While some people wait for the premiere of the doomsday movie 2012, there are some who actually wait for the end of the world. In Russia, a group of people have shut themselves out from the rest of the world by staying inside a cave to wait for doomsday. Part of the cave's roof has already collapsed and authorities are worried about the welfare of the people, which includes children, who have chosen to stay inside.
Vents for air circulation have been put in place, but the danger remains for the people inside the cave. Doomsday cults often isolate themselves and adopt a communal way of life for a certain period of time before doing something drastic like mass suicide. In this case, it's waiting for the end.
China will soon be the next superpower in space as it aims for the Moon and beyond. It is now in the middle stages of plans to send its astronauts, called taikonauts to land on the moon, duplicating what the United States and the former Soviet Union did in the past. Well, we all know what that led to---a cold, cold war that only ended with the collapse of the communist system in the USSR which led to the new Russia of today. We can only guess on the effects of this new endeavour to China and its neighboring countries. What we can be sure of is that countries may also give the moon a shot. Read more about China's lunar aspirations here.