China's space lab is falling out of the sky soon.

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

All sorts of stuff from Skylab hit Australia. You can buy debris on ebay.

Spoiler

I had forgotten about that.

I will amend what I said with caveats and yadda yadda.

 

[marioh]

would be something if it crashed into China.

 

[ralphc1]

lol

Wont this thing burn up completely? I doubt an object bigger than the size of a quarter lands anywhere.

Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell predicts only 220-440 lbs of Tiangong-1 will make it back to the ground or seas, and the biggest risk from that remnant is likely that someone could discover the debris and contaminate themselves with hydrazine, an exceptionally toxic rocket fuel.

Seems to me the rocket fuel would burn in the fiery re entry.

 

[IloveTHIS]

Seems to me the rocket fuel would burn in the fiery re entry.

Wow I'm really surprised over 200lbs of material will actually land on Earth. I was pretty confident it would all just burn to ash on re-entry. Man, it would be incredible to find a sizable chunk of something cool to keep.

 

[ralphc1]

Forecasts from the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office and the US-based Aerospace Corp. predict that China’s falling space station, the Tiangong-1, will most likely plummet to Earth on Sunday night at around 730pm ET.

https://gizmodo.com/tiangong-1-is-now-predicted-to-hit-earth-at-7-30pm-et-s-1824234198

Is this whole thing a Chinese April Fools joke?

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Seems to me the rocket fuel would burn in the fiery re entry.

It don't got no propellants.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

https://gizmodo.com/tiangong-1-is-now-predicted-to-hit-earth-at-7-30pm-et-s-1824234198

Is this whole thing a Chinese April Fools joke?

Me Chinese, me pray joke
Me put Tiangong in your coke

 

[5crew]

I hope it doesn't land in my fucking bedroom.

why? Because you have more important things to do than get crushed by "Made in China" products?

 

[shinobimusashi]

It's the fucking Loc-Nar

 

[5crew]

I'll catch it.

Sell that shit, get famous, do shaving ads and cash in.

Then die of radiations weeks later.

Spoiler

Nah, I'm talking out of my ass, I don't know how radiations actually works.

 

[5crew]

Me Chinese, me pray joke
Me put Tiangong in your coke

That's racist, but I liked it.

 

[My name is]

If it comes in the United states trump will hit them with a tax

 

[mushishi]

Made in China.

 

[4daLuLZ]

As long as something the size of a nickel lands in my cerebral cortex, we're golden.

Can't land on something that doesn't exist.

 

[Goonerview]

Nothing does .

*ba-dum tish*

 

[nhbfan8080]

By far the most likely thing is it will fall into the ocean.
Wish I could watch the re-entry

The article said the most likely thing is that the whole thing will burn up during re-entry and we'll see a meteor shower.

 

[Shaungotti]

I hope it doesn't land in my fucking bedroom.

Lol same. About a year ago I was in my living room and I was sure I was a gonner. Sounded like a plane was falling from the sky directly at my house. Turns out it was just the air force flying jets pretty low over my neighborhood. It was a planned demonstration that I wasn't aware of. I couldn't believe how loud that shit was.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

The article said the most likely thing is that the whole thing will burn up during re-entry and we'll see a meteor shower.

I posted that above but someone reminded me that parts of Spacelab successfully survived a reentry.

Although I think they're significantly different in size.

 

[Phlog]

Nothing does .

*ba-dum tish*

 

[Fawlty]

Hope it kills me

It's gonna land like six feet from you, and then you'll have to make a thread about how much that annoys you.