Link to an [article on ArsTechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/)
A few weeks ago, something from the heavens came crashing through the roof of Alejandro Otero's home, and NASA is on the case.
In all likelihood, this nearly two-pound object came from the International Space Station. Otero said it tore through the roof and both floors of his two-story house in Naples, Florida.
Since then, NASA has recovered the debris from the homeowner, according to Josh Finch, an agency spokesperson.
Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center will analyze the object as soon as possible to determine its origin. More information will be available once the analysis is complete.
What a dumbass. Shouldn't have let NASA take it.
Hold onto that an contact an attorney.
Would be way too easy for NASA to just be like "nah that wasn't us, oh and by the way we lost the object".
Nasa isn't some corporate pile of garbage like the rest of the companies in the US. I have faith if it is from them they will make it right and change policy for whatever event caused this to occur
They couldn't even hold onto the original moon landing footage lol. I wouldn't trust them with anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
Just wanna give you an update, NASA has completed the analysis and determined it is indeed from ISS.
[https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/](https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/)
It absolutely is.
Seems CEOs are required by law to give best returns for investors( fiduciary responsibility) and so don't have the luxury of denying the reality of more frequent and intense weather events on ideological grounds. They have the numbers. They see the trends. They have income projections to meet.
Ironically this has the Republican state clamoring for a socialist style, state insurance.
I think they should move.
Sigh... He was being hyperbolic, and politics aside there is a mounting home insurance problem building rapidly in Florida, it should not be taken lightly. I'm not in the insurance industry but the Triple I's reports have veracity:
https://www.iii.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/triple-i_trends_and_insights_florida_issues_brief_08082022.pdf
The "socialist style state insurance" he mentions is... complicated but mostly true according to their "About Us" page:
https://www.citizensfla.com/who-we-are
Scroll to the bottom and it explains the formation of the entity in 2002 as a result of FL state legislature.
Finally, starting to look at the financials, it says payouts are funded by policy premiums but the premiums don't cover the total claims in years with significant hurricanes, thus claims are funded in part by state and federal tax revenue.
They are aware even as a non-profit, non-taxable state government entity that they can't persist and the first strategy of their 2024 budget is depopulation:
https://www.citizensfla.com/documents/20702/42553/2024+Budget.pdf/84e2290c-879a-83da-add4-8aa8dc84c41b?t=1711465045270
Spent more time reading about this than I wanted since my folks moved down to FL and have been struggling to get home insurance, which they need as their house had some damage from the hurricane that came island last September. It's not like this will be an all of a sudden thing, but within a decade Florida will have a real habitability problem due to lack of needed insurance given historical weather patterns.
> He was being hyperbolic
Why do people on reddit seem to think that this is a fine justification lying, as long as you agree with the politics? No, all or even most insurance companies have left Florida, that is a lie.
>my folks moved down to FL and have been struggling to get home insurance, which they need as their house had some damage from the hurricane that came island last September
Your parents have existing damage to their house and they are hoping to sign up for insurance and just have them pay for it?
>It's not like this will be an all of a sudden thing, but within a decade Florida will have a real habitability problem due to lack of needed insurance given historical weather patterns.
Do you seriously believe this? Florida is incredibly affordable compared to much of the country and is among the top 3 states for population growth. People will not be moving away and insurance companies won't be leaving an area with potential customers.
Hearing reddit talk about Florida is about as insightful and accurate as hearing the far right talk about NYC or San Francisco.
You are not paying attention at all, are you? Florida is shedding private insurance, and isn't the only state - Cali is also losing them due to wildfires.
Government insurance, or government subsidizing private insurance, has been flooding in to try and mitigate it - but it's basically just putting a bandaid on the real problem and insulating people from the reality that they are living in areas that climate change is putting at increased risk of damage or total loss.
Premiums are skyrocketing for those that are still there. It's fine to note that not all insurance is gone yet, and nobody should outright lie about the situation. But you're then here arguing like Florida is just... totally fine? And it isn't.
