I am not a fear monger by all means but i have a concern or two....... Upon reading your thread i decided to do a little research and also with another thread in regard to revelations. Well here is an interesting piece i thought i would share with those like me who didnt know.

Now i am going backwards here to go forwards....

Hazards Hydrazine is highly toxic and dangerously unstable, especially in the anhydrous form. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Symptoms of acute (short-term) exposure to high levels of hydrazine may include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, dizziness, headache, nausea, pulmonary edema, seizures, coma in humans. Acute exposure can also damage the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. The liquid is corrosive and may produce dermatitis from skin contact in humans and animals. Effects to the lungs, liver, spleen, and thyroid have been reported in animals chronically exposed to hydrazine via inhalation. Increased incidences of lung, nasal cavity, and liver tumors have been observed in rodents exposed to hydrazine.[30] Limit tests for hydrazine in pharmaceuticals suggest that it should be in the low ppm range.[31] Hydrazine may also cause steatosis.[32] At least one human is known to have died, after 6 months of sublethal exposure to hydrazine hydrate.[33] On February 21, 2008, the United States government destroyed the disabled spy satellite USA 193 with a sea-launched missile, reportedly due to the potential danger of a hydrazine release if it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere intact

Risk Roughly 7.5 metric tonnes of highly toxic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide are on board, according to the head of Roscosmos.[3][13] It is mostly fuel for the spacecraft's upper stage. These compounds, with melting points of 2 °C and -11.2 °C, are normally kept in liquid form; if the probe is not rescued but they remain liquid they are expected to burn out during reentry.[13] NASA veteran James Oberg said the hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide "could freeze before ultimately entering".[3] If Fobos-Grunt is not salvaged, it may be the most dangerous object to fall from orbit.[3] However, the head of Roscomos says the probability of parts reaching the Earth is "highly unlikely", and that spacecraft would be destroyed during re-entry.

And this is how the zombie apocalypse starts.

Unfortunately, we see again an accusation that some foreign power (hence the Unites States) possibly disabled Phobos-Grunt among other Russian spacecraft, and, unfortunately, it comes from much higher source than a previous one.

Those understanding Russian can read the original source here:

www.izvestia.ru...

...but I also included a summary and commentary here:

www.russianspaceweb.com...

Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
Phobos-Grunt is going to crash soon.

"As of Wednesday morning, the fragments of Phobos-Grunt are expected to fall January 15, 2012. The final date could change due to external factors," said spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin, quoted by the Interfax news agency.

I am pretty sad that it failed, every space mission that succeeds brings us one step closer to going to other planets. But - alas:

It said that 20 to 30 fragments weighing a total of no more than 200kg were expected to fall to Earth, with the spacecraft's highly toxic fuel burning up on entering the Earth's atmosphere.

news.msn.co.nz...
Most of Earth is water , so i assume it will end up somewhere in the oceans but in any case there is no reason to panic because the chance of one of those things actually falling on someone is very very very very low.
And yet i wonder how they calculated that only 200 kgs out of 13500 kgs of probe's weight will survive long enough to impact the surface though. Most of the weight is fuel, naturally. But i think that 200kgs estimate is a bit low.

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Originally posted by fiftyfifty
reply to post by ZeroKnowledge

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a fragment weighing just 50g travelling at 15,000 mph would make quite a mess of someone's head.

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