List 'em here and feel better about how much worse things could be!
1. Y2K2. Hard of hearing people people getting run over by quiet hybrid cars3. 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?
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
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)
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.
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 Universe31b. 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)
*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)
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
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these are so gonna happen
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:32 (eleven years ago)
35. communism spreading like falling dominos36. christians being driven into hiding in america, the reason for the season being forgotten, atheist president, bibles confiscated and burned37. malthusianism
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 04:38 (eleven years ago)
38. Helter Skelter39. 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 use48. 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)