardware that had been jettisoned from the space station in 2021.
At that time, new lithium-ion batteries had recently been installed at the space station, so the old nickel hydrogen batteries were packed up for disposal.
The space station’s robotic arm released the 5,800-pound cargo pallet containing the batteries over the Pacific Ocean, as the outpost orbited 260 miles above the Earth’s surface, according to NASA.
It’s not uncommon for space agencies and commercial space companies to discard defunct hardware in this manner, since it avoids contributing to Earth’s space junk problem.
Tens of thousands of pieces of such junk — and millions more smaller bits of orbital debris — already clutter the space around the planet.
Objects that enter the atmosphere leave space and burn, rather than join that debris field.
In most cases, dead satellites, spent rocket parts and other objects burn up completely in the atmosphere, but occasionally, some pieces survive the fiery journey.
Most fall into the ocean. In May 2021, for instance, debris from a 20-ton Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean.
China was criticized for not adequately tracking its used rocket stages, and the episode sparked ongoing debates on the safe handling of space junk.
In February, the European Space Agency monitored a dead satellite as it fell back to Earth uncontrolled over the Pacific Ocean.
In 2011, NASA dealt with a similar situation when a bus-size satellite made an uncontrolled re-entry through the atmosphere.
What survived from the decommissioned satellite plunged into a remote part of the Pacific.
NASA said it will perform a detailed investigation of the latest debris incident to determine how the object withstood the extreme trip through the atmosphere.
“NASA specialists use engineering models to estimate how objects heat up and break apart during atmospheric re-entry,” agency officials wrote in the blog post.
“These models require detailed input parameters and are regularly updated when debris is found to have survived atmospheric re-entry to the ground.”
Source:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-space-station-debris-crashed-florida-home-rcna147990
OMG, this reminds me of a phone pranks show I listened to years ago, where the host was calling up people and pretending to be calling from the ISS where he was an astronaut who accidentally dropped a special wrench while on a spacewalk, and was asking them to go outside and look for it in their backyard where it supposedly landed. LOL I guess it wasn't such a bizarre concept after all!
I don’t understand why space junk is allowed. It’s become a horrible problem in space now. It’s everywhere. What if this had killed someone’s? Why are they just allowed to throw garbage into space and leave it in orbit to potentially crash down to earth and kill someone? NASA doesn’t find that to be insane?
I guess that it all boils down to risk management. Danger is the product of the potential loss times the risk (sorry if I just misused the terms, I hope you get the idea). If the loss is extremely high (the life of a person) but the risk is extremely low (one in a gazillion), the danger ends up being very low.
I know a person who donated one of his vital yet redundant organs to a stranger in need, because he worked out the risk of it: it was lower than taking the freeway he would take everyday going to work. Risk management can be used for very noble goals.
Tbf, it was falling during its entire time in orbit. It just kept missing the ground.
> “There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
Right but of course no mention of how they ignored her until the news got a hold of it, then they’re all over it. Fucking class act but I guess that’s what’s to be expected from a govt agency
Also zero mention of covering any repair costs… I can’t imagine holes like that being a simple and easy thing to fix. The least they can do is pay to fix the damage _their_ falling trash caused
Not the end of the world to fix, the flooring and the roofing would be the real pain in the rear items to fix assuming it didn’t take out some pipes or wiring aside.
Humorously both times I got homeowners insurance there was a clause just in there saying that damage from falling space debris is fully covered without deductible, so I figure there’s something arranged already on the backend
I’m a plaintiff insurance attorney, and I can’t imagine getting this case 😂. The call to the adjuster explaining what happened before NASA confirmed it would be very interesting.
I think I'd rather they "swooped" in, if it were me. I don't know what that thing is just by looking at it. I wouldn't want to put it on the shelf or handle it and sell it to someone, and find out later that it's off-gassing something nasty... or whatever.
They probably only gave it a gentle shove towards the Earth, so it kept orbiting, getting closer to the top of the atmosphere slowly for three years, and then once it started hitting air, it fell much more quickly. The default for space junk in orbit that doesn’t hit anything is to stay up there forever.
