The Fall from Orbit’s Gonna Kill You
[Donna] doesn’t know that [man-made objects in orbit] fall out of the sky all the time. Once every ten days, as a matter of fact. Since the first year we started putting man-made objects in space, 17,000 have come back and remarkably, not one person has been hit.– The West Wing, “The Fall’s Gonna Kill You”
Thus, we started putting objects in orbit about the time (1535 C.E.) that Henry VIII formed the Church of England.
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