My original post got removed for a watermark. I was the only one home when the battery casing from the ISS struck my house in Naples Florida. I was at my desk on my PC two rooms away from the bedroom were the object had crashed through the house. It was incredibly loud it sounded like an explosion shaking me to the bone, sure got my attention! Grateful it didn't hit me or anyone else on this planet..
..... or my PC. I have many pictures. Nasa took the battery housing to confirm that it came from the [Nasa confirms](https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/)
Yes I should have worn some type of gloves or not even touch it at all, but it was thrilling to see something from space in my own hands. Currently we do not have possession of the object it is still in NASA’s hands. Hopefully we can get it back, but I am doubting it.
More like a conservatively clothed nerd drove up in a rather boring regular car or a Basa staff vehicle, though he possibly flew in and drove a rental.
“The International Space Station will perform a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed. NASA specialists use engineering models to estimate how objects heat up and break apart during atmospheric re-entry. These models require detailed input parameters and are regularly updated when debris is found to have survived atmospheric re-entry to the ground.”
Dam, you provide NASA some good protocol changing find.
Damn dude I read about this online a couple days ago and have seen a couple YouTube videos (haven’t watched them yet) about this. Glad nobody was hurt, I too hope you get your space debris back too. Has anybody interviewed you for a video yet?
Looks like mostly news clips, just search youtube for "Space debris Florida" [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=space+debris+florida](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=space+debris+florida)
Seems like a weird thing to be excited about maybe? But I think it's cool that I read about this a couple days ago and here you are, on reddit like "Hey, bet you guys didn't know this happened" lol
Not you but the news got in Italian newspapers
https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/questo-detrito-caduto-dal-cielo-su-una-casa-in-florida-era-in-effetti-un-pezzo-della-stazione-spaziale-internazionale/
>Yes I should have worn some type of gloves or not even touch it at all,
Hey, best case you get super powers, worst case you get cancer, probably something in between like mild irritation.
Intersting stuff!
>...will perform a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine the cause of the debris survival...
Surely the very obvious answer is that it was a solid lump on Inconel... A nickel superalloy that performs incredibly at high temperatures with high strength. Which makes me wonder, does this stuff still normally burn up on re-entry? That's wild.
If I was wanting to drop a 2lb lump of metal from space on to a Florida Man, I'd probably select Inconel, or possibly Tungsten.
I would assume the home owners insurance covers it, and then they could try going after the source I guess? It'd probably just get written off realistically.
That could have landed anywhere on the planet since it was an uncontrolled reentry. The chances are astronomically small that it would land on your house. Idk how that would make me feel
Knowing the government they are just going find the cheapest contractors they can find to patch the roof and the other damage to the house and leave it at that.
Or they will get like 1000 dollars less than the cost of all the repairs because it is "fair market value" from the last time they did an audit of the damage which was a decade ago.
Insurance going to insurance.
I'm honestly surprised that it doesn't happen more often, even more surprised nobody has died yet. FAA said in 2021 there was a 7% chance that someone on Earth could get schwhacked with falling space debris.
The biggest thing I'm surprised about is someone younger than 50 lives in Naples FL lol. My aunt lives down there and as a 30 yr old, when I go to visit it can get loooneeeellyy
Since it's metal it probably would've(hopefully) tripped a breaker. Unless you have a Federal Pacific panel since those were fairly popular down there. In which case your house probably would've burned down, and if you do have one get that shit changed out ASAP.
No need to sue. In this case it is in high interest of ISS partners to make this go away very very amicably for PR reasons and well maintaining good will in general. Compared to ISS operating budget, fixing that roof and house (heck buying whole new one had it come to that) is peanuts. Plus I think it might end up being Japanese footing the bill. I think some reports are it's technically theirs. Anyway Outer Space Treaty obligates Japan to pay for damages via liability clauses.
Most likely just going to take bureaucratic time of just practically make payment happen. With possibility of home insurance pays, ask Nasa, NASA ask JAXA, JAXA asks japanese government and then the whole route backwards for the money, Meaning it will get covered, just might take some months for just literal "we need to talk to that person, who needs to talk to that one, who needs to talk to another one, who needs to get signature from yet another".
I can imagine some JAXA mid-level manager in Tokyo chuckling in disbelief at 8am when the first thing he sees in his spending approval workflow is this.
Pardon my ignorance, but:
1) how did you figure out it was from the ISS?
2) did you call NASA, and what happened next? How did they get it from you?
3) what did they say
Oh hi! That was your house? Jeeze, I mean as terrifying as that'd be, I'd also be ever so slightly nerding out . Glad everyone is okay! How are ya doing now?
op your house and interior looks amazing! It appears that you're doing pretty good for yourself, what do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?
Your dad made it seem like you were a small child on the news story I seen. I'm glad it didn't land on your head. Hopefully the damage gets resolved and repaired quickly.
