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Dude, there are no free rides, except for big banks, well big banks and insurance companies. Yep, no free rides except big banks and insurance companies, and oil companies. So there are no free rides except those for big banks, insurance companies, and oil companies. Fuggit there are lots of free rides get your net out free stuff is falling right out of the sky, but you can't keep it unless...

Griff, that was a TW funny, don't knock it!
(and a good one imo)

MORE COMING!

Quote:

A defunct German space telescope called ROSAT is set to hit the planet at the end of October – and it even is more likely than UARS to cause injury or damage in populated areas.

NASA calculates a 1-in-3200 chance of UARS causing injury or damage. But at the end of October or beginning of November, ROSAT – a 2.4-tonne X-ray telescope built by the German aerospace lab DLR and launched by NASA in 1990 – will re-enter the atmosphere, presenting a 1 in 2000 chance of injury.

The higher risk stems from the requirements of imaging X-rays in space, says DLR spokesperson Andreas Schütz. The spacecraft's mirrors had to be heavily shielded from heat that could have wrecked its X-ray sensing operations during its eight-year working life. But this means those mirrors will be far more likely to survive a fiery re-entry.

Humorously enough, I just started watching Dead Like Me, and the main character is killed in the first episode by a falling space station toilet seat returning to Earth.

I wonder if it will still be broadcasting images while it crashes to earth.