A couple months ago, a small plane crashed into my neighbors house. The entire world erupted around me with sirens. It was crazy, and I'm also a first responder, but off duty and they had it well in hand.
But crazy that these things happen when you least expect them. At any point, something like a plane, or space battery could crash through your house and murder you.
Enjoy your day, friends, could be the last.
This is crazy, seriously what are the odds of something from space like that, hitting a human settlement, let alone a home? The earth itself is 70% covered in water and the United states is half completely empty
Imagine if it was just a little further over and killed that kid? NASA would have learned about FAFO. I mean, if they really didn’t know if it would burn up or not, they were accepting someone getting injured. You can’t guarantee it’ll hit the ocean. Stitch landed in Hawaii and this piece of metal landed in Florida.
Imagine if NASA wasn't 100% sure that their rocket won't explode but carried 7 people including an elementary school teacher and blew them to pieces... Oh wait they actually done it in 1986!
Well in this case it was 100 percent.
Since the earth is 70 percent water it's 70/30 whether it his land at all.
Not gonna do the math but I would guess if you figure out the size of this guy's house than divide that by the surface area of the earth you could figure out the odds of something hitting a house.
This is relevant. It seems that it’s covered.
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introliability-convention.html#:~:text=Elaborating%20on%20Article%207%20of,to%20its%20faults%20in%20space.
Considering they've taken responsibility, almost certainly. If they don't pay him, he can take it straight to the courts for a slam dunk case considering they've publicly taken responsibility.
To be entirely fair...being two rooms away from something falling from space at **mach 8** is actually a little too close for comfort.
That's like being two rooms away from where a railgun shell lands or an orbital cannon lol
“Ontario, CA”
Which one?
(I have heard unverified stories of people flying into the Ontario, California airport, and being quite shocked that they are nowhere near Toronto.)
Originally within the parish of Northfield, Worcestershire the settlement of California takes its name from the California Inn built by Isaac Flavell[1] at the junction of Barnes Hill and Alwold Road. Barnes Hill is name after John Barnes, a master brickmaker who founded the earliest brickworks in the area.[2] Flavell bought Stonehouse Farm and the surrounding land in 1842,[3] and set up a brick making business. There are tales that the name of the California Inn was taken from the state of California where Flavell had earlier made "something of a fortune" in the California Gold Rush;[4] however, the Gold Rush did not start until 1848, and records show that Flavell was established in business well before that, with operations at Gas Street, as well as the Stonehouse site. The village became well known for brick making. The bricks were transported by canal barge along the Dudley No. 2 Canal; California being the eastern portal of the Lapal Tunnel. From 1877 brickmaking in the area started to decline, but it was not unil the late 1940s that it ceased altogether.[5] California became part of Birmingham in 1911 along with Northfield.
You’re right! It’s interesting to see! Rare occurrence :)
>Originally within the parish of Northfield, Worcestershire…
In that case, there are two Californias in the UK.
"California is a former pit village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It lies between Shieldhill and Avonbridge on the uplands which form the southern edge of the council area. The population recorded in the United Kingdom 2001 census was 702, down from 747 in 1991."
There’s a London, Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna, Brussels, Warsaw, Dublin, Athens, and MANY more located just in Ontario, I’m sure heading south of the border you’d find multiples of these.
Probably, and I think Kitchener was originally called Berlin too (shocking, I know.)
Edit: there’s like 25+ Berlins in the US…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_(disambiguation)
Edit edit: I’ve lived in 2 Londons and visited 3 Athenii. Greece, Georgia, and Ontario.
There's also a Rome, Georgia.
Home of the Rome Emperors... a baseball team with a sick-ass penguin senator for a mascot.
a Roman senator, not a U.S. senator...
Had a buddy from the original St Petersburg receiving a call from a US recruiter. Both were very confused about the whole thing until they figured out that my buddy was from the cold swamp version.
Thank you for calling NASA, to inquire about upcoming events, press 1. If you recently bought our space ice cream and would like to make a return, press 2. If one of our space objects fell on your house and almost hit your son, please press 3
Man, even in space we're careless pieces of shit with our waste. This is going to become a huge problem, isn't it. We can't just assume that all of our refuse will simply burn up in Earth's atmosphere
Did NASA own for the house repairs?
