Sri Lanka? I wonder if Arthur C. Clarke had anything to do with it.
Death By Reentry, I’d see that band.
You see, about 30 years ago some friends of mine and I had a paint can full of black powder, a match and a short length of fuse. John said “Hey, y’all, hold my beer and watch this!”…
If there is a guy holding the handle of WTF, that’s probably John. I hope he survives re-entry. I still have his beer in the fridge.
That was damned thoughtful of you, Doc. 
It’s the meteor from Evolution.
Everyone start collecting shampoo.
Well, they’re saying that it’s going to hit today.
Of course – Friday the 13th.
Very cool! Never seen one that big in real life.
Oddly enough, hip-hop superstar Missy Elliot just hit the Earth yesterday with her new single called “WTF (Where They From)”. The Earth is pleased.
It’s now about 8 hours after reentry was expected. I haven’t heard from Sri Lanka. I wonder if it’s still there? 
Sri Lanka, or WTF?
I meant Sri Lanka. It hasn’t called me in ages. I worry so.
Funny, but I thought to edit the post to disambiguate that “it’s”. But I decided the rest of the context was clear enough. Plus the time of reentry had very little uncertainty; only the location had much of an error bar attached. 8 hours later WTF would certainly be down somewhere. I figured nobody paying attention could misunderstand my “it’s”.
It seems I thought wrong.
I don’t mean to disillusion you, but…Sri, er, “gets around”, if you know what I mean.
Sorry, Dude.
Here’s footage of it coming in:
They had to go out in a plane over the ocean to see it
Looking at that map, it just missed the southern tip of Sri Lanka.
Follow-up on Space dot com:
Did any of it hit the ground (or water)?
According to one-time Doper Phil Plait (“The Bad Astronomer”), it completely disintegrated:
Other stories seem to be saying the same thing.
This one is interesting, though. I hadn’t realized that the observation plane that took the video was sponsored by the United Arab Emirates:
It worked nonetheless - I haven’t seen a dinosaur all day.
Regards,
Shodan
what a non event…especially on the tv news…
how sad
You know, sometime NASA needs to launch a satellite specifically designed to put on a spectacular show burning up during re-entry. It’d be relatively cheap, no electronics, just ferrous metals and the like. Two even, one for the east coast after dusk on a Friday and one for the west. Your [del]tax[/del] lax dollars at work.