Commuters were having a bad day today because there was a power disruption happening at the Valley train station, and that caused trains from Central to Bowen Hills almost stalled. Not only a major annoyance for commuters. People who are travelling with cars are also seeing increased traffic congestion on the roads.
Several hundred afternoon commuters are being funneled on to just two platforms at Brisbane's Central Station as delays continue to plague the city's train network. Commuters are now being stopped at Go card gates at central station as Translink staff stagger entry on to the two platforms where limited train services are operating. Staff are waiting until operating trains ferry passengers from the plat forms before allowing more people in to the station
The cause of this big mess is an electric wire that snapped and knocked out power to Central and Valley. Even though the power has restored at around 3pm, they have also warned that there will be significant delays. One single wire turns the whole city into a transport chaos.
Nasa's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is expected to hit Earth on Friday but scientists have no idea where the six tonnes of space junk will fall.
The fate. The uncertainty. I'm guessing the satellite has had enough for being floating in space and decided to fall back into orbit. But to be serious, the satellite hasn't been used after being decommissioned and NASA expects to fall tomorrow. They have ruled out America as the impact zone so apparently the satellite could hit anywhere EXCEPT America. Ha, nice plan you've got there, Americans.
In the mean time, the chance of 1 person being hit by the satellite is 1 in 3200, and that mean it's quite improbable if you multiply it into the world's population. Oh dear, hope it will just crash in the water rather than hitting major metropolitans because I don't want to see something this uninteresting being amplified into a disaster-like doomsday warning.
D.
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