On Thursday, the Pentagon said “it will try to shoot down a dying, bus-sized U.S. spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel on a collision course with the Earth. … The military hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week — just before it enters Earth’s atmosphere — with a single missile fired from a Navy cruiser in the northern Pacific Ocean.” A follow-up piece from Reuters today stated that the US has “pledged on Friday to compensate countries if debris lands on their territory.” Meanwhile, the findings in a recent New York Times piece present a viable option for embarrassed Pentagon officials to relocate: “Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered.”