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- Krassy5
Trump will lose 2020
- utopian5
- How Carl Sagan "Predicted" 2020... in 1995utopian
- surested
- he also predicted that a golden vinyl record duct-taped to a rocket would be appropriate to communicate with a more advanced civilization in the universe.uan
- @uan, that kind of comment helps prove what he said in the above Sagan quote about dumbed down sound bites.CyBrainX
- just trying to be funny. relax.uan
- lol, in the QBN Cinematic Universe, we argue over the merits of the Voyager Gold Record, and then Gardener pops in and is like..garbage
- .."Found it in a boot sale."garbage
- Lol @garbageOBBTKN
- utopian5
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- "celebration of ignorance" - beautifully and horrifically accurate.Morning_star
- BustySaintClaire-7
Three Gorge Dam on Yangtze River in China collapses, sending the mother of all land tsunamis downstream, destroying
megacities like Wuhan, and imperilling the lives of 400 million. A wobble in earth's rotation is detected.
- utopian0
- Queen Bitch will hold on until Charles dies first, just purely out of spite so he can't be regent.face_melter
- Huh, never seen Keith Richards in tie & blazerBustySaintClaire
- Satan looks great!Bennn
- utopian0
- not practicing social distancing. would not bangsarahfailin
- ...also I'm a little bit frightened.sarahfailin
- yeah, like what if they have really bad teeth under theregrafician
- no.sted
- i urge everybody to avoid making this a trend.sted
- Nairn0
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re: Heat Waves - It was particularly hot and sunny last week here in UK/LDN, and I found the 'quality' of it quite disconcerting. It's early May and the sunlight was INTENSE - sort of like dry days in really hot, arid climates with totally clear skies. I was getting constantly blinded by reflected glares from cars and such. I began idly wondering at this, surmising that perhaps the huge drop in airplane travel was reducing particulate haze at certain altitudes, which normally deflect or scatter incoming sunlight. Not totally crazy - much the same was measured in the days after 9/11 when transatlantic air travel was stopped.What began worrying me was that if that's the case, then we're now reliant on our emissions to protect us from the intensity of sunlight, which .. well, that wouldn't be Good.
So, prediction: Like alcoholics trying to treat their addictions, we're going to have to gradually taper off emissions even if we somehow came up with fully-functioning fusion tomorrow, elsewise we'll all end up like gingers in Australia, hiding from the sun.
- was discussing similar over the weekend. Everything seems as though it's on fast forward. Environmentally, politically, scientifically.Fax_Benson
- Nice alcoholic reference.ideaist
- Feels very apt at the moment, Ideaist :\Nairn
- @fax - socially and economically too. Although I suppose they'd be umbrella'd under 'Politically'.
'Interesting times' indeed.Nairn - If anything, Coronavirus is shining a huge light on all the teeter-tottering human systems on the brink of disaster.
Next step: War.Nairn - An interesting visual comparison of Euro flight traffic versus a year prior..
https://vimeo.com/40…Nairn - Actually having unlimited energy would explode capitalism and consumerism accelerating our destruction of the environment.grafician
- robotron3k0
This summer an intense heatwave hits the planet, power grids fail in major markets, crypto millionares and billionaires become homeless overnight...
- Plausible. Improbable, but still plausible.Continuity
- the solar storm of 1859 will happen againmoldero
- formed4
Trump gets it. Declares a State of Emergency and postpones the election until he 'recovers', drags it out forever in court, inciting riots and violence to keep us all distracted along the way.
He'll blame the "Deep State" for poisoning him and making an assassination attempt. He'll bring in armed forces to enforce curfews and bring martial law, declaring himself the Ultimate Greatest Greatness Ever.
[writing that it sounds dangerously close to something he would actually do]
- How is Netflix not producing this already?sr_rosa
- Then invades Poland.Sandder
- he would be blind enough do follow fru , me thinks.neverscared
- Writing this on June 13 (about a month later). Shockingly prescient with the whole riots and curfews and martial law bit.monNom
- NBQ002
Trump will die of Covid in the coming months.
- drgs-3
- imbecile-2