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Where will this debris land? Can it impact airplane routes?
by TechTechTech 2y ago
Where will this debris land? Can it impact airplane routes?
- kylebenzle 2y agoHN comments is just reading strangers steam of consciousness now?
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- s1artibartfast 2y agoeast of Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. Draw a line from Boca Chia to Turks and keep going
- adolph 2y agoA great circle line tho
- mh- 2y agohttps://x.com/DJSnM/status/1880032865209184354 https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1880032865209184354 >Commercial flights are turning around to avoid potential debris.
- lysace 2y ago[flagged]
- s1artibartfast 2y agoupvoted and flagged.
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- mh- 2y agoCan we not do this on HN, please?
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- lysace 2y agoFunny HN design detail: Once a comment has been added to a comment, the original commenter can't delete it's comment. Sometimes this is counterproductive to the goal of HN.
- mh- 2y agoIt is unfortunate sometimes. Probably a net gain to the signal-to-noise ratio, though?
- lysace 2y agoI think it's a bad design. There should be a window of a few minutes to override it. I made a rash comment (not a very bad one, but I introduced politics for no reason), very quickly regretted it, but you were faster. Now many people will read this idiotic exchange instead of doing something more productive.
- ricardobeat 2y agoThat sounds... unlikely, to say the least. The ship blew up at 145km altitude over Turks and Caicos. Debris would fall thousands of kilometers to the east, if anything survives re-entry. EDIT: at these speeds, over 20000km/h, the falling debris will travel a very long way before coming down. For satellite re-entry, the usual estimated ground contact point is something like 8000km+ downrange [1]. There is little chance debris would come anywhere near commercial flight altitude in the area around where the videos were made. Apparently the planned splashdown was in the Indian Ocean near Australia, but this being an uncontrolled re-entry it could be far off from that, in either direction. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576520305737 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652...
- mh- 2y agoI'm not at all qualified to speculate. So I'll just add that for those unfamiliar with him, the person who posted that tweet is an astrophysicist with a popular YT channel.
- Retric 2y agoArlines are extremely cautious around these kinds of one off events. It’s not about the calculated risks, but the uncertainty around if they have the right information in the first place. Sure it may have broken up at 145km miles, but what if someone messed up and it actually was 14.5km etc.