{"id":31775,"date":"2017-10-16T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31775"},"modified":"2017-10-16T21:27:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:27:24","slug":"going-into-space-before-you-totally-understand-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31775","title":{"rendered":"Going Into Space Before You Totally Understand The Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent U.K.<\/a> recently posted an article about the Chinese space station<\/a>. China<\/a> launched the Tiangong 1<\/a> in 2011 to show their progress in space. Unfortunately their progress was not particularly forward looking.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

An out-of-control space laboratory is falling<\/a> towards the Earth<\/a> and will crash land soon, experts say.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chinese space<\/span><\/span> station is accelerating its fall towards us and will reach the ground in the coming months, Harvard<\/a> astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell<\/a> told the Guardian. It is decaying quickly and he expects “expect it will come down a few months from now \u2013 late 2017 or early 2018”, he told the paper<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tiangong 1 station was launched in 2011 as one of the great hopes of the Chinese ambitions in space, and as part of a plan to show itself off as a global superpower. The country’s space agency referred to the station as the “Heavenly Palace” and conducted a range of missions, some of which included astronauts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evidently Chinese scientists reported last year that they had lost control of the space station<\/a>. It is predicted that a large portion of the space station will burn up on reentry and that it is likely to land in the sea, but there are no guarantees.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

It’s very difficult to predict where it will fall because engineers have lost control of the capsule and it will be thrown around by the wind as it comes down. Even a slight push from the weather could send it from one continent to the next.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much of the debris will burn up on its way into Earth’s atmosphere<\/a>. But chunks as big as 100kg will make their way through and fall from the skies, said McDowell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just for the record, 100kg is about 220 pounds. I really would not like anything weighing 220 pounds to fall on either me, my house, my car, my children, or anything or anyone else I know or am related to. I hope it is legal to sue countries who put things in space and lose control of them, because I believe that if anyone is injured in any way by this falling debris, they should collect a serious amount of money from the Chinese government. Meanwhile, if you hear any strange noises coming from the sky in the next six months or so, take cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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