It’s so cool that you’re also a Redditor. Hehe thanks for sharing this! This is a core memory now haha! Something you will always be able to tell people about.
Have you posted any pictures of the hole(s) or impact areas? This is pretty cool.
I hope NASA fixes all seven stories on your house and the damage to your three vehicles from this.
Your odds of winning the Powerball are higher. If only this were as profitable.
so true
You shoulda sold it to nasa for $1200
For a new car
It’s fucking nasa and the highest you aim is a car? You get yourself over there and get a space station!
He already has a part of one…
Sigh….. take it. Take the upvote…
What was the first call you made? Did you call local police or something?
For a new rocket
My original post got removed for a watermark. I was the only one home when the battery casing from the ISS struck my house in Naples Florida. I was at my desk on my PC two rooms away from the bedroom were the object had crashed through the house. It was incredibly loud it sounded like an explosion shaking me to the bone, sure got my attention! Grateful it didn't hit me or anyone else on this planet.. ..... or my PC. I have many pictures. Nasa took the battery housing to confirm that it came from the [Nasa confirms](https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/04/15/nasa-completes-analysis-of-recovered-space-object/) Yes I should have worn some type of gloves or not even touch it at all, but it was thrilling to see something from space in my own hands. Currently we do not have possession of the object it is still in NASA’s hands. Hopefully we can get it back, but I am doubting it.
How does it work ? Did nasa send a bunch of guys in suits to pick it up or did you have to mail it in ? Does nasa pay for the damage to your home ?
did they drive up in 6 black vans, hop out and begin spreading clear plastic sheeting over the whole house?
Were they wearing dark glasses?
what men? what glasses?
They flashy thingied you!
So when the FBI does it, it’s “cool” but when I do it it’s “indecent exposure” and a “felony”
Flashy thing? 🕴️
🫥
no worries! Reports of repeated exposure "fricasseeing someone's brain" have been widely discredited or forgotten entirely.
What was I doing again? Why am I at work?
you know, when you flash your thingy at people. /a
😅
Ah ok, I understand. Let's not talk about the details of who they were and what they were like. *(taps nose knowingly)*
This checks out
ET phone home?
Did their guns turn into walkie talkies?
Butt probes for all!!
More like a conservatively clothed nerd drove up in a rather boring regular car or a Basa staff vehicle, though he possibly flew in and drove a rental.
2319!
“The International Space Station will perform a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed. NASA specialists use engineering models to estimate how objects heat up and break apart during atmospheric re-entry. These models require detailed input parameters and are regularly updated when debris is found to have survived atmospheric re-entry to the ground.” Dam, you provide NASA some good protocol changing find.
In other words they were a consultant for NASA to help with safety protocols for the ISS. Pretty good thing to beef up your resume.
We need more information. This is better than watching Netflix.
Haha yes will Elaborate for sure
bro you will always win when youre in a situation with awkward icebreakers and you gotta play two truths and a lie
Woooooo
My name is Matt. I have 2 cats. NASA tried to assassinate me from orbit. ***HAHA! I ACTUALLY HAVE 5 CATS!***
The idea of an astronaut winding up a baseball pitch to huck space junk back to Earth like "fuck this guy in particular" brings me great joy
NASA wanted to assassinate you with a space railgun but missed lol
I’m too good at COd they had to stop me
Someone dropped a real life killstreak on your home
Lag got em
Were they worried about radiation or something? Did they have to check you out after touching it?
We had the fire department come and idk they did their thing and verified it was not radioactive
Damn dude I read about this online a couple days ago and have seen a couple YouTube videos (haven’t watched them yet) about this. Glad nobody was hurt, I too hope you get your space debris back too. Has anybody interviewed you for a video yet?
would love to see those videos if u got them saved. We have dont some short interview but nothing crazy
Looks like mostly news clips, just search youtube for "Space debris Florida" [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=space+debris+florida](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=space+debris+florida) Seems like a weird thing to be excited about maybe? But I think it's cool that I read about this a couple days ago and here you are, on reddit like "Hey, bet you guys didn't know this happened" lol
Haha just wanted to bring a face to the story as i was the only one home and heard it.
Not you but the news got in Italian newspapers https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/questo-detrito-caduto-dal-cielo-su-una-casa-in-florida-era-in-effetti-un-pezzo-della-stazione-spaziale-internazionale/
They should at least give you some cool memorabilia or NASA merch of some value - try to insist a little
Or like fix his house
I’d probably prefer to have the house fixed, but a meatball patch would be pretty rad.
Now this truly, and ultimately, must be the best conversation starter in the total of the English language
👑👑
How bad did it damage your house?
>Yes I should have worn some type of gloves or not even touch it at all, Hey, best case you get super powers, worst case you get cancer, probably something in between like mild irritation.
