6 events that everyone was waiting for, but they never happened

People built bunkers in case of the end of the world, imagined a meeting with their own clone and longed to meet aliens. We remembered what expectations of mankind excited the whole world, but never came true.

Mayan end of the world

The likelihood of a planetary catastrophe on December 21, 2012 was not discussed except by the lazy one. Concerns were associated with the end of the Mayan calendar. There have been several theories about what will happen on the target date. Some believed that the inhabitants of the Earth would experience a global physical and spiritual transformation. Others expected a catastrophe and the death of all living things. Still others believed in a threat from space and said that the mythical planet Nibiru, inhabited by living beings, was flying at us. A version of a burst of solar activity of colossal power was also discussed.

While the Sun was performing its thermonuclear reactions on a daily basis, people showed anomalous activity. Those who were especially worried about their lives built bunkers and stocked up on provisions. Inhabitants of the Chinese province of Sichuan en masse

But on the designated day Apocalypse did not happen, and soon everyone forgot about the Mayan calendar and its prophecies.

Disappearance of Arctic ice by September 2016

University of Cambridge professor Peter Wadems has repeatedly predicted complete ice melt in the Arctic. He made his first forecast in 2007, when the amount of ice decreased by 27% over the year. Wedems assumed that the Arctic cover would completely melt by 2013, but this did not happen. In addition, it turned out that the ice area has increased by 25% in six years.

Wedems was not taken aback and displaced the date of the melting of glaciers for three years. Fortunately, this prophecy did not come true either. In October 2016, it became known that the ice in the Arctic is 31% more than in 2012. it confirmed data from the US National Snow and Ice Research Center.

Making an artificial black hole

In 2015, scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider announced experiments to create small black holes. There have been many publications on this topic, and the rich imagination of the inhabitants immediately drew monstrous pictures of the absorption of the Earth by a gloomy abyss.

In reality, everything turned out to be not so bad. The discovery could turn our knowledge of physics upside down. The fact is that to create even microscopic black holes, it is required that space exists not in three dimensions, as in current quantum physics, but in 11. This is described by string theory, which goes beyond the Standard Model and is still popular, but still a theory. If the experiment were successful, the black hole would have lived only 10⁻³³ seconds. This is so small that scientists could not fix it. And they would prove the fact of the appearance of a black hole with circumstantial evidence - left traces. But this was not necessary: ​​the experiment failed.

Development of mass space tourism

Dreams of space travel have always turned the head of futurists, scientists and ambitious entrepreneurs. The first serious steps in this direction were made in 1986 after report “Probable Economic Implications of Space Tourism Development”, which was presented at the International Astronautics Congress. In the same year, the first flight of a space tourist could take place. The American teacher Christy McAuliffe was going to become her. But when the shuttle Challenger was launched, the woman died. The tragic incident significantly slowed down the development of space tourism.

Nevertheless, it is possible to get into orbit. Now the final point of the route is the Russian segment ISS. The flights are carried out by the Soyuz spacecraft. In 2001, the first space tourist was the American businessman and multimillionaire Dennis Tito. He had been preparing for this historic event for 8 months - he even mastered the basics of controlling a spacecraft and learned how to manually dock it with the station in case of automation failure. Dennis Tito spent almost 8 days on the ISS, orbited the Earth 128 times and paid $ 20 million for this.

Now the cost of the space tour ranges from $ 30 million to $ 40 million. For spacewalk you will have to pay another 3 million. Given the sky-high price and the complexity of preparing for the flight, this business will not be on stream soon.

Human cloning

The first successful cloning experiment of a mammal - Dolly the sheep - lit a spark in the eyes of scientists and the public. Many then started talking about human cloning, debates about ethics flared up, and religious protests sounded. Meanwhile, the Brazilians shot a 250-episode melodrama, describing what the clone, its creator and society as a whole would have to go through.

Presently human cloning is prohibited throughout the world and carries criminal liability. Moreover, this breeding method has already been tested on fish, frogs, cows, horses, mice, dogs and other living creatures. In 2018, Chinese scientists reproduced monkeys in the same way as Dolly. But human cloning is still a long way off.

Assault on "Zone-51"

Zone-51 is a military base in the southern United States, in the state of Nevada. For many years, it has attracted interest from conspiracy theorists and ufologists, who believe that it is there that evidence of the existence of aliens is stored. And maybe even the aliens themselves live. Until 2013, "Zone-51" was classified, but with the development of satellite technology, it became impossible to hide an object with an area of ​​100 square kilometers. The purpose of the base has not yet been disclosed, which only fuels speculation about the presence of extraterrestrial life there.

They were going to storm the "Zone-51" on September 20, 2019. It all started with a joke on Facebook. Californian Mattie Roberts has planned an action called Assault on Zone 51. They cannot stop all of us. " The idea was that a huge crowd should break into the base, and then the military would have no chance of resistance. People had to run in the style of "Naruto": head forward, with arms outstretched behind their backs. This position would allow attack aircraft to move faster than military bullets. Sounds funny and ridiculous. Nevertheless, the news went viral and more than 2 million people put the mark "I'm going". The organizers did not expect such a resonance from a simple joke and rushed to write a refutation on the social network. They also said that they would absolve themselves of responsibility if someone decides to break into the base.

As a result, on the appointed day at the gates of "Zone-51" gathered only 75 daredevils. They wore funny costumes and held posters asking for the release of the aliens. Only one girl tried to penetrate the military facility. She was quickly detained. I must say that a large music festival dedicated to the assault was held nearby. And so he gathered about two thousand people. Many of them dressed up as aliens and amused themselves peacefully.

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