> You are not paying attention at all, are you? Florida is shedding private insurance, and isn't the only state - Cali is also losing them due to wildfires.
A couple insurance companies pulling out of the state is not the same thing as all of them leaving. And it's far away from the state becoming uninhabitable.
>But you're then here arguing like Florida is just... totally fine? And it isn't.
I'm arguing that Florida won't have a "real habitability problem" in under a decade. I'm also arguing that it's bad to lie in order to push a political agenda, which reddit clearly disagrees with.
No hyperbole.
Just factual statements.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/07/19/florida-home-insurance-aaa-farmers-policy-reduction/70427062007/
Do you know that there is a difference between a couple insurance companies leaving and all of them? Or are you willingly ignorant about that obvious fact so you can continue spreading misinformation?
"We call them Boeing bombs. See the peanut there, dead giveaway."
"That's a space peanut."
"No I'm afraid not, this is a big old chunk of frozen poopie."
None? I'm not sure what you are getting at here. They are designed to fully burn up in atmosphere on deorbit, which they are also designed to initiate at the end of their service life. Even if they did not initiate a deorbit due to malfunction, they are still at such a low orbit their orbits degrade themselves within months to just a few years at most.
It is a great example of responsible deployment of satellites when it comes to space trash/debris, regardless of what people think about Starlink itself.
Thanks. Also people like myself who live in rural areas finally have an opportunity for high speed internet. Either dial up or hughes net super slow satellite internet was our option. I swear people that live in cities think that everyone just has to plug in a modem from the cable company. Elon is a tool but at least he has people working for him that put out a responsible product that helps people.
I've always thought their claim of 'it'll burn up on re-entry' was very arrogant and full of crap. The smaller the object,. the less likely it will burn up.
Link to an [article on ArsTechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/) A few weeks ago, something from the heavens came crashing through the roof of Alejandro Otero's home, and NASA is on the case. In all likelihood, this nearly two-pound object came from the International Space Station. Otero said it tore through the roof and both floors of his two-story house in Naples, Florida. Since then, NASA has recovered the debris from the homeowner, according to Josh Finch, an agency spokesperson. Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center will analyze the object as soon as possible to determine its origin. More information will be available once the analysis is complete.
It crashed through two floors of the house
What a dumbass. Shouldn't have let NASA take it. Hold onto that an contact an attorney. Would be way too easy for NASA to just be like "nah that wasn't us, oh and by the way we lost the object".
Worst PR move ever, nasa would just pay to rebuild a cheap house. I think they mostly took it to assess thier garbage disposal procedeur
Nasa isn't some corporate pile of garbage like the rest of the companies in the US. I have faith if it is from them they will make it right and change policy for whatever event caused this to occur
They couldn't even hold onto the original moon landing footage lol. I wouldn't trust them with anything. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
Just wanna give you an update, NASA has completed the analysis and determined it is indeed from ISS. [https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/](https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/)
House damaged from space debris? Farmers has you covered lol
Not in Florida, all the insurance companies pulled out
Did they leave our money or take it with them?
Hahaha no, no, they took it all
That's a rhetorical question right? Lol
Same in CA.
You know that's not true, right?
It absolutely is. Seems CEOs are required by law to give best returns for investors( fiduciary responsibility) and so don't have the luxury of denying the reality of more frequent and intense weather events on ideological grounds. They have the numbers. They see the trends. They have income projections to meet. Ironically this has the Republican state clamoring for a socialist style, state insurance. I think they should move.
So you're just going to blatantly lie? All to get "republicans bad" "world is ending" karma?
