Experiments That Could Have ENDED The World

Scientists are constantly trying to understand more about our

world

by conducting all kinds of

experiments

, but in the past they

have

played with incredibly dangerous things that they didn't fully understand and that some predicted would

have

apocalyptic results if nuclear testing burned down our entire

world

. atmosphere. to man-made black holes that

could

destroy the world, well it's time to grab your lab coats and scientific glasses as we take a look at some terrifying scientific

experiments

that

could

have

ended

the world by digging deep first, we travel to Russia. And going back to the 1970s, this was a time when the USSR was at war with the United States and both nations were trying to prove which of them was the superior superpower.

Both were planning separate efforts to drill as deep into the Earth's crust as possible to see what was there. below, but while American efforts were crippled in 1966 due to lack of funding, the Soviets continued to plow or, more accurately, down, from 1970 to 1994, the Soviets drilled on the Kola Peninsula slowly dug the hole deeper of the world. The attempt consisted of several branching super-deep holes. Of a main column, the deepest one called sg3 was only 9 inches wide and eventually cut a staggering 7.6 miles into the earth. For contrast, this hole is 4,000 feet deeper than the Mariana Trench, also known as the deepest in the earth, while geologists and earth nerds got very excited.

The most religious citizens were terrified, they believed that everything would go to hell releasing an army of demons or maybe even the devil himself while everyone prayed for protection from the super small demons that could fit through that nine inch space, others feared more logical consequences. . Scientists believed that intense drilling to those depths would dislodge so much rock so quickly that it would unleash some unknown seismic forces that no one could control, but it turns out there was nothing to worry about after reaching the 7.6 mile mark, efforts stalled. due to the unexpected 356 degrees. Fahrenheit heat which was much hotter than scientists predicted it would be in comparison if the world were an apple the super deep tail well would not even have pierced the skin in 1995 due to lack of funds the project was susp

ended

and the well devil was sealed it seems that the devil's arrival will be delayed indefinitely armed plagues in 1989 towards the end of the cold war a soviet director named vladimir posechnik contacted the british embassy and surprisingly offered to defect assuming he would be a valuable source of information that the British would take but what he ultimately revealed terrified them.

Vladimir had been the director of the institute of ultrapure biological preparations in Leningrad. It was here that he learned that the Soviets were developing weapons that used deadly pathogens, microorganisms that cause viruses and diseases. These biological weapons were being made in a network of secret laboratories and chemical plants throughout the Soviet Union about which the Western Allies knew almost nothing. With all these resources they were trying to create new strains of highly contagious diseases and viruses resistant to antibiotics and vaccines that would leave patients defenseless against the pathogen. Vladimir knew more about Yercinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for the bubonic plague back in the 14th century.

It is estimated that a staggering 60 percent of the European population was wiped out by this plague. Did this mean that the Soviets were planning rounds for? Chillingly, Vladimir revealed that we had already successfully assembled a variant of this plague and are testing it on warheads that could target anywhere in the world. If what Vladimir had said was true, then the Soviets had plans to wipe out entire populations with the push of a button. Britain's suspicions. They only deepened in the 1990s, when espionage experts found harrowing evidence of the facilities Vladimir had detailed, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the facilities fell into darkness.

Most frightening of all is that it was never revealed how big this germ warfare effort was or what happened to it since Moscow assured the rest of the world that Russia no longer has a bioweapons program and, for my part, it really I hope that's true. Imagine a bunch of new deadly diseases that are resistant to treatment. in the world every few months, and I thought covert was bad long before the anti-vaxxers showed up and started spamming the comments section at the mere mention of kobit, help me defend myself by hitting the like and subscribe buttons below, don't do it.

Do it for me, do it for science, and speaking of science, what doomsday experiment do we have ahead of us? The next contagious crop disease when it comes to food, the world depends on three staple foods: corn, rice and wheat, together they make up a whopping 51 of the total. The caloric intake of the world obviously, any interruption in its production causes big problems, but some of the worst come down to pests: these are fungi that make plants inedible and release thousands of spores that can contaminate an entire area during the evening. specific pests of wheat and rice known as puxinia graminus. and Magnaporth Grazia exists in a worrying 80 countries and entered the United States in 1996.

While many farmers saw this as a curse, the United States decided to use it to their advantage as the Soviets, the United States once had a weapons program biological, but while the USSR was concentrating on pathogens that harm people, the documents reveal that the United States was investigating how it could weaponize these crop diseases if a fast-spreading, super-contagious variant could be developed and distributed through aerosols or bombs , they could devastate an entire country's food supply, the only problem with this other than being barbaric is that it probably wouldn't be limited to one target country, given how widespread unrigged versions of the plagues are, it would probably spread to the rest of the world causing an unstoppable global famine that no one knows for sure if the United States ever has.

