DOS_patos
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It looks like 2018 could be a year featuring two huge historical events.
Don't be surprised if there's a new superpower and an incredible discovery - that's according to a blind mystic who fans claim correctly predicted Brexit, 9/11, the rise of ISIS and the Boxing Day tsunami.
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Baba Vanga envisioned two world-changing events happening this year.
The Bulgarian - who died in 1996 aged 85 - left predictions going all the way to the 51st Century - when she said the world would end.
The year has two major events in store, according to the woman known as the 'Nostradamus from the Balkans'
She said that in 2018 China will become the world's next "super power", taking over from the US and “a new form of energy” will be discovered on Venus.
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Could these predictions actually come true?
The Parker Solar Probe, named after the solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker, is scheduled to launch in July 2018.
The NASA robotic spacecraft is designed to probe the outer corona of the Sun.
While the craft will not actual land on Venus, it will use the planet's gravitational force to achieve multiple passes of the Sun.
The mission aims to determine the structure and dynamics of the magnetic fields at the sources of solar wind, trace the flow of energy that heats the plasma surrounding the Sun and explore dusty plasma near the star and its influence on solar wind and energetic particle formation.
It's scheduled launch date was originally in 2015, but this was pushed back.
Baba Vanga predicted the mission will discover a new form of energy, according to conspiracy theorists.
She is revered in Russia for her 85% success rate when it comes to telling the future - with millions convinced that she possessed paranormal abilities.
Her second prediction for 2018- that China would overtake the US as a superpower - is also plausible.
Two years ago research group The Conference Board estimated that by 2018, China’s contribution to global GDP will surpass that of the US.
In 2015 the US contributed 16.7% of the world’s economy but this is expected to fall to 14.9% in 2025, according to Forbes.
China’s economy on the other hand has expanded significantly in recent years. In 1970 the country was responsible for just 4.1% of the total world’s economy. But this rose to 15.6% in 2015 and China continues to grow.