A 20-year-old satellite is expected to crash into Earth later this week, and the debris has a roughly 1-in-3,200 chance of hitting a person, NASA officials say. (To be clear: that's the odds that any of the wreckage will hit any of the planet's 7 billion people, not the odds of hitting any specific person.)
I was too young to be a member of the Duck and Cover generation, but my God that video is terrifying. I did however have the pleasure of tornado drills (in the midwest, of course) where we all went in to the hallway and all the little girls crouched down on the floor, hands covering their heads, facing the lockers while all the little boys stood over the girls, pushing against the locker with our hands over our heads, looking almost like we were getting ready to dive, thus forming an arch over the girl below you in order to ensure that any falling debris hit you instead of her.
Seriously.
Even in the first grade I remember thinking that this wasn't entirely fair.
