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DESPITE 快猫短视频鈥榮 reputation for sober-sides rationality, it is possible that we may, occasionally, have predicted things that didn鈥檛 actually come to pass. Not that we intentionally print scare stories, of course. But looking back, some reports now seem a tad more outlandish than others.

Shortly after the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, our released news of a 鈥渟tartling scheme鈥�. The Soviets were thinking of deploying remote-controlled 鈥渢anks鈥� on the moon, ostensibly for research purposes. But our correspondent in Washington DC wrote of paranoia infecting the US administration. 鈥淔rightening鈥� was one word used, 鈥渃onsternation鈥� another. So far, neither the Soviet Union nor Russia has attempted to colonise the moon, militarily or otherwise.

Scaremongering? Well, in the depths of the cold war, it was perhaps forgiveable. But sometimes, too, fears become reality. You might have thought that the antibiotic fireworks in our would fizzle out. 鈥淣ew gonorrhoea organism resists penicillin,鈥� screamed our headline, 鈥渟hattering the complacency of venereologists.鈥� Liverpool Royal Infirmary in the UK had confirmed cases of the sexually transmitted disease resisting the drug. We suggested an 鈥渦rgent re-examination鈥� of routine penicillin use might be in order. It still is. Today the problem is far greater.

Of course, the truth is that we can never really know if our concerns will prove unfounded. Yes, or no, to this one? In our 12 October 2002 issue, we reported the belief of genomicist George Church 鈥渢hat in less than a decade, people will be able to get their own genomes sequenced for about the price of a laptop or a flat-screen TV鈥�. All of which meant you might be able to look forward to a long and healthy life. Or, instead develop Alzheimer鈥檚 before you were 50. Presumably the likelihood of either determines whether it is a scare story or not.