> In 1984, Britain didn't get taken over by a totalitarian goverment who re-wrote English as a method of thought control.
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What about the mass media? Our minds *are* controlled... by Madison Avenue.

> In 1992, genetically engineered supermen didn't come close to taking over the world, only to be exiled in cryogenic suspension.
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Right about that, it wasn't in 1992. It was in 1990 to 1991. And the leader of these men was one Saddam Hussein, who has been alive so long that I think he must have been genetically engineered.

> in 1999, a nuclear explosion didn't send the Moon (and the people at Moon Base Alpha) carooming across the galaxy at break-neck speed.
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This didn't happen, but would have if the Cold War had never ended.

> If we don't discover some obelisks orbiting Jupiter in the next few days, I'm going to be seriously dissapointed.
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Don't worry, science ficion accurately predicts what will happen, or an interpretation thereof. It normally gets the dates wrong, though.

Did you know that if you take the letters HAL and advance them each one letter, you get IBM? Is that serendipity or subliminal messaging?

> winter"This is the twenty-first century! Where are the ray guns and jet packs?"mute

Hi"Jetpacks have existed since the 1940's, they have just never been perfected for public consumption, I learned that on the History Channel"ri