Stephen Hawking is known for his groundbreaking achievements in science, but many do not realize that the physicist is also recognized for making predictions about the future of humanity and Earth. This year, the Oxford professor made some of the most insane predictions to date, some of which may put a slight damper on your New Year's festivities.
Thanks to modern day healthcare, years is nearly a lifetime, but this May, Hawking proposed that this is how long humans have left on Earth, Wired reported.
This is a stark shift backward from the 1, years time limit that Hawking had predicted in According to Hawking in his BBC science series, Tomorrow's World , climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth are to blame for the new century-long doomsday clock. In a BBC documentary released earlier this year, titled Stephen Hawking: Expedition New Earth , the physicist explained his prediction that soon, the human species will have to leave Earth and repopulate somewhere else in the universe, either on a spacecraft or on another planet.
The physicist warned that if humans don't become a multi-planetary species and settle on other worlds, our species could die out within the next century. Hawking first proposed this grim prediction in , but revisited it again this year with supporting facts on why he believes the prediction could actually come true. Thankfully, no conspiracy theories or predictions about how and when the world would end have proven true so far, though many have caught our attention worldwide.
But many people still find doomsday predictions intriguing, even if they don't really believe that a hidden alien planet is going to crash into Earth and herald the apocaplyse. Here are seven times that theories about the world ending became the subject of public fascination and pop culture.
The Library of Congress reports that mass hysteria branded Halley's Comet " the evil eye of the sky " in , prompting the sales of anti-comet pills and gas masks in the event that it hit the planet and triggered an apocalyptic explosion. It harmlessly passed between Earth and the sun in May of that year.
A "periodic" comet that appears about every 75 years , it passed by again in and is slated to return in The founder and leader of the Taiwanese religious group Chen Tao meaning "True Way" moved to Garland, Texas, where he said God would appear and bring him and his followers away in spaceships disguised as clouds on March 31, , according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
He also said that God would appear on channel 18 to announce this plan on March When that didn't happen, he said at a news conference that his predictions " can be considered nonsense ," AP reported. Stores sold Y2K emergency kits with nonperishable food before New Years Day in , when people thought computers that operated government records, utility systems, banks, and anything containing some kind of computer chip would crash and cause apocalyptic chaos.
While it didn't prove necessary, it did result in better computer systems. When it opened in , there was speculation that the swift movement of subatomic particles in its tunnels could create a black hole that would swallow up the Earth. The Phenomenon also saw doomsday apocalypse prediction coming from Eastern Lightning expressed the world to end on the foretold date. Well, nothing of the bamboozled ending happened except people just watched John Cusack-Amanda Peet starrer film to understand what it is like to have a doomsday.
On February 7, , with the first use of spectroscopy technique astronomers found a toxic gas cyanogens when Earth actually passed through the tail of the comet. Well, the world survived as there were no ill effects. So this Mr Doomsdayer called William Miller predicted the earth to be engulfed in the fire between March 21, , and March 21, , and that Jesus Christ would return for the long-awaited Second Coming.
He circulated his hardcore belief via posters and newsletters, the medium of those days. He said that the world would end five months later on October 21, the same year. Nostradamus or Michel de Nostredame, the French physician and famous seer, made several prophecies, many foretelling the world end date.
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