What do you think is the next big event?

[old.Tohtori]

Catastrophy, science break-through etc. Anything really.

What is your guess for the next big event that really "shocks and/or awes" the world?

I'd like to think that the 2012 is a self-destructive event, where people who think the world is ending, cause a lot of harm, but that's a ways off.

So i think in the meanwhile, i'm going to go with a major city disaster.

 

[Raven]

Another earthquake, offshore this time though, resulting in a tsunami.

Or England will get knocked out of the world cup on penalties.

 

[Lamp]

Terrorists obtaining a nuclear device

Al Quaeda attack on the 2012 Olympics

 

[Sparx]

swine flu

 

[Cyradix]

Zombies!!

 

[Madmaxx]

christmas.

 

[Aoami]

mothers day

 

[kivik]

World Cup in Brazil. 2014. Gotta be there!

 

[Imgormiel]

Dukat will turncoat to sausages

 

[Cerb]

I dont know the only really big thing I can think of that might be seen in our lifetime is a cure for cancer maybe?

I think that would be prety big.

 

[Sparx]

I dont know the only really big thing I can think of that might be seen in our lifetime is a cure for cancer maybe?

I think that would be prety big.

If they manage to cure cancer something else will pop up perhaps even as a side effect of curing itself that will just take its place to cull the human population. Every species needs a wasp control, we have none so ours is disease

 

[mooSe_]

starcraftII release

 

[Lamp]

Gay bacon

 

[Imgormiel]

Gay bacon

With cottage cheese?

 

[Zenith.UK]

Inertial confinement fusion power generation.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reckon they'll achieve a net surplus of energy from their fusion experiments later this year.
https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2010/NR-10-01-06.html

I've always been excited at fusion research because it gives us the possibility of generating power without atmospherice pollution or long-lasting radioactive waste.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Release of bugs to kill Jap knotweed leading to same situation as Oz enjoys with cane toads. Tears and snot to ensue.

So i think in the meanwhile, i'm going to go with a major city disaster.

I thought Man City were doing better this year, but then I know nothing about football.

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Inertial confinement fusion power generation.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reckon they'll achieve a net surplus of energy from their fusion experiments later this year.
https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2010/NR-10-01-06.html

I've always been excited at fusion research because it gives us the possibility of generating power without atmospherice pollution or long-lasting radioactive waste.

Although, I'm more rooting for the magnetic confinement model.

 

[Lamp]

holographic display cell phones

US army develops hand-held laser rifles for military use

Tesco weddings

Iran launches nuclear weapons on Israel

Human lives to 140

30,000 year old mammoth brought back to life from frozen DNA

Alex Ferguson: I'm gay

 

[Job]

100% effective lie detector using brain scans.

That will change EVERYTHING!

It's only a few years away

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[Tuthmes]

Snakes on a plane.

 

[Olgaline]

I dont know the only really big thing I can think of that might be seen in our lifetime is a cure for cancer maybe?

I think that would be prety big.

This Will happen within the next 5-10 years,
they are actually closer than most think..


but will it be a bigbang thing ?
i dont think so, as it's going atm it'll more likely be a gradual kind of thing

 

[CorNokZ]

CorNokZ recieves mod status on all boards

 

[mooSe_]

CorNokZ recieves mod status on all boards

closely followed by the death of FH as we know it

 

[ilaya]

ALIENS!!!... they gonna land soon i tells ya... and nobody will give a shit coz of the footy...

 

[cHodAX]

This Will happen within the next 5-10 years,
they are actually closer than most think..


but will it be a bigbang thing ?
i dont think so, as it's going atm it'll more likely be a gradual kind of thing

My brother is a well published scientist in the cancer research field, I can tell you with near certainty that any cure for cancer is a long way away. Why? People think cancer is just one thing, it isn't. Cancer comes in many forms, to develop one cure for all is insanely different. What you may well see in the next 5 years is highly effective treatments for cancer that save the lives of those without the most aggressive forms, do not expect a catchall cure for a long time or sadly maybe never though as you are going to be disappointed.

 

[Olgaline]

well, let me refrase it then,
I think cancer will be far more curable then it is today in 5-10 years,
since basicly, some forms already are curable today, so sure all cancers may not be 100%
curable. But looking back 10 years, I've long since learned, that what we deem impossible and unlikely today,
can be a very different story in just a few years..
after all, these days, 10 years is a lifetime when it comes to research...
and with the growing intrest and funding "at least in denmark"

yes I think it's plausible..so I'm sticking with my guns...

 

[Jiggs]

The establishing of a hidden base on the remote ice planet Hoth. (I'm pretty sure that is what happens next.)

 

[~Latency~]

cancer research have shitloads of trials and stuff going atm, quite like the sound of the one where they're taking samples from their patients cancers and studying it's genes/molecules hopefully meaning they will eventually be able to anticipate how patients cancers are likely to behave/test people who have a history of cancer in their family to see if they have cancer genes way earlier

yay

 

[Lamp]

Return of the 1980s

YouTube - A-Ha - Take On Me (Video)

(great vid BTW)

 

[Marc]

Man I loved the 80s. Best decade ever.