“Unbelievable Forecasts: 10 Futuristic Predictions That Crashed and Burned!”
Well, we made it to the moon in 1969, but we can’ think of the last time someone’s mail was delivered by a guided missile. Wouldn’t that be a sight!
Submarines Wouldn’t Work
H.G. Wells, the renowned science fiction writer, may have had quite an imagination, but he was also a bit of a realist. With regards to the invention of the submarine, he thought the idea was ludicrous and was sure that it wasn’t feasible.
In 1901, he went so far as to say, “I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.” Little did he know that submarines would become instrumental pieces of equipment in the wars to come.
The Atomic Bomb Won’t Work
In 1945, Admiral D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy during World War II, advised President Truman against the atomic bomb. Even after all of his years in the military and with the rank he had, he still didn’t believe that the bomb would actually work.
He warned: “This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.” He must have had quite the surprise when the United States successfully dropped both of them on Japan.
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