Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

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NASA rebuked them, you know, saying that this is not, you know, how you handle this. matched

You need a plan. matched

You know, you got to spend the extra little bit of money here to give it a controlled reentry because worst case scenarios are bad. matched

I mean, imagine this landing in Manhattan. matched

I mean, imagine that. matched

So you can't just depend on the roll of the dice. matched

And so NASA, you know, kind of, you know, had some words. matched

um but and this was the second time that this happened and um and i don't remember make anyone making a big deal of it the first time i think i just i missed that one i'm not sure how much of a big deal it was but i consider this you know not a trivial thing um you know and they're they're building a space station and that's and that's wonderful but man come on and now they're saying that china's blaming the u.s for hyping fears um and stuff and uh you know it's matched

In the grand scheme of things, it wasn't probable, but it doesn't matter because worst-case scenarios were not amazingly unlikely, and they could have been devastating. matched

People could have died. matched

Yeah, they're saying that Beijing was being treated unfairly. matched

And they pointed to the reaction to debris from a rocket launched by U.S. matched

aerospace company SpaceX that fell to Earth in the state of Washington or, yeah, on the Oregon coast in March. matched

I wasn't aware of that. matched

So I really can't comment on that because I don't know too many details. matched

I mean, was it a, is this really an apples to apples comparison? matched

Was it really an uncontrolled kind of unplanned, not unplanned, but was this as uncontrolled and intended as a Chinese rocket? matched

I don't know. matched

Sure. matched

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