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1K-pound rocket debris hurtles to Earth and smashes into village as Kenya hunts for owner

www.rawstory.com 1K-pound rocket debris hurtles to Earth and smashes into village as Kenya hunts for owner

A 1,100-pound piece of rocket debris plummeted to the Earth this week and smashed into a village in Kenya, officials in that country said on New Year's Day.A metallic ring measuring about 8 feet "fell from the skies" and landed in Mukuku Village in Makueni County on Monday, the Kenya Space Agency sa...

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It’s the Cowboy Bebop future. Earth will have so much shit orbiting it that debris strikes will become commonplace.
- It's called Kessler Syndrome.

If I hurled an 1100-pound object indiscriminately into the air, the government would hunt me down and put me in jail for years.
But nothing will happen to the government or corporation responsible for this.
- In all likelihood if it was you then there is much Kenya could do anyway
- Is your government in Kenya?

K-pound? Really?
- What, you don't use kilopounds?
- The figure obviously started as 500kg, and then the Americans got to it.
  
  Americans know what kilo means?!?!
- Half a ton, if you really want to stick to imperial...
  What next? Centigallons? Megafurlongs?
  
  My car gets 30 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
- K is common short hand for a thousand.
  
  Is it 1000 or 1024 pounds?
  
  Yes, but generally with SI units (and bytes).
- It goes by kip in more professional settings, but yes.
  
  Yep. Lots of kip feet numbers in engineering. Moments are everywhere and they usually dominate.
- Yeah, it's really shitty writing by someone who probably got the job for favors.
  Just say 1,000...

as Kenya hunts for owner
I'm told God is unavailable.
- Is this a reference to the gods must be crazy?
  
  Yes, and I really need to watch it again.
- Damn I can’t find the original gif from the movie. Here’s a low quality edit I could find.

kilopounds. really‽
- Here in yankland we frequently use k as an abbreviation for thousand.
  
  Aye, everyone does, not just you. But here in the other 97% of the entire fucking planet, nobody knows what a pound is
- As the other comment says, 1000 is often shortened to 1k, not just in America. It comes from the Greek kilo (meaning thousand), represented by kappa, which far predates the Metric system that borrowed it later.

Kenya has a Space Agency???
- Look up pictures of Nairobi. They're not exactly living in the stone age
  
  Not living in the stone age is one thing, but investing billions of dollars and attracting literally the smartest workers on earth is another thing. Generally a country is very large or has a long history of heavy industry to have a space agency.
  Kenya gained independence as a colony in 1963 and have been in political turmoil ever since.
- There's a very sparse wikipedia page about them. Seems like they have launched their own probes.

Didn't have that on the radar!

I'm sure it has been identified days ago, why are they not finding the information?

Luigi is currently a little busy.
Anyway, satellites used to be randomly placed here and there. Now we have grids of them separated by only a few Miles. Imagine...
News: Elon G2 satellite debris expected overnight on a large portion of main street NewYork, followed by acid rain. This marks the event as a tree Sputniks on the Fred Scale.

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