The prediction thread for the year 2010. Call it NOW rather than later!
My first prediction:
-Cure for prostate cancer will be discovered.
A joint American-Soviet-Roy Scheider expedition will be sent to Jupiter to find out what happened to the space station Discovery and it's super intelligent computer HAL
Happy new year from here! (about an hour and 26 minutes late, actually)
My predictions:
- George Bush will die from a heart attack.
- Philips will invent a new type of headphones
- Roger will unleash his wrath upon humanity.
World ends two years early, just to spite the Mayans.
Nobody likes a smartass.
Russia calls Palin's bluff and invades Alaska
California Texas is nuked, blamed on drug dealing terrorists
In 2010, a crack Discordian unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Rhode Island underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as lulz merchants. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The D-Team.
I predict I will kill a motherfucker in the inevitable bullshit traffic between here and Seattle.
Quote from: Frenulum Pendulum on January 01, 2010, 12:40:54 AM
I predict I will kill a motherfucker in the inevitable bullshit traffic between here and Seattle.
Scalps on the antenna or it never happened.
Quote from: Kai on December 31, 2009, 11:18:57 PM
The prediction thread for the year 2010. Call it NOW rather than later!
My first prediction:
-Cure for prostate cancer will be discovered.
I predict it will be horribly expensive and most insurance plans will refuse to pay for it.
I SHALL SOBER UP,
I SHALL STOP USING PAYNE'S ACCOUNT TO POST
I SHALL GO HOME
THIS IS VERY UNHELLO!
love Pix.
In AD 2010, war was beginning.
What happen?
Quote from: Frenulum Pendulum on January 01, 2010, 12:40:54 AM
I predict I will kill a motherfucker in the inevitable bullshit traffic between here and Seattle.
let me know if you need help hiding the body
Someone set us up the bomb!
We get signal.
A FEW CELEBS WILL DIE, PEOPLE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED IN OBAMA, I'LL GET LAID, AND NOTHING VERY EXTRAORDINARY WILL HAPPEN.
Jack Nicholson will die. ('09 prediction...if the Jehova's Witnesses can do it, so can I)
Somebody will overtake the entire music industry for good or for ill.
A KIND OF NEW PR0N WILL BE DISCOVERED/REALIZED.
A child will publicly speak the truth to an important person.
Fred will fall in love and contemplate marriage.
My divorce will be final.
Nigel's divorce will be final.
Pixie's divorce will be final.
Quote from: Burns on January 01, 2010, 07:43:11 AM
Jack Nicholson will die. ('09 prediction...if the Jehova's Witnesses can do it, so can I)
Somebody will overtake the entire music industry for good or for ill.
A KIND OF NEW PR0N WILL BE DISCOVERED/REALIZED.
A child will publicly speak the truth to an important person.
Fred will fall in love and contemplate marriage.
:crankey:
population of china becomes so big landmass sinks. resulting tsunami wipes out vancouver.
Quote from: Burns on January 01, 2010, 07:43:11 AM
A KIND OF NEW PR0N WILL BE DISCOVERED/REALIZED.
this is the most worrying prediction of all.
a NEW kind of porn?
I mean, I sort of thought we already HAD everything. So if this one is new, it's got to be ... I can't even fathom to begin to form the thought of what it might be :horrormirth::1fap:
I discovered a new form of porn this year.
Transsexual/Santa Claus/Grinch porn. Its a very small genre currently, but the potential for expansion is huge.
P3nT4gR4m will conquer Scotland, Wales and much of England
but then lose it all due to a fateful love affair
Richter will write it all down in a book which will bring him great wealth
but then he'll lose it all due to a fateful love affair
I predict that in 2010 we will all suddenly find ourselves under closer scrutiny than we ever anticipated, for reasons that we don't yet understand and will never agree with.
In 2010 everything will finally turn out just fine.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 01, 2010, 06:31:59 PM
In 2010 everything will finally turn out just fine.
yeaaah. 8) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV_V8wZsiDk)
Quote from: Burns on January 01, 2010, 06:38:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 01, 2010, 06:31:59 PM
In 2010 everything will finally turn out just fine.
yeaaah. 8) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV_V8wZsiDk)
Oooh, I love that song.
Gawd, that video made me uncomftable.
