Comment by rising-sky
3 days ago
You're kidding right? This is space debris. If a Qantas flight crashed into your neighborhood, you know who's responsible right?
3 days ago
You're kidding right? This is space debris. If a Qantas flight crashed into your neighborhood, you know who's responsible right?
It's not space debris, it's the deliberate disposal of the upper stage of the rocket precisely to prevent it from becoming space debris. The time and location of re-entry are planned and controlled. This is not going to crash into your neighborhood (except if you're neighborhood is in certain areas of China, where they they happily dump spent rocket stages on populated areas).
To be fair, I’m not sure happily describes it. Indifferently? ‘We warned them and they didn’t move, so f them?’ Ly?
Are international waters in the southern Indian ocean Qantas' neighborhood?
Would you ask the same question if it were Long March rocket debris falling into the Atlantic with very short notices from China?
It's not the waters that's important here. It's the debris passing through the flight path.
Another way of phrasing the situation is that Quantas _very inconveniently_ chose to put their flight path straight through the projected trajectory of rocket debris.
Qantas doesn't own the flight path either?
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That’s because I own my back yard. Qantas doesn’t own a 3D space in the sky.