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And the piece weighs 660 pounds, 300 kilograms. That's a whopping weight to be coming down. And China in recent times has been heavily criticized for the large number of rocket boosters that have been falling to Earth. And this also brings up the argument, too, that folks are making in relation to the amount of space junk that's overhead and more and more is going up, which increases the likelihood of some of this stuff making it through the atmosphere and coming down to Earth, more so than in past times when there's less stuff up there and it reduced the probability of it making its way through the atmosphere. So we can expect as time goes on to see more and more of this stuff slam down on the ground or hit the ocean. Beep.