One year from now, people will be making predictions for the next year, in a similar manner to what we are doing right now.
10 years from now, they will be reviewing the last decade, just like they are doing now.
Inordinate amount of time will be wasted on 'what to call the new decade'.
'Noughties' was a stupid name.
'Tenties' is even more stupid.
I think this decade will be rather tens.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 01, 2010, 10:07:52 PM
I think this decade will be rather tens.
Sir, have you no dix-ency?
There shall be no decency in the decennium of disastrous desensitivity.
I predict that there shal be much alliteration.
Quote from: JohNyx on January 01, 2010, 07:03:03 PM
Gawd, that video made me uncomftable.
I picked it based on the recording but I have kids too so guess I don't really see it that way.
Quote from: Burns on January 02, 2010, 12:20:26 AM
Quote from: JohNyx on January 01, 2010, 07:03:03 PM
Gawd, that video made me uncomftable.
I picked it based on the recording but I have kids too so guess I don't really see it that way.
My personal favorite (and my Monkey's too) is the one by the curly haired chick who plays acoustic guitar, and there's little kids dressed up as the tortoise and the hair. You know that one?
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on January 02, 2010, 12:49:27 AM
Quote from: Burns on January 02, 2010, 12:20:26 AM
Quote from: JohNyx on January 01, 2010, 07:03:03 PM
Gawd, that video made me uncomftable.
I picked it based on the recording but I have kids too so guess I don't really see it that way.
My personal favorite (and my Monkey's too) is the one by the curly haired chick who plays acoustic guitar, and there's little kids dressed up as the tortoise and the hair. You know that one?
Oh i think i remember :D
e-prime will become a universal language
Quote from: Mangrove on January 01, 2010, 10:03:49 PM
Inordinate amount of time will be wasted on 'what to call the new decade'.
'Noughties' was a stupid name.
'Tenties' is even more stupid.
The last decade was "the googly eyes." This decade is "the onesies."
Mmm. Pajamas.
more cat videos will become popular
Ok, some real predictions:
* Major earthquake in Asia (above 7.5 on Richter Scale)
* Bill Clinton has health scare but make it through ok.
* Someone finally dies because of a reality show.
* Duke Nukem Forever continues to be delayed.
* Colts crap out to the Chargers in the playoffs. :(
* Yankees repeat as World Series champs.
* Dems lose seats in Congress but not as many as predicted.
* Teabaggers continue to be idiots. BONUS: Orly Taitz gets arrested and/or deported
STARCRAFT II FIANALLY COAMS OUT FUCK YAH !!11!!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/Niccon/ZergRushKekeke.jpg)
This decade will be referred to as the TEENS.
This year will be "twenty-ten", not "Two thousand ten".
People will realize that doing things "ironically" is fucking retarded.
and i like mmx instead of twenty ten
Quote from: Yatto on January 02, 2010, 09:09:28 AM
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 08:15:25 AM
Interestingly, Manson's next parole hearing is in 2012.
think he will attempt another music career?
Manson's cult resurfaces with a vengeance, bringing swift death to Roman Polanski, Ringo and McCartney...
which ensues world-level riots by hippies and hipsters that bring about the apocalypse.
can we switch Ringo with Palin?
Quote from: JohNyx on January 02, 2010, 06:21:27 AM
STARCRAFT II FIANALLY COAMS OUT FUCK YAH !!11!!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/Niccon/ZergRushKekeke.jpg)
God willing anyhow. I've only been waiting for this fucker since my freshman year.
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 07:54:58 AM
People will realize that doing things "ironically" is fucking retarded.
And pretty damn well about time, too!
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 07:54:58 AM
People will realize that doing things "ironically" is fucking retarded.
No, I think people will start ironically doing things ironically first.
Or ironically doing things unironically.
Quote from: Rumckle on January 02, 2010, 07:40:40 PM
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 07:54:58 AM
People will realize that doing things "ironically" is fucking retarded.
No, I think people will start ironically doing things ironically first.
Or ironically doing things unironically.
I will kill a motherfucker.
is it time for the next next-gen game systems to be announced?
I'll call it now because that's a pretty safe bet
LHC launch delayed ... again
a new alcoholic energy drink makes it cool to drink in public ... again
as service plans expand and price plummets, smartphones begin to edge out cell phones. cell phones themselves start to feel outdated.
