'It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.'
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 00:00
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Quote:Except that in 1982 you could make a movie like Firefox (Big Bad Russia), and you couldn't in 1997; I'd call that change...
Originally posted by thiefjehat:
The point being, little changes in 15 years. 1982 to 1997.
When the walls fell Chrisisall
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Quote:So basically, we're screwed for the next 56 years...?
Originally posted by mattcoz:
Star Trek's 21st century future is actually pretty dark, with hundreds of millions of people dying in WW3 and society pretty much falling apart. Things got better only after we made first contact in 2063.
Dark Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
What's you realistic guess as to what our economy, state of military engagement, and level of basic freedom will be by the beginning of the third decade of the 21st Century?
Hmmm...doom and gloom or happy days.
I suggest that things will be much different and completely the same. We'll have a President that some like and some don't. We'll be arguing over pollution, taxes, health care, and TV shows. Someone will invent something thats amazing...then really great...then very nice...then old news...then someone will invent something amazing again. There will be all the same problems we have always had...even if we've never had some of them before and even if some of the ones we have now are either gone or moot.
But specifics:
2020 is great. Former US Attorney General Hero (famous for arguing 'Ohio vs. Doe' which overturned 'Roe v. Wade' and 'State v. Clinton' which invalidated the 2012 fraudulant election of Hillary Clinton) is elected President of the United States and Greater America (the political union of the US, Mexico, Cananda and several Caribean nations, including free and democratic Cuba), the first of the new Democratic-Republicans in the new single party system that formed from the collapse and split of the Democratic party following the 2012 elections. Our new hydrogen fuel cell cars and clean burning fuel technology has solved America's pollution problems and given us a manufacturing boom as we export our clean products to the dirty and desperate third world. The War on Terror is over and we are busy dealing with the latest threat to world liberty...China's neo-communism and their plans for global domination. A couple large moon bases, a couple new space stations (including the first orbital manufacturing center), and a Mars expedition. The tragedies of the terrorist nuking of Paris, the LA earthquake, and 'American Idol: The Motion Picture' are all behind us. The SciFi Channel is in its tenth season as America's number 1 network and Serenity VII:'Ok, you can stop flying now.' is number 1 in theaters. Hillary Clinton becomes elidgable for parole. And finally, the Browns win the Super Bowl. 2020, a great year to be alive.
H
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By 2020, the "Browncaot" epidemic will reach such massive proportions that the world will no longer be run by goverments or corporations. Fox will be the first to fall, with a massive all out, simultaneous, assault on all affiliated stations worldwide. Once in control of the Signal, revolutionary doctrine will spread like a cancer. Whoring will be consolidated into a guild system, tight pants will be the "new" thing, and the world will be as one under the guidance and draconian thumb of Joss. Book will be hailed in the religions as another profit, Wash will have a display in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Though this may seem contrary to the initial "theme" of firefly, it has been proficised by such historical characters of note as Rasputin and Nostradamus.
So chin up, things will not be so bad :smokin"
Kuang Zhe De 
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Quote:LMAOROTF!!!!!!
Originally posted by Hero:
The tragedies of the terrorist nuking of Paris, the LA earthquake, and 'American Idol: The Motion Picture' are all behind us.
Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:Quote:...The SciFi Channel is in its tenth season as America's number 1 network and Serenity VII:'Ok, you can stop flying now.' is number 1 in theaters.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
What's you realistic guess as to what our economy, state of military engagement, and level of basic freedom will be by the beginning of the third decade of the 21st Century?
I'll buy that for a dollar :)
Seriously, though. If by the year 2020 I don't have something that hovers, a robot butler, an AI living in my compter, or a rent-controlled apartment on the moon, then well I'll have nothing to do with it thank you very much :P
Also, I may be wrong, but I remember hearing somewhere that the... (Mayan?) calender ends in the year 2020, which is supposed to be rather important as it's like the most accurate calender ever or something. I think we're supposed to enter the next cycle or something like that.
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You can take my hope when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Oh, and: "Sarge? I think I'm nekkid."
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Quote:What's your modivation for spelling prophesised that way?
Originally posted by KuangZheDe:
it has been proficised by such historical characters of note as Rasputin and Nostradamus.
(Hey, did I spell it right?) Chrisisall
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Jesus Chrisisall, you could spend a lifetime following me around correcting every spelling mistake I make when i am typing fast and off the top of my head. Besides, I blame Joss' unique writting style and argot in the 'verse for screwing my brain up forever.
Besides, who is perfect?
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Science fiction has fortold scenerios of broad Third-Worldism across the planet, loss of civil liberties, and self destruction.
-Foretold
-Scenarios
-Self-destruction
I got to get some food, I have not 'et yet.
Kuang Zhe De
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Quote:You got me, dude. I'm just horsin' around anyway (NOBODY spells illiterate ileterate
Originally posted by KuangZheDe:Quote:
Science fiction has fortold scenerios of broad Third-Worldism across the planet, loss of civil liberties, and self destruction.
-Foretold
-Scenarios
-Self-destruction
).Chrisisall, who has some post-fixing to do...
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eye no man, me two, I am not taking it persionailly, just tot a little tit fo tat was in order...one can only talk so much firefli befour one starts spining of topik on God no's what 
take it eaz
Kuang Zhe De
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