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10!
Now as it’s the spookiest month of the year, shoutout to Halloween, full moons, and hearing
suspicious noises at 3am when you’re the only one home, today’s video is nothing
short of mortifying.
Just kidding…not really.
Year by year, I think it’s safe to say the world is becoming a much more unpredictable,
crazy place, so on that note today’s video is all about the Top 10 scariest predictions
for 2019.
So if you were sat at home thinking next year was gonna be the calm after the storm that
was 2018, here’s your reality check.
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But without further ado, lets get into it.
Coming in at number 10 is World War 3.
Yes you heard that right, World War 3.
This prediction comes from a man called Michael Phillips, who claims he was born in 2043 but
has travelled back in time to warn of us of the impending doom that awaits us.
Said to have joined the army when he was 18, Michael was handpicked for all experiments
relating to time travel and felt he had no choice but to at least try and stop the events
from unfolding.
Describing what the world looks like in 30 years, Michael said that North Korea attempt
to launch a nuclear weapon at the US at the end of 2018 going into 2019.
And would you look at the time, it’s the nearly the end of 2018, cue world war 3.
In response to those nuclear attacks, Michael claims the US then launch two cruise missiles
with nuclear tips back at North Korea hitting their largest city, Pyongyang.
Now although there’s no way to confirm whether he is in fact a time traveller or not, we
do know for a fact that North Korea have been consistently developing their nuclear program
for years.
In 2017, they test launched 2 missiles that had enough range to reach the US and later
claimed to have a quote on quote ‘perfect’ hydrogen bomb test.
So, time travelling aside, the facts speak for themselves and seem to be on the right
track for his prediction.
And if that is the case, well you better start building your bunkers now.
Sneaking its way in at number 9 is gaining the ability to talk to animals.
Yes, you can finally just tell your dog to stop peeing in the living room and he’ll
actually be able to understand you.
But I give no guarantees on whether he’ll listen or not.
This was said to be true by the French seer Nostradamus, who in his life time accurately
predicted various historical events about the then ruler King Henry, the rise of Hitler,
the assassination of JFK and he even predicted his own death.
Sounds pretty legit to me.
In his quatrains predicting the next few centuries, 70% of which have come true so far, Nostradamas
wrote that ‘pigs will become brothers to man’ in 2019 and that we a species will
become more loyal to animals than to each other through that technology.
Now while some people may see this as great and something they’ve always been waiting
for, and let’s be real who wouldn’t want to speak to animals, who’s to say they won’t
band together against us?
Or who’s to say people won’t use that ability to do evil?
Number 8, and probably the most devastating one in my opinion, is the possibility of the
last season of Game of Thrones being further postponed.
The first sign of heartbreak came last year when beloved fans found out that they had
to wait not 1 but 2 years for the Mother of Dragons to hit their screens again.
Originally, the final installment was meant to air in April 2019, however that’s seeming
more and more unlikely as talks of the season progress.
Where does this prediction stem from you may ask?
Well, in order for Game of Thrones or any show to qualify for a 2019 Emmy nomination,
the series has to air before June of that year.
According to Joe Bauer, the shows visual effects supervisor, the show will be eligible for
the 2020 Emmys not the 2019 Emmys which implies the show may be delayed and released after
the June cut off.
So, believe what you want, but the night is truly is dark and full of terrors.
Coming in at number 7 is a global freeze aka the ice age lasting 120 years.
And no I don’t mean the cute sort from the movies we all saw growing up.
Predictions aside, it’s already a well-known fact that climate change is upon us and is
intensifying at an alarming rate.
We’ve seen the frequency and magnitude of natural disasters intensify over the last
decade and it’s all due to global warming.
The coldest winter in the past 5 years has been forecast to hit most countries in the
Northern Hemisphere next year, with places like Britain hitting lows of -17.
And if that doesn’t mean anything to you, to put it in perspective, the last time the
temperature dropped that low in Britain was in 1795.
Not only is that super uncomfortable to live in, I’m getting goosebumps just thinking
about it, the effects that that will have on agriculture will also be profoundly negative.
Colder weather, crops can’t survive or grow, food shortage, famine… okay that’s an
overstatement but need I say more?
Prediction number 6 is all to do with virtual reality.
A dream of the past and a reality of the present you can find a VR set in most major malls,
heck I’ve seen them in nearly every Samsung store I walk into.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, virtual reality is a computer generated experience
which simulates an environment around you.
So, if you’re one of those people who used to get excited in those 4D cinemas when it
was raining in the movie and water splashed on you in real life, then VR is definitely
up your alley.
I admittedly was one of those people.
Still am.
As fun as this technology is and can be, the dangers of it are enormous.
Humans love escaping from their day to day lives and being immersed in TV, video games,
you name it and VR is that times 100.
So what happens when we start enjoying virtual reality more than our real lives?
We’ve already seen this sort of idea being played out in the movie Ready Player One and
the reality of that is not that far fetched.
Will VR turn the world into a messed up Black Mirror episode?
I guess we’ll have to wait and find out.
At number 5 we have mind control through music.
This prediction is thanks to everyone’s favourite yellow cartoon, the Simpsons.
Unless you’re living under a rock, I know I don’t need to tell you the number of times
a Simpsons episode has jokingly predicted something and it’s actually come true.
They predicted the NFL champions 3 years in a row, they predicted Trump’s presidency,
the Ebola outbreak and those are just 3 I can think of on the top of my head let alone
all the others.
We saw mind control through music on an episode called ‘New Kids On The Blecch’ that aired
in 2001, where the US Navy hid subliminal messages in songs in order to get more people
to join the army.
Now I’m not saying that exact scenario will take place, but with the expansion and impact
of the music industry on every single person listening, its completely plausible.
Excluding mind control, lyrics already influence so many people and get dissected and interpreted
to the last letter.
So, in fairness, who says it isn’t already happening?
Breaking my heart at number 4 is the possible extinction of a dozen more species.
Guys.
What are we doing?
Why do people think that killing animals for fur or meat or money is more important than
their preservation and survival?
Its 2018 people, its time for us to finally evolve.
The list of animals that could go extinct include: The Sumatran elephant, the Amur Leopard
which total to less than 70 across the earth, the Sumatran tiger which total to less than
1,000, the black rhino, and the list goes on…even though it really shouldn’t.
The 3rd scariest prediction for 2019 is mass automation.
Don’t act surprised guys, we all knew it was coming all along.
Well at least Stephen Hawking did.
Artificial intelligence is one of the biggest feats we’ve achieved but it’s also one
that could seriously lead to our downfall.
Now I for one am totally down to co-exist with some sort of robot species, but what
could that entail?
We’ve already seen machines take over a lot peoples jobs and those are plain machines,
not even AI.
With AI and how realistic and humanlike they can make the technology nowadays, there seems
to be no real end in sight on what their capabilities are and what they could be going forward.
We may be safe from completely being replaced right now, but at the rate we’re developing
this, we won’t be safe forever.
Number 2 on the list is and very Big Brother-esque is the collapse of privacy over the course
of the year.
Already people are complaining that online companies like Facebook invade peoples privacies,
and collect data they’re not meant to.
Or that someone will be talking about buying a new pair of headphones and suddenly all
the ads they see on Instagram are about headphones.
Coincidence?
Probably not.
Encryption is always argued against for national security reasons, so that means unless someone
chooses to opt out of the internet and using it.
Nothing is secret anymore.
Say goodbye to all your incognito tabs guys because that won’t help you either.
Coming in with a bang at number 1 is the string of natural disasters that are said to hit
different parts of the world.
Why is this getting bleaker as the numbers go down?
According to our good friend Nostradamus, he predicted catastrophic floods in Europe
with the most heavily affected countries being Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Great
Britain.
High magnitude hurricanes are also forecasted to hit different parts of the US like New
Orleans, Texas, and Florida with winds at over 40 miles per hour.
The biggest disaster set to happen is called the ‘Big Earthquake’ coming from the San
Andreas Fault.
The intensity will be around 8-8.6 on the Richter Scale, or 9.2 if the whole cleft opens.
If these numbers mean nothing to you, let me break it down – anything 9 or higher
on the scale is literally defined as ‘at or near total destruction’. 225,000 square
miles is predicted to be completely unrecognizable and this area is the home of around 7 million
people.