On 30th April, 2029, a rogue asteroid hurtled towards the Earth's surface, causing widespread panic and destruction. The planet's autocorrected systems, designed to prevent just such an event, malfunctioned catastrophically.
The asteroid, estimated to be 1.2 km in diameter, struck the planet's surface in the Indian Ocean, causing a 10 meter tsunami that swept through major cities. The resulting chaos was so severe that the world's leading space agencies were forced to issue a 'correcting' statement, admitting that their autocorrected systems were, in fact, not so correct after all.
Read more about the Planetary Pandemonium that followedOn 1st March, 2010, a comet, thought to be harmless by astronomers, made its closest approach to the Earth. However, due to a faulty autocorrected system, the astronomers' calculations went haywire, leading them to misinterpret the comets' trajectory.
The comet, which was actually a binary system, was thought to be a single, non-threatening object by the world's leading space agencies. The result? A catastrophic collision with a major city, which the agencies later attributed to 'sod's law'.
Read more about the Asteroid Accident, a similar, though not identical, disaster