/hot like an Io volcano

According to the net, a signed limited edition of Stand on Zanzibar will be released in May 2010. I plan to spend May 3 rereading the copy I already have.

Ranger Joe: /hot like an Io volcano

I am looking forward to a second sun in the sky.

Laser guns, flying cars, teleporting, nothing but skinny chicks in spandex, cool utility belts....

this is gonna be freakin' awesome !!!

The Year of the Monolith.

iron_city_ap: Laser guns, flying cars, teleporting, nothing but skinny chicks in spandex, cool utility belts....

this is gonna be freakin' awesome !!!

Except for all the fat dudes in spandex. Their cool utility belts never hide enough.

I was kinda hoping we'd attempt a landing on Europa...

'All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landings there'

Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

iron_city_ap: Laser guns, flying cars, teleporting, nothing but skinny chicks in spandex, cool utility belts....

this is gonna be freakin' awesome !!!

And Paris will have Parkour-using kung-fu cops to control their walled-in ghettoes. Which they will then try to nuke.

Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

I look forward to Lucifer lighting up the night sky, though I'll kinda miss Jupiter.

submitter: If Science Fiction is to be believed, 2010 is going to be a very busy year

why would i believe science fiction? just because you think it's a proper noun doesn't mean everyone buys into the hype

The construction of the MAGI Super Computer System is completed. On the night of completion, Rei Ayanami is strangled by Naoko Akagi for telling Naoko that Gendo Ikari did not love her and was using her as a tool. Naoko Akagi then commits suicide by jumping onto the MAGI.

Seele disbands Gehirn and moves all assets and personnel to the newly formed Nerv in reaction to the death of Dr. Akagi

hoverboards, flying cars, pizza hydrators, bionic implants, power laces, and self-drying jackets are just around the corner....

redoctober65: The construction of the MAGI Super Computer System is completed. On the night of completion, Rei Ayanami is strangled by Naoko Akagi for telling Naoko that Gendo Ikari did not love her and was using her as a tool. Naoko Akagi then commits suicide by jumping onto the MAGI.

Seele disbands Gehirn and moves all assets and personnel to the newly formed Nerv in reaction to the death of Dr. Akagi

I see what you did there.

/God is in his heaven
//All is right with the world

Brakefornobody: Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

Lawlz yes, how did I forget. When will we build the Renraku Arcology?

Brakefornobody: Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

Cheer up, Buck Bokai's rookie season is in five years. Someone better establish the London Kings right quick.

Shrugging Atlas: I look forward to Lucifer lighting up the night sky, though I'll kinda miss Jupiter.

But there's that big ass diamond just waiting for someone to snare

Megain: why would i believe science fiction? just because you think it's a proper noun doesn't mean everyone buys into the hype

Hype? It's fiction. What hype are you talking about?

My god, it's full of stars.

flaminio: I was kinda hoping we'd attempt a landing on Europa...

Attempt No Landing There!!!!

I hope something crazy happens. I'm bored.

BalugaJoe: flaminio: I was kinda hoping we'd attempt a landing on Europa...

Attempt No Landing There!!!!

Or else you gets the tentacoo wape.

I was excited about having dolphins I could swim with in my house

Brakefornobody: Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

The last straw for me was in 1994, when a runaway planet, hurtling between the earth and the moon, unleashed cosmic destruction. I mean, man's civilization was cast in ruin, for chrissakes!

MonkeyAngst: Brakefornobody: Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

The last straw for me was in 1994, when a runaway planet, hurtling between the earth and the moon, unleashed cosmic destruction. I mean, man's civilization was cast in ruin, for chrissakes!

That was a bad decade for the moon. Remember when a huge nuclear explosion hurled it out into space?

Aww, they forgot obscure Japanese sequels to American 80s cartoons...

My friend is working on the James Webb telescope project. He thinks we'll have proof of extrasolar life (most probably chlorophyll light signatures) this decade.

These are great days we're living in. Obama's administration excepted.

Enfenestrate: MonkeyAngst: Brakefornobody: Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

The last straw for me was in 1994, when a runaway planet, hurtling between the earth and the moon, unleashed cosmic destruction. I mean, man's civilization was cast in ruin, for chrissakes!