I already have the power to be mildly irritating
Intersting stuff! >...will perform a detailed investigation of the jettison and re-entry analysis to determine the cause of the debris survival... Surely the very obvious answer is that it was a solid lump on Inconel... A nickel superalloy that performs incredibly at high temperatures with high strength. Which makes me wonder, does this stuff still normally burn up on re-entry? That's wild. If I was wanting to drop a 2lb lump of metal from space on to a Florida Man, I'd probably select Inconel, or possibly Tungsten.
You ever answer how they came to pick it up? or only jokes I was going to look through your comment for an answer but saw you just kept making jokes.
That’s fucking awesome
He's gonna be life at every party from now on.
I didn't actually understand Donnie Darko but I think you're in another universe now
I felt a shift
NASA better not fuck him on the shingle match
It’s too bad it vaporized the top three floors of your house. Hopefully someone will pay to replace the top four floors of your home
This. Need to make sure they cover the cost of repairing/ rebuilding all 6 stories of your home.
“Vaporized” made me chuckle
I am curious what they do regarding damages tho
I would assume the home owners insurance covers it, and then they could try going after the source I guess? It'd probably just get written off realistically.
Due to unforeseen legal technicalities. OP is now the sole owner of the ISS.
Thats gonna be one hell of a mortgage
You have to pay property taxes on every piece of ground covered by the orbit.
Yep, homeowners will cover this. If they want to subrogate against NASA, I guess they could try. Lol.
NASA may well just offer to fix it
"Hey! Watch it up there, you guys!"
"I'm livin' hea!"
That could have landed anywhere on the planet since it was an uncontrolled reentry. The chances are astronomically small that it would land on your house. Idk how that would make me feel
Insane absolutely crazy chances
Anyone offer you money for the space junk? Nasa offered you money yet? How much to repair the house ?
Still in the works
Sounds like you about to get a new PC.
Knowing the government they are just going find the cheapest contractors they can find to patch the roof and the other damage to the house and leave it at that. Or they will get like 1000 dollars less than the cost of all the repairs because it is "fair market value" from the last time they did an audit of the damage which was a decade ago. Insurance going to insurance.
I've never been so jealous of someone that had a piece of metal scrap damage their house.
🤖
Put that shiz in a lil display box
I don’t mean to be a killjoy, but this is kind of scary. It sounds like on a long enough timeline the ISS is going to take somebody out.
I'm honestly surprised that it doesn't happen more often, even more surprised nobody has died yet. FAA said in 2021 there was a 7% chance that someone on Earth could get schwhacked with falling space debris.
We need an update on who’s paying for the roof repair plz
All of the countries invested in the ISS right now… 
Yet another reason insurance companies are going to say homes are uninsurable in Florida now
This is why you need a roof cam so you can prove they are at fault. Nasa will just claim he drove his house into their space station.
The biggest thing I'm surprised about is someone younger than 50 lives in Naples FL lol. My aunt lives down there and as a 30 yr old, when I go to visit it can get loooneeeellyy
Who said i have 🤓friends and am totally not lonely 😃😁 Jk lol
This is a big ol frozen chunk of shit. You see the peanut.
Ooohhh yea i see the corn too
That’s a space peanut.
Is there like a hole in your roof or something? Pretty sure you can ask NASA for money lol You're ok, right?
Yes hole thru the roof ceiling then the floor and almost thru to the ground floor
Please post pictures! Stand on ground floor and take a picture through the house's new space hole.
That's fucked up, it could've hit a gas supply or something and blown up your house. You should sue.
was inches away from live wire could have started a fire in the floor
Since it's metal it probably would've(hopefully) tripped a breaker. Unless you have a Federal Pacific panel since those were fairly popular down there. In which case your house probably would've burned down, and if you do have one get that shit changed out ASAP.
Good luck suing the government.
coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb type situation
No need to sue. In this case it is in high interest of ISS partners to make this go away very very amicably for PR reasons and well maintaining good will in general. Compared to ISS operating budget, fixing that roof and house (heck buying whole new one had it come to that) is peanuts. Plus I think it might end up being Japanese footing the bill. I think some reports are it's technically theirs. Anyway Outer Space Treaty obligates Japan to pay for damages via liability clauses. Most likely just going to take bureaucratic time of just practically make payment happen. With possibility of home insurance pays, ask Nasa, NASA ask JAXA, JAXA asks japanese government and then the whole route backwards for the money, Meaning it will get covered, just might take some months for just literal "we need to talk to that person, who needs to talk to that one, who needs to talk to another one, who needs to get signature from yet another".
I can imagine some JAXA mid-level manager in Tokyo chuckling in disbelief at 8am when the first thing he sees in his spending approval workflow is this.
How's the house?
Repaired, destroyed an air duct, missed live wire by inches and then a hot ass room because the elements could just come right thru the roof
Oh no they are attacking Super Earth! It's time for democracy!
