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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Science And You Were Bitching About Snow Falling From The Sky

Posted by Jonathan Golob on Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1145 PM EST FRI FEB 13 2009

...POSSIBLE SATELLITE DEBRIS FALLING ACROSS THE REGION...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS RECEIVED CALLS THIS EVENING FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING POSSIBLE EXPLOSIONS AND...OR EARTHQUAKES ACROSS THE AREA. THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION HAS REPORTED TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT THESE EVENTS ARE BEING CAUSED BY FALLING SATELLITE DEBRIS. THESE PIECES OF DEBRIS HAVE BEEN CAUSING SONIC BOOMS...RESULTING IN THE VIBRATIONS BEING FELT BY SOME RESIDENTS...AS WELL AS FLASHES OF LIGHT ACROSS THE SKY. THE CLOUD OF DEBRIS IS LIKELY THE RESULT OF THE RECENT IN ORBIT COLLISION OF TWO SATELLITES ON TUESDAY...FEBRUARY 10TH WHEN KOSMOS 2251 CRASHED INTO IRIDIUM 33.

Why? Because.

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It must mean that Jebus is angry that that colored man got in the White House!

(We are, after all, talking about Dixie)

Posted by In Dixieland I'll take my stand.... on February 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM

I live in Kentucky, and one of my friends driving to see me on Friday night told me he saw a shooting star land not 400 yards from the highway. I'd wondered if it might be satellite debris.

Posted by Electra on February 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM

Holy smokes! All the exciting stuff happens in Kentucky.

Posted by Balt-O-Matt on February 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM

I'm just waiting for the bigot trolls to blame it on the black people.

Posted by Todd on February 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM

I guess @1 sort of beat me to the punch on that, you know what they say about great minds.

Posted by Todd on February 15, 2009 at 6:11 PM

I hope no one gets hurt. that said, I'm jealous and think debris showers and sonic booms are really fricking cool!

Posted by rara avis on February 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM

We never had any satellite collisions when W was in office. He kept us safe!!!!

Posted by Impeach Obama NOW! on February 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM

Some people get falling debris and sonic booms yet here we wait, Seafair months and months away.

Posted by Go away!Batin'! on February 15, 2009 at 6:52 PM

We're not starting the annual Blue Angels argument already, are we? I don't have my pro-Blue Angels outfit picked out yet!

I guess it's off to Penney's for me....

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay on February 15, 2009 at 7:09 PM

FAA is wrong about the source - the reports have it moving too fast to be satellite debris. Plus the satellites were at too high of an altitude to have their debris reentering already.

Posted by tim on February 15, 2009 at 7:15 PM

I live in Kentucky as well, and yes, all the exiting stuff does happen here, with being without power for days at a time a few weeks ago, then again this past week....sooooo exciting.

Posted by jcouch on February 15, 2009 at 7:29 PM

@10's right - there have been a number of people commenting on this. The debris is way too fast to be satellite debris.

Posted by wench on February 15, 2009 at 9:48 PM

just showed picx on TV

nice - love the celestial gig

Posted by YOU GUESSED, DICK on February 15, 2009 at 11:47 PM

If it is satellite debris, better to have it burned up than to still be whizzing around up there creating a hazard. But if it's not debris from that collision, what is it? It would be very troubling to have something this big fall out of the sky and not know anything about where it came from.

Posted by Greg on February 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM