Nostradamus a reputed “seer”, an alleged oracle began publishing his famous, cryptic quatrains in 1555. But these were no ordinary poems. Nostradamus was allegedly a diviner who was able to predict future tidings.
Adolf Hitler
Prediction:
From the depths of the West of Europe,
A young child will be born of poor people,
He 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.
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What Actually happened: On April 20, 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, which is in Western Europe. But his family was middle class, not impoverished.
Hitler did rise to power in part due to his oratory abilities (by his tongue will seduce), and did initiate WWII (a great troop) by invading Poland.
Some Nostradamus supporters have posited that Hister is a misspelling of Hitler, but it’s actually the Latin term for the Danube (the second-longest river in Europe)
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Prediction:
Near the gates and within two cities
There will be scourges the like of which was never seen,
Famine within plague, people put out by steel,
Crying to the great immortal God for relief.
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What Actually happened: In early August 1945 the United States dropped two atomic weapons on the island of Japan, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (within two cities). The cities were devastated, and many survivors of the blast suffered from radiation poisoning (crying to the great immortal God for relief).
In the wake of the war, Japan also went through a food shortage crisis (famine within plague).
But, like horoscopes, the predictions themselves tend to be vaguely worded, and therefore open to the reader’s interpretations and biases.
Nostradamus was a clever man he believed that history repeats itself and used the technique of projecting past events onto the future in order to make realistic-sounding claims. What’s more, scholars have argued the modern translations of Nostradamus’ writing are sloppy and unreliable.
With that note let’s look into a few predictions for the year 2020. Although according to “Back to the Future…..” many predictions should have been seen in 2015.Lets see what the Gypsy ball has to say about 2020
Books will be dead
Paper books and documents are rarely used or accessed. Most twentieth-century paper documents of interest have been scanned and are available through the wireless network.
Your every move will be tracked
Your smartphone follows you. Your web browser traces your digital trail. Each individual’s practically every move (will be) stored in a database somewhere.
We’ll have self-driving cars
Self driving cars are being experimented with in the late 1990s, with implementation on major highways feasible during the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Dozens of companies – including Tesla, Google spinoff Waymo and ride-sharing giants Uber and Lyft – are testing self-driving vehicles in select locations, such as Boston, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Columbus, Ohio.
In April, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would have fully self-driving cars ready by the end of the year and a “robotaxi” version – one that could ferry passengers without anyone behind the wheel – ready for the streets next year. Tesla owners can “summon” their cars, which can drive themselves from parking spots to the curb, where the owner is standing.
Global surface temperature will increase
Climate predictions tend to have a longer range, but here’s a snapshot of where 2020 stands.
A report in 1995 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the average global surface temperature could increase by about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
The report predicted that sea level could increase by about 20 inches by the same year.
Humans will set foot on Mars
A report in 1996 by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council said NASA would launch “possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century,” predicting that humans would land on Mars by 2018.
Schwartz and Leyden envisioned a similar scenario: “In 2020, humans arrive on Mars. … The four astronauts touch down and beam their images back to the 11 billion people sharing in the moment. The expedition is a joint effort supported by virtually all nations on the planet, the culmination of a decade and a half of intense focus on a common goal.”
Antigravity belts will revolutionize warfare
Imagine a world where battles are fought a few feet above the ground, as soldiers hover in midair. In 1968, mathematician and scientist D.G. Brennan predicted that antigravity belts would “revolutionize the tactics of land warfare,” writing that “even if the antigravity mechanism did not itself provide horizontal propulsion, relatively modest sources of thrust could easily be provided.”
He suspected that by 2018, humans would have antigravity cars and jetpacks capable of operating for 30 minutes.
