(TKalbfus) wrote in message ...

This is not Trantor! Their are only 6 billion people living on Earth and the
chance of a piece of space debris hitting someone on the head is small. I
suppose you've never been outside of your city and you think the whole world is
one sprawling metropolis.

You suppose wrong, Mr. Kalbfus. If you look at a map of the Shuttle's
reentry path, you would see it crosses a lot of inhabited area. The
Shuttle can't just hover down to a landing in West Texas, whatever you
suppose.