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The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova.
Failure of world leaders to deal with the increased threats of nuclear war, such as the end of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) between the United States and Russia as well as increased tensions between the U.S. and Iran, along with the continued neglect of climate change.
Jan 23, 2024 · The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90 seconds...
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If humans don't finish it, when will the world actually end? It’s not just your yoghurt, even planet Earth has an expiry date. Dr Alastair Gunn. Although likely to kill many (or all) inhabitants on our planet, an enormous asteroid or comet impact would not have the energy to destroy Earth.
- The Mayan Calendar
- Camping and The Rapture
- The Black Hole from Geneva
- Y2K and The Millennium Bug
- Nostradamus and The King of Terror
- The Great Flood and The Flying Saucer
The end of the world was predicted to occur on December 21, 2012, when one of the great cycles in the Mayan calendarcame to an end. In the run-up to the day, the internet abounded with predictions about an apocalypse happening on “12/21/12”. Faced with the wealth of alarmist information available on the World Wide Web, even NASA was compelledto pub...
The world was also supposed to end on October 21, 2011. American radio host Harold Campinghad arrived at the date for the apocalypse through a series of calculations that he claimed were based on Jewish feast days and the lunar calendar. In addition to his claims about the end of the world, he also predicted that on May 21, 2011, at precisely 6:00 ...
Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)near Geneva, Switzerland, to set up controlled collisions of particles at very high speeds. The experiments have caused some to believe that the energies set free by the collisions will form a black holepowerful enough to consume Earth and all life on it. No such black hole has been sighted yet, and sev...
Toward the end of the second millennium, people around the world feared that the world would end simultaneously with the beginning of the year 2000, or Y2K. This prediction was based on the practice followed by computer programmers of abbreviating year numbers with two digitswhen developing software. For instance, “1999” would be coded as “99.” At ...
Renowned seer Nostradamus prophesied 250 years ago that a “king of terror” would come from the sky in 1999. Austrian geologist and Nostradamus buff Alexander Tollmann decided to play it safe by sitting it out in a self-built bunker in Austria. Tollmann was convinced that the apocalypse was to come early in August, a fear that was consolidated by th...
Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin (a.k.a. Marion Keech) claimed to have received a message from planet Clarion in the early 1950s: the world was to end in a great floodbefore dawn on December 21, 1954. Martin and a group of followers were convinced that a flying saucer would rescue the true believersbefore the inevitable destruction of Earth. The be...
Ongoing efforts now aim to find any remaining giants and tag 90% of bodies larger than 140 meters by 2020, although NASA says it won't meet the deadline. Of the nearly 15,000 NEOs discovered so far, none are currently on a collision course with Earth.
Dec 18, 2012 · That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, thanks to the internet, Hollywood and an ever-eager press corps.
