The Sky is Falling

Here's some interesting news. Ok, you're probably wondering how that is relevant. Well, it so happens that particular satellite was being used by my project so now we got no links. It couldn't have happened at a worse time since we had our demo to the customer this week. We're working around the problem and hope to have some kind of demo still, but I just wanted to highlight some funny responses my coworkers have had to this problem. It seems not everyone has a grasp on the frailty of technology...

Coworker: Something's wrong.
Me: Yeah, the satellite went down.
Coworker: When will it be back up?
Me: Never, it's like down...in the ocean.
Coworker: So it'll be back up in a couple days?
Me: No.
Coworker: So when will it work again?
Me: I don't know.
Coworker: So what should we do then?
Me: Standby.

Or this one...
Coworker: So is that something they can fix?
Me: (thinking of something witty to say...and then failing) No.

Granted I'm pretty tall, but usually if I drop something electronic, it may or may not still work. If I climb a tree and drop something electronic, it probably won't work anymore. Now, if something falls from space, even if it didn't burn up into little bits, the fact that it fell from space into water can't be good. I'm pretty sure it won't work. I guess people didn't realize that happens to satellites from time to time so it didn't register when I told them. They thought it was still up there just not working or something. You could say those people just didn't realize the "gravity" of the situation. Ha ha, oh I crack myself up.