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Is There a Ten % Chance That Rocket Debris Hits Someone on Earth This Decade?
There are already treaties governing the liability of who pays who off if a rocket hits your house that comes in from space, which is kind of far yes. A yets, jicarda, daca, mexico city, bogata and lagos are at least three times as likely to have a rocket body re enter over them on the basis of the current rocket body population in orbit. When these things de orbit, they're more likely to be over the southern hemisphere than than the northern hemisphere. It's the er, it's the plot of the film gravity, starringa george cloney and susan srandon.
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