{"id":6555,"date":"2024-04-18T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2024-04-17T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T12:24:47","slug":"debris-from-space-station-crash-into-florida-home-destroying-two-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/debris-from-space-station-crash-into-florida-home-destroying-two-floors\/","title":{"rendered":"Debris from Space Station crash into Florida home destroying two floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I watched a show called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_Like_Me\">Dead Like Me<\/a>&#8216; where the main character (George) is killed in the pilot episode by a toilet seat falling from the deorbiting Mir space station. At that time it was portrayed as an absurd way to die and George is understandably upset about it. <\/p>\n<p>Showing that at times life does imitate fiction, last month a piece of space junk from the International Space Station crashed through the roof and two floors of a Florida home. This was confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/nasa-space-station-debris-crashed-florida-home-rcna147990\">NASA earlier this week<\/a>. NASA and others have been dumping things into orbit with the assumption that they will burn up during re-entry and this debris was from a cargo pallet intentionally released from the space station three years ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s features and metal composition and matched it to the hardware that had been jettisoned from the space station in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s surface, according to NASA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this habit is a bad idea and should be reconsidered. When items burn up in the atmosphere they release toxic byproducts that pollute the environment and if the item doesn&#8217;t burn up completely (as was the case here) they can cause significant damage when they crash into the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I watched a show called &#8216;Dead Like Me&#8216; where the main character (George) is killed in the pilot episode by a toilet seat falling from the deorbiting Mir space station. At that time it was portrayed as an absurd way to die and George is understandably upset about it. Showing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}