US action in afghanistan goes horribly SNAFU creating another layer of int'l debacle we'll have to extract ourselves from 19 years later
twitter goes through another half-life, and its population stabilizes. Facebook continues to grow - until it has eclipsed myspace - and then stabilizes.
A new social networking platform emerges, one where you can trade pics of youself dressed in drag without your parents and employers ironically clicking "like"
Lady Gaga fucks some celebrities, other trashy starlets spiral into irrelevance
Sarah Palin continues to collect money to fund her race in 2012. After her book sales drop off, I guarantee she'll find SOME way to make the late night talk show circuit again.
things keep getting funnier, but only if you have a sense for horrormirth. :horrormirth:
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 07:42:22 PM
Quote from: Rumckle on January 02, 2010, 07:40:40 PM
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 07:54:58 AM
People will realize that doing things "ironically" is fucking retarded.
No, I think people will start ironically doing things ironically first.
Or ironically doing things unironically.
I will kill a motherfucker.
All three of you are having wishful thinking. That's different.
I predict people will continue to be ''ironic'' and they still won't know what the hell it really means.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 03, 2010, 03:24:21 PM
twitter goes through another half-life, and its population stabilizes. Facebook continues to grow - until it has eclipsed myspace - and then stabilizes.
Facebook passed MySpace a long time ago. It's the #2 site in the US, according to Alexa. Twitter is #13 and could overtake MySpace this year.
Quote from: JohNyx on January 02, 2010, 09:24:42 AM
Quote from: Yatto on January 02, 2010, 09:09:28 AM
Quote from: Felix on January 02, 2010, 08:15:25 AM
Interestingly, Manson's next parole hearing is in 2012.
think he will attempt another music career?
Manson's cult resurfaces with a vengeance, bringing swift death to Roman Polanski, Ringo and McCartney...which ensues world-level riots by hippies and hipsters that bring about the apocalypse.
EITHER
Dude, Squeeky just got released!
OR
Polanski's child molestation/ art expression would have never ocurred if he had just been at the FIRST party!!
OR/0R
Hippies are no good as soldiers. 'The Family' were all cheerleeders, football players and spellingbee champions. On acid.
will you please cut the crap with the either/or bullshit? it's annoying the piss out of me.
and please read this story, it has been written especially for you:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=23512.0
but really just stop and try to write normal posts like a normal person, it's easier to have conversations that way, for everybody involved.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 04, 2010, 08:38:40 AM
will you please cut the crap with the either/or bullshit? it's annoying the piss out of me.
and please read this story, it has been written especially for you:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=23512.0
but really just stop and try to write normal posts like a normal person, it's easier to have conversations that way, for everybody involved.
BUT HES fnord EXPRESSING A POSTMODERN CRITIQUE TO DUALIST THOUGHT 23oneELE111!!!!1!1
KEKEKEK
2010 will be like 2009. In fact, 2011 and 2012 will also be just like 2009.
Philosophers and historians will look back at the period of time between 2009 and 2012 and dub it The Dull Ages.
force meme feels forced
besides pention was funnier
In the name of scientific research the planet or the universe is destroyed. I think roger might have beat me to this one...will have to go read it again. Either way, everyone is going to die.
Quote from: Yatto on January 05, 2010, 12:34:23 AM
force meme feels forced
besides pention was funnier
Maybe he's just mentally ill. A lot of his posts don't even really make sense.
Some predictions about 2010 from Nature Journal.
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Stopping species loss
The United Nations has proclaimed 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, to culminate in an October summit in Nagoya, Japan, that hopes to establish strategies to prevent biodiversity loss — probably by setting out ways to try to halt the current decline by 2050. New ideas are sorely needed: this year, 120 countries will miss a goal set by a 2002 accord to achieve a 'significant reduction' in biodiversity loss.
Planck peeks at the Universe's origin
The first detailed images of the cosmic microwave background sent back by the European Space Agency's Planck mission could alter theories about the origins and structure of the early Universe. Full results won't be officially released until 2012.
Life, but not as we know it
Surely this will be the year when genome pioneer Craig Venter and his team reveal they have booted up a laboratory-made genome inside a living bacterial cell, to create what will be billed as synthetic life.
