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Chuck Gould wrote:
On Dec 11, 8:46�pm, Larry wrote:
"Don White" wrote in news:475f559a$0$5287
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...007/12/11/spy-

rocket.html

There are thousands of tons of space junk floating, unattended and
uncontrollable, in orbit around this planet. �ONE of these days it
won't be falling into the Atlantic, it'll be wiping out a fairly
good-sized area of some major population centre.

Larry
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Statistically possible, but pretty unlikely.

Assuming that the probability of space junk striking the earth is
roughly the same for any portion of the planet's surface, the odds of
it landing in a highly populated area are the same as the percentage
of the earth's surface that is highly populated......very, very small
indeed.

Most of this stuff burns up in the atmosphere, and the pieces that
fall to earth are often much smaller than a private plane. Private
plane crashes are tragic of course, but are more likely to occur in a
populated area than any random landing of space junk. Even so, the
number of people killed on the ground by private planes crashing to
earth- or any planes for that matter, is extremely small.




No matter what, wearing his aluminum foil hat, Larry will be safe.
 
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