Some historical predictions can be easily
debunked, but there are a few historical predictions
that unexplainably came true, and here they
are…
#9 Jules Verne – From the Earth to the Moon
Back in 1865, there was this famous author,
Jules Verne, who wrote a Science-fiction novel
called From the Earth to the Moon.
So the book was the sequel to, Journey to
the center of the Earth.
The book, “from the Earth to the Moon”
follows a Baltimore Gun Club.
In this story, the club attempts to create
a giant Columbiad space gun and launch three
people in a projectile to the moon.
Crazy right?
Well, around the time of the Apollo 11 take
off, it was realized that Verne had gotten
rather close on many aspects.
The dimensions of his projectiles are surprisingly
similar to Apollo 11, as well as the three
man crew.
Of course, this was 1865 and it would be nearly
impossible for all of his calculations and
predictions to come true.
Back during this time, no one was considering
landing on the moon, and no one would attempt
it for over 100 years.
But it didn’t matter, his book was fiction
and never claimed to be accurate, so considering
everything that was spot on…his predictions
are absolutely astounding.
Other predictions by Jules Verne included
the Submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea and the helicopter from Robur the Conqueror.
#8 Robert Boyle – Organ Transplants
Robert William Boyle was a natural philosopher,
he was also a chemist, physicist and inventor
from Ireland during the 1600s.
But today he is known as the first modern
chemist, and often one of the founders of
modern chemistry.
As a child, much of his schooling was done
in England.
And right after his primary schooling, Boyle
had developed an interest in scientific research.
When he was in Ireland, he became frustrated
at the lack of progression he was making in
his chemical work.
At one time, he called his home of Ireland,
"a barbarous country where chemical spirits
were so misunderstood and chemical instruments
so unprocurable that it was hard to have any
Hermetic thoughts in it."
Eventually he decided to leave for Oxford.
This was the beginning of his major studies
in chemistry AND eventually he would go on
to make history.
Although he made many scientific breakthroughs,
one of Boyle’s greatest feats was his "wish
list" of 24 possible inventions such as the
"art of flying", "perpetual light", and "practicable
and certain ways of finding longitudes".
The best part, -most of them have already
come true.
But one in particular seems to stand out.
“The Cure of Diseases at a distance or at
least by Transplantation,” was one of Boyle’s
most memorable wishes.
What made it even more amazing was that he
predicted it 300 years prior to the first
successful transplant.
& let’s not forget about energy healing
from a distance, that’s coming up quick.
Woah.
Spot on.
#7 Ray Bradbury – Earbuds
This next prediction may not be life-saving,
but it is used by nearly every human on the
planet on a regular basis.
In Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451,
he speaks of an eerily familiar device.
“The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum
in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden
wasp snug in its special pink warm nest.”
-The music was almost loud enough so he could
follow the tune.
Without turning on the light he imagined how
this room would look.
His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and
cold, like a body displayed on the lid of
the tomb, her eyes fixed in the ceiling by
invisible threads of steel, immovable.
And in her ears the little Seashells, the
thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic
ocean of sound, of music and talk and music
and talk coming in, coming in on the shore
of her unsleeping mind.
The room was indeed empty.
Every night the waves came in and bore her
off on their great tides of sound, floating
her, wide-eyed, toward morning.
There had been no night in the last two years
that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not
gladly gone down in it for the third time.”
The scary thing is…Ray Bradbury did not
wish to predict such a future wrapped up in
technology…but prevent it.
Mildred, the characters wife, was so consumed
with her “flat panel TV” and “sleeping
pills” and “seashells” that she was
an empty vessel, addicted to electronic devices.
#6 Dmitri Mendeleev – Periodic Table
Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and
inventor.
He formulated the Periodic Law and was created
the first version of the periodic table of
elements.
Mendeleev’s mother always encouraged him
to "patiently search divine and scientific
truth."
When Dmitri was a teen, that same mother took
him from their home in Siberia to Moscow for
a higher education after seeing his potential.
But, the college there would not take him,
so after searching around, they found one
in St. Petersburg that would.
He went on to be highly honored and received
many awards for his scientific discoveries
and achievements.
So in 1863 there were 56 known elements.
His concepts on new elements were criticized
and he was often shut down.
A few years later, he created the first periodic
table, with a few changes to the known elements
and eight new ones added.
He presented it with the quote:
"I saw in a dream a table where all elements
fell into place as required.
Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on
a piece of paper, only in one place did a
correction later seem necessary."
The elements he added wouldn’t be physically
discovered for quite some time.
#5 Morgan Robertson – Titanic Sinking
Fourteen years before the historical sinking
of the Titanic, Morgan Robertson wrote a novel
called Futility.
In his book, a ship known as the Titan that
was only 25 meters shorter than the Titanic,
was known as an ‘unsinkable’ ship.