That was a bad decade for the moon. Remember when a huge nuclear explosion hurled it out into space?

Or the loss of the Jupiter II, on its mission to Alpha Centauri. Of course all this pales in comparison to 1991, when we were all overtaken by DAMN DIRTY APES!

MonkeyAngst: The last straw for me was in 1994, when a runaway planet, hurtling between the earth and the moon, unleashed cosmic destruction. I mean, man's civilization was cast in ruin, for chrissakes!

On the plus side, in a thousand years we get sun swords and moks. So there is that.

There really needs to be a website that counts down to every single event predicted by fiction that they can find.

It could be like Wikipedia, but with countdown timers.

Funny twist to the last one, that sci-fi forgets to mention. Without us, the world is going to be unlivable for the next 10-20 thousands years or more. Who's going to maintain the nuclear power plants? The nuclear disposal areas that house decommissioned nuclear waste? The chemical plants and storage tanks and holding tanks. The Damns and river systems. The present nuclear weapons that will rapidly decay? The list goes on and on. Face it. Without us, the poison that we've created is and will wipe out a large portion of the life on earth if something drastic happens to us. It's not as simple as taking us out of the picture and everything is o.k. Infrastructure is there as a safe guard.

indarwinsshadow: Funny twist to the last one, that sci-fi forgets to mention. Without us, the world is going to be unlivable for the next 10-20 thousands years or more. Who's going to maintain the nuclear power plants? The nuclear disposal areas that house decommissioned nuclear waste? The chemical plants and storage tanks and holding tanks. The Damns and river systems. The present nuclear weapons that will rapidly decay? The list goes on and on. Face it. Without us, the poison that we've created is and will wipe out a large portion of the life on earth if something drastic happens to us. It's not as simple as taking us out of the picture and everything is o.k. Infrastructure is there as a safe guard.

Not quite. Watch "Life after people." It's amazing how quickly the Earth erases us.

Fano: indarwinsshadow: Funny twist to the last one, that sci-fi forgets to mention. Without us, the world is going to be unlivable for the next 10-20 thousands years or more. Who's going to maintain the nuclear power plants? The nuclear disposal areas that house decommissioned nuclear waste? The chemical plants and storage tanks and holding tanks. The Damns and river systems. The present nuclear weapons that will rapidly decay? The list goes on and on. Face it. Without us, the poison that we've created is and will wipe out a large portion of the life on earth if something drastic happens to us. It's not as simple as taking us out of the picture and everything is o.k. Infrastructure is there as a safe guard.

Not quite. Watch "Life after people." It's amazing how quickly the Earth erases us.

I enjoyed Life After People, and was particularly impressed by the real-world examples they showed to demonstrate just how fast some of the decay is. One thing that was not addressed when discussing lack of maintenance on overpasses, subways, bridges, etc. was the mitigating effect of not bearing the burden and vibrations of vehicles - I don't know how severe the impact would be, but it bore mention if only to discount it.

Nukes would not go off if part decayed.
They are hard to make go boom.
The nuke material in the head is unlikely to effect more than a few spiders.

/hey that might make a good story

indarwinsshadow: Funny twist to the last one, that sci-fi forgets to mention. Without us, the world is going to be unlivable for the next 10-20 thousands years or more. Who's going to maintain the nuclear power plants? The nuclear disposal areas that house decommissioned nuclear waste? The chemical plants and storage tanks and holding tanks. The Damns and river systems. The present nuclear weapons that will rapidly decay? The list goes on and on. Face it. Without us, the poison that we've created is and will wipe out a large portion of the life on earth if something drastic happens to us. It's not as simple as taking us out of the picture and everything is o.k. Infrastructure is there as a safe guard.

fallingcow: There really needs to be a website that counts down to every single event predicted by fiction that they can find.

It could be like Wikipedia, but with countdown timers.

Your newsletter, I am interested.

indarwinsshadow: Funny twist to the last one, that sci-fi forgets to mention. Without us, the world is going to be unlivable for the next 10-20 thousands years or more. Who's going to maintain the nuclear power plants? The nuclear disposal areas that house decommissioned nuclear waste? The chemical plants and storage tanks and holding tanks. The Damns and river systems. The present nuclear weapons that will rapidly decay? The list goes on and on. Face it. Without us, the poison that we've created is and will wipe out a large portion of the life on earth if something drastic happens to us. It's not as simple as taking us out of the picture and everything is o.k. Infrastructure is there as a safe guard.

