Birthdays
Ashley Greene b. 1987
Kelsey Grammer b. 1955
Anthony Daniels b. 1946
Alan Rickman b. 1946
Today we get birthdays of actors from the Twilight, X-Men, Star Wars and Harry Potter series. I love same date, same year birthdays. C-3PO and Snape! Who knew?
Alan Rickman gets the picture because All Sentient Beings Love Alan Rickman.
What life will be like... in the year 2001!
Predictor: Robert A. Heinlein in the 30th Anniversary issue of Amazing Stories, 1956
Predictions: lab outpost on Pluto...
the Sahara Sea...
Telepathy for military purposes...
We finished World War III with 100,000,000 more people than when we started...
Five billion sometime in the 21st Century...
Still no cure for the common cold.
Reality: I found this picture of Heinlein weeks ago, but decided to use another because this makes him look ridiculous. With this set of predictions, I realized I should have two pictures, The Sensible Heinlein and The Ridiculous Heinlein.
This set of predictions deserves this awