Another year, another series of unsolved mysteries – and who knows if the answers to these questions will ever come about.
WT1190F space junk:
There was some space junk that burned up as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere above the Indian ocean in November. Although there are a few theories as to what it might be, the leading one is that it’s a rocket. But which rocket, they have no idea.
Where in the world is…the most wanted woman on the planet
This is apparently a picture of Hayat Boumeddiene. The 26-year-old is suspected in helping plan the deadly attacks in Paris last year January. Although the level of her involvement is unclear, she is hanging out with the ISIS cats back in Syria and is one of the most wanted criminals on the planet.
8 000-year-old patterns in remote Kazakhstan
There are around 300 of these random patterns in remote parts of Kazakhstan. While some blame aliens, and others say Nazis, known as the Steppe Geoglyphs, the various patterns took thousands of years to make.
Only visible from high above, the oldest was constructed at least 8 000 years ago and no one knows why. First spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by Dmitriy Dey who was looking for ancient pyramids, NASA is now working to unravel the mystery.
The great escape: Where is El Chapo?
Back in July, the Sinaloa drug cartel’s infamous leader known as “El Chapo” escaped from a Mexican prison. He slipped through a small hole drilled into his shower cell then sped away on a motorbike through an underground tunnel – obviously. And he has been ‘missing’ ever since.
Ghost ship boats
In the space of one month, nearly a dozen boats with decomposing bodies were found off the coast of Japan. Although many signs point to North Korea, the origin of the boats and the reason for the deaths is yet to be established.
More than 30 boats were found in 2015. There were 65 the year before and 80 in 2013.
Is there life on Saturn’s moon?
“Enceladus is not just an ocean world. It’s a world that might provide a habitable environment for life as we know it,” Cassini program scientist Curt Niebur said at the time.
Buuuuuuut, Cassini wasn’t built to actually detect life forms so unless another mission goes to Saturn’s moon, we’ll never know.
What killed 120,000 antelopes in just a few days?
In just two weeks around 120 000 saiga antelope died through central Kazakhstan. That’s more than a third of the world’s population and is the largest die-off event of a species ever recorded. Although the actual cause is unknown, one theory is the rocket fuel from decades of launches from facilities in central Kazakhstan.
Maybe they were sacrificing themselves to the pattern gods.
What happened to MH370?
No one knows. Really. Although parts of the plane has washed up, there has been no answer to what happened that day to the Malaysia Airlines flight.
I wonder what will happen in 2016.
[source: mashable]
