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  1. Jan 23, 2024 · CNN — 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...

  2. Jan 24, 2023 · Humanity is closer than ever to the end of the world. That was the dire warning this week from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which, since 1947, has been estimating how close the world is...

    • 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
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    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...

    Learn about the most notorious doomsday predictions that failed to materialize, from the Mayan calendar to Nostradamus. Find out why the world will not end in 2024 or any other year, according to science and logic.

  3. Jan 23, 2024 · Scientists update their prediction of how close we are to the end of the world. Link Copied! Created in 1947 by a group of scientists who worked on the atomic bomb, the Doomsday Clock represents...

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  4. Jan 20, 2022 · It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Thursday, the clock was set at 100 seconds until midnight – the same time it has been since 2020.

  5. After several unsuccessful predictions in 1994 and 1995, Camping predicted that the rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on 21 May 2011, with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21.

  6. A list of movies that depict the end of the world or the end of mankind, from global catastrophes to alien invasions. See the ratings, genres, directors, stars and summaries of each movie, and vote for your favorites.

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