I used or even tried this catastrophic crop disease, but as a man whose diet consists almost exclusively of pizza, I really hope they never do an alien apocalypse in 2020, the US department of defense released historical videos of the navy of objects unidentified fliers that, terrifyingly, some could not explain. of these objects flew over Earth at hypersonic speeds of around 3,800 miles per hour before changing direction almost instantaneously – something human technology is decades away from achieving. The defense department has no evidence to suggest this is extraterrestrial activity, but it is very small. they may exist, nasa established seti, the extraterrestrial intelligence search unit for 60 years, seti has been using radio telescopes to explore the sky listening for signals coming from other civilizations on planets orbiting distant stars, but so far they have not heard a single tweet from a group. of impatient scientists are now pushing for a more proactive program called extraterrestrial medical messaging intelligence to take the helm.

They want to send powerful messages to potential civilizations in an attempt to provoke a response. Now all this talk about texting e.t is pretty funny for anyone. which wasn't a tin hat wearing conspiracy theorist but on the small chance that there are aliens out there then we could be in big trouble as it stands there is absolutely no regulation of off world messaging this means That anyone with access to powerful transmission technology can say whatever they want to the stars above, and I mean anything from terrible insults and your-mom jokes to declarations of interstellar war, but if there are aliens out there, it's possible.

Don't see the funny side of such threats if those high tech UFOs were in fact extraterrestrial then it is clear that their weaponry would be far beyond ours leaving us totally exposed and ready for the test the trinity test on July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb in history was detonated in the desert of new mexico this was the test of the trinity a combined effort of american and british scientists to create a weapon of mass destruction so devastating that it would deter all current and future enemies, but Not all scientists agreed with the idea, like Enrico Fermi, this Nobel Prize-winning physicist was the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor.

So he had a fairly solid understanding of the risks involved in this test, he and several other physicists expressed slight concern that the detonation of the 22 kiloton bomb would trigger runaway fusion, a chain reaction that would set Earth's entire atmosphere on fire. In short, there was a possibility. that this test would destroy all life on earth, fortunately the hypothesis was completely wrong and the trinity test went smoothly, but when a Nobel Prize winning physicist tells you that your experiment could destroy the world and you move on from everyone Anyway, that's hell. Although we did not suffer a radioactive fire, humanity still did not understand how destructive or dangerous nuclear weapons really were, more than a decade later, militaries around the world were casually carrying out nuclear tests, but their men on the ground received no type of protection.

Scientists continued to test the limits of their new nuclear toys by detonating them in all sorts of scenarios, like here during 1952's Operation Tumble Snapper, the nuclear bomb was suspended 300 feet above the ground on a series of cables. and detonated when the plasma ball expanded the radiant energy, superheating and vaporizing the wires just in front of the fireball, giving it those strange spikes at the bottom. Since then, humanity has built more than 13,500 nuclear weapons, although scientists believe only 100 would be needed to complete it. Destroy a single society God, all that testing might have shown that humanity is intelligent, but it looks like we'll never learn about the man-made black holes in New York back in 1999, the opening of the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider or Rhic for short had everyone holding their breath this collider was designed to accelerate a beam of charged particles, the building blocks of all matter on Earth, to a speed close to the speed of light, which is around 300,000 kilometers per second, before crashing them in a controlled environment, these collisions would create miniatures. fireballs of super-dense matter with temperatures of up to four trillion degrees, conditions similar to the big bang, obviously scientists were eager to get this going, but then a disturbing revelation grabbed the headlines: there was a possibility that These collisions could reach such magnitude. high density that would create miniature black holes in the field of astrophysics black holes generate intense gravitational fields that absorb all surrounding matter, even a black hole the size of an atom would have the mass of Mount Everest and anything larger than that However, the risk was small, so small that less than 10 years later another even larger collider, aptly named the Large Hadron Collider, was built in Geneva, Switzerland, at 16.6 miles in circumference.

More than 11,000 laps of the circuit in a fraction of the time it takes to blink before crashing, and this carried even greater potential dangers. One theory held that the collision would cause quarks, a type of elementary particle, to rearrange and shrink. They become dense objects called Strangelets by contagion, affecting everything around them, transforming the Earth into a hyperdense sphere just 330 feet wide that is smaller than a football field. Well, last time I checked, we'll all still be alive, but if Geneva or New York disappear. in the near future and starts sucking in all the nearby countries, we know why Project Seal New Zealand is more known for its peace-loving hobbits than for weapons innovation, but in 1944, during World War II, this nation Insular collaborated with the United States to create artificial weapons. tsunamis known as project seal now New Zealand is no stranger to tsunamis, which are long, high waves in the sea caused by underwater earthquakes.

