7 minutes stood between Beijing and devastation

February 01, 2012 16:41

Seven minutes is all that stood between Beijing and large-scale devastation in October last year, it seems.

'The Chinese capital was directly in the flight path of Germany's research satellite Rosat when it plunged into the Bay of Bengal last October, two decades after it's launch,' says the Daily Mail, UK. 'The consequences of chunks of the 2.5 ton satellite falling into the city would have been catastrophic; huge craters, shattered fuel lines, explosions, wrecked buildings and untold human casualties in a metropolis of 20 million people.'

If you thought Earth was safe after this, you are wrong. 'Next on the worry list is the NASA Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer which will present a 1-in-1,000 chance of harming someone when it makes an uncontrolled fall from Earth orbit some time after 2014,' says Daily Mail.

For more of the horror scenario, read here.

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