Factual non-sense

[kingoftheforest]

I have been reading up on world history alot latley...and there is one reaccuring theme I have noticed.

Things that people thought were the honest to god undeniable truth turn out to be completley wrong. Plus the people who pointed these things out were branded heretics and some were put to death.

People believed the world was flat, rulers were chosen by god, and that science was heresy.

Now we know the world is round, science can coexist with god and that leaders get thier grubby hands on power by other means.

I was just wondering what will people find out in the next 500 years or so to be completely wrong with what we believe to be the absolute truth.

Any ideas? Can't really be wrong on this cause it's all opinion, so try to keep that in mind.

[BoarSpear]

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=mg18524911.600

Tom Yum will enjoy this.

[Tom Yum]

I was just wondering what will people find out in the next 500 years or so to be completely wrong with what we believe to be the absolute truth.

Any ideas? Can't really be wrong on this cause it's all opinion, so try to keep that in mind.

Whoa....500 years. That's a long shot. 50 years....maybe. Get ready, because this is going to sound funny and strange.

Education will change.

We'll return to the test-based diagnostics for career decisions. Europe and Asia still do this. By the time one reaches highschool, students will take diagnostics tests determining their strengths and will be given a limited number of likely career choices.

More and more intellectual service related work will be done from home in our own tele-confrence/work rooms. When you start a new job, UPS will ship your required PC equipment and teleconfrence prompters to you. This will reduce our traffic problems, some dependency on gasoline and could improve productivity. You will be able to pick from various projects, make your case and a real-time alarm will be set for the project due date. Miss the date and you get teleprompted a few times to comment. Missing the date otherwise could result in work suspension.

Our private lives will be included on our resumes and communicated regularly to our employer, scanned by a data base and weighed by programs that scan for key items beneficial to work and unbeneficial to work. This is kind of a trend we're seeing today.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0622police-phonedata0622.html

The data base contents will be engineered by general counsel of the employer, be approved by management.

Employment age will change. We will allow children as young as 12 to work in a certain number of fields as entry-level ; gotta start saving for that retirement since generation-X old timers were outnumbered by boomers. Social security, if its still around, will require the financial markets to accumulate moneys without the raw numbers of contributing workers.

Body parts will be engineered through chemical reactions and manufactured to specifications according to digitalized scans of your body and will come under the ownership of insurance companies. Manufacturing of said parts will be done initially here in the US since other countries Food & Drug Administrations and health organizations will lag ours (with some exceptions Western Europe). Which brings us into a new industry: Bio-technology...

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/briefs/9510/10-26/

We're gonna be doing some interesting stuff with our own excriment. interesting stuff. there will be waves and waves of new jokes....

Once a certain amount of our energy needs are met by solar methods, you'll have the same environmental folks go nutz about us stealing what mother nature intended for the earth, while we use uv lamps for agricultural needs.

The military will employ more and more automation and greater reliance on technology, atleast according to the Army recruit truck.

In my own opinion, we might have bullet proof robots on the battlefield that can patrol a booby-trapped area and withstand a decent sized vacuum force from explosions. If human soldiers loose body parts, we'll be able to manufacture new ones, re-attach them and have lower immune rejection. The soldier will be able to return to the battlefield in 3-6 months and do what he was doing before.

China, India, US and Japan will make up the 4 largest economies.

Just as Japan's technology manufacturing quality increased over the last 50 years, China's will too. They will be the center of the manufacturing world in home products, electronics and clothes. They will be able to get stuff to the market faster than other countries since their cities never sleep. They will mimick the Japanese concept of "gaishan" and get at it non-stop until they get it perfect.

India's exports will gradually begin to include education in addition to technology services. American born children may be attending the Indian Institute of Technology some day (their current eq. of MIT and approx the same level of education) but will be learning online. Book learning and classrooms will be laughed at by then.

There will be some kind of conflict between the US, China and India. The weapons of choice: economic policy and industrial espionage.

People will travel under sea and in outer space for vacations

We're gonna see alot of changes in the next 50 years...

The one thing that won't change? The human condition.