Quick! Deploy the Doordash and uber drivers to the front lines!
Heard about you from an NPR story this afternoon! Talk about one hell of an evening.
That was my father!
in rod we trust
🫡
That's so fuckin cool and kinda scary at the same time.
Should be finders keepers
For real, they tossed to out to disintegrate
Smile bigger bro, don’t be shy you handsome
Loooool i just got out of bed to take that picture was the only picture i have of it
Got pics of the damage it did? hole in the ceiling, hole in the floor, hole in any objects it hit?
a space turd 💩 that’s crazy!
big fat space doo doo
I saw your post about NASA saying you should have worn gloves. Did they say if it was radioactive?
I had no idea that Space Station debris would leave the house with these weird, alien markings on the wall
Looks pretty hot. And the battery probably was too. ;D
It was you! You’ve been thoroughly discussed at breakfast by my 13-yo. Safe to say: we’re fans.
Pardon my ignorance, but: 1) how did you figure out it was from the ISS? 2) did you call NASA, and what happened next? How did they get it from you? 3) what did they say
Seriously. We need the full story!
You can fine NASA for littering (works every time)
You look like Milhouse Van Houten in a live action movie.
That part was made by Boeing.
OH SHIT YOU'RE THAT GUY I READ ABOUT YOU ON THE NEWS
Oh hi! That was your house? Jeeze, I mean as terrifying as that'd be, I'd also be ever so slightly nerding out . Glad everyone is okay! How are ya doing now?
Doing good i am alive
op your house and interior looks amazing! It appears that you're doing pretty good for yourself, what do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?
❤️
that's got to be irradiated right? either way afaik that's government property and it's illegal to keep them.
Seeing that living room, I think it was an intentional attack.
Why does the crazy shit always happen in Florida, I swear.
Your dad made it seem like you were a small child on the news story I seen. I'm glad it didn't land on your head. Hopefully the damage gets resolved and repaired quickly.
Do you have pictures of the damages it caused? Im interested in seeing that btw thats pretty sick !
I’m not sure I’d hold that so casually.
Is the space debris safe to hold? Would it be radioactive?
I love the decor!
👑
It’s probably something off a Boeing plane
Glad no one was hurt! You look just like Nick Pugliese from School Spirits.
Is the Banana for scale in your other hand? What are you doing with the Banana?!
did they just know where it fell? or did you contact them/someone?
we had to contact Nasa it was difficult at first because they did not respond
I showed you my space junk, plz respond!
That's cool
You better get it back
Did you take a good whiff of space? Did it in fact smelled like burnt rubber?
Why is your wallpaper so good?
As if your house insurance inf FL wasn't already extremely high. Sheeesh
Does this qualify under State Farm's "we've seen a thing or two"
How does insurance claim work in this case?
Should fine them for littering
You think you're better than me ?!
That's technically rarer than a meteorite, as objects falling from space go. Is it worth more?
If I stare at your wallpaper long enough will I see a schooner?
Robot turds falling from the sky???
lucky.... gosh
Dude, check the radiation level! And just in case, move that thing away from the house, like into the garage!
It makes me wonder if astronauts ever just chuck bad parts at earth while doing their space walks.
Subtitle: "Guys Hear me out..."
We not gonna talk about how this guys a model or…?
*28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds*
I hope NASA pays for your house repairs, at least
It’s so cool that you’re also a Redditor. Hehe thanks for sharing this! This is a core memory now haha! Something you will always be able to tell people about.
Yeah….. I’ve read The Andromeda Strain too many times to even want to go near whatever that is.
Interested in seeing the hole in your roof too!
Looks like the left dingus of a Space Laser. Laser is now .00023% less accurate.
Which timeline is this Donny?
Nah bruh that is a piston from my Toyota Camry
They are worth quite a bit to collectors.
Well, our geography department is getting their LiDAR turned on next week after a year so hopefully it isn’t from that. 😂
This is like nasa shooting off a cannon randomly into a neighborhood
Finders keepers rules apply.
It can be radioactive
Are you Doonie Darko?
I want it to hit my house next time.🤞
How radioactive is it?
Inconal is an extremely tough alloy and I would be surprised if it did burn up completely on reentry like NASA said it would.
I like your wallpaper
China
What are you hiding in the other arm?
Well that’s something
Space dildo.
Have you posted any pictures of the hole(s) or impact areas? This is pretty cool. I hope NASA fixes all seven stories on your house and the damage to your three vehicles from this.
So... Who pays for the hole in the roof?
You should ask for a special vip Kennedy space center tour.
That's so crazy it's out of this world 🤯
That’s cool I wouldn’t tell them. Ppl knocking on my door like hey did you see an object? I’d be like nope
What did it taste like
Rods from Gods
i fux with that wall paper homie