Ah, no. Those things could certainly cause significant environmental damage in their immediate area and - depending upon how fast they leak and how accessible they are to tributaries - downriver, but on the scale of the Earth as a whole, they are meaningless. All of the uranium, for example, was in the Earth for billions of years.

Think of it this way: we scream bloody murder about a leaking oil tanker or pipeline, show some dead birds, etc., but map the actual damage area on a model globe, and it's tiny - and it's gradually eradicated by nature. Oil bubbled to the surface routinely in many places before we sucked up all of the shallow stuff (remember that the first oil rush was on the east coast in places like Pennsylvania and Newfoundland).

If you are imagining nuclear waste or stored warheads going critical and getting all explody, allow me to paraphrase Morbo: "Nuclear detonation doesn't work that way!"

The Earth weathered eons of horrible, utterly devistating events, far greater than leaking all of the stored oil and nukes. Sometimes, those events can be quite good. Mammals might never have evolved beyond tiny egglaying mini-mice, had it not been for the asteroid hitting the Yucutan.

Back in 1980, we had hot purple-wigged gals on the Moon.


But then, it got really repressive for a while.


I had my first movie date to see 2010. The space scenes were dark, and uninhibiting for the girl.

mofomisfit: Cheer up, Buck Bokai's rookie season is in five years. Someone better establish the London Kings right quick.



Gregory Jein approves.

2008 gave us this:

HopScotchNSoda: If you are imagining nuclear waste or stored warheads going critical and getting all explody, allow me to paraphrase Morbo: "Nuclear detonation doesn't work that way!"

True, however the same wouldn't apply for the plants themselves. Without folks around, it would be very feasible - if not inevitable for large scale fires at most nuclear power plants. Even if the moderating rods were inserted into the reactor and fission was halted, the uranium would continue to decay and generate about 6% of the heat is did when operating. After about 7 days, the backup generators would run out of fuel and the 45 feet of coolant water in the reactor would begin to boil. Depending on the age, it would either start a fire or have a full meltdown. Since the containment domes aren't built with zero leakage, after a period of time, the heat from the fire would cause a failure, and then spew radiation for the next several thousand years. This would repeat for the roughly 440 nuclear power plants worldwide.

District 13 is on a SciFi list? Huh??!!

fallingcow: There really needs to be a website that counts down to every single event predicted by fiction that they can find.

It could be like Wikipedia, but with countdown timers.

It would be interesting. Several Scifi movies from the eighties pushed out a 35 to 50 year timeline, so some of them are coming due soon. Blade Runner, Running Man, Akira are up in ten years.

I remember reading an old Captain Marvel comic book where they travelled forty years into the future of 1980. Of course, everyone in the far off future of 1980 looked like Flash Gordon. I also enjoyed an old book that looked 100 years into the future year of 1988 called Caesar's Column. People shopped in areas where the stores were all under one roof, airships traversed the Atlantic in four hours, and we read our news on portable glass screens.

Writers just like round numbers.

The only thing that matters to me is Back to the Future. 2015. Mr. Fusion and hoverboards. Make it happen, people!

clintster: Enfenestrate: MonkeyAngst: Brakefornobody: Fano: Well, Skynet took over like in 1992, so, like, whatever.

That, along with the Eugenics Wars, made the nineties totally suck.

The last straw for me was in 1994, when a runaway planet, hurtling between the earth and the moon, unleashed cosmic destruction. I mean, man's civilization was cast in ruin, for chrissakes!

That was a bad decade for the moon. Remember when a huge nuclear explosion hurled it out into space?

Or the loss of the Jupiter II, on its mission to Alpha Centauri. Of course all this pales in comparison to 1991, when we were all overtaken by DAMN DIRTY APES!

What really bothers me is how badly they mishandled the 1996 Los Angeles crime wave. John Spartan was the only one who managed to get anything right, but then they had to go and freeze him right after he arrested Simon Phoenix.

Also, I don't care how wasteful it is, I miss toilet paper. fark the three seashells.