TOP 5 EXPERIMENTS THAT

COULD DESTROY THE

WORLD

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5.KOLA SUPER DEEP
BOREHOLE
 Located within the Artic Circle in the far Nortwest corner of
Russia in the deepest hole ever drilled into the Earth
 Soviet scientists began drilling the hole in 1970, eventually reaching
a depth of 40,230 ft (12,262m) in 1989
 The Soviets wanted to bore through the Earth’s crust and into the
upper mantle though no one knew what would happen
 Fears of unleashing seismic disaster upon the world or even
demons from hell proved to be unfounded

 And the project was abandoned due to temperatures in excess of

350F (177C) which allowed rock to flow back into the borehole
4. TRINITY TEST
 Conducted as part of the Manhattan Project by the U.S Army on
July 16,1945. The Trinity Test was the first ever detonation of a
nuclear device
 The bomb’s initial development was slowed by fears of project
scientist Edward Teller
 Who speculated that a fission bomb might ignite the Earth’s
atmosphere with a self sustaining fusion reaction of Nitrogen nuclear
 Further calculations showed that the odds of such a reaction were
incredibly small and development continued
 The resulting bomb produced the explosive power of 21 kilotons
of TNT, prompting project scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer to recall
a line of Hindu scripture
 “now I am become Death the destroyer of the worlds

3. LARGE HADRON
COLLIDER
 When it went live on September 10,2008 some thought the Large Hadron Collider
would end the world

 The $6 billion particle accelerator was desinged to accelerate proton beams around 17
mile loop before crashing them together to simulate the microscopic black holes that were
formed during the Big Bang
 Some thought these black holes would grow to consume the earth
but Scientists dismissed the idea, calculating that any black holes
formed would evaporate due to a phenomenon known as Hawking
Radation
2. STARFISH PRIME
 Earth’s magnetosphere is an important layer of charged particles
that protects the atmosphere from solar wind
 So what would happen if a large nuclear bomb was detonated
there? The United States decided to find out in 1962
 Seeking to find ways to disrupt Soviet missile systems, a
thermonuclear warhead was detonated 250 systems miles above
Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean
 The 1.4 megaton explosion could be seen 900 miles (1450 km)
away in Hawaii where the electromagnetic pulse damaged streetlights
and phone lines

 And an artificial radiation belt was created around the Earth which
lasted for 5 years and crippled one-third of all satellites in low Earth
orbit
1. SETI
 The “search for extraterrestrial intelligence the collective name for
a number of activities searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life

 As early as 1896, nikola tesla theorized that radio could be used to

contact alien life in 1899 he observed signals thought to be from mars
and the U.S declared a “National Radio Day” between August 21 and
23. 1924 to allow scientists to listen for transmissions from the red
planet
 Current studies involve ground and space-base telescopes, large
radio telescope arrays and distributed computing

 But some are wary of the efforts and worry that we may alert
hostile alien civilizations to our existence like Stephen Hawking who
cites mankind’s own history of harsh treatment when encountering
civilizations with a significant technology gap