Denvercoder9 a year ago

It's not space debris, it's the deliberate disposal of the upper stage of the rocket precisely to prevent it from becoming space debris. The time and location of re-entry are planned and controlled. This is not going to crash into your neighborhood (except if you're neighborhood is in certain areas of China, where they they happily dump spent rocket stages on populated areas).

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  • lazide a year ago

    To be fair, I’m not sure happily describes it. Indifferently? ‘We warned them and they didn’t move, so f them?’ Ly?

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IncreasePosts a year ago

Are international waters in the southern Indian ocean Qantas' neighborhood?

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  • sangnoir a year ago

    Would you ask the same question if it were Long March rocket debris falling into the Atlantic with very short notices from China?

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  • bmitc a year ago

    It's not the waters that's important here. It's the debris passing through the flight path.

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    • marvin a year ago

      Another way of phrasing the situation is that Quantas _very inconveniently_ chose to put their flight path straight through the projected trajectory of rocket debris.

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    • whataguy a year ago

      Qantas doesn't own the flight path either?

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      • rising-sky a year ago

        Oh common?! Do you own the travel path when driving down the highway? No you don't but there are agreed upon and codified rules on right of way that protect your right to safe passage or navigation. Similar convention applies to air space and air travel, look up Annex 2: Rules of the Air by ICAO which outlines right of way principles for air travel

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wtcactus a year ago

That’s because I own my back yard. Qantas doesn’t own a 3D space in the sky.

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