An Antarctic time machine
An ice core from Antarctica could provide the sort of year-by-year climate records already gathered in the Northern Hemisphere from Greenland. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core project is in the final stages of pulling up a 3.4-kilometre-long climate record that covers the past 40,000 years in enough detail to compare how the north and south polar regions warm up, or chill, in relation to one another.
A flood of genomes
The completed Neanderthal genome and the genomes of remaining primates will count among the highlights of another year of ever-cheaper DNA-crunching. Following last year's comprehensive portraits of cancer genomes, medically minded sequencing will continue to focus on the causes of specific diseases, and on spotting more human genetic variants.
Mexico City: the new Copenhagen
Starting in late November, Mexico will be the venue for the next major round of United Nations climate-policy wrangling, where an overdue formal agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change may finally be hammered out. Before then, attention will focus on the action that individual countries need to take on their commitments, on climate legislation in the United States and on international standards to monitor emissions and verify promised reductions.
Earth-like worlds elsewhere
As planet-hunters eagerly await the discovery of an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star, they may have to make do this year with an easier target: a potentially hospitable planet around a red dwarf star. NASA's Kepler telescope has already discovered previously unknown planets (see page 15).
Hope for HIV prevention
Early this year, the first clinical trial to use a gel incorporating an antiretroviral drug is expected to release its initial results; several large trials of other microbicides have failed to show benefit in blocking HIV. Early results are also due from long-anticipated trials that look at 'pre-exposure prophylaxis', or administering anti-HIV drugs before risky sex.
A perfect symmetry
Evidence for supersymmetry — the theory that every known fundamental particle has an undiscovered, superheavy partner — may be the most intriguing discovery to come from Europe's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. The find would be even more bizarre than the anticipated Higgs boson, the particle thought to imbue matter with mass.
Quantum effects go large
Solid objects in physics laboratories could be seen to enter a superposition of states — the real-world version of Schrödinger's mythical cat that is dead and alive at the same time. The effect, predicted by quantum mechanics, has previously been seen in objects no bigger than ions, but could push into the macroscopic realm this year.
Cell reprogramming gets safer
Induced pluripotent stem cells will probably be created from adult cells using small molecules — lessening the risk of tumours, which comes with adding genetic material to a cell. Safer, more efficient reprogramming routes could lead to the field's first therapeutic applications.
Embryonic stem cells go clinical
The first clinical trials of therapies involving human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) could finally come this year. Biotech company Geron, of Menlo Park, California, plans to restart regulator-halted trials of an hESC-derived therapy for patients with spinal-cord injuries.
Space travel crosses frontiers
Among the year's planned space launches are Japan's Akatsuki, to orbit Venus, and China's second lunar probe, Chang'e 2. And as NASA looks set to choose a new direction for its human space-flight programme, a decision that could come early in 2010, the US space-shuttle fleet will make its final outings. These include the July launch of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, an instrument to study cosmic rays for evidence of antimatter and dark matter.
X-rays with laser-sharp focus
X-ray free-electron lasers, which produce short pulses of coherent X-ray light, may start to assert their superiority over synchrotrons for imaging. They should enable researchers to make images of single biomolecules without having to crystallize them, and to create detailed movies of molecular events such as protein folding. Data will flow from the first of these facilities, at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.
Climate computing heats up
Expect increasingly realistic climate models from several recently launched supercomputers, including the Earth Simulator II in Yokohama, Japan, and Blizzard in Hamburg, Germany. As some of the world's 40 most powerful computers, they will improve on two of the largest uncertainties of current simulations: resolving local eddies in ocean circulation, and providing long-term forecasts of cloud behaviour. Blizzard will also incorporate Earth's carbon cycle into its climate models.
Quote from: Kai on January 06, 2010, 08:43:47 PM
An Antarctic time machine
An ice core from Antarctica could provide the sort of year-by-year climate records already gathered in the Northern Hemisphere from Greenland. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core project is in the final stages of pulling up a 3.4-kilometre-long climate record that covers the past 40,000 years in enough detail to compare how the north and south polar regions warm up, or chill, in relation to one another.
Cant measure time in bushels, but sure can measure it with ice sheets !
