Bryan Hansel @bryanhansel.com · May 15 Last night, a Chinese rocket dumped its fuel of the central US. I was teaching a Milky Way photography class and was lucky to see it happen and get photos of it. This is one of the photos.
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As it’s happened before, I wonder what’s their reasoning for it?
WTAF
Somebody's gonna come up and say that that's a virus mark my words
Pretty, yes, but just wondering that wouldn't this technically be considered pollution in space around the planet, or in the upper atmosphere of Earth?
Whoa!!
That's okay, the fuel didn't need the central US anyway.
Isn’t musk dumping crap all over our planet with his escapades? We are allowing a few billionaires to dump their crap on all of us without accountability or permission
Cool Pic, but the dumping fuel part sounds bad!!
Wow!
Why dump their fuel? Were they going to crash?
Apparently, this also happened in May 2025 (story linked). Quite something to see. www.space.com/stargazing/m...
Is this what I saw last night
This is a great photo. I find this extremely disturbing because I wonder what material that could be. They say it’s fuel but why and how do we know for sure? I think China needs to keep their rockets and ballon’s on their side of the globe. 🤷🏼
Of yeah I can see it s red
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People in Arkansas were wondering what this was!
They could just not allow THAT plane and THOSE passengers to leave China instead of dumping fuel on the rest of us.
Heh. Very metaphorical - unintended, I'm sure. 🤔
Actual chem trail. What? O2 and H2 are chemicals. It’s true!
So I guess we're the garbage dump, shit hole country now.
Why was this allowed?
That’s what happened for sure
Great picture.
Nice shot Bryan. Best shot I've seen of the event.
How pleasant. 👀