OT Re: Lost bolt, no LBC , but we have all done it

["bjshov8" <bjshov8@comcast.net>]

As I understand it, they are travelling about 18,000 mph, so if a nut 
"floats away" then it is also travelling at basically 18,000 mph.  So if its 
orbit manages to intersect the perpendicular orbit of a satellite, shuttle, 
or astronaut, there will be one heckuva collision.

The fastest factory-loaded rifle bullets travel about 2,700 mph, and that's 
pretty darned fast.  Experimenters have managed up to about 3,800 mph, so 
18,000 is incredibly fast.


> Space debris can be dangerous if it punctures space station walls or