Did you happen to catch the headlines the last few weeks?

I thought they had made a sequel to the 1998 film Armageddon, and an asteroid the size of Texas was in the express lane headed for earth with Bruce Willlis driving.  I was wrong.  In reality a US Spy Satellite has changed course and is heading for your backyard. 
The controversy lies in the possible damage and sizable carnage that could result from impact.
The reason I bring this up has a very logical explanation and quite possibly be amusing in a sad sad way.
Apparently all avenues of solving this situation have been thrown out the window.  Contact with the satellites computer system is useless and the hydrogen gas that fuels the satellite has run out to a point in which adjusting the course is unlikely going to work. 
Before I make my point I'd like to ask a question.  What is the price tag associated with this Satellite?  From building, maintaining and now destruction.
As what seems to me a last resort, the US Military will be firing a missile to  BLOW your hard earned TAX Dollars across the earths atmosphere, amounting in a Fire Works Show that would make the Fourth of July seem like a birthday candle being blown out.
It might be a good time to bring the dogs in from the back yard because the singed ashes of your hard earned Tax Dollars are going to be raining down like a Winter Wonderland that would make Disney blush. 
China has passed along re-assurance, they apparently shot a satellite down last year and, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said more than 17,000 human-made objects have re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the past 50 years without major incident.  Most, if any, debris that survives the intense heat of re-entry would likely fall into the oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet.
Do you feel better about the situation?  Well if you seem to be in the path of a falling object, go buy a Lotto ticket, the odds are in your favor.  At this point you must be scratching your head, wondering why stories like these arent episodes in the Twilight Zone. 

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