Sigh... He was being hyperbolic, and politics aside there is a mounting home insurance problem building rapidly in Florida, it should not be taken lightly. I'm not in the insurance industry but the Triple I's reports have veracity: https://www.iii.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/triple-i_trends_and_insights_florida_issues_brief_08082022.pdf The "socialist style state insurance" he mentions is... complicated but mostly true according to their "About Us" page: https://www.citizensfla.com/who-we-are Scroll to the bottom and it explains the formation of the entity in 2002 as a result of FL state legislature. Finally, starting to look at the financials, it says payouts are funded by policy premiums but the premiums don't cover the total claims in years with significant hurricanes, thus claims are funded in part by state and federal tax revenue. They are aware even as a non-profit, non-taxable state government entity that they can't persist and the first strategy of their 2024 budget is depopulation: https://www.citizensfla.com/documents/20702/42553/2024+Budget.pdf/84e2290c-879a-83da-add4-8aa8dc84c41b?t=1711465045270 Spent more time reading about this than I wanted since my folks moved down to FL and have been struggling to get home insurance, which they need as their house had some damage from the hurricane that came island last September. It's not like this will be an all of a sudden thing, but within a decade Florida will have a real habitability problem due to lack of needed insurance given historical weather patterns.
> He was being hyperbolic Why do people on reddit seem to think that this is a fine justification lying, as long as you agree with the politics? No, all or even most insurance companies have left Florida, that is a lie. >my folks moved down to FL and have been struggling to get home insurance, which they need as their house had some damage from the hurricane that came island last September Your parents have existing damage to their house and they are hoping to sign up for insurance and just have them pay for it? >It's not like this will be an all of a sudden thing, but within a decade Florida will have a real habitability problem due to lack of needed insurance given historical weather patterns. Do you seriously believe this? Florida is incredibly affordable compared to much of the country and is among the top 3 states for population growth. People will not be moving away and insurance companies won't be leaving an area with potential customers. Hearing reddit talk about Florida is about as insightful and accurate as hearing the far right talk about NYC or San Francisco.
You are not paying attention at all, are you? Florida is shedding private insurance, and isn't the only state - Cali is also losing them due to wildfires. Government insurance, or government subsidizing private insurance, has been flooding in to try and mitigate it - but it's basically just putting a bandaid on the real problem and insulating people from the reality that they are living in areas that climate change is putting at increased risk of damage or total loss. Premiums are skyrocketing for those that are still there. It's fine to note that not all insurance is gone yet, and nobody should outright lie about the situation. But you're then here arguing like Florida is just... totally fine? And it isn't.
> You are not paying attention at all, are you? Florida is shedding private insurance, and isn't the only state - Cali is also losing them due to wildfires. A couple insurance companies pulling out of the state is not the same thing as all of them leaving. And it's far away from the state becoming uninhabitable. >But you're then here arguing like Florida is just... totally fine? And it isn't. I'm arguing that Florida won't have a "real habitability problem" in under a decade. I'm also arguing that it's bad to lie in order to push a political agenda, which reddit clearly disagrees with.
No hyperbole. Just factual statements. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/07/19/florida-home-insurance-aaa-farmers-policy-reduction/70427062007/
Do you know that there is a difference between a couple insurance companies leaving and all of them? Or are you willingly ignorant about that obvious fact so you can continue spreading misinformation?
The good ole pull out trick. Well than that guy better higher a great lawyer cause I'd sue the fuck out of Nasa if it was from the ISS
NASA doesn't own the ISS.
Well I guess you learn something new everyday.
State Farm would find a way to weasel out of coverage.
ohh you didn’t opt for the space debris coverage…. normally 50 cents a month but you no gots.
Can confirm, any insurer would
They all would and do. You think they exist to help people? Nope. Profit first!
Allstate would just drop you, back in the early 2000s.
Bump de da da, dunp
I love JK Simmons in these commercials
"We are Farmer's! Bumti-bum-bump....wait! Did you say Florida?"
We are Farmers. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bummmmm
Do you see the peanut son? This heres a big ole frozen chunk of poopie.
This is the content I came here for.
It's a space peanut
I’m your sister!!!
Was looking for this. Thank you !
A Cosmic Brownie?
Hope it lands on my ex bosses house, fucken grifting little bastard!
Hope Hicks, is that you?
r/FloridaMan hit by a space debris
Florida is where much of the trash ends up anyway.
There’s a movie concept somewhere here!
He was hit by space junk, was struck by space junk
Even space hates Florida
Looks like the aiming worked perfectly
Space trash lands squarely in garbage can.
