10. New York City Rioting
In July 1997 lightning struck the New York Con Edison facility, in order to restore power the operator needed to switch several switches in a certain order, but that poor operator missed one switch and ConEd went offline for more that 25 hours. No electricity in the tremendous summer heat resulted a riot in the city. A congressional study estimates that more than $300 million damages were done.
11. Mariner 1
This is probably the most tiniest of all mistakes made that changed the course of history. In 1961 NASA launched America’s first inter-planetary probe Mariner 1 with Venus as it’s destination. But a single typo ruined it all, it was a over bar which caused the spacecraft to veer off its course. NASA had to denote the probe after 5 minutes of its take off, and is assumed to be lost!
12. Martian Myths
All the Martian Films owe this person a thanks, since he is the reason people believe that aliens exist and they live in Mars! In 1877 Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used the word canali (meaning channels) to describe the trenches. Percival Lowell (this man!) thought it to be canals and his speculation led us to believe that life exists in Mars!