Despite this, the Titan hit an iceberg and
went down in April, killing nearly everyone
on board, just like the Titanic did.
The ships were not only similar in length,
but could both travel at a speed of over 20
knots, and though they were both full of passengers,
they carried the minimum amount of required
lifeboats.
Funny enough, the one person who never believed
the prediction was Robertson, the writer.
He said, “no, it was not written with clairvoyance.”
The similarities were explained by his “extensive
knowledge of shipbuilding and maritime trend,”
as he spent much of his boyhood and young
adulthood aboard various ships.
#4 Nikola Tesla – Texting and Video Calls
Tesla is known for his inventions such as
the modern alternating current (or air conditioner)
and electricity supply system.
But what is even more shocking is what Tesla
once wrote in the magazine, “We shall be
able to communicate with one another instantly,
irrespective of distance.”.....
“Not only this, but through television and
telephony we shall see and hear one another
as perfectly as though we were face to face,
despite intervening distances of thousands
of miles; and the instruments through which
we shall be able to do this will be amazingly
simple compared with our present telephone.
….
A man will be able to carry one in his vest
pocket.”
We shall be able to witness and hear events
the just as though we were present.”
This was in 1926, seventy years before any
of this – SMS, video calling, or smart phones
– would be available to the public.
In this same interview, Tesla described the
modern day world as “one human brain”.
#3 Mark Twain – His Death
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or better known
by his pen name, Mark Twain, was made famous
by his books such as The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
But what many do not know was that Mark Twain
had the innate ability to predict a certain
future.
Mark Twain was born two weeks after Halley's
Comet's closest approach in 1835.
Shortly before his death, he said, “I came
in with Halley's Comet in 1835.
It is coming again next year, and I expect
to go out with it.
It will be the greatest disappointment of
my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.
The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here
are these two unaccountable freaks; they came
in together, they must go out together".”
As predicted, on April 21, 1910 in Redding,
Connecticut, one day after the comet's closest
approach to Earth, Mark Twain died of a heart
attack.
Many wonder how long Twain knew of this fate.
Had he lived his whole life knowing when he
would die?
Or did the realization strike him shortly
before he mentioned it?
#2 EM Forster – Internet and Man’s Obsession
EM Forster was a writer in the early 1900s.
One of his greatest works may have been, The
Machine Stops, a futuristic sci-fi short story.
The Machine Stops is about a mother and son
in a post-apocalyptic world where homes are
underground and needs are provided by a machine.
Everyone stays at home and communicates via
video screens and instant messaging.
It is said that the people worship this omnipotent,
global Machine.
In fact, those who do not worship the Machine
are deemed 'unmechanical' and threatened with
Homelessness.
Eventually, the Machine “dies” due to
various malfunctions.
However, humans had relied on it for so long;
they don’t know what to do.
Mankind will now perish, but not before the
mother and son realize that man and his connection
to other through the natural world is what
really matters, and that it is up to those
few who never let go of that, The Surface
Dwellers, to rebuild the human race and to
prevent the mistake of the Machine from being
repeated.
What is odd is that Forster normally wrote
about class differences and hypocrisy and
‘The Machine Stops’ was his only sci-fi
story.
#1 Nostradamus – Everything
Perhaps the most notorious predictor of all
time was Nostradamus, who is known by many
as a prophet.
Some of his most famous predictions have involve
great historical events.
Nostradamus was often very specific in his
prophecies,
For instance, "The blood of the just will
be demanded of London, burnt by fire in the
year '66,” he wrote.
“The ancient Lady will fall from her high
place and many of the same sect will be killed."
On September 2, 1666, a small bakery fire
broke out and turned into a fire known as
“the Great Fire of London.”
But, perhaps the greatest prophecy of all
…….was this,
"From the depths of the West of Europe, a
young child will be born of poor people who
by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his
fame will increase towards the realm of the
East.
Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the
rivers, the greater part of the battlefield
will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be
drawn, when the child of Germany observes
nothing."
On April 20, 1889 Hitler was born in Western
Europe, to very poor parents.
He moved to Germany, convinced many to follow
him, and then invaded France.
Nostradamus wasn’t short on American predictions
either, as he once wrote, "The great man will
be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt,
an evil deed foretold by the bearer of a petition,”........
according to the prediction, “another falls
at night time during a conflict at Reims,
London and a pestilence in Tuscany."
It is believed this was the great man John
F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
Bobby Kennedy, John’s brother, was killed
just after Midnight on June 5, 1968.
The world mourned both of these losses tremendously.
Along with these, it is said that Nostradamus
predicted the French Revolution, Napoleon’s
reign, Louis Pasteur’s discoveries, and
the 9/11 disaster.
Intense.
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