From ancient times, people said they've seen things in the sky - angels, aliens and all kinds of other stuff. A BBC report confirms the shocking possibility that mankind itself makes troubles for itself from the sky.
Powerful governments make powerful tools to monitor their enemies and protect themselves - these tools, or satellites, they put in space orbit. Of course, these satellites have lots of useful functions (satellite TV, GPRS etc). But it's inevitable some of them might lose fuel/battery and just... fall to the earth, regardless of the fact that they may be held in orbit by the Earth's gravitational pull.
One such satellite has just gone amok. The culprits - the US government, no less. It's a spy satellite, its lost fuel and it expected to fall anywhere on Earth within the next two months.
The report went on to mention that the last time something big had fallen on Earth was a 78-tonne abandoned space station that plummeted into the Indian Ocean. Imagine it falling off-target and wrongly hitting someone's head.
For this spy satellite, only the US government knows how big, heavy and useless it is. I really hope it falls back on one of their military physics labs, and not hurt some folks 2 continents away.
Powerful governments make powerful tools to monitor their enemies and protect themselves - these tools, or satellites, they put in space orbit. Of course, these satellites have lots of useful functions (satellite TV, GPRS etc). But it's inevitable some of them might lose fuel/battery and just... fall to the earth, regardless of the fact that they may be held in orbit by the Earth's gravitational pull.
One such satellite has just gone amok. The culprits - the US government, no less. It's a spy satellite, its lost fuel and it expected to fall anywhere on Earth within the next two months.
The report went on to mention that the last time something big had fallen on Earth was a 78-tonne abandoned space station that plummeted into the Indian Ocean. Imagine it falling off-target and wrongly hitting someone's head.
For this spy satellite, only the US government knows how big, heavy and useless it is. I really hope it falls back on one of their military physics labs, and not hurt some folks 2 continents away.
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