On Feb 5, 12:19*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
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On Feb 5, 5:18*am, Fred J. McCall wrote:
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the biggest disaster in space will be ISS being hit by debris, very
likely from that chinese test.......

with a big hole in the station, like a few inches , how long will it
take the crew to get in the soyuz?

how long can the station support a breach?

will the station be controlable without atmosphere?

we have a large vulnerable asset at high risk......

Not to mention the damage from the spent fuel cooling pond on ISS...

"The sky is falling! *The sky is falling!"

Now run along, Chicken Little.

just wait as the out of control station tumbles breaking up all over
its ground track. pieces / modules falling randomly.

And just how is it going to go 'out of control'? *You've been watching
too many disaster movies.



just who pays for the damage? let alone deaths. much of ISS is heavy
enough to survive re entry...

Cite for reentry survivability? *Betting you once again cannot be
bothered to actually support your claims.

Who pays for the damage is well established in law.

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many ISS parts are heavy enough to survive re entry.remember parts of
sklab survived, and skylab was very small in comparison to ISS. is
that a adquate cite for you?

the station needs atmosphere to cool control systems, lose atmosphere
lose control.Plus a debris strike could take out anything and if the
station tumbles dramatically the batteries will be depleted. No power
is no communication, and thus no control.

A out of control tumbling station dropping modules all over the globe,
would cause panic and might just get a international prohibition
against large stations in orbit. to avoid a reoccurence