Dire Predictions That Did Not Or Have Not Yet Come To Pass

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List 'em here and feel better about how much worse things could be!

1. Y2K
2. Hard of hearing people people getting run over by quiet hybrid cars
3. The Population Bomb

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:01 (eleven years ago)

4. 2012

how's life, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:02 (eleven years ago)

5. the meek shall inherit the earth

sleepingbag, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:04 (eleven years ago)

6. Grey Goo

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:16 (eleven years ago)

7. New World Order - or has it?

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:16 (eleven years ago)

8. England winning the World Cup again

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:17 (eleven years ago)

9. Book of Revelations

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:20 (eleven years ago)

10. Kurzweil's Singularity

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:20 (eleven years ago)

11. Nuclear and/or biological weapons falling into the hands of terrorists.

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:21 (eleven years ago)

12. Switching on the Large Hadron Collider and creating a blackhole.

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:21 (eleven years ago)

13. Peak Oil

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:22 (eleven years ago)

14. Dead bees

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:23 (eleven years ago)

15. Death of Test cricket

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:24 (eleven years ago)

14. Dead bees

uh this happened

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

16. Fish stocks off the British coast irreversibly depleted by evil Spanish trawlermen.

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

17. Smiths reunion tour

The Falun Gong Show (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

bullseye!

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)

There are still a few bees left and some are doing okay again. But, yeah, support the bees.

bets wishes (jel --), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:27 (eleven years ago)

18. The Big One (any long overdue natural disaster like the San Andreas fault, some supervolcano thing like Yellowstone, a dinosaur-killing-size space rock, etc)

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:29 (eleven years ago)

10. Asteroid hitting the earth.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:31 (eleven years ago)

Sorry, that's a subset of yours, yeah.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:31 (eleven years ago)

20. Solar storm that's going to take out all of our electrical equipment and return us to the Dark Ages

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:32 (eleven years ago)

21. Rock 'n Roll will never die.

oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:32 (eleven years ago)

We should poll these when it gets to 50 tbh

Amory Blaine, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

22. the North and South Poles are going to switch positions overnight and all the birds and planes are going to be lost etc

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

23. Oil spill permanently destroying the Gulf ecosystem.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

24. women figure out a way to procreate without men and men are going to be even uselesser than we are now

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:34 (eleven years ago)

25. Mutated airborne super-flu (pig, bird, whatever)

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:35 (eleven years ago)

26. your significant other finds out about that one thing you didn't want him/her to ever find out! (it's really going to happen one day, you know)

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:37 (eleven years ago)

27. The second coming of Jesus Christ

Amory Blaine, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:38 (eleven years ago)

28. UK posters desert ILX completely leaving it entirely to Americans talking incomprehensible gibberish about baseball et al.

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:39 (eleven years ago)

29. The second coming of Dom Passantino

Amory Blaine, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:40 (eleven years ago)

30. The thirty-eighth coming of L0u1s Jagg3r (sorry, LJ)

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:42 (eleven years ago)

31a. we discover that there is other life in the Universe
31b. we discover that there is no other life in the Universe

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 18:48 (eleven years ago)

32. China completely overtakes all western economies

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:01 (eleven years ago)

tbf I don't think anyone has predicted that #32 would have already happened by now.

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:04 (eleven years ago)

This is more entertaining and extensive than I thought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

StanM, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:38 (eleven years ago)

Doesn't have mass exodus of UK ILXors on it though

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:39 (eleven years ago)

tbf I don't think anyone has predicted that #32 would have already happened by now.

*anyone*?

Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:41 (eleven years ago)

33. If you keep making that face it will stay that way.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:09 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

34. Denver will be struck by a ray from space that would cause all metal to adopt the qualities of rubber, leading to horrific accidents at amusement parks.

los blue jeans, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:27 (eleven years ago)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Criswell

los blue jeans, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:27 (eleven years ago)

13. Peak Oil

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:22 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

23. Oil spill permanently destroying the Gulf ecosystem.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:33 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

25. Mutated airborne super-flu (pig, bird, whatever)

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:35 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

these are so gonna happen

slam dunk, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:32 (eleven years ago)

35. communism spreading like falling dominos
36. christians being driven into hiding in america, the reason for the season being forgotten, atheist president, bibles confiscated and burned
37. malthusianism

slam dunk, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:38 (eleven years ago)

38. Helter Skelter
39. Ralph Kramden punching his wife & propelling her to the moon

Josefa, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 05:19 (eleven years ago)

40. the Buttening

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 05:27 (eleven years ago)

it is buttening... again...

kobaïas fünke (clouds), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 06:13 (eleven years ago)

41. Malthusian Trap

resting waterface (m bison), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 06:16 (eleven years ago)

42. hairy palms

droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 07:31 (eleven years ago)

43. ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 07:36 (eleven years ago)

44. Wholebunch of 'em collected in the Prophecies of Nostradamus. Not bad on the poetry front either.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 09:39 (eleven years ago)

With some of these picks people might as well be going "global warming".

Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 10:44 (eleven years ago)

The UK ruled according to Sharia law, hands hewn off etc (people have told me this is inevitable btw)

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:21 (eleven years ago)

47. largescale global occurrences of brain cancer from cell phone use
48. lasik eye surgeries eventually "wear out", blinding millions

slam dunk, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:10 (eleven years ago)

Blair's position as PM's has looked shaky ever since the protests happened. that's pretty good to me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 20 March 2003 11:07 (11 years ago)

نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 03:44 (eleven years ago)

49. Charlie Brown kicks the football.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:02 (eleven years ago)


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