TOP 9 unique experiments in history

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 19:46

If humanity did not conduct experiments, it probably would never have gotten out of the Stone Age. But where is the line between the need to acquire new data and the moral that needs to be sacrificed for that data? For some researchers, such a line did not exist at all - and their experiments are still considered one of the most terrifying in the history of the world. Others risked only their own lives or bravely stormed the limits of our civilization's capabilities.

1) Project "Stormfury"

An extremely unsuccessful attempt at weather control in the middle of the 20th century.

Prominent chemist Irving Langmuir came to the conclusion that if storm clouds were showered with silver iodide, they would rain in the right place, and not over crowded cities. In the same way, it was supposed to weaken hurricanes. But instead of fading away, the chosen hurricane headed for the coastal city of Savannah, bringing death and destruction.

2) Elephant on LSD

In 1962, researchers from Oklahoma City decided to find out how Taxco the elephant living in the zoo would behave if he was injected with a dose of LSD. The elephant received an injection of 297 mg of the drug - 3 thousand times the normal human dose … and died in less than an hour.

After 20 years, the experiment was repeated, giving LSD to two elephants in the water, and they practically did not notice anything. Perhaps Taxco had an excessive sensitivity to the drug, which the experimenters did not deign to find out.

3) Self-guided cardiac catheterization GT

It was first performed in 1928 by the German surgeon Werner Forsmann, and on himself. Using local anesthesia, Forsman passed the probe through the ulnar vein to the very right atrium, 65 centimeters. Fortunately, everything went well, and in 1956 Forsman received the Nobel Prize.

4) Kola superdeep well

With a depth of 12262 meters, it is officially the deepest well in the world, which was drilled from 1970 to 1990 in the Murmansk region.

In the course of the experiment, invaluable information was obtained about the deep structure of the planet, the composition of rocks and the geothermal regime of the ancient earth's crust. Unfortunately, at the moment the project is abandoned and the objects on it are gradually being destroyed.

5) LHC, i.e. Large Hadron Collider

The world's largest particle accelerator located in an underground complex on the border of Switzerland and France. The length of the ring is about 27 km, the project is served by more than 10 thousand scientists.

During its construction and before launch, evil tongues predicted the end of the world for the planet, tk. the collider supposedly could generate "miniature black holes". Of course, the rumors did not come true.

6) "Starfish Prime", one of the US projects to study nuclear explosions in outer space

On July 9, 1962, a 1.45 megaton nuclear warhead was detonated at an altitude of 400 km. Under the influence of an electromagnetic pulse in Hawaii, at a distance of 1500 km from the epicenter, hundreds of electronic units were out of order, and three satellites collapsed from orbit.

7) Raising the Dead

American scientist Robert Cornish from 1932 to 1948 conducted experiments on the reanimation of dead creatures.

He set up his experiments on dogs, preliminarily killing them with an overdose of ether, and successfully brought them back to life by rocking the body on a movable table with a parallel injection of adrenaline and anticoagulants. He also wanted to test his practice in humans (exclusively volunteers), but failed.

8) mind control

Spanish professor Jose Delgado discovered in 1963 that if a small device is implanted into the brain of an animal, then with the help of it it is possible to completely control its movements and even emotions. Fortunately, the matter did not reach the people, but the experiments turned out to be quite creepy enough without that.