Frightening video shows what appears to be the rocket booster crashing down on a populated area, trailed by a yellow-ish cloud.
A video circulating online appears to show debris from a Chinese rocket falling above a populated area, with residents running for cover as a heavy cloud of dark yellow smoke trails across the sky in a frightening scene. The suspected debris may have come from China’s Long March 2C rocket, which launched on Saturday, June 22, carrying a joint mission by China and France to study Gamma-ray bursts.
“It’s pretty scary, but this is just how the Chinese do business. They have a different level of acceptable public risk.” If it comes in contact with skin, eyes, or respiratory system, it can destroy human tissue, and if inhaled through the lungs, it can lead to a build up of fluids or, in extreme cases, death. “It’s pretty scary, but this is just how the Chinese do business,” McDowell told Gizmodo. “They have a different level of acceptable public risk.
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