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Re: New Falling Satellite!



> Ever feel like there's too many dang hunks of metal hurtling around
> the Earth at ungodly speeds?  I no longer feel safe...

Small consolation:  this satellite's made of a high-tech 21st-century
material called black oak.  Or at least, that's what the Chinese use 
as an ablative heat shield for their reentry capsules.  Whatever works :-)

-- Adam

[a new niche:  intercontinental ballistic lumber delivery?]