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Space junk falls on Western Australian minesite
- zeristor 1y agoHow could one tell if there were toxic hypergolic fuel residue in the debris?
- plugger 1y agoI would like to think most of that would have been consumed, the thing was still on fire when it hit the ground.
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- colechristensen 1y agoOne wouldn't easily. But assuming it may is a necessary precaution. Hydrazine is common and harmful in rather small amounts.
- shantara 1y agoThe standard advice is to keep your distance and contact the authorities. The debris can easily have low enough level of hypergolics to be unnoticeable, but high enough to cause health problems
- dsign 1y agoWhy is it so impossible to get high quality images of anything space-related? Even when it re-enters and is photographed on Earth?
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoBecause it is still covered in residual reality distortion shreds from the field which is camouflaging all the UFOs.
- andrewstuart 1y agoKinda weird people don’t know this. Weren’t they paying attention in school?
- plugger 1y agoBecause these photos were taken by miners out in the middle of nowhere with their phones.
- daneel_w 1y agohttps://viewfromthewing.com/did-space-debris-hit-a-united-flight-over-the-rockies-thursday-heres-what-we-know-so-far/ https://viewfromthewing.com/did-space-debris-hit-a-united-fl... More unconfirmed images here: https://img.pr0gramm.com/2025/10/18/90eed05d6c29e0ce.png https://img.pr0gramm.com/2025/10/18/90eed05d6c29e0ce.png
- andrewstuart 1y agoThe whole of Western Australia is a mine site so it’s pretty much a sure thing for space junk to hit a mine site if it comes down anywhere in the half of Australia.
- NoPicklez 1y agoIts not significant it hit a mine site, but to call out that it didn't land in the middle of nowhere.
- defrost 1y agoTrue, the GP comment is also playing the Queensland is all bannanas, Tasmanian's are all inbred, <insert stereo type> card here. There are many mines in W.Australia, there's also highly productive grain growing agricultural land larger in size than the entire United Kingdom, similarly large areas of native title and defence training land, wine growing regions, etc.