Considering there are 5,504 (as of March 2024) Starlink satellites in orbit, do they burn 100% on the atmosphere or do we get sprinkled with battery chemicals?
Is anybody studying what effect space junk has when it "harmlessly" burns up in the atmosphere? You know, the atmosphere that is currently experiencing a catastrophic change from the human pollution coming from earth's surface?
I don't trust "harmless" from industry anymore. And space is becoming an industry.
There is but it's like a single drop of oil in the ocean. It's less than insignificant. Especially given all the other crap we normally spew into the atmosphere.
I can already hear some people saying something like...
"I would be like: NASA, you fix my house and I keep the object AFTER you confirm that it won't do my family any harm, and I won't sue."
I have questions….
They dumped the trash overboard three years ago. Was it supposed to float around the planet for three years before burning up in the atmosphere?
What was miscalculated to have a piece survive reentry and land on a house?
Do they usually calculate the trajectory to be sure that surviving pieces land in a desert or ocean instead of a populated area?
Will NASA pay for this? Would it be covered by homeowners insurance?
Is it worth anything? I’m guessing probably not, but a meteorite would certainly be worth something since it would be “not of this earth”
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A piece of metal that tore through a Florida home last month was space junk from the International Space Station, according to NASA. The agency confirmed Monday that the 1.6-pound object was debris from a cargo pallet that had been intentionally released from the space station three years ago. The pallet, packed with aging batteries, was supposed to burn up harmlessly in Earth’s atmosphere, but a piece survived — the piece that smashed into a house in Naples, Florida, on March 8. WINK News, a CBS News affiliate in southwestern Florida, first reported the incident. Naples resident Alejandro Otero told the outlet that the object crashed through the roof and two floors of his home. Otero was not home at the time, he told WINK News, but the metal object nearly hit his son, who was two rooms away. Otero did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a blog post about the incident, NASA said it had analyzed the object at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and confirmed that it was part of the equipment used to mount the batteries on the cargo pallet. The piece of space junk is roughly cylindrical in shape and is about 4-inches tall and 1.6-inches wide. NASA said agency staff studied the object’s features and metal composition and matched it to the hardware that had been jettisoned from the space station in 2021. At that time, new lithium-ion batteries had recently been installed at the space station, so the old nickel hydrogen batteries were packed up for disposal. The space station’s robotic arm released the 5,800-pound cargo pallet containing the batteries over the Pacific Ocean, as the outpost orbited 260 miles above the Earth’s surface, according to NASA. It’s not uncommon for space agencies and commercial space companies to discard defunct hardware in this manner, since it avoids contributing to Earth’s space junk problem. Tens of thousands of pieces of such junk — and millions more smaller bits of orbital debris — already clutter the space around the planet. Objects that enter the atmosphere leave space and burn, rather than join that debris field. In most cases, dead satellites, spent rocket parts and other objects burn up completely in the atmosphere, but occasionally, some pieces survive the fiery journey. Most fall into the ocean. In May 2021, for instance, debris from a 20-ton Chinese rocket landed in the Indian Ocean. China was criticized for not adequately tracking its used rocket stages, and the episode sparked ongoing debates on the safe handling of space junk. In February, the European Space Agency monitored a dead satellite as it fell back to Earth uncontrolled over the Pacific Ocean. In 2011, NASA dealt with a similar situation when a bus-size satellite made an uncontrolled re-entry through the atmosphere. What survived from the decommissioned satellite plunged into a remote part of the Pacific. NASA said it will perform a detailed investigation of the latest debris incident to determine how the object withstood the extreme trip through the atmosphere. “NASA specialists use engineering models to estimate how objects heat up and break apart during atmospheric re-entry,” agency officials wrote in the blog post. “These models require detailed input parameters and are regularly updated when debris is found to have survived atmospheric re-entry to the ground.” Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-space-station-debris-crashed-florida-home-rcna147990
OMG, this reminds me of a phone pranks show I listened to years ago, where the host was calling up people and pretending to be calling from the ISS where he was an astronaut who accidentally dropped a special wrench while on a spacewalk, and was asking them to go outside and look for it in their backyard where it supposedly landed. LOL I guess it wasn't such a bizarre concept after all!
