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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Injure? Injure?? If someone gets nothing but a boo boo from a falling fucking satellite then they need to go buy a lottery ticket right away.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Satellites will have thoroughly fragmented by the time they reach the ground, you'd be hit by a piece of a satellite.

    Assuming the study being referenced wasn't actually badly flawed, which it appears to be.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I recommend you never buy a lottery ticket - because clearly you don't understand how luck works.

    If a satellite were to smash through the roof of my office and land harmlessly on the floor, I reckon I'd be quite startled and might bump my knee on the bottom of the desk...

    There's definitely a risk of injury, and you're far more likely to be injured than killed.

    I'd probably also have to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars to repair my home, since I don't think insurance covers falling satellites and I'm certainly not going to try and sue a company on the other side of the world when they probably didn't do anything against the law anyway. Bruised knee would be the least of my problems.

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