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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 12/20/2004 : 12:49:54 [Permalink]
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| One of the two Mars rovers will still be working and giving us gobbs of data for us to work with. |
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley |
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2004 : 12:51:17 [Permalink]
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Bush will be verified as the anti-christ.
Jesus will return and will force Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to have a tether match that is 'fight to the death'.
FOX will take over Nickelodean and Sponge Bob Square Pants will become the next consevative talk show host.
I predict that these events have exactly the same chance of happening as Storms predictions about the proof of ghosts.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2004 : 13:19:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by furshur
Bush will be verified as the anti-christ.
Jesus will return and will force Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to have a tether match that is 'fight to the death'.
FOX will take over Nickelodean and Sponge Bob Square Pants will become the next consevative talk show host.
I predict that these events have exactly the same chance of happening as Storms predictions about the proof of ghosts.
I thought it was Jesus returns and sues Robertson and Falwell for defamation. He wins a multi-billion dollar settlement. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 12/21/2004 : 03:17:32 [Permalink]
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| My serious prediction: Donald Rumsfeld will not last the year. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 04:38:15 [Permalink]
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Tony Blair will leave office.
The communist Party, Iraq's oldest, political party, will play a major role in the up-coming 'election.' Bush will be pissed.
There will be yet more clear-cut logging in the national forests.
There will be yet more YEC dreck sold at our national parks, such as the book currenyly peddled at the Grand Canyon.
There will be more fossils of feathered theropod species found in China. The YEC cults will claim that they are mere birds.
The Rev. Fred Phelps will come out of the closet.
Kent Hovind, beyond all reason and rationality, will continue to claim 700+ speaking engagements per year. FTL and/or time travel, anyone? 
Pat Robertson will try to pray away another hurricane on his TV show. His success rate will remain the same. Zilch.
Robert Novack will not be indited for outing a CIA undercover opperative. There ain't no justice.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 05:22:00 [Permalink]
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| The voyager space craft will finally reach the dome of lights. And the Dysons sphere will become a reality only creationist will claim that God did it. |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 08:52:59 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
My serious prediction: Donald Rumsfeld will not last the year.
I predict that Donald Rumsfeld will stay right where he is. If a successor were appointed we would have reason to expect the situation to improve. It won't. |
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 19:32:13 [Permalink]
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Iraq will have it's elections right on schedule on Jan 30th. An election in which the Shiite majority will elect a government loyal to Iran.
The Kurds will declare themselves an independent state, and the Sunnis will have a nice open civil war which the US will be expected to "deal" with.
The US will continue to ignore the situation in the Congo, many many more will die.
Bush will be exalted by the morons who elected him (with the help of the conservative talk media) as a "great" man. (this may not count, as I think they are already doing it)
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2004 : 05:47:36 [Permalink]
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I predict that most if not all of the 20 judgicial nonimations Bush is re-capping will fail, unless Frist manages to change the filibuster rules. I don't see that happening.
I predict that the religious whacko Scalia will become Chief Justice, replacing Renquist, but not gold-striping his robe like an egotistical idiot because it's already been done.
I predict that Ashcroft will be nominated to the SC, but the nomination will fail in a cloud of Borking.
There is a big prediction waiting to be made. Who will stick his neck out a country mile and fire that cannon?
What, are you waiting on me? Not yet... I don't have quite enough insite yet, but I can almost see it on the far and hazy horizon.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 12:58:27 [Permalink]
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The failures of 2004 not withstanding, the Wizards of Woo-Woo are are in full cry yet again: quote:
Some celebrities will have a better year. For instance, Carr predicts Oprah Winfrey is in a good position to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
"In a good position." Kinda hedges his bets a little, doesn't he? Oh, how can we mere mortals compete?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/28/2004 : 13:01:11 [Permalink]
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Ill make the BIG prediction as you call it.
The leader of a super-power will be assassinated, characteristicly speaking of course.
Edit: unless of course you meant the other big prediction, in which case, Donald Trump will not sign on for a third season of the apprentice. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 14:12:52 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
1) There will be an earthquake of devistating power, somewhere in the 7.0-8.0 range.
As creator of the "rules" of this thread, and with the knowledge that there are 18 or so earthquakes between 7.0 and 7.9 every year, I must disqualify this prediction as obvious. (And on a side note: the Indonesian quake was six days too early to qualify for 2005, so quit claiming success, BigPapaSmurf.  )
And yes, I see other obvious predictions littering this thread, too, I just haven't gotten a chance to go through and cull them. Shape up, people!
Okay: Three days left. New predictions made after midnight, December 31st, 2004 (server time) will be deleted without comment. Revisions of predictions made before that time will be acceptable, so long as they're not revised in order to make them match events in 2005. In fact, this thread will be locked after January 7th. I'll try to get to culling the list properly sometime soon after that (but won't make any predictions). |
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Evidently, I rock!
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satans_mom
Skeptic Friend
USA
148 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 17:02:18 [Permalink]
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| A video will spread all over the internet depicting the Olsen Twins involved in kinky sex. |
Yo mama's so fat, she's on both sides of the family.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2004 : 20:10:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by satans_mom
A video will spread all over the internet depicting the Olsen Twins involved in kinky sex.
Ooh, good one!
Ok, here's mine:
1) A member of England's royal family will die in tragic circumstances.
2) Larry King will have (another) heart attack.
3) The U.S. will have one of its lowest crop yields in recent years.
4) An iconic world structure will suffer a terrorist attack, like the Eiffel tower or leaning tower of Pisa.
5) Michael Jackson will be found not guilty on the current charges of child molestation.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/29/2004 : 02:43:08 [Permalink]
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This is a good thread. If nothing else, it demonstrates how full of shit we all are.
The anthrax maniac, or a copycat, will become active again, killing three or four people. He will not be caught, at least not in '05.
There will be an attempted terrorist bombing at the Popes funeral.
Can't make the Big One because I think it's a little farther down the road than '05, although not much.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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