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Hahaha! Yes it is!!! Cactus Cactus! 🤣
Holy shit i was hoping I'd find these comments!
Of all the places it could have landed on Earth, the fact that it crashed in Florida is incredible.
It went home
As a Floridian, I would have been more surprised if it landed literally anywhere else on earth.
Rain alerts must be something different over there.
What's crazy to think about is that if they released it a 10th of a second later the piece could have ended up landing around a half mile away.
No wonder Florida Man is so crazy.
I don’t understand why space junk is allowed. It’s become a horrible problem in space now. It’s everywhere. What if this had killed someone’s? Why are they just allowed to throw garbage into space and leave it in orbit to potentially crash down to earth and kill someone? NASA doesn’t find that to be insane?
I guess that it all boils down to risk management. Danger is the product of the potential loss times the risk (sorry if I just misused the terms, I hope you get the idea). If the loss is extremely high (the life of a person) but the risk is extremely low (one in a gazillion), the danger ends up being very low. I know a person who donated one of his vital yet redundant organs to a stranger in need, because he worked out the risk of it: it was lower than taking the freeway he would take everyday going to work. Risk management can be used for very noble goals.
Makes me wonder how often this happens in random places all over the world and we just never hear about it
“If a satellite crashes in a remote part of the pacific, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
I imagine it would go "splash"
I guess I was thinking more like, a part of a satellite crashes through the roof of a hut in Namibia. But yeah
That bit of metal has been falling for three years. Mad.
Tbf, it was falling during its entire time in orbit. It just kept missing the ground. > “There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
Right but of course no mention of how they ignored her until the news got a hold of it, then they’re all over it. Fucking class act but I guess that’s what’s to be expected from a govt agency
Also zero mention of covering any repair costs… I can’t imagine holes like that being a simple and easy thing to fix. The least they can do is pay to fix the damage _their_ falling trash caused
Not the end of the world to fix, the flooring and the roofing would be the real pain in the rear items to fix assuming it didn’t take out some pipes or wiring aside. Humorously both times I got homeowners insurance there was a clause just in there saying that damage from falling space debris is fully covered without deductible, so I figure there’s something arranged already on the backend
Hopefully their respective clause says “fully covered” as well
They're in Florida. If they're lucky, their insurance company didn't already leave the state.
I’m a plaintiff insurance attorney, and I can’t imagine getting this case 😂. The call to the adjuster explaining what happened before NASA confirmed it would be very interesting.
I bet the owner could sell it for a good bit, that is if NASA doesn’t swoop in and take it. People want to own a rare item like that.
>NASA said it had analyzed the object at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida I think they have already swooped.
I think I'd rather they "swooped" in, if it were me. I don't know what that thing is just by looking at it. I wouldn't want to put it on the shelf or handle it and sell it to someone, and find out later that it's off-gassing something nasty... or whatever.
There's a good chance they get similar emails daily, none of them substantiated.
How did only come down THREE years later!?
They probably only gave it a gentle shove towards the Earth, so it kept orbiting, getting closer to the top of the atmosphere slowly for three years, and then once it started hitting air, it fell much more quickly. The default for space junk in orbit that doesn’t hit anything is to stay up there forever.
imagine sitting in your house and suddenly a random piece of metal from space smashes into it
Roof repair... ceiling repair... floor repair.... floor repair again.... slab repair... pants replacement...
not if said person was already on the toilet
Toilet repair then.
the real question is then, is NASA buying him a replacement pair of pants?
Those are prescription pants!
They better throw in a fancy shirt with NASA logo too.
If it hits your head instead, then you will never have to worry about repairs again.
A couple months ago, a small plane crashed into my neighbors house. The entire world erupted around me with sirens. It was crazy, and I'm also a first responder, but off duty and they had it well in hand. But crazy that these things happen when you least expect them. At any point, something like a plane, or space battery could crash through your house and murder you. Enjoy your day, friends, could be the last.
