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19,000-pound space lab falling "uncontrolled" back to Earth
On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:40:09 UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 23:23:42 -0800 (PST), "Chris.B" wrote: Thre's a wonderful irony that nations can send anything they like up there but you need a license to fly a drone weighing a bare few grams. In the U.S. (outside some specific jurisdictions) you don't need a license to operate a recreational drone of fairly low mass that is always in your line of sight. There have been efforts to require that, but they aren't holding up yet. That said, nobody has been hurt by falling space debris. No property has been damaged. But quite a few people have been injured by badly controlled drones. Some degree of regulation of the latter is reasonable. And all the countries which fly spacecraft have agreed to be responsible for any damage they ultimately cause on the ground. Why does an aircraft, space station or helicopter have free reign to irritate billions? While a motorcyclist, or car owner, can be pulled over for having a noisy exhaust. Does a space station really irritate billions? Aircraft and helicopters are generally seen as providing benefits that outweigh the irritation of the noise they produce, and the amount of noise is generally managed as best possible. A vehicle with noisy exhaust is malfunctioning, not operating normally. It is MORE irritating than it needs to be, so is reasonably controlled. Keep taking the red pill, Chris. I'll have a blue on the rocks, please! ;-) |
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