In six months we will be closer to 2030 than the year 2000

MadsL · 11-01-2015 10:56am #1

Do you feel old now?

11-01-2015 10:58am

In 2030 I will feel like a King!

Molester Stallone II · 11-01-2015 10:58am

MadsL wrote: »

Do you feel old now?

I felt old in 2000

Menas · 11-01-2015 11:00am

In 2030 I will be near retirement! Plan to retire young.

MadsL · 11-01-2015 11:03am

A few things from 2000.

May 2nd - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.

May 23rd - Eminem releases 3rd studio album 'The Marshall Mathers LP', is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy - Best Rap Album 2001)

Jun 19th - Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12

Jul 9th - 107th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats L Davenport (6-3 7-6)

Jul 25th - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.

Sep 15th - Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia

Nov 11th - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

longshanks · 11-01-2015 11:03am

In 2030 we'll be nearer 2000 than 2100.
Do you feel young again?

Menas · 11-01-2015 11:11am

A few things from 2030. **

May 2nd - President Chelsea Clinton announces that GPS chips would be imbedded in all existing and future resident non nationals.

May 23rd - U2's new album is released to a barrage of criticism as Lord Bono has insisted that it be piped in to every room in every home in the western hemisphere - twice a day.

Jun 19th - Tiger Woods hosts the annual Playboy masters at his Playboy mansion home. Extra points for a hole in one in the 'cave'.

Jul 9th - 137th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats S Williams (6-3 7-6)

Jul 25th - Ryan air flight FR 332 from Dublin to Tokyo experiences engine failure. All passengers parachute out successfully and land in a field in belgium. Ryan air charge them all a Parachute usage fee and landing fees.

Sep 15th - Opening ceremony world up in Dubai is hosted by 95 year old FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

Nov 11th - Forest fires in the Austrian alps due to hot weather and drought.

**These may not happen.

PizzamanIRL · 11-01-2015 11:24am

In 6 months we will be closer to 2016 than 2014

Mr. Incognito · 11-01-2015 11:37am

All years are fictions established by a species obsessed with an abstract linear time because of their short linear lives where in fact time is not constant but fluctuates depending on velocity and gravitational force.

In actual fact there is no such time as 2000, 2015 or 2030.

dd972 · 11-01-2015 11:45am

No Sh!t Sherlock ! :pac:

tomorrow's Monday as well btw

FURET · 11-01-2015 11:46am

It's interesting to think that many children born today will live to see the first years of the 22nd century.

Clermont1098 · 11-01-2015 11:49am

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

All years are fictions established by a species obsessed with an abstract linear time because of their short linear lives where in fact time is not constant but fluctuates depending on velocity and gravitational force.

In actual fact there is no such time as 2000, 2015 or 2030.

I'm trying that out tomorrow morning when I'm late for work.

sh1tstirrer · 11-01-2015 11:51am

MadsL wrote: »

Do you feel old now?

Aren't we closer to it now by 11 days

What has it got to do with feeling older though, every day you live is a day closer to your death :eek: you can either ignore it or moan about it

Banjo String · 11-01-2015 11:55am

**today**

I'm closer to death than I was yesterday.

YOLO bitches.

AnotherYear · 11-01-2015 11:57am

FURET wrote: »

It's interesting to think that many children born today will live to see the first years of the 22nd century.

You writing the rest of us off lol

Augmerson · 11-01-2015 11:58am

Depressed.

We need to go back to the 1990s.

_Kaiser_ · 11-01-2015 12:31pm

In 6 months I'll be 40! Likely less days ahead than there are behind, less time working to try and put together a decent retirement plan (decimated after the last few years) etc...

On the plus side, I have that mid-life crisis of ridiculously expensive but cool sports cars and trying to recapture my drunken 20s (and a 20-something year old to go with it) to look forward to....
Nah, that's probably even more unlikely than the 2030 predictions above

kirving · 11-01-2015 12:37pm

My birthday is closer to the first moon landings than it is to now, and I'm only 25. That makes me feel old.

RobertKK · 11-01-2015 12:54pm

FURET wrote: »

It's interesting to think that many children born today will live to see the first years of the 22nd century.

AnotherYear wrote: »

You writing the rest of us off lol

FURET is writing us off...

On the TED hour on Newstalk they were talking about what was predicted in 1984.
Then it was predicted we would have devices that would be small and what we see on the screen would be controlled by touch.
Steve Jobs made it a reality on a mass scale.

For the future it is predicted we will be able to grow our own organs in a labs, so if we need a new heart, cells will be taken from our heart and then grown in a lab to produce a new heart. They said it is already possible to grow bone in a lab and we will have new joints in the future grown from our own bone.
The advancement in gene therapy and the understanding of the genome along with the knowledge on how to grow organs that we need, is expected to give us many extra years of life in the future, most conservative is a minimum 5 years on average to over 20 years on average.
I'm saving for my pension, hoping for a long retirement, need the money to grow myself new organs, maybe some of this will be around by 2030.