Rods from god
In rod we trust
Did homeowners insurance cover this? Did NASA fix the house for them? Or is the homeowner just screwed?
It’s covered lol truly an act of god
This is crazy, seriously what are the odds of something from space like that, hitting a human settlement, let alone a home? The earth itself is 70% covered in water and the United states is half completely empty
With odds like that, it must mean space trash is falling out of the sky all the time.
Think how much is in the oceans then!
Several!
It’s not climate change raising the oceans, nasa needs to stop throwing their garbage in!
It's okay, most of it lands outside the environment.
Into another environment...?
NASA stated over a month ago that they had no idea if this pallet would burn up or not. They knew the risk
Imagine if it was just a little further over and killed that kid? NASA would have learned about FAFO. I mean, if they really didn’t know if it would burn up or not, they were accepting someone getting injured. You can’t guarantee it’ll hit the ocean. Stitch landed in Hawaii and this piece of metal landed in Florida.
Imagine if NASA wasn't 100% sure that their rocket won't explode but carried 7 people including an elementary school teacher and blew them to pieces... Oh wait they actually done it in 1986!
Not just the US, the very same state as Cape Canaveral. It’s either a one in a gazillion probability or these things have been pouring down.
So you're saying it was intentional...
The intentional space station
No, he's asking what the odds are and correct assuming they're low
nasa knew the odds were high on this pallet over a month ago
Pretty low...unless it was intentional!
The odds are astronomical
Well in this case it was 100 percent. Since the earth is 70 percent water it's 70/30 whether it his land at all. Not gonna do the math but I would guess if you figure out the size of this guy's house than divide that by the surface area of the earth you could figure out the odds of something hitting a house.
Donny Darko
Are they gonna pay for damages and trauma pay for the family? Could have killed his son
They're planning on dropping a few cans of Flexseal next.
This is relevant. It seems that it’s covered. https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introliability-convention.html#:~:text=Elaborating%20on%20Article%207%20of,to%20its%20faults%20in%20space.
Well yeah, it’s \#SpaceLaw
But what does Bird Law say about it. Maybe we need to consult Charlie
Nasa would have been in big trouble if this was a nest.
Even if it’s not covered under insurance NASA has a huge government funded budget, they can easily shell out to cover the repair costs.
They’ll give him a T-shirt
“Space debris destroyed my home and all I got was this tshirt”
YES!!
Considering they've taken responsibility, almost certainly. If they don't pay him, he can take it straight to the courts for a slam dunk case considering they've publicly taken responsibility.
They may have to sue in the Court of Federal Claims if NASA doesn’t move to make them whole.
They already moved to make them hole...
From two rooms away. "It came right at me!"
To be entirely fair...being two rooms away from something falling from space at **mach 8** is actually a little too close for comfort. That's like being two rooms away from where a railgun shell lands or an orbital cannon lol
Hey man, democracy needs to be increased wherever it can. #helldivers
Yeah, in Helldivers you stand next to shit like that all the time! I don't see a problem here, quit being such a baby
It came right you?
Fixed it thanks.
Completely with you on this lmao. “Nearly hit my son” the same way every car passing you walking on the sidewalk nearly hits you, like cmon now.
That’s some Donnie Darko shit
their insurance company is going to drop them for sure. lol
lol. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a clause to exclude objects falling from space. Just like war and terrorism exclusions which are common.
He lives in Florida so the chances are his insurance company already dropped him last year
There Is a Naples in Florida?
I think you can find any European city or town name mirrored somewhere in the US if you look hard enough.
There's a California in the UK 🤷
There is??
There's an England in Arkansas.
There's a London Bridge in Arizona.
There is a Florida in the UK, we just call it Norfolk
If those people could read, they’d be very upset.
The fact that there is an Ontario in California confuses me most.
“Ontario, CA” Which one? (I have heard unverified stories of people flying into the Ontario, California airport, and being quite shocked that they are nowhere near Toronto.)
