Years ago, on the TV show Hee Haw, there was a song - sung every week.
Deep, dark depression
Excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair and agony on me”
That being said, there are reports from China today that part of a satellite entered the atmosphere and crashed into a building, destroying an apartment. Like the recent US Genesis probe, this was designed to be recovered... just not from someone's apartment.
I'm only mentioning it because of this quote from the BBC:
If this is supposed to be your omen of good luck, this might be a verrrrry long year.
Blogger's note: Someone pointed me to the Chinese coverage of this story from the People's Daily. Which part of the story is missing?
All the apparatus and instruments aboard the satellite worked normally when it was orbiting the Earth. It accomplished all the jobs for scientific research, land surveying and mapping, according to official sources.
The Xi'an Satellite Measuring and Control Center had monitored the movements of the satellite continuously over the past 18 days, and recovered its return capsule Friday morning, while its apparatus capsule will continue to stay on orbit.
In 1975, China launched its first return satellite for science and technological experiments.