In the year 2010 people will suddenly realize that civilization actually started earlier than 2010 years ago.
Quote from: Hoopla on January 06, 2010, 08:50:38 PM
In the year 2010 people will suddenly realize that civilization actually started earlier than 2010 years ago.
:cn:
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:mullet:
Quote from: LMNO on January 06, 2010, 08:51:47 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 06, 2010, 08:50:38 PM
In the year 2010 people will suddenly realize that civilization actually started earlier than 2010 years ago.
:cn:
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:mullet:
Your're right, now my own optimism amuses me.
Civilization has started already? Where can I find such people? I would love to meet them.
Coffee via IV drip will be the next big thing in cosmopolitan cafes, beating out the coffee that is made from civet jenkem.
Quote from: Hoopla on January 06, 2010, 08:50:38 PM
In the year 2010 people will suddenly realize that civilization actually started earlier than 2010 years ago.
Before the son of the Lord graced us with his prescence, sacrifice and saviour... how could that even be considered civilization? It was just a bunch of misguided and barbaric polytheistic brutes.
Dead heiress? Did anybody call dead heiress?
Celebrities will die. It will be a big deal, except it won't be a big deal.
Quote from: Mangrove on January 06, 2010, 09:32:01 PM
Dead heiress? Did anybody call dead heiress?
Which one? The only one I know of dying recently was Ruth Lilly and she technically died in 2009.
The Johnson and Johnson chick. "Engaged" to Tila Tequila.
Announcing deaths via Twitter will be considered socially acceptable, thanks to Tila Tequila.
The Biggest Loser will turn from a fat-camp show into one in which they will all learn the horrors of the holocaust first hand through manual labor, malnutrition, and psychological/physical abuse at the hands of a fascist society.
I'm not sure I'd notice the difference, actually.
crap, well whatever.
I'm just sitting here, rifling through a box of fortune cookies. Don't blame me, blame the chinese.
Quote from: General Stuart on January 07, 2010, 06:18:24 PM
The Biggest Loser will turn from a fat-camp show into one in which they will all learn the horrors of the holocaust first hand through manual labor, malnutrition, and psychological/physical abuse at the hands of a fascist society.
You're expecting the average American to actually learn something?
You guys are having wishful thinking again.
Quote from: General Stuart on January 07, 2010, 06:18:24 PM
The Biggest Loser will turn from a fat-camp show into one in which they will all learn the horrors of the holocaust first hand through manual labor, malnutrition, and psychological/physical abuse at the hands of a fascist society.
I know where you could find some recruits to be the camp guards
http://mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=225760
sweet saint Joshua of San Francisco!
they would be perfect!
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on January 07, 2010, 01:02:54 AM
Celebrities will die. It will be a big deal, except it won't be a big deal.
I've been betting on Jack Nicholson for 2009 and he's not dead as far we know so i figure that makes him a good candidate for 2010.
Quote from: Cain on January 07, 2010, 09:46:07 PM
Quote from: General Stuart on January 07, 2010, 06:18:24 PM
The Biggest Loser will turn from a fat-camp show into one in which they will all learn the horrors of the holocaust first hand through manual labor, malnutrition, and psychological/physical abuse at the hands of a fascist society.
I know where you could find some recruits to be the camp guards
http://mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=225760
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You're joking, right?
You do realize that the sporadic eating that goes with being poor contributes to obesity, right?
well. I..um...hm. ... . I don't really have anything to add to this. :horrormirth:
one sec....
:vom:
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I think I'm gonna take a break from the internet for a bit.
You guys forgot the obvious (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html)!
Quote from: Epimetheus on January 09, 2010, 05:07:25 AM
You guys forgot the obvious (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html)!
It better not end before August. I've got a shit load of fake money riding on it on Hubdub (http://www.hubdub.com/m27550/Will_the_USA_fall_apart_before_the_end_of_July_2010).
Bump
Anybody get any right?
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Bump
Anybody get any right?
Still reading through it. So far Khara was dead on.
Quote from: Nigel on January 01, 2010, 05:18:51 PM
I predict that in 2010 we will all suddenly find ourselves under closer scrutiny than we ever anticipated, for reasons that we don't yet understand and will never agree with.
Nigel got it too.