Harri Elizabeth Weber is a science and tech journalist in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has appeared in TechCrunch, Fast Company, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Next Web.
A hunk of space debris that crash-landed in a canola field has one farmer seeing dollar signs and hockey sticks. Near Ituna—a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada, Barry Sawchuk and his son “were out driving around just checking fields to see where we could start seeding” when the two discovered a roughly 88-pound, 6.5-feet wide charred chunk of metal and fibers. “Originally, we just thought it was garbage until we got closer,” Sawchuk told CBC.
Instead, it pierced through a ceiling and “almost hit my son,” homeowner Alejandro Otero told Florida broadcaster WINK News. “It’s not uncommon for these things to survive and make it to the surface,” Moriba Jah, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, told PopSci in April. While such objects tend to land in the ocean, Jah said that “statistically, will kill somebody at some point.
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