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Cas A represents our best opportunity to look at the debris field of an exploded star and run a kind of stellar autopsy to understand what type of star was there beforehand and how that star exploded, compared to previous infrared images, we see incredible detail that we haven’t been able to access before. – Danny Milisavljevic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don’t take it lightly. There’s a lot of focused effort that goes into calling those so we understand the gravity of asking people to voluntarily leave their homes, but it’s also weighed with the ability for us to rescue people, knowing that it’s going to be a very difficult – if not impossible – task to get through just tons of tons of dirt and debris where we just literally can’t make access. – Grant Malinowski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There were no skid marks around his body. There was no vehicular debris found. His loosely tied shoes were still on his feet. – Ronnie Richter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We identified (the pollution) mainly comes from fishing nets, which is very common debris on Trinidade Island’s beaches, the (nets) are dragged by the marine currents and accumulate on the beach. When the temperature rises, this plastic melts and becomes embedded with the beach’s natural material. – Fernanda Avelar Santos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some windows at our neighboring building in front of us were blown out, cars were damaged and debris was on the ground on fire. – Stephenie Davis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present. – Glen VanHerck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why not shoot Western Mindanao down ? We have to do the risk-reward here, so the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in United States in the United States homeland ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side ? Our best assessment right now is that it does not. So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it was n’t worth it. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died. – Craig Tucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we saw was a huge wall of debris radiating out from the sample site, we were like,' Holy cow !' Every time we tested the sample pickup procedure in the lab, we barely made a divot. – Dante Lauretta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The sounds were loud and there were just a lot of them, you could smell the sulfur from the guns and debris was flying across the room and the students were crying. – Dara Haas	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Debris and vehicles washed downstream in the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River from the campground. – Perrin Anderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These types of events, which are ice and debris avalanches, are impulsive, rapid, unpredictable phenomena, reaching very high speeds and involving large masses, and there is no chance of getting to safety or perceiving the problem in advance, because by the time you perceive it, you've already been hit. – Nicola Casagli	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet. – Bill Cooke	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The doors were barricaded with debris, i could see fleas and bugs and piles from floor to ceiling, and I can smell urine and feces. – Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Since the emergency was declared, thousands of people have been referred to health and human services, hundreds have received shelter, and tons and tons of trash and debris have been removed from the streets, while we’ve made noticeable progress, we’ve made a commitment to the Tenderloin community and we’re continuing our emergency response. – San Francisco	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It will stop certain rounds and obviously protect you from, you know, headshots and falling debris and some of the things that we're seeing on TV. – Sheriff Kurt Hoffman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a real need for us here on Earth who don't work in the space industry to begin to understand how space debris impacts us every day, many of us don't realize how much of our lives are reliant on services delivered from and through space — GPS services, financial transactions, climate monitoring. Our life on Earth is connected to space and even the smallest debris orbiting the Earth can damage and destroy these critical capabilities for some of the most basic aspects of our day-to-day life. – Steve Wozniak	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was a constant battle just trying to get through all of that [debris] to see if we could find anybody, help anybody, you’re grateful to survive but you feel guilty … each day makes it a little bit easier, but it’s hard to look at your town and see everything basically flattened. – Taylor Massey	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is the largest ocean area without any islands. It is just the safest area where the long fall-out zone of debris after a re-entry fits into. – Holger Krag	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As a community, we all came together and started clearing the roads and getting the debris off the roads so that the paramedics and fire( personnel) could get in there to the... candle factory. – Adam Slack	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Their house is splintered, there's debris strewn forever out in the field, and so they were sucked up into the tornado. – Sandra Hooker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't remember seeing the Arizona get hit, but I remember being at the bow of our ship and a big high tower of flame and debris came off of her, it's getting harder to remember these things, but I remember trying not to get killed during the war. Like most people. – Ike Schab	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Five minutes ago, The International Space Station avoided a conjunction with the Dmitry Rogozin space debris, the Pegasus carrier rocket remnants. – Dmitry Rogozin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was around 1:30 in the( morning) and debris started flowing down, it was raining heavily and we heard it moving. – Anish Yadav	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Cas A represents our best opportunity to look at the debris field of an exploded star and run a kind of stellar autopsy to understand what type of star was there beforehand and how that star exploded, compared to previous infrared images, we see incredible detail that we haven’t been able to access before.

