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June 2021: ten predictions for the coming decade : Comments
By Sam Vaknin, published 26/5/2011Russia to become properly democratic; a Chinese depression; cloud computing in cloud cuckoo land? Ten years will tell.
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Thankfully God is still on His throne and biblical prophecy is and always will be the most accurate. Exciting times for those who have not only read the end of the book but joined the winning side.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 26 May 2011 3:30:53 PM
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"Thankfully God is still on His throne"...lol...YEAH:) and when he"s finished runner, can you ask him to only half flush..... we're short on water too:)
Here is my predictions.......ready:) 1..Climate change sceptic"s will be the same at 2021 as they are now...with No clue of reality. 2..With the UK and the US at its knee's, others will change who owns power of the all. 3.. Carbon tax credits will be traded for a better future and more time will be granted for the human race. 4..Human populations wont change, and hard times will come of it. 5..The damage done so far to the planets systems, will take 1000"s of years for the balance to be restored and half of what you see now, is nothing to what is coming. 6..One more religious war will come to past, and all else shall rise from the ashes, but not the holy man. 7..Woman will take control of their fertility, and the meek shall walk again with nature, as it was intended. 8..The labour party will hailed as heroes, lead by the Greens/Bob Brown and the secularist government will bring new freedom for the people, thats been long over-due. 9..Full environmental funding for all life supports systems that are currently under threat. 10..Australia will stop any-more boat-people from coming, and keep Australian JOBS for only Australians. Now! None of this will ever happen, because the human race is already a run-way train, and trust me:) they dont know how to stop it. The bottom line is.....We humans will eat this planet alive!...WHY you say..... Because your all that stupid:) mmmmmm *millions and millions of more people are going to come, and you were all fore warned* Have a nice day......:) LEAP Posted by Quantumleap, Thursday, 26 May 2011 8:05:53 PM
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One forecast with at least an outside chance of proving correct in the coming decade must be a nuclear war between Pakistan and India.
This from the Economist, 19 May 2011 http://www.economist.com/node/18712274 >>…Then consider how Pakistan is rapidly expanding its arsenal of nuclear weapons. … Pakistan may now have between 70 and 120 usable nuclear devices—and may be unusually ready to use them. Some in the West believe Pakistan started preparing nuclear-tipped missiles in the midst of the 1999 Kargil war against India, after Pakistan invaded a remote corner of Kashmir. …[Pakistan] is rapidly expanding its nuclear infrastructure with Chinese help. And with production long-established, the price of adding weapons has fallen to almost nothing. A nuclear physicist in Pakistan, Pervez Hoodbhoy, now suggests that “you can have a working nuke for about $10m, or the cost of a nice big house in Islamabad.” […] …India has long held a position of “no first use” of nukes. Pakistan, by contrast, with weaker conventional forces, refuses to rule out the option of starting a nuclear war against India, and is now taking steps that could make such first use more likely. Last month it test-fired a new missile, the Hatf IX, with a range of just 60km and specifically designed for war-fighting. … […] But tactical nuclear weapons deployed close to the battlefield pose new risks. Command-and-control protocols are likely to be looser and more delegated. If field officers retreating in the face of a conventional attack by India were forced to decide between using or losing their nuclear weapons, a border incursion could swiftly escalate into something very much bigger and more lethal.>> Note that Pakistan has used Jihadis to attack India in Kashmir. Would they ever arm them with tac nukes? The government probably wouldn’t but does the government have sufficient control over the army and intelligence services? If the Economist is to be believed, probably not. Posted by stevenlmeyer, Thursday, 26 May 2011 8:19:50 PM
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Two things:
1) read Dan Gardner's 'Future babble' and rest comfortably in the certainty that these predictions will most likely prove false; 2) as per the rules of my personal drinking game, I currently owe myself four whiskey shots - one for each poster who shoehorns some neo-Malthusian prediction of calamity into the topic. Sadly, no-one has used the terms 'cancer' or 'plague' yet, so I'm stuck on single shots. Luckily, no-one has (erroneously) dragged in the second law of Thermodynamics, so I don't have to drop my pants and run around the room. Posted by Clownfish, Thursday, 26 May 2011 10:25:40 PM
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*so I don't have to drop my pants and run around the room.*
Clownfish, whatever gets you through the night is ok :) Posted by Yabby, Thursday, 26 May 2011 10:50:54 PM
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Whats the matter clonefish, not seeing the world so good lately? Well, I'll just sit back in my ivory tower and let the games begin:)
HEY! lets just give everyone unclear weapons, that way the world will be safe, like Japan and its fool-proof reactor idea on or near active fault lines:) and lets give all 2 and 3 world peoples the schematics, and technophobia wont be a concern for anyone in first place:) I think I"ll have that shot now:) LEA Posted by Quantumleap, Thursday, 26 May 2011 11:04:12 PM
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