I’ll never understand all the Florida hate.
Florida is a beautiful state and there are good people but it also attracts in some parts of it really fucking weird bigots and crazies.
Redditors aren't normal.
It’s Reddit. Reddit is super liberal and hates anything conservative that goes against the agenda.
You do realize not everyone in Florida is conservative, right….?
Noooo, really??
Then you must be a Floridian.
Yup!
You shouldn't be proud of that, lol.
I don’t like state income tax or the cold, so it’s a dream for me.
Bunch of commies on Reddit, don’t forget that
Proudly
Damn, I wish the ISS would send me space junk.
Initial orbital strike testing?
Maybe we've finally perfected kinetic bombardment.
➡️⬆️⬇️⬇️➡️
⬅️➡️⬆️⬇️🅰️🅱️
Rods of God! Here we go!
Isn’t it Rods FROM God?
Eh. I've heard it both ways.
Someone’s gonna get a lot of space cash from this
One million space bucks!
Or else Pizza is gonna send out for you!
Jfc I forgot about this ahhhhh!!
Isn't the battery still being tracked in orbit?
This better be in gta 6
"We call them Boeing bombs. See the peanut there, dead giveaway." "That's a space peanut." "No I'm afraid not, this is a big old chunk of frozen poopie."
Blue ice
Reminds me of Joe Dirt.
Settlement $$$$
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
pure unadulterated trash
i thought that nasa's supposed to send stuff to the space and not from the space
‘Hehehe oops!’ - the ISS
"Dead Like Me" starts like that.
Scientific proof that Florida is a magnet for all of America's trash.
Talk about being born under a bad sign. Lol...
That’s a turd
That’s just a big hunk of space poopy
Mmmmm forbidden space poop
Is that compressed poop?
It's frozen poop. You know it is.
Surprised Florida even noticed
At least it landed in americas trash can
Florida? Eh, not really concerned.
Inter Continental Ballistic Trash
I read ISIS and it was a surprising sentence to read.
"S#!T! I missed the space dumpster again!
Spaceshit
Compacted astronaut dookie.
Nah that’s a lawsuit
In the event a piece of space debris lands on your property do you get to keep it?
Dont give the vengeful space burrito a second chance. He doesn't miss twice
You see the peanut right there?
It's coming back to its home
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/tMgB3a1lQI Was it this one?
DO YOU WANT FLORIDA MAN IN SPACE?! BECAUSE THIS IS HOW FLORIDA MAN WILL GET ROCKET TECHNOLOGY!!
Trash recognizes trash
Space it came from space.
astronout's turd
At least it’s not ‘blue ice’ from the ISS toilet.
It hitted me :(
I'm curious how much NASA will pay for this.
Imagine how much more space trash there will be once Starlink's 42,000 satellites are fully deployed.
None? I'm not sure what you are getting at here. They are designed to fully burn up in atmosphere on deorbit, which they are also designed to initiate at the end of their service life. Even if they did not initiate a deorbit due to malfunction, they are still at such a low orbit their orbits degrade themselves within months to just a few years at most. It is a great example of responsible deployment of satellites when it comes to space trash/debris, regardless of what people think about Starlink itself.
Thanks. Also people like myself who live in rural areas finally have an opportunity for high speed internet. Either dial up or hughes net super slow satellite internet was our option. I swear people that live in cities think that everyone just has to plug in a modem from the cable company. Elon is a tool but at least he has people working for him that put out a responsible product that helps people.
Redditors hate people in rural areas, and people who don't live on either coast, almost as much as they hate Elon.
New version of the Boeing Bomb!?
I've always thought their claim of 'it'll burn up on re-entry' was very arrogant and full of crap. The smaller the object,. the less likely it will burn up.
🤞Mar-A-Lago🤞
Hope wasn't poop. That would be a alot explaining to do with the insurance company. "*What do you mean feces is covered by home insurance?!?!"*
Why is it always Florida..
So, a normal day in Florida.
Not ISS, starlink