On Tuesday, a giant metal ring fell out of the sky into a small village in Kenya.
It looks like a giant sprocket. And by giant, I mean 8 feet in diameter. It’s big enough that a man could stand inside of it, hold on to the edges, and roll down the street. It weighs 1,100 pounds.
Experts don’t know where it came from, but they’re pretty sure it fell from a space rocket. They think it fell off after a booster separation.
I listened to a guy from the Kenyan Space Agency explain it. But he kind of lost me when he mentioned how they would analyze it to find and legally go after the “Person” responsible. He didn’t say “agency” or “country”. He said “person” as if this is another one of Dr. Evil’s plans. Otherwise, I can only think of two “persons” who have control of an entire space program; Musk and Bezos. What does Kenya know that the rest of the world doesn’t???
Now that I think about it. I could totally see Musk flying around in a giant Big Boy Hamburger statue.
Or, that thing could have been floating around in space for decades and finally decided to take a deep dive.
Luckily, no one was hurt.