Sometime late last night one of our country's satellites came hurling into our atmosphere. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), which was deployed in 1991, was shut down in 2005 and NASA, at the time, didn't feel it necessary to shoot it down safely and monitor it's descent into our airspace.
No, NASA decided to just ignore the big piece of space junk for six years until it made it's own decision to crash onto our planet.
Fine, not that big of a deal ... NASA will just monitor the crash so no one gets hurt ... Oh wait. They don't know where the satellite crashed.
How can our government know that a satellite is about to smash into our planet but can't stay awake long enough to find out where exactly the waste if space was going to land?
I'm guessing they figured it didn't matter if Times Square was demolished by a few tons of 'cooled metal rims and batteries' or if the Eiffel tower was smashed to pieces. Not smart USA, not smart at all.
As a normal human being, as one in a billion of the same, ... I surely wonder where the satellite found its home.
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