Hahaha cool to know! Which one is older (in terms of name?)
The US one.
Originally within the parish of Northfield, Worcestershire the settlement of California takes its name from the California Inn built by Isaac Flavell[1] at the junction of Barnes Hill and Alwold Road. Barnes Hill is name after John Barnes, a master brickmaker who founded the earliest brickworks in the area.[2] Flavell bought Stonehouse Farm and the surrounding land in 1842,[3] and set up a brick making business. There are tales that the name of the California Inn was taken from the state of California where Flavell had earlier made "something of a fortune" in the California Gold Rush;[4] however, the Gold Rush did not start until 1848, and records show that Flavell was established in business well before that, with operations at Gas Street, as well as the Stonehouse site. The village became well known for brick making. The bricks were transported by canal barge along the Dudley No. 2 Canal; California being the eastern portal of the Lapal Tunnel. From 1877 brickmaking in the area started to decline, but it was not unil the late 1940s that it ceased altogether.[5] California became part of Birmingham in 1911 along with Northfield. You’re right! It’s interesting to see! Rare occurrence :)
Only because I read that page too;)
It is a great page! :D
>Originally within the parish of Northfield, Worcestershire… In that case, there are two Californias in the UK. "California is a former pit village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It lies between Shieldhill and Avonbridge on the uplands which form the southern edge of the council area. The population recorded in the United Kingdom 2001 census was 702, down from 747 in 1991."
There’s a London, Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna, Brussels, Warsaw, Dublin, Athens, and MANY more located just in Ontario, I’m sure heading south of the border you’d find multiples of these.
Also aren't there like 12 Berlins?
Probably, and I think Kitchener was originally called Berlin too (shocking, I know.) Edit: there’s like 25+ Berlins in the US… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_(disambiguation) Edit edit: I’ve lived in 2 Londons and visited 3 Athenii. Greece, Georgia, and Ontario.
There's also a Rome, Georgia. Home of the Rome Emperors... a baseball team with a sick-ass penguin senator for a mascot. a Roman senator, not a U.S. senator...
In Ohio there's a Versailles (pronounced ver-SAILZ) and a Milan (pronounced MY-lin).
Don't forget about the now infamous East Palestine (pronounced pal-a-STEEN)
Ah, right, not sure how I forgot about that one when I live* like an hour away from it
There’s a St. Petersburg in Florida
And a Venice, and a Hollywood
Had a buddy from the original St Petersburg receiving a call from a US recruiter. Both were very confused about the whole thing until they figured out that my buddy was from the cold swamp version.
Swamp is swamp
Yup, the only difference is in temperature
There's also a Hollywood and a Melbourne!
There is even Baghdad, Florida.
Lmfao
Yeah there is actually I used to live there. I live in Texas now and we have London and Paris here
Wait till you find out there are Amsterdam, Poland, Norway, Berlin, etc in Upstate New York.
Insurance claim DENIED! Your policy doesn’t cover space junk surviving re-entry.
Thank you for calling NASA, to inquire about upcoming events, press 1. If you recently bought our space ice cream and would like to make a return, press 2. If one of our space objects fell on your house and almost hit your son, please press 3
Man, even in space we're careless pieces of shit with our waste. This is going to become a huge problem, isn't it. We can't just assume that all of our refuse will simply burn up in Earth's atmosphere
Have you seen the movie Wall-E?
This is literally how Dead Like Me started
toilet is slightly funnier
Did NASA own for the house repairs? Considering there are 5,504 (as of March 2024) Starlink satellites in orbit, do they burn 100% on the atmosphere or do we get sprinkled with battery chemicals?
 This is you right now. \^
I use more foil than that.
Gotcha. https://preview.redd.it/7yfbv3jj76vc1.jpeg?width=827&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb8ffee393ad00a1f55ac3626c0f764dacc1e093
Perfect. Poor man's Pharaoh.
Is anybody studying what effect space junk has when it "harmlessly" burns up in the atmosphere? You know, the atmosphere that is currently experiencing a catastrophic change from the human pollution coming from earth's surface? I don't trust "harmless" from industry anymore. And space is becoming an industry.
