Comment Re:"Satellite" is really high altitude balloon. (Score 1) 63
a huge chunk of metal fell from the sky into their yard, and could easily have hit their house instead. It's irresponsible of Samsung to allow it, whether a satellite or a high altitude balloon payload, to come down in a populated area!
Watching the video I would argue the word "fell" is used loosely here. The balloon payload in the video is nearly intact, including the delicate bits. I suspect it slowly returned to earth after the balloon lost sufficient lift. Sure, it could have damaged some roof shingles. Unclear how well thought through this was by Samsung, but to their credit I did just type the name of their company twice and am about to again.
An aside--what terrible reporting of facts by that news outlet to allow Samsung's marketing team to write their story. Guess they wanted to turn facts into a story.
