Top 10 Events That Could Have Ended The World
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2022
- Armageddon is closer than we think. For this list, we’ll be looking at historical events that could have had a devastating impact on the world and its inhabitants but thankfully did not. Our countdown includes Chernobyl, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bonilla Comet, and more! Which of these stories do you find the most shocking? Let us know in the comments below!
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Which of these stories do you find the most shocking? Let us know in the comments below!
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Your videos are so cool
How did he comment this 2 days ago?
The Late Permian Mass Extinction AKA The Great Dying 🥶
@@Zaiden. .
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In the false nuclear alarm, a guy disobeyed direct orders, risking his own life and martial trials/law, he took an incredibly risk, he deserves a holiday. Literally saved the world. Much love.
These are moments that we wish to have more people like him
He deserves entire life holiday
@@yuna361 amen
what's the most frightening about this is that paranoia is what could have caused global catastrophe
Like there would be anyone left to court martial him if he was wrong
In the Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident story, two timelines were created, one where Stanislav Petrov escalated the alarm, and one where he stood down. We are living in the timeline in which he stood down.
The many-worlds interpretation.
we're living in the prime timeline
Like Schrodinger's cat ?
I like this timeline more. 😂
That is if parallel timeline are real, but it could be interesting to explore the possibility in a book or movie
“Turns out the 80’s wanted to kill us all”
The 2020’s : allow us to introduce ourselves
I died in 1983, my new life started in 1984
we're gonna have to wait until the end of the 20s, the 80s still the 🐐
Ok now imagine what the 2040s has in store for us…
No no 2021 runs in blows a little trumpet and announces 2020
I was born then.. Wow.
In a world filled with paranoia, anxiety and warmongers, I’m thankful for those who allow their better judgement to prevail rather than making immediate decisions.
Lots of people would’ve launched those missiles in retaliation, and we’d all be dead. I just hope what is happening now doesn’t spark WWIII.
That's fax
We need President Trump back to restore normality and better judgement in America and the world. Trump is the second coming of Jesus and we need him to collaborate with Vladimir Putin to rule over the whole world.
@@Grimeyhoob that criminal needs to be in jail 😒. What the hell do you mean? 🤦🏿♂️
Kennedy. Never forget the President that saved the world.
The fact that a solar flare could literally happen at any moment without any warning and with no way to stop it which could destroy all electronics on earth instantly is a terrifying thought
I dare to say that the Dark Forest thought experiment is the same as terrifying.
Could destroy us too…😳😱🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
1859 Carrington Event. It was a solar flare that knocked out communications which at that time was telegraphs.
The was a Japanese movie made about this, forgot what it’s called but it about a family who has to survive without electricity and they have to travel to a small village.
Seriously…..wtf
this just shows u how quickly everything could end
Sheesshhhh!!
Yes!
Facts!
I know you are but what am I
No shit man. What kind of universe we live in?
WatchMojo is really good at making depressive videos even during already depressing times
It's a skill, give praise where it's due!
give it 2 weeks and the war in ukraine will be forgoten by everyone
more clicks that way
@@theangrykekistani9418 not if it will continue to get worse and worse. This night nuclear station reactor being on repair, but still with nuclear fuel inside it got hit and is currently on fire... Who knows what will the outcome just from this event alone and what else will happen in future
@@xsteelll this is western media hysteria just like with covid is overblown for wies and atencion
So about the Soviet false alarm case, the man said that his reasoning for suspecting it was a false alarm, is that "You don't start a nuclear war with just 5 missiles", it wasn't just instinct, thank god he was able to make such a calm decision.
The fact that most of these happened within the last 100 years, makes the coming 100 years a bit freaky.
Only because we didn’t know what they were before that
Ah 2012. When the apocalypse experienced performance anxiety and forgot the hellfire and brimstone.
In all honesty, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the False Alarm Decision are the most interesting. Two people had the fate of the world in their hands. And in both instances, it was just their judgement that prevented the end of the world
2012 was a simpler time compared to this lmao
Dude I'm glad that year is over. I remember when it's Christmas and half of me believe in 1 week we'lol only have short time to spare. Then dec 31 came around and when the clock strike midnight it's 1/1/13. Whew
About the same thing with Y2K in 1999 thinking that a global computer crash could have brought the end of human civilization
@@jpbernier4196 now that 2012 is over I finally have time/space to breath
All that tech and it came down to human gut decision. Really scary to think how close we've come to ending civilization and what may be going on right now we don't know about. Really puts things into perspective on how we could be killed instantly with little or no warning by natural or man made events. Just by a hair.
