Posted on 03/30/2012 7:45:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
Science fiction is full of fantastic and horrifying scenarios, many of which seem like they could come true any time. But which of them is really going to materialize — and which is most likely to happen in your lifetime?
Vote in our poll for the science fictional scenario that you're most likely to live to witness for yourself:
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
Global Pandemic
Moonbase
World War III/Nuclear Apocalypse
Suspended Animation
The Singularity
Something Else (See Comments)
Martian Colony
(NOTE: Go to the IO9 link provided here. Scroll down on the page and then vote your choice.)
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Actually, the free sterilizations under Obamacare might prevent that - unless too many taxpayers take advantage of it.
Taxpayers average 1.5 kids, dependents average 2.5-3.
I think we’re actually approaching the rocket technology and international cooperation to forestall that - and the interstellar monitoring to catch it in a time frame when we can stop it.
Hepatitis C could qualify, too.
“Americathon” or “Soylent Green”.
Maybe “Sleeper”
“Idiocracy.”
I can tell you what’s NOT going to happen in my lifetime....
Communist bastards using starvation as a weapon again to reduce the population of their American opposition.
I’ll be dead long before that.
Treat any attempt to control your guns or means of producing food as a direct attempt against your life...because it is!
The ghosts of tens of millions bear witness to the fact starving an unarmed opposition is the favorite tactic of the left.
neither would apply
the global pandemic they refer to is equivilent to The 1918 Influenza Pandemic that killed more people than WW1 which was being fought at that time...
Mark
Doesn't count since it is already happening. The first 10 minutes of that movie is absolutely true. Clevon will out breed us all.
Never really thought of that as science fiction, but yeah.
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