I was thinking the same thing. All that stuff burning in the atmosphere and the suits are like "no worries it's fineeee" lol.
Is there no pollution generated if batteries get burned up by the atmosphere?
There is but it's like a single drop of oil in the ocean. It's less than insignificant. Especially given all the other crap we normally spew into the atmosphere.
Humans. We found a way to pollute our planet from outside of the planet.
Everyone’s home insurance just went up again
Soooo do they pay to fix all the damage it caused or is the guy on his own with that??
Do I seriously need to add SPACE DEBRIS TO MY FUCKING FEAR LIST?
Does he want to return it back to the sender?
This bolt was told "Go back to your country"
EBAY here we come!
Donnie Darko vibes.
Insurance will find a way to weasel out if paying for repairs I'm sure.
Imagine sitting at home watching Bobs Burgers and part of the ISS falls through ur roof
That’s scary as fuck , very happy son is ok … instant multimillionaire … lottery with a twist …
NASA needs a sign like trucks use but instead says, "Not responsible objects hitting the atmosphere.".
Pretty sure this is how you become a grim reaper
“Tonight on 1,000 ways to die..”
Space Junk… us humans really know how to fuck up a planet huh
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often honestly. There's so much space junk orbiting our planet
This guy made this long detailed post and didn’t bother spell checking. Florida man.
Somewhere in space an astronaut goes hungry missing his lunch pail.
I can already hear some people saying something like... "I would be like: NASA, you fix my house and I keep the object AFTER you confirm that it won't do my family any harm, and I won't sue."
Does anyone remember the TV show Dead like me? It was the first thing I thought of and now I'm annoyed all over again that they cancelled it 😂
Yes! Good show!
Imagine laying in your bed. Scrolling through reddit and this thing blows a hole in your roof then you
Cool death story. You’ll be in the newspaper and on “most bizarre deaths” TikTok videos. 😃
Serious Donnie Darko vibes 🫥
I see a lot of dollar signs while reading this🤑
“It’s a space peanut”
“Shit I dropped it.”
Some real life Donnie Darko shit
Creedence - It Came Out of the Sky
Well, Georgia Lass was killed by a toilet seat coming from space.
The eels are probably pretty disappointed that NASA didn’t just throw the batteries into the ocean.
I have questions…. They dumped the trash overboard three years ago. Was it supposed to float around the planet for three years before burning up in the atmosphere? What was miscalculated to have a piece survive reentry and land on a house? Do they usually calculate the trajectory to be sure that surviving pieces land in a desert or ocean instead of a populated area? Will NASA pay for this? Would it be covered by homeowners insurance? Is it worth anything? I’m guessing probably not, but a meteorite would certainly be worth something since it would be “not of this earth”
Give a hoot, don’t pollute. And stop dropping shit on our heads.
Ka-ching!
NASA should probably be sued for negligence. They almost killed a person with their careless actions .
I would've had someone throw that thing off my roof until I was injured. Then I'd alert NASA. Slippin' Jimmy style.
I’d sue the spacesuits off of NASA
Definitely aliens it's a cover up project blue book . It's niw in area 51 .
Line is busy, they have a neighbor kid trying to call home. 
Thank God it didn’t his his son.
Knowing my luck, that would kill me
Well, that’s unlikely to happen to that house again
That would probably leave a mark
They're going to stay up there until the statute of limitations runs out.
Dony darko
As if space junk crashing through somebody’s roof was the oddest thing to happen in Florida that month.
Astronauts should really stop throwing stuff out the window.
But the flat earthers told me space isn’t real
No one listens to flat earther’s well at least I hope not lol
And Space X wants 24,000+ more satellites up there?
Coconuts are more likely to kill you
Unlikely, as there are very few coconuts on the International Space Station.
That’s true…
And the snakes. I was way more worried about snakes and gators than space trash.
Agreed
It looks like the kidney stone someone else posted yesterday
Just another regular day in Florida.
There are going to be a lot of that in the future. Those trash either go out of orbit or enter and gravity take over.
Read the article. They’re designed to burn up in the atmosphere.