NASA puts the chance of this six-ton piece of defunct equipment hitting a human somewhere on the planet at 1 in 3,200, despite a trail of debris that will likely stretch to about 500 miles.
Avoiding collisions in LEO is a pressing issue because it's already a crowded region of space in terms of objects like existing satellites, as well as debris from spacecraft, defunct equipment and more.
Once, years ago, he gave a talk in Los Alamos and was taken to the Black Hole, a store that sold defunct scientific equipment that had been bought in bulk from the National Laboratory by the store's owner, a nuclear-weapons technician turned peace activist.
Inside, they'll suit you up with coveralls, leather gloves and a full face mask before handing you a crowbar and unleashing you on a room full of defunct office equipment.
Surgical operations in the biggest hospital have had to be stopped because basic equipment is defunct and drugs have run out.
After the accident, the now defunct team's old equipment manager, Leonel Olmos, called the former player Mario Caneo Franklinin had an accident in the mine," said Olmos.
Last year's field season was devoted to hauling equipment from a defunct ice station two hundred and seventy-five miles away.
When Eric Will, an upstate New York dealer in industrial equipment, bought a defunct Miller brewery near Syracuse, N.Y.
When Eric Will, an upstate New York dealer in industrial equipment, bought a defunct Miller brewery near Syracuse, New York six years ago, he figured he could sell the machinery for a quick profit.
In addition to "Ghosts," another commercial, entitled "Auction," shows the sale of the dismantled equipment of an old-fashioned, presumably defunct, stock exchange -- everything from computer monitors to traders' jackets to boxes of ticker tape.
Ottaline is walking around the defunct gravel quarry where her father drags worn-out equipment when she hears a hoarse, whispered voice coming from the John Deere 4030: "Sweetheart, lady-girl".
