Well, we have some space junk of our own right here and not on this panel, but a call, a caller to our show named Bob Justiss is here.

And he had some experience with some space junk.

Bob, what's this you have brought with you, sir?

Well, unlike Fred, you know, I brought something back tangible from Florida.

About 15 years ago, this piece of space junk, less the anvil that was below it, landed in the backyard of my mother's property in Jacksonville, Florida.

And it was a just streaking through the sky.

Landed and made a big blob.

Almost caught some brush on fire.

Fortunately didn't hit any of the aircraft on approach to the Jacksonville Naval Air Station, or it could have caused quite a serious incident.

But just goes to show that some of that stuff does come down once you throw it back up there.

How do we know that space junk, man, you didn't create that in art class somewhere?

No, no, I wouldn't have the expertise to do that.

I just have several witnesses in the time that were there that saw it come down.

Yeah.

Saw it come down, stayed around significant enough to keep around the house to my mother till my mother moved.

You don't believe it, Fred?

No, I believe it's bizarre.

It's just it's pretty neat stuff.

But I've seen similar things before.

It could have been part of a spy satellite.

Because NORAD wouldn't confirm or couldn't find out what... - You called them?

Yeah, we checked into that, but we couldn't get any court confirmation.

As such.

- Its just a weather balloon I heard on NPR today that there's so much space junk floating around that at least once a month, something falls back to Earth.

Did anyone try to autopsy that?

We haven't.

I haven't had been able to connect with somebody to do the spectrum analysis on the mass spectrometer.

You know, that time goes pretty.

Is there somebody who comes around and collects this stuff?

Apologizes, replaces the.

There was a metal.

There was no warning.

Like the mirror coming down as some of us have had.

It was like a mashed potato sculpture.

What happens if that hit something or someone gets hit by that?

Lawsuit.

Is that lawsuit is... Who you gonna sue?

Russian America.

You don't know if it's Russian, but it could have been gravity settled out of court.

It was more likely some of our own stuff.

Didnt somebody sue an airline a few years ago when the contents, the frozen contents?

Blue ice.

Yeah.

No, it was it was.

It was the toilet, the blue ice.

Was it blue?

Because it was in there as blue and it leaks out, it freezes and falls off because the giant whispered that big birthday.

Yeah.

The great thing about Mir though, is that 15 years and billions of dollars to find out, we got a cool fireworks display and we now know how mice mate in zero Gs.

That's what I love about that.

You feel that the funny is not worth it on space research?

No, no it's not.

Oh, oh.

You know.

Luddite, Luddite with such disdain.

And that word has been broken.

In the future man will be in space.

Just because you're already there doesn't mean we'll have nothing down here will be habitable anymore.

So we'll have to be in space.

I go into space.

It's the.

It's the name you don't realize.

You'll have to.

It's the nature of the kind.

To reach out beyond the limits has gone before.

I just want to go anywhere I can be.

Weightless.

How much does that thing weigh, Bob?

- It's about 31 pounds.

And again, there was the anvil portion of it that actually impacted this, broke off from that part with another 10 or 20 pounds at least.

Did it make any noise coming down?

Well, it made enough noise or light to draw the attention of the people who found it.

So the maintenance workers, who was it glowing and stuff?

Yeah, it was, it was it was streaking through the sky late, I think.

Early summer sky.

It was really how long it for anybody touched it.

Well, at least it cooled off.

Listen to Dennis, I think.

Are you going to go on that?

No.

I'm never had a chance to test the radioactivity.

Or is it?

It doesn't seem to be.

It doesn't glow in.

No, it seems to be a combination of aluminum and maybe some titanium.

But I think it means there's intelligent life out there and they've discovered paper mache.

No, it's very heavy.

I actually touched it and picked it up.

And then my wife would probably kill me for that.

She'll say, wash your hands, but I don't know if the stuff will come off.

How long have you had that thing?

Well, we've been in the family for about 16 years.

I just picked it up.

This is a family heirloom now, huh?

Well, not to my wife, anyway.

She.

She would like to get rid of it.

Anyway, it was in the family, and my mom moved to smaller quarters, and so I brought it home after the move.

Put it on eBay, man.

Say 50 years from now people will be on the Antiques Roadshow and they'll go like, this is a piece of us such and such.

They'll be able to identify it.

It'll be collected up and sell it at the Discovery store.

We'll say this is worth very, very.

Collectors have tried to get a piece of this satellite.

You never know.

It could be worse than the 50 years.

This is worse than a lunar eclipse.

We're focusing too long on the mound of metal.

Well, another subject you want to move to, Fred?

How much does it weigh?

Listen to Dennis question.

Some people get upset.

They emulate themselves.

In Taiwan.

The guy was so concerned about the Mir falling down, he said himself a fire.

He set himself on fire.

Yeah, well, I think he increased his odds of survival.

How many?

How many times you ever hear of space junk hitting someone who's on fire.

Very few go there, right?

Well, there was a report, I think, on CBS the other day of some woman who actually got hit in the shoulder with a small piece about the size of two of my fingers or something like that.

And it looked very similar to that.

It was all melted down and kind of charred up.

So I don't know if they make that stuff like that.

You've seen it all and that's it.

That's all it.

That's what Mir looks like now at the bottom of the ocean.

It's 130 pieces of tons of that thing down the bottom of the ocean.

Yeah, well, no, no, I mean, right next to Amelia Earhart where she ran out of gas at Charles Lindbergh.

Yeah.

Well, you know, if Amelia Earhart hadn't been dancing along, somebody would probably be wanting to get on you about that insistence.

You can't say anything anywhere without somebody getting upset about something.

Well, other than a conversation piece, what does that thing do for you, Bob?

Oh, it's a lot of fun.

I mean, I've been involved with the space program since the early 60s, and it was always an attraction to me to see what goes up and how it comes down again.

You've been involved in the space program, so you actually believe it's space junk?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I have no doubt about it.

But NORAD wouldn't confirm it for you?

I haven't gotten any confirmation.

I know the longitude latitude where it hit roughly about the time it's been.

I didn't have the time and date after 15 years.

What are the odds of somebody ever being hit by one of those, there's got to be a gazillion to one.

Don't let Jay apt get his hands on that man.

He'll kidnap you.

He will.

Jay Apt will want that.

Don't want to study it or something like that.

Okay.

Let's have another shot of that.

Let's let's have another shot.

There we go.

Now my night is complete.

And the thing is, Fred is going to be out in the hallway trying to book you a guest.

PNC.

What do you call that station?

PCNC?

Pittsburgh Cable News Channel.

The cable news channel.

That's right.

Okay, well, I guess that's it for that.

Well Fred is one of my favorite shows too, so I must say, man's got taste.

We like this guy.

Book him again next week.

That's one of your favorite shows.

Guaranteed.

Freds gonna book you on that.

He's got a he has to do that thing on a daily basis.

So he's got to fill.

We are booking anybody.

Yeah okay.