American Satellite

[Action Man]

American satellite is reported to have failed and is heading towards Aberdeen. U.S. and U.K.  governments anticipate the impact will cause up to ?20M in improvements to the city.

[Guest TinCanFan]

Just as well that asteroid didn't hit the other day as well then.

[clacher_holiday2]

They were talking about this on BBC News 24 (my favorite TV channel these days  :017:) for about 25 minutes, ironically the jist of the coverage was that the satellite is harmless and that worse falls to earth everyday.

I did enjoy the space boffs getting their few minutes of air time though, was good for them to get out of their obviously dingy offices for the day, you couldnt help but be impressed with their passion for geostationary orbits, the upper atmosphere and their flowing solar system graphics.  Was all good stuff.

:022:

The next piece was a thing about Miss Belgium, it all happened a few weeks ago but apparently shes the first ever to not speak Flemish, they showed a few clips of the competition and the anger behind the boo's during her victory speech (think it was a Polish accent) made my day.  The story on the night I watched it was about a racism debate thats been ongoing since, with most of the country called for her head and the minority pleading for tolerance.

My take on it all was that everybody involved seriously needs to relax  :015:

NEWSWATCH 24 WILL CONTINUE NEXT TIME I HAPPEN TO HAVE IT ON.. stay tuned..