These massive waves can reach a hundred feet high and sweep 10 miles inland devastating everything in their path if they could be created artificially through their carriers couldStrategically destroy enemy ports, naval bases and even entire cities, but how do you create a wall of water, even a fraction of that size, without an earthquake? The answer was trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as the highly explosive chemical TNT. From the seafloor to the surface, scientists set off about 3,700 explosions across the South Pacific Ocean using varying amounts of TNT, from a few grams to more than 660. pounds. They experimented with the size of the waves they could create.

In the end they determined that by detonating a bomb 5 miles away. A line of about 10 bombs made up of a gigantic 2,200 tons of TNT could create a terrifying man-made tidal wave 40 feet high. The only problem was that the placement of the charges was critical; even a slight deviation would rob the wave of its strength. momentum, but six months later, as the Western Allies neared the end of the war, the project sealed its potential was never fully realized, which is a good thing considering that if it ever became mainstream, the coasts would already they would not be safe for humans or anyone else.

A crazy idiot with a large enough explosive device could try to flood the world causing widespread chaos and death, although that didn't stop scientists from testing the effect of nuclear weapons on water later in the 1950s against the coast of Hawaii, in Operation Hardtack Saw. the detonation of multiple nuclear warheads underwater creating gigantic waves that crashed effortlessly onto their ships and quickly swept inland. Fortunately no country has dared to try to recreate Project Seal with nuclear weapons, but Project Volcano, so we have heard about the possibility of the end of the world from the first nuclear bomb and have seen the potentially devastating impacts of nuclear detonated tsunamis. , but what about underground nuclear weapons?

Well, when I say it out loud it sounds too silly to be real, but if we go back to 1988 and travel to the Soviet Union, that's exactly what scientists were testing during this period of the cold war. Soviet scientists were experimenting with bombs. tectonics with terrifying names at a site in Kyrgyzstan, their goal called Project Mercury was to develop a way to trigger an earthquake remotely by destabilizing seismic forces using an underground nuclear explosion. If they were successful, this would give them the power to create devastating earthquakes. in almost any part of the world it would be the ultimate underground weapon, although there is no information on how big the underground explosion was.

The test was a success and paved the way for the much larger volcano project. However, Azerbaijan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1992 stopped him. to the experiments on its soil and thankfully the project was shut down, the most disturbing part of all was that it was hinted that the volcano project was linked to the Soviet idea of ​​nuking Yellowstone National Park in the US. In the US, Yellowstone is situated on top of a super volcano that if it ever erupted would be approximately 1,000 times more powerful than a normal volcano. The amount of ash and debris spewed into the atmosphere would cover most of North America, killing countless plants. people crushing buildings blocking roads and blocking all air travel to the Soviets planting an underground nuclear bomb to trigger this megaeruption must have seemed like a sure way to win the cold war, but they may not have realized that all that ash could blocking enough sunlight to temporarily cool the entire Earth, which would have resulted in damage to crops around the world, leading to major famines that, depending on how long the Yellowstone eruption lasted in the world, may have never recovered.

Ugh, thanks to the Kremlin, the union fell when the starfish was baited, so man has tested nuclear weapons on land, at sea and underground, despite their potential to end the world. At least we haven't been foolish enough to try to attack space with nuclear weapons, let's go back to 1962. A few years earlier, the United States discovered that the Earth was surrounded by belts of intense radiation held in place by its protective magnetic field. These were called Van Allen belts after their discoverer James Van Allen worried scientists because any satellite or astronaut sent into space would be exposed to this radiation with potentially fatal results, so they suggested trying to eliminate them with a good dose of nuclear radiation. detonating a nuclear weapon in space.

He predicted that the radiation from the weapon would not affect the belts in any way, but Van Allen was very wrong. On the night of July 8, 1962, Starfish baited, off the coast of Hawaii. Residents of Hawaii in the area gathered on the rooftops. to see if they could detect the event, assuming it would be a brief flicker in the sky 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean, which is about the height of the starfish's orbit of the detonated International Space Station and the night sky. Suddenly bright as day for 15 minutes, charged particles from the explosion collided with molecules in Earth's atmosphere and the sky lit up with rainbow colors that could be seen from as far away as New Zealand, while the explosion looked pretty in the Earth's magnetic field.

