Originally published at: Astronaut accidentally dropped a tool bag into orbit and you can see it with binoculars (video) | Boing Boing
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Binoculars?
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As it descends rapidly, the bag is likely to disintegrate when it reaches an altitude of around 70 miles (113 kilometers) over Earth.
Are they made of some exotic material that stands a chance of surviving partially the reentry?
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Just look at it!
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Look out, Sally!
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That’s basically how Sweden launched their first satellite in the 1960ies. Sort of.
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We have a traditional rule here about dropping your tools from a height, when people are working underneath you.
That astronaut owes everyone on Earth a case of beer.
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But will they dock her pay? 
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I hope there isn’t a Irwin Vise Grip in that bag. They can survive anything!
Aliens will arrive on a desolate Earth in a million years, and all that will be left of humanity will be the '92 Corollas and the Irwin Vise Grips
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This is both hilarious and cool at the same time.
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Waiting for the moment of maximum irony when some poor sap working on his car demands to know where the 10 millimeter socket wrench went, them FOOM!
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I don’t need a wrench, but I could use a replacement 10mm socket for one of my ratchet sets. Plus it would be a really cool story to go with it!
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Just don’t wish for one while holding a monkey’s paw.
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I’ve read that most of the hand tools used on the space station are supplied by Snap-on, which has a standard lifetime warranty on hand tools, so they’d better survive reentry.
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I just think it would be cool to have some sort of wrench or hammer or screwdriver made out of titanium or inconel that shows a little melting and damage from landing.
Closest thing I have to that is a bolt from the ejection seat of an SR-71.
That would be a hell of an ad if one of them survived…
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That is cool.
A colleague had a Fluke multimeter that had survived a trip through a lime kiln. Not quite re-entry, but definitely had some scars. He’s show it to apprentices who didn’t yet know the particular points of distinction between a home electronics grade multimeter and an industrial multimeter.
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