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    5 hours ago

    Reentry survival is a materials question. If someone decides heat resistant ceramic is cheaper all is well until that cames down and we discover it doesn’t vaporize like iron (or whatever they make it with)

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      3 hours ago

      If someone decides heat resistant ceramic is cheaper all is well until that cames down and we discover it doesn’t vaporize like iron

      Yeah because that’s likely. You do realise that everything that goes up has to pass inspections right they don’t just let people do random things. Anything that gets put in orbit is verified by people way smarter than you or me. You really don’t need to worry about it.

      There’s lots of stuff in this world to be concerned about but being hit by the orbiting asteroid is absolutely not one of them.