“Unbelievable Forecasts: 10 Futuristic Predictions That Crashed and Burned!”
Some experts believed that this would lead to a complete and total economic and social collapse, sparking mass hysteria. Known as Y2K, when the clock struck midnight, everything remained intact and believers breathed a sigh of relief.
A New Ice Age
In 1971, Dr. S.I. Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Columbia University predicted a new ice age in the coming years.
It was reported in the Washington Post that Rasool stated, “In the next 50 years, the fine dust that man puts into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning could screen out so much sunlight that the average temperature could drop by six degrees […] which could trigger a new ice age.” Luckily, that wasn’t the case, but we can’t say we’re that much better off.
People Would Die From Asphyxiation On Trains
In 1800, Dr. Dionysys Larder, a professor if Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at the University College London, had his doubts about the future of human transportation by train. He claimed that “Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
Although this might have made sense at the time, he would be shocked to know that we now have trains capable of going well over 200 miles per hour. On top of that, we even have airplanes.
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