It is remarkable the earth we can survive until today after many major disaster has occurred - or almost happen. Instead we look at predictions or predictions about the end of the world as it had occurred in 2012, the better we look at the historical facts about 10 times the world almost over, either because of natural disasters or man-made.
10. Communication Systems Disconnected
Precisely on 24 November 1961, the world was about to crumble into dust by a nuclear bomb only because of the failure of the communication system. The headquarters of the US Air Force strategy can not get in contact with three base and suspect this is the enemy attack.
Soon American soldiers preparing for war (with Russia) but fortunately fighter pilots who check the base lost contact to confirm that no attack at all. Turns contact rupture caused by the transmitting station damaged by overheating.
9. Mount Tambora erupts
Major disasters have occurred in Kalimantan, Indonesia when Mount Tambora erupted in 1815 and killed 88,000. Mount it remove dust and rocks as far as 175 cubic kilometers and cause a variety of other disasters, such as tornadoes or wind putuh up to 4.6 meter high tsunami. Traces of ashes still can be found up to a distance of 1300 kilometers.
This eruption also caused the temperature to be lower in other parts of the world. As a result, crop failure and starvation in North America and the plague throughout Europe.
8. Carrington Event
Solar flare (large explosions in the sun's atmosphere), the largest occurred in 1859 and the release of energy by 10 billion atomic bombs. The resulting radiation causes geomagnetic storms and crippling all electrical equipment in the earth.
Scientists estimate that if the same event occurs at this time, the consequences will be immense due to human dependence on technology. Electric poles will melt and all methods of communication between humans will become extinct.
7. Incidents Rocket In Norway
When American scientists are experimenting and launching rockets from Norway, radar on the Russian side to capture and interpret this as a nuclear attack. At that time, Russia and the United States is being in a state of cold war, Russian President Yeltsin was given for 8 minutes to make a decision if it will launch a counterattack. Fortunately the Norwegian rocket crashed in the sea before he could make a decision.
The Russians actually had received a memo telling them to be this experimentation, but the record is lost before it can get to the party in charge of overseeing the radar.
6. The Black Death
The black death is haunting plague of the 14th century and has killed at least 75 million people. This outbreak is caused by infestation of mice and humans are capable of killing within three days. Once exposed to the disease, the victim will experience fever and swollen lymph nodes until it finally broke. Imagine if a similar disaster occurred in today. As a result, it would be fatal due to the ease of transportation now.
5. Comet Bonilla
In 1883, an astronomer named Jose Bonilla reported that there were approximately 450 objects crossing the sun. His invention ignored by the scientific community and soon forgotten. But in 2011, scientists studying this Bonilla invention find horrible facts behind his observations.
Objects that pass are the remnants of a comet fragment of 1 billion metric. Each fractional width of approximately 800 meters, if one of these fragments fell to Earth, it will cause a disaster of one thousand times more powerful than the explosion of an atomic bomb.
4. Flu Spain
1918 is the most terrible year in which occurs a massive flu outbreak in human history, infecting at least one third of the world's population and killed about 50 million people. The flu virus can kill in just a few hours after the appearance of the first symptoms. This virus will fill the lungs with fluid and makes victims out of breath.
Scientists deliberately re-create this flu virus in 2014 and infect mice experiments. The virus is able to spread to other animals very easily. Scientists concluded that if the virus infects humans, the result will be the same as what happened.
3. Klebsiella Planticola
In the 90s, biology monster that can destroy all the plants on earth almost released. The researchers combined the bacterium Klebsiella Planticola with other bacteria with the aim to create a new organism in charge to destroy the earth waste. Researchers had already received approval to test these organisms in the field.
Fortunately the critics managed to prevent these field tests after further research and found that the new organisms that can destroy its host plant within a week. If there were no further research, then these organisms will spread to all corners of the earth and destroyed all human harvest.
2. The Cuban Missile
When the US closed marine areas to prevent the Soviet Union to build nuclear bases in Cuba, the Soviet leader Khrushchev America considers this act as a sign of war. For 13 days in 1962, the two sides prepare for nuclear weapons and nuclear war seems imminent. Even President Kennedy had been displaced into camps under the protection of the land.
This tension finally eased after the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle its base in Cuba, and after the United States promised to stop the blockade and unload his base in Turkey.
1. Nuclear False Alarm
In 1983, Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Union received a warning on his computer if there are five missile has been launched. The procedure is supposed to do is to report the attack to his superiors, and if Petrov did it then it is definitely the Soviets would launch a counterattack and bring us all into nuclear war.
But Petrov did not do it, he followed his gut feeling and decided that a warning is wrong. It turns out true feelings, warning that appears on the computer is due to the reflection of sun rays Soviet satellites as a missile.
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