We prove that in some families of planar rational compacta there are no universal elements.

If a metrizable space $X$ is dense in a metrizable space $Y$, then $Y$ is called a metric extension of $X$. If $T_1$ and $T_2$ are metric extensions of $X$ and there is a continuous map of $T_2$ into $T_1$ keeping $X$ pointwise fixed, we write $T_1\le T_2$. If $X$ is noncompact and metrizable, then $\left(ℳ\right(X),\le )$ denotes the set of metric extensions of $X$, where $T_1$ and $T_2$ are identified if $T_1\le T_2$ and $T_2\le T_1$, i.e., if there is a homeomorphism of $T_1$ onto $T_2$ keeping $X$ pointwise fixed. $\left(ℳ\right(X),\le )$ is a large complicated poset studied extensively by V. Bel’nov [The structure of...