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US family sues Nasa for $80,000 in damages after space debris hits home
(www.theguardian.com)
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That's hardly even a story - house repairs cost a lot of money, and NASA's equipment (by their own admission) caused the damage.
It's only the police that get away with ruining people's things without paying.
yeah whats newsworthy to me is the low value. Is the guy doing the work himself?
$80,000 seems more than reasonable to fix a roof and floor imo.
Guessing the ceiling took a hit as well
Space debris hitting a house is newsworthy in and of itself. It's rare and fascinating.
yeah that story was like a week before.though. maybe longer as I first saw it on broadcast news. this is a followup.
Ahhh, I didn't see it before.
I dunno, if a car kicks up a rock from the road and smashes a windscreen, that's considered no one's fault. Even though the car in front kicked it up.
In this case, NASA have assumed that things would burn up in re-entry, based on past experience and modelling. For some reason that didn't happen here. However, that might not be enough to prove liability - if NASA is considered to already make reasonable efforts to prevent this.
A rock falling from a truck's load on the highway however is the fault of the truck owner, regardless of whatever bumper sticker they want to put saying otherwise. Trucks are required to properly secure their loads.
This isn't random space debris that existed and entered the atmosphere without NASA involvement.
Indeed, the difference between the two is that a driver has no responsibility for any debris already present on the road that they inadvertently caused to damage something. They are however responsible for damage caused by any object they themselves introduced to the roadway.
The NASA equivalent would be pretty straightforward, they are not responsible for any space rocks that they accidentally disturbed from orbit and caused to land on your house, but they are fully responsible if thier own craft or parts thereof fell from space onto your house.