It unleashed a massive electromagnetic pulse that knocked out radio stations, activated emergency sirens, and caused street lights to go out across Hawaii. Additionally, ionized radiation from the explosion created a new artificial radiation belt around Earth. The belt remained around the Earth for 10 years destroying essential communication satellites that passed through it, it was much worse than anyone predicted, but if the geomagnetic field had been permanently damaged, the Earth would have been left without protection against the deadly radiation from the countless cosmic rays and solar winds of space. Within a few years this would have destroyed all life on the planet.

These results were so shocking that in 1967 the outer space treaty was put into effect, prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons in outer space. Well, that's one small step for man and one big lesson learned for humanity so we all wish we could control the climate, but in the 1940s, the United States took that illusion too far: The United States is plagued by an average of 17 hurricanes every 10 years causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, but for everyone. Its cyclonic power depends on a surprisingly precise and fragile temperature system at its center. Warm, moist air rises and is replaced by cooler air.

This new air then warms and rises, creating a spiral cycle that develops raging rain, whale hail, and winds that can reach more than 155 miles per hour. After discovering this in the mid-1940s, American researchers hypothesized hypothesized that if they interrupted the rise of hot air with an injection of a super-cold material like dry ice, which has a negative freezing temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit, they could deactivate the hurricane now, this theory was not airtight and there were many holes in science, but the temptation of climate control was too much for the US government to resist testing, so in 1947 the Suris project took flight and a plane flew over Cape Sable. hurricane that was heading harmlessly toward the Atlantic before the plane dumped 180 pounds of dry ice into its swirling clouds, but what happened next was the worst case scenario.

Instead of dissipating as scientists predicted, the storms suddenly changed direction. direction making landfall in the georgia savannah and causing colossal $2 million worth of damage which is a little over $24 million today, altering incredibly complex weather patterns that they didn't fully understand, had obviously been a very bad idea, what if they had used more ice and accidentally created a huge unstoppable? instead a super powerful cyclone, who knows where the destruction would have ended, understandably embarrassed, the government denied that the storm had been rigged, although the truth finally came to light 12 years later, followed by several lawsuits, but it turns out that was all in vain, meteorologists pointed out that many other historic hurricanes had also suddenly detoured at the last minute naturally and without dry ice, so the Americans had not caused a climate disaster and had still messed with the major powers that did not They understood that it was a big risk that could have literally left us all speechless. operation big splash America is quite proud of the weapons advances they've made over the last 100 years, although there's one they'd rather the public didn't know about.

In the 1950s, the US Army Chemical Corps decided to secretly test the effectiveness of use. animals as weapons, but we're not talking about attack dogs or cats with weapons strapped to their paws. Here I think they are the size of a smaller mosquito to be exact. Yes, America took the world's most annoying animal and tried to turn it into a weapon that mosquitoes can use. carry diseases that do not affect them but do affect the humans they bite, such as yellow fever, this hemorrhagic disease can kill sufferers in about 10 days and is a serious epidemic in some parts of Africa where mosquitoes thrive naturally, so if the chemical body could solve it.

If they discovered how effective it would be to drop swarms of infected mosquitoes into a populated area, they could harness this horrible power and use it against their enemies, but how did they know this type of entomological warfare would work? The horrendous response was to test it on civilians their own civilians in 1955 operation big stir was carried out releasing over 300,000 uninfected mosquitoes in savannah georgia wait the same city that was later attacked by project cyrus geez those guys just couldn't take a breather then in 1956 another 600 thousand mosquitoes were released in the residential areas of Avon Park, Florida, the corps estimated how many mosquitoes had entered homes and bitten people by the number they captured in baited traps set by the city, after collecting the data, they determined the cost of releasing these infected.

Mosquitoes in major population centers would cost only 29 cents per kill, which was terribly efficient, although that wasn't the only problem, in case anyone has tried recently, you can't control mosquitoes from increasing their populations artificially. , which could lead to an uncontrollable reproduction rate that would generate billions. If not billions of mosquitoes swarming entire continents, according to official records, the infected moss bombs were never detonated and in 1972 the use of such weapons was made illegal, if that is enough to prevent any country from using this tactic in the future, although no one knows if it is better to add mosquito.

Mosquito nets and bug spray to your doomsday prep list. After that, I'm surprised any of us are still alive. Which of these experiments do you think was the worst? Let me know in the comments below now I'm going to find a bunker to live in. for the rest of my life and as always thanks for watching