Watch your head!
Francis Sedgemore, Thursday 22 September 2011 at 13:09 UTC
If anyone were to get splatted tomorrow by the de-orbiting UARS satellite, I imagine that’ll be upper atmosphere research gone for Burton. For the past decade and more, this scientific discipline has been hanging on for dear life, increasingly starved of funding, and a small shift in public opinion could finish it off for good. Space weather – who cares?
At one in 3,200, the chances are relatively high that someone somewhere is toast.
Feed the writer! 
Thursday 22 September 2011 at 14:51 UTC
I can do with a titanium fuel tank. I’ve purchased a (Chinese) yard pool, inflatable one fer crying out loud. Big mistake that…
Thursday 22 September 2011 at 14:54 UTC
Is that like a kiddy paddling pool?
Saturday 24 September 2011 at 09:31 UTC
Yep. A plastic thingy 2.5 meters diameter and leaks air from that upper inflatable toroid that keeps it all standing and holding water. Well, it doesn’t – keep, I mean. Blast it…
Saturday 24 September 2011 at 09:33 UTC
I imagine that someone south of Calgary has got your titanium tank. Hopefully not on their head.