As the new year slowly seeps into our lives, and empty promises turn into resolutions, let us reminisce over the past twelve months that were filled with worse things than writing the date wrong on your next check. 2013 may have succeeded the end of the world, but it could have tried a little harder than that. Anyway, here is a list of all that went wrong in 2013.
Starting out with entertainment, just off the top of my head.
Movies and shows:
Two Guns. Because cliche gun-shooter movies are apparently still popular.
This is the End. A horrible idea that nobody seemed to disagree with.
Sharknado!, I don’t mind so much when a movie is bad, but not when they meant it to be bad…
Breaking Bad ended. Now what am I going to spend my weekends watching.
Moving on…
Natural Disasters:
May 20 Tornado:
It’s been a few years since we have had anything as powerful as the May 3 tornado, but the one that ripped the Moore has given us yet another date to remember. While it definitely did not get as bad as the 150 tornadoes that touched down over that one week of May, it still killed 24 people, injuring nearly 400 and destroying over 1000 homes.
The summer heat:
While not as bad as the 2012, the temperatures were still scorching all around the world. Australia even had to add a new color code to indicate the temperatures that reached over 52C (125.6F) in January of 2013.
And, because it’s such an interesting topic…
Politics:
The Obama-care Website:
After finally getting passed by congress, this concoction was thrown out on the internet. Other than being slow and difficult to navigate, the whole development was a joke. All this proved to show is that the government still has no abilities to properly deal with issues of technology.
Speaking of technology, how about the worst developments in science of 2013.
Science!:
First off, there was actually a bunch of cool science stuff that happened last year: Curiosity found water on Mars, quadcopters delivering pizza and NASA and SpaceX sent up more spaceships. Either way, there were still some “epoch” falis:
Comet ISON burns up in the sun:
After traversing across our entire solar system on a trajectory that would intercept with earth, this comet was going to whip around the sun and come the closest to earth any comet ever would. It was going to be this spectacular phenomena where we would be able to see this ball of dust and ice even during the day. But then, it got too close to the sun and incinerated. Stupid comet.
While this was a tragedy, some of the greater tragedies of science mainly come from the fact that we still don’t have any flying cars, hover boards, or pizza that can be cooked in three seconds. We got pretty close to holographic movies, though.
