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10 Failed Doomsday Predictions: Media

Predictions for the end of the world that (obviously) didn’t come true.

Images

The Condemned in Hell, fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the Chapel...
SCALA/Art Resource, New York
Madrid Codex
The corn god (left) and the rain god, Chac, drawing from the Madrid Codex (Codex...
Courtesy of the Museo de America, Madrid
solar X-rays
Twelve solar X-ray images obtained by Yohkoh between 1991 and 1995. The solar coronal...
G.L. Slater and G.A. Linford; S.L. Freeland; the Yohkoh Project
Halley's Comet
Halley's Comet, 1986.
NASA/National Space Science Data Center
lightning: cloud-to-ground
Cloud-to-ground lightning discharge from a cumulonimbus cloud to a field.
Ā© Hemera/Thinkstock
Barred Plymouth Rock hen.
Ā© Larry Lefever/Grant Heilman Photography, Inc.
solar system
Artist's conception of a young version of the solar system depicting the dusty disks...
NASA/JPL
Angel showing John the heavenly Jerusalem, manuscript illumination from the Revelation...
Courtesy of the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Germany