[Garland]

People Are Obsessed with BULLSHIT!

and now for some Penn and Teller!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy

Patriot Act
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9oI0g3o7O4&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-jYlcSNbA&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQjsgu2sfLY&search=penn%20and%20teller

Alternative Medicine (sorry Liz... )
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHCMfIYXZkQ&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7gHhCBuoFk&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6m_r0Udyvw&search=penn%20and%20teller

Recycling...um...ouch
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFBO72uQoLo&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXLowpL2nec&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgRNrU_koaU&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyVclbp0kAw&search=penn%20and%20teller

My favorite Second HAND SMOKE...let me light up in clubs, ASSHOLES!
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gy9fvU9qLk&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0sOZuD9eo&search=penn%20and%20teller

The End of the World
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXtuTXJ6JEk&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hmcF7JMwg&search=penn%20and%20teller

pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a64X9tilLQc&search=penn%20and%20teller

gun control...can't find the whole episode, but it kicks ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWITDL6_LM&search=BULLSHIT

Love
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_4oARImkg&search=BULLSHIT

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT_0itokTw&search=BULLSHIT

pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmt0mwVfoM&search=BULLSHIT

Creationism (some goof may have altered this...but the Penn and Teller is the good shit.)
pt 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffslgIL-Dcw

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncEUc5rjRGc&search=Penn%20%20Teller

pt 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doyUDjoC5fc&search=Penn%20%20Teller

[Garland]

how I forsee the future.

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

[Tom Yum]

Bullets will be old-school.

We'll have weapons that can fire bolts of electricity or lasers and they will be included in the second ammendment. These weapons will have auto-aim.....

[Garland]

Bullets will be old-school.

We'll have weapons that can fire bolts of electricity or lasers and they will be included in the second ammendment.

AYE AYE! Cheers to that shit!

[kingoftheforest]

Wow

I expected this to be ignored. You guys are awsome keep it up.

Yay

[BoarSpear]

how I forsee the future.
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

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[Tom Yum]

In terms of languages, India will become like the Netherlands; the majority of the population will be able to speak functional English. The national language (hindi) will borrow more and more from English. But at home they will speak this Americanized-Hindi. There will be a huge movement to preserve the hundreds of dialects.

The Chinese, in order to keep their language, will make up new words to match western ones that sounds allmost identical in a phonetic sense and will have the same meaning, but will make sense in a clever way that the language does (eg. Coca Cola ---> Ke-Kou Ke-lah translated: can bring joy to the mouth)

Westerners will study Chinese like they do Spanish today. Some will study it for applicable reasons, others will study it for mental cross-training purposes since it requires a completely different area of the brain than does latin or germanic based languages.

[Tom Yum]

I've got some more ideas, but everyone I've spoken to about them can't fathom them...

One of them involves the economics of sunshine.

When I did one of those 8-mile runs, I thought up of a way to turn sunlight into a commodity, like oil or natural gas. Then explained how the economics of that commodity would work and how weather patterns and astronmical phemomenon could make people accumulate or loose wealth.

As we begin to explore the universe, people will take a greater interest in physics, for safety and economic purposes.

My friend just stood their with a funny look, so I changed the subject.

Anyhow, you heard it first here at defend.net...

[Garland]

I've got some more ideas, but everyone I've spoken to about them can't fathom them...

One of them involves the economics of sunshine.

When I did one of those 8-mile runs, I thought up of a way to turn sunlight into a commodity, like oil or natural gas. Then explained how the economics of that commodity would work and how weather patterns and astronmical phemomenon could make people accumulate or loose wealth.

My friend just stood their with a funny look, so I changed the subject.

Anyhow, you heard it first here at defend.net...

dude...you're becoming a freakin' hippie.

[BoarSpear]

I've got some more ideas, but everyone I've spoken to about them can't fathom them...

One of them involves the economics of sunshine.

When I did one of those 8-mile runs, I thought up of a way to turn sunlight into a commodity, like oil or natural gas. Then explained how the economics of that commodity would work and how weather patterns and astronmical phemomenon could make people accumulate or loose wealth.

As we begin to explore the universe, people will take a greater interest in physics, for safety and economic purposes.

My friend just stood their with a funny look, so I changed the subject.

Anyhow, you heard it first here at defend.net...

Economics of sunshine...Thank you Mr Burns Eeexcellent Smithers.

Btw dude glad to hear you have joined the ranks, We often discuss things of that nature in "the circle."

"Hey man theres this car that runs on water!! Man, and it gets like a hundred miles to the gallon....but the oil companies wont let him make it man"

"Hey man I just figured out why they call it a circle"

[kingoftheforest]

Wow

Tom that is actually very interesting. So how exactly do you figure out what the sun is worth? Or the power produced by it? Wouldn't you have to put that in legal-ez?

Seriously Tom expand upon this idea.

[kingoftheforest]

Christ yer wierd

Garland you freak!!!!!

Dude I made it as far as the snails and that's it. How do you find shit like this...geez.