It's so humbling to know how fragile the thread of life is and how many times, as mentioned; "on a cosmic scale", we got lucky. Whether it be by a single man's decision, a freak accident, or cosmic calamities, our lives are literally decided by chance. Makes me appreciate life a little bit more.
Until that luck runs out and it will.
@@jonathanwallace6667 very true!
Ice age, comet strike, major volcano eruption all over jew by looking back at average time lines of historical events. Modern humanitie is living on borrowed time but unfortunately we live in some deluded belief we are immortal, using our technology to try destroy our selfies.
5:38
Not depressed enough with the current war? Then watch this, thank you Watchmojo
nope i'm not.i don't care about Ukraine or Russia.let them settle it without intervention.
Why would u be depressed?🤣 reactionary
2 months later and nobody's even talking bout the war happening (im not even sure if its still ongoing)
Good Timing WatchMojo :S
Yes let's scare people even more ! morons !
I know right
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I’ve been seeing a lot of 2, 3 year old videos related to nuclear war/WW3. Unprecedented times.
Don't look at this video as something depressing. All of these events just show we survived the possible end of the world many times and we will keep it that way!
Through the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy was responsible for the Cuban missile crises. He saved the world from a problem he created. 🤦♂️🤣
Yes
But it also shows that we as humans nearly caused it multiple times and still have everything in place to do it again like morons.
Some of those are due to pure luck, and like anything in life luck would eventually run out
Half of these incidents were caused by humans
Stanislov Petrov should be canonized and given sainthood.
Yeah, but what are the odds the USA would launch just five missiles, during a time of zero unrest. Every sane person would say, "this doesn't make sense."
@@scottslotterbeck3796 Exactly. His training told him that if America were to launch, they would launch *everything* in one go, not five missiles. Which makes absolute sense - if you're going to initiate nuclear war, you're going to try to take out everything in one go, immediately, before your enemy has a chance to launch against you. Petrov still should be recognized and revered, though, for being a clear-headed, intelligent and thinking man at a moment that others might have panicked.
Really? You're forgetting one key factor here: humanity is already the post apocalyptic mutant race because essentially all the dinosaurs were wiped out collectively at one point in the past.
Yeah the concept of "the world ending" is really dumb because short of getting straight up destroyed by a massive celestial object the world isn't going to end.
Human life might if we keep fucking things up and not preparing for future changes but the world is a big hunk of rock that's "died" many times already. We literally power our machines with life from an extinct time.
Not true. Birds are dinosaurs.
@@scottslotterbeck3796 that still makes them the post apocalyptic mutant from what came before so no different than humans.
Yes!!
I never thought of it that way, and although there are assholes who think the world owes them something by way of mining, fossil fuel burning, illegal dumping, the list goes on, and on, we as a whole, the vast majority of us, are not viruses as some radical people may think, may God help us all, I fear the masses can't without violence, thxs for your comment.
vasili Arkhipov was one of three senior officers in a nuclear submarine during the Cuban missile crisis. Two of the three senior officers gave the command to launch a nuclear torpedo off the coast of Cuba but the authorization had to be from all three senior officers in the submarine. He was the direct person that stopped the nuclear strike and is a hero to the world.
Soviet submarines normally carried 2 senior officers and both had to authorise the use of nuclear weapons. Arkhipov's presence on the submarine and his senior rank meant that he also had to authorise a launch; which he refused to do.
Didn't know Hyakutake was too close from us. Saw it in 96 when I was a teenager. Hale-Bopp was the other greater, brighter comet.
I remember reading somewhere years ago that hale-bopp was so bright and it’s tail was so long that had it passed as close as hyukatake did then the tail would have stretched the entire length of the skies in the northern hemisphere and been brighter than the moon.
