Satellite re-entry

[LTC8K6]

I wonder if Nancy will try to co-opt this as her predicted satellite failures beginning?

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993670

[Grand Vizier]

I wonder if Nancy will try to co-opt this as her predicted satellite failures beginning?

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993670

Very likely. She'll drag in anything.

One of my favourite Nancyisms, though, on which she refuses to be corrected, even by her own faithful followers, is the fixed idea she has that all mobile phones depend on satellite systems. She is relentless in her insistence that cellphone systems worldwide have been collapsing.

Strange - over the period she's been claiming this, my network - Orange - have greatly extended reliable coverage in the UK. I used to have real problems phoning out when visiting friends in the shires - no problems now.

I guess Orange's 'satellites' are immune to Planet X :wink:

[pickles_mummy]

Actually, I have had problems using my phone the last few days

Oh, hang on.. i haven't paid my bill...

[LTC8K6]

Here in North Carolina, the only reason I know why you keep mentioning Oranges in connection with phones is that I am a longtime Formula 1 fan!

[tazmandevil3]

Formula 1's great. I myself have always been a major fan of NASCAR.

But this isn't the right place to talk about that stuff. 8)

I wonder if this satellite will collide with anything after it's finished plummeting through the earth's atmosphere? I doubt it considerably, but anything's possible. Even Planet X.

Well, maybe not that.

[Farslayer9]

That's pretty cool that cell phones use satellites instead of those annoying radio towers. I mean, I guess that I lose reception now because PX is underneath the satellite or something.

[ToSeek]

No harm done - satellite re-enters over Pacific.

[Greenhalgh]

And I bet the kooks made such a fuss about it!

<kook mode>

Its a cover-up! It really fell over Japan and destroyed Tokyo! The evil governments are trying to hide it from us... or maybe it was a deliberate attack by a Dutch / Italian coalition on Japan!!! I'M TYPING IN CAPS LOCK SO IT MUST BE TRUE!!!

Uh-oh, the Government agent disguised as a cat across the road is watching me... I'm going into hiding.

</kook mode>

[freddo]

Wait Greenhalgh, im the other kind of woo-woo that delivers rhetoric in italics to enhance the inherent truth of my amazing assertions.

Translation of above, I put the rubbish I say in italics to make me sound more important.

Now ask yourself - which is the truth - the italics or the text that follows?

Cheers,
C.