Intro:
Conspiracy theorists live for the day when their prophecies come true and the world as we know it comes to an end. Many conspirators have put forward their forecasts from the dawn of recorded history – from aliens to asteroids to black holes – and there isn't a single option that they haven't considered as a disaster trigger. Is the total annihilation of humanity, nevertheless, a feasible prospect in the near future? Most likely not. While there are far too many doomsday forecasts to mention, I've produced a list of three recent apocalypse predictions that, surprisingly, did not come true.
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"The end approaches but the apocalypse is long lived." - Jacques Dessido
May 5, 2000 – Richard W. Noone:
Richard W Noone stated in his book "5/5/2000: Ice, The Ultimate Disaster" that the Earth's end day will be May 5, 2000. For the first time in six thousand years, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn would align with Earth, triggering a sequence of catastrophic calamities triggered by the disturbance of Earth's polar caps. And, as they say, the rest is history.
September 10, 2008 – Large Hadron Collider:
When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was turned on, it was thought that the Earth would end. A lot of thinkers believed that attempting to reproduce a miniature version of the Big Bang would result in the creation of black holes that would swallow the globe. A couple of concerned people also filed a lawsuit against the collider's operators, demanding that a safety report be provided before the collider could be used. The LHC has yet to create any black holes.
"Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing the ashes." - Samuel.R.Delany
December 21, 2012 – The Mayan Apocalypse:
The Mayan apocalypse, widely regarded as the most extensively followed prediction in recent decades, was scheduled to occur when the Mayan calendar came to an end — a few days before Christmas 2012. After 5,125 years of continuous tracking time, the first "Great Cycle" of the calendar came to an end on December 21. This forecast created widespread terror throughout the world, prompting other apocalypse scenarios such as alien invasion, massive solar flares, and huge tidal waves as a result of planetary realignment.
Outro:
However, there appears to be a flaw in all of those forecasts, since none of them have come close to being accurate enough to state that "it's truly occurring."