– Danny Milisavljevic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t take it lightly. There’s a lot of focused effort that goes into calling those so we understand the gravity of asking people to voluntarily leave their homes, but it’s also weighed with the ability for us to rescue people, knowing that it’s going to be a very difficult – if not impossible – task to get through just tons of tons of dirt and debris where we just literally can’t make access.

– Grant Malinowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were no skid marks around his body. There was no vehicular debris found. His loosely tied shoes were still on his feet.

– Ronnie Richter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We identified (the pollution) mainly comes from fishing nets, which is very common debris on Trinidade Island’s beaches, the (nets) are dragged by the marine currents and accumulate on the beach. When the temperature rises, this plastic melts and becomes embedded with the beach’s natural material.

– Fernanda Avelar Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some windows at our neighboring building in front of us were blown out, cars were damaged and debris was on the ground on fire.

– Stephenie Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

– Glen VanHerck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why not shoot Western Mindanao down ? We have to do the risk-reward here, so the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in United States in the United States homeland ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation ? Our assessment is it does not. Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side ? Our best assessment right now is that it does not. So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it was n’t worth it.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died.

– Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we saw was a huge wall of debris radiating out from the sample site, we were like,' Holy cow !' Every time we tested the sample pickup procedure in the lab, we barely made a divot.

– Dante Lauretta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The sounds were loud and there were just a lot of them, you could smell the sulfur from the guns and debris was flying across the room and the students were crying.

– Dara Haas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Debris and vehicles washed downstream in the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River from the campground.

– Perrin Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These types of events, which are ice and debris avalanches, are impulsive, rapid, unpredictable phenomena, reaching very high speeds and involving large masses, and there is no chance of getting to safety or perceiving the problem in advance, because by the time you perceive it, you've already been hit.

– Nicola Casagli

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.

– Bill Cooke

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The doors were barricaded with debris, i could see fleas and bugs and piles from floor to ceiling, and I can smell urine and feces.

– Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Since the emergency was declared, thousands of people have been referred to health and human services, hundreds have received shelter, and tons and tons of trash and debris have been removed from the streets, while we’ve made noticeable progress, we’ve made a commitment to the Tenderloin community and we’re continuing our emergency response.

– San Francisco

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It will stop certain rounds and obviously protect you from, you know, headshots and falling debris and some of the things that we're seeing on TV.

– Sheriff Kurt Hoffman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a real need for us here on Earth who don't work in the space industry to begin to understand how space debris impacts us every day, many of us don't realize how much of our lives are reliant on services delivered from and through space — GPS services, financial transactions, climate monitoring. Our life on Earth is connected to space and even the smallest debris orbiting the Earth can damage and destroy these critical capabilities for some of the most basic aspects of our day-to-day life.

– Steve Wozniak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was a constant battle just trying to get through all of that [debris] to see if we could find anybody, help anybody, you’re grateful to survive but you feel guilty … each day makes it a little bit easier, but it’s hard to look at your town and see everything basically flattened.

– Taylor Massey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is the largest ocean area without any islands. It is just the safest area where the long fall-out zone of debris after a re-entry fits into.

– Holger Krag

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a community, we all came together and started clearing the roads and getting the debris off the roads so that the paramedics and fire( personnel) could get in there to the... candle factory.

– Adam Slack

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Their house is splintered, there's debris strewn forever out in the field, and so they were sucked up into the tornado.

– Sandra Hooker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't remember seeing the Arizona get hit, but I remember being at the bow of our ship and a big high tower of flame and debris came off of her, it's getting harder to remember these things, but I remember trying not to get killed during the war. Like most people.

– Ike Schab

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Five minutes ago, The International Space Station avoided a conjunction with the Dmitry Rogozin space debris, the Pegasus carrier rocket remnants.

– Dmitry Rogozin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was around 1:30 in the( morning) and debris started flowing down, it was raining heavily and we heard it moving.

– Anish Yadav

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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