Wow, I missed this... apparently a couple weeks ago a piece of (probably) the ISS crashed through someone's house in Florida?! And then they asked @planet4589 for help via twitter because they couldn't get NASA to respond to them?!! WOW.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/02/space-trash-florida-home
Space law is going to be very "interesting" in the next couple years as exponentially increasing re-entries cause more damage/casualties on the ground...
@sundogplanets WOW "death by space debris" is pretty high up there on the list of dumb and preventable (but plausible!) ways to die ):
@sundogplanets @planet4589 Imagine the result if space debris that could be conclusively linked to one country’s satellite crashed into another country’s military base.
@sundogplanets @planet4589 new #TreeLaw literally dropped from the sky, LOL
@sundogplanets @planet4589 I’m wondering where this would fall (pun pun) under homeowners insurance policy.
@samhainnight
Acts of god, likely
@sundogplanets @planet4589
@dymaxion @samhainnight Someone (I think here?) told me that home insurance coverage for space debris falls is quite common, because it's an extra thing that sounds good to have, but is extremely unlikely to be needed
@sundogplanets
Oh, fascinating! I'm sure it'll quietly vanish if they have to start actually paying out, then
@samhainnight
@sundogplanets @planet4589 It's interesting: this weekend I had a dream that for some reason I had to contact the ISS for something (I have no NASA connections IRL) and even in the dream was like: "Wait, really?"
@sundogplanets @planet4589 generally, I would tend to consider March 2021 more than a few weeks old in 2024