the sky is falling, the sky is falling

Or maybe it was just an eclipse.

Here's something funny. Now that the Pentagon has apparently hit the spy satellite which will now fall back to earth in pieces, it's telling us that the danger from space debris is very, very small. Hunhh?! wasn't that the reason they gave - danger from falling space debris - for shooting down the thing in the first place?

July 2000 total lunar eclipse by Noel Munford (Palmerston North Astronomical Society, New Zealand)