Bravo WATCHMOJO! Been watching you for more than 7 years. Proud to see how far you’ve come
How does the Russian who saved the world not have a WORLD holiday? If we can't agree on anything else, surly we can all agree that this man saved the entire world, and therefore the least we can do this make his birthday the world's first international holiday?
And then they start war and now is declaring (thinking) about Nuclear war with Ukraine
I remember when Covid struck for the first time, everyone fought for their life over toilet paper & being touched by people was suddenly considered to be a crime.
The show supernatural most likely didn't help with the toilet paper situation since in season 5 when Dean went to the future when the apocalypse was going on Chuck (who in a later season revealed to be god) told him to stock up on toilet paper
@@ashleighstratmann7783 i mean that didnt have nothin with nothin plus spn dont really have a massive massive following to influence anything
@@ashleighstratmann7783 That was the first thing I thought of when you couldn't find TP anywhere lol
@@jimthorne9585 Nice to know someone else knows what I'm talking about. I'm sure others seen it. Not hard to when TNT plays reruns in order of the episodes and seasons every weekday and Netflix even has the show
Yup
My father used to have nightmares about the windscale fire even though he hadn't even been born at the time. I think he saw a documentary on it and fallout from Chernobyl landed on the mountains in South Wales where I live. He was convinced nuclear power was going to end everything.
If humanity gets extinct because of our stupidity and greed
I'm gonna laugh
U mean… when
✌🏻For once, I have to agree…
Don't look up
It will
If all life ended on Earth...I'll be REALLY PISSED!!!
"Fifty thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town."
Some fun facts :
Asclepius : at 460,000 miles away, it was still almost _twice_ the distance of the moon (but in space terms, yes that's close) there have also been other Asteroids that have passed inside the moons' orbit (though smaller in size)
CME : a corona mass ejection going a million miles per hour would take about 15 minutes from the earth to the moon, or 3 days and 52 minutes from the Sun to the Earth (that's pretty fast! 😃)
also Asclepius if half the size of the moon would have gravitational effects on earth when it passes, but it's small (football stadium)... Most likely it would fragment while falling through the Atmosphere.
@@eyemunchained8968
Don't underestimate the power of a meteor... the Russian (Chelyabinsk meteor) of 2013 was only about 65 feet wide, yet when it blew up in the atmosphere the resulting explosion had the equivalent force of about 300 kilotons , or about 30 times greater than the bombing on Hiroshima.
Asclepius is about 900 feet wide .. almost _14 times larger than Chelyabinsk_ ... So... I can only imagine how big an explosion of something that size would create...................
I can’t believe we live in a world where a single person can unilaterally just end it for everyone.
"And they thought it was just geese"
Well, I've seen a goose or two that could EASILY start catastrophic events for no real reason, so I almost wanna pick the comet.....
Any kind of fiction: World almost ending, but the hero saves the day.
Real world: World almost ending and survived by prefending it somehow or really,really good luck
We humans tend to give ourselves too much credit.
What do you think is the best thing that would have prevented these events before they could end the world?
Hasbulla
That's a billion dollar question
People stop being sheep!!
@@BIGDADDYRAGE-ue1vs Not as simple as that but I get what your saying
@@BIGDADDYRAGE-ue1vs People not being sheep will prevent a comet from blowing us straight to hell?
Totally amazing video watch mojo, fantastic job.
Fascinating.
And scary.
Thank you!
The missiles falling in Poland last month deserve an honorable mention
False Flag operation 🤣
@@gamegod36 i know 🤣, but it could have gone very wrong had we had a leader who believed Zelenskyy on everything. Definitely dangerous
No way WW3 is gonna start over 2 polish farmers 💀
@@ChinchillaisGod what if a government official was out visiting the farmers at the time? Probably doesn’t matter though since it was confirmed to be a Ukrainian missile
JFK don't save the world during the Cuban missile crisis although do not doubt his importance in it, Vasily Arkhipov he was the real hero of the crisis he was in charge of a damaged Soviet nuclear submarine and with the r radio damage they believe nuclear war had start and 2 of Senior officers gave the thumbs up to launch their nuclear missile but Vasily Arkhipov chose not to. This action resulted in with us still here
Exactly ! Was looking for this comment only !
And for much the US was the reason why the URSS placed missiles at Cuba.
