Fabulous experiments that could have Destroyed the World

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Human curiosity and hunger for power has helped the humanity conquer many realms of previously unexplored territories but what if one major step taken in attempt to benefit the mankind might have gone wrong and led to the ultimate demise of mankind.
Many such experiments have been held in the past, we bring you some.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole
Located in the Arctic Circle within the far Northwest corner of Russia is the deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth’s crust. Soviet scientists began drilling in the 1970, eventually reaching a depth of 40,230 ft (12,626 m) in 1989. The Soviets wanted to drill through the Earth’s crust and then into the upper mantle but had to stop when the rocks at 1737 Celsius began flowing into the borehole, speculations were that the drilling might cause disastrous seismic activities and open the doors of hell. (these theists I tell you)

The Trinity Test
Conducted as a part of the Manhattan project, this was one of the first atomic bombs to be tested which came with certain complications and fears. One of them being that the fission reaction might trigger a self-sustaining fusion reaction of the Nitrogen nuclei but the bomb was detonated anyhow releasing the power equivalent of 21 kilotons of TNT.

Large Hadron Collider
If countless experts were to be believed the Large Hadron Collider was guaranteed to end the world. The justifications given were scientifically cogent, the 6 billion dollar particle accelerator was designed to recreate a mini Big Bang that would have helped the scientists in studying the formation of universe. But the ever present fear of the creation of a micro-black hole holding the potential to engulf the whole planet was there, but the experiment didn’t end with any dire consequences.

Starfish Prime
In an attempt to rupture Soviet satellites the United States of America detonated a thermonuclear bomb in 1962, about 250 miles above Johnson Island in the Pacific Ocean resulting in formation of an artificial radioactive belt which ruptured the satellites in the whole lower orbit and stayed intact for the next 5 years.

SETI
The “Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence” is responsible for finding out the existence of life outside planet.  While many encourage the SETI, others are more concerned that what if our efforts of communicating these civilizations through radio communication are picked by hostile aliens? Though the probability of this happening is equal to the probability of finding such a civilization, we haven’t found any, yet.
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Post By: RS Staff
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