@@ErickSoares3 we agreed to move our Pershing missiles out of Turkey.
Thx for the ideas Mojos!
Nukes, nuclear power and nuke like rocks (Comets) are world ending things ... got it. #2 has me largely speechless. Just wow!
I love your videos
I got my first large telescope when Comet Hyakutake came around. Was AWESOME.
Thank you, Mr. Petrov
Thank You 💯
The asteroid that could have ended the world was named after the Greek Minor God of Medicine Asclepius. That doesn't sound right but I'm sure there is a reason for it
Most likely came from a galaxy or place in space named after him.
because it could have been the medicine against humans, for the earth ^^
-"Bothered by humans? Just call us, and for the most competitive price, we'll send a comet your way to annihilate these pesky humans!
Asclepiuuuus, THE medicine against humans. CALL US NOW!"
You want something even more depressing? The current number of people around the world that are tasked with watching space for any incoming objects - i.e. asteroids, comets, etc. - namely ones that may impact the planet...is fewer than the number of staff needed to operate a small McDonald's, and not even during rush periods.
With that little detail, is it any wonder that we have these cosmic close calls where we get a week's warning at most - if these ever get noticed in the first place?
One astronomer (I cannot remember his name - I only remember that a man said this) described every single meteor you ever see with your naked eye is the equivalent of a fired bullet scratching your cheek - a hair's difference, and you might have ended up dead instead - and that a meteor shower is you stepping out into the middle of an active shooting range with the shooters present still shooting while you are out there.
Good timing
Great timing..
Life is wild. Don't take any second for granted.
Watch Mojo: Turns out the 80s wanted to kill us all
2020s: "wanted"
A meteor can hit us any moment and obliterated us. I'm scared 😳
Bro it’s incredibly hard to hit us with we’re we are located , we could of been hit hundreds of times in history but it’s only happened once , don’t worry mate
Don't worry it'll probably happen after this generation of human dies.
That Parks and Rec clip. I keep having to replay it. It’s so funny!
*"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is now"* I consider this to be best motivational quote I've heard in a very long time. But motivational quotes are useless if you don't practice what you preach.*
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What about the Permian Mass Extinction 251,000,000 yrs ago AKA The Great Dying, that wiped out 90% of all life?
Impeccable timing
Nice soothing topic right before bed
the state of the Chernobyl containment facility is currently in question, with reports of radiation spikes in recent days…😒
Lmao WatchMojo with the timing of this video😭😭 I love it lol
Good content I like stuff like this
Welp scrolling through my newsfeed about Ukraine and this comes up. .. Well timed WM.
the effect of the chernobyl accident is still seen in norway to this day. especially in the north where it rained at the "perfect" moment. thats on the other side of the continent for those who dont know
THANK YOU Stanislav Petrov. What a guy ❤️
I love that on the runaway fusion he said on retest that it was probably impossible to happen yet it was still a probably
I find it interesting that the first thing on this list is Chernobyl, which as we know from events of the last few weeks we know is now controlled by Russian forces, and they're still trying to take over more nuclear facilities.
Chernobyl is the best miniseries you'll ever watch. If only I could forget about it and watch it again.
THIS VIDEO SENT CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good video and watch MOJO is a good channel
They should’ve mentioned Vasili Arkhipov who was the only officer on a soviet submarine that stopped a nuclear warhead launch during the cuban missile crisis. The submarine were in radio silence area and didn’t receive the Kremlin news about the treaty with the US, two of the main officers were going to launch the nuke but he absolutely saved the world that day and refused to launch
Ah yes, what a great video to do when the world is on fire. Great job WatchMojo
Fear mongering yes...
@@eyemunchained8968 I agree. This is certainly not a good video to be making.
Y’all really whining about a video?
They make lists and you guys cry about the list they make. Don’t like it? Don’t watch it.
You do realize that you don't have to watch the video, right?
Just do us all a favour and get off the internet
2012: We're all going to die!
2016: Hold my beer.
2020: Hold my round!
2022: Last orders!!
Good one Kennedy...
Out of all these and mostly the 80's it's the year I was born was almost the end 1996 but also thanks to the man who trusted his instincts against a computer and kept us all alive today, ironically now we're all depended on machines/computers.
All I really know is that it's a good thing that we're STILL always here no matter what. That's all I really have to say here, ya'll.
People don’t understand how bad Chernobyl actually was
It was bad for the USSR. Its impact beyond the then borders however was not that great. The amount of radiation which reached western Europe was negligible while the impacted area of Ukraine subsequently saw its radiation levels decline far quicker than was anticipated as the local fallout was covered over by soil etc..
Number 2 gave me chills.
2:31 IS THAT THE FUCKING BLITZ OFF THEME FROM FFX LMAOOOOOO💀💀💀💀💀💀
Imagine what if the chicxclub asteroid didn't hit earth.
No Trump!
No libtards
You'd get The Good Dinosaur
“Calculations showed it was impossible, yet the threat still remained”. WM has a very interesting definition of”impossible”.
I've watched in other YT channel that in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis one bear put the U.S to almost launch the missiles by climbing a fence in one air force base. I don't remember well but everyone at the time thought that was a spy or some threat like that, and until they checked all the military was in high alert, ready for nuclear retaliation. I think that the relief they felt when they knew that was just a bear was marvelous
If it’s noticed, most of the times the world almost ended it was not by the act of God but the acts of man, we are our own destruction sighs
I really don’t think a god can do anything he isn’t real.
@@davidsteffen5835 It's an expression guy, commonly used by all.
I wanna quit my job and dedicate my life on finding out who’s boss in this universe.
Awesome, the Bible is a great place to start!
I actually find this fascinating.
These make me so sad but still interested me to watch lol
No mention of the 1966 Palomares Incident, or the 1958 "broken arrow" event off Tybee Island.
Because they weren’t world ending disasters
@@Lankyfool234 key would is "COULD" have been. Both of those COULD have been. Especially both dealt with nukes.
@@chrisstetsko5020 no they couldn’t have been lol. Just because you accidentally drop a Nuke doesn’t mean the world ends
You just have some weird fascination with airplanes and nukes
@@Lankyfool234 as a Millennial you truly don't understand how one little slip up could've led to global catastrophe.
Interesting how there weren't many events in the past that could end the world like the chixulub impact and yet there are comets that come dangerously close to our planet in our present days who happen in only decades apart.
that probably happened back then too, there's just no way of recording close calls in prehistoric times unlike with actual impacts.
The great dying: allow me to introduce myself ( plus the ordivician, triassic and devonian extinctions )
What makes you think these didn’t happen in the past?
space is very interesting, but its also absolutely terrifying at the same time
Let's see what the next few weeks bring!
No, Fat Man and Little Boy couldn’t have ended the world. We thought it could’ve. But it couldn’t.
Nor could the large hydron collider
aliens watching this: “good thing i live on mars”
5:24 I think I remember that. I was in year 2, and I remember waking up in the middle of the night and the sky was changing colours, I dont remember which ones, but I remember green.
It's coming.... just not in the way everyone seemingly thinks. Scoff, mock, scorn.... and in the end, you'll pay the price..... when mercy runs out.
This is horrifying stop scaring me!
I already can guess what number one's probably going to be, it's probably going to be the fact that one Soviet guy in 1983 literally saved the entire world.
The 80’s wanted to kill us
2020: hold my beer
So after watching the Video you notice: basically none of the events could have ended the world. Only one had the potential, but only if it was a different event. Some, not even all of them, could have ended human civilization. But humanity does not equal the world. Thanks for your very precise titles, mojo^^
I see I'm not the only one getting Bay of Pigs vibes today, huh?
The Cuban people have suffered enough. We should get word to them if they start an uprising, we will help them.
"We will help you fight tyranny, but we won't fight your war for you"
But 100 left to discover 😤🥵
this video came out on my birthday
Lol that scene with Ariana Grande at the very end was kinda funny! A nice light-hearted way to end the video!
Can you do comic book origin of Marvel's Rom_the_Spaceknight?
No.
I’m glad the world didn’t end.
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I hate the fact that I am human. Humans are literally the worst, but every once in a while a human comes along to live a great life of peace and goodwill to spread all around. There's not many of those good humans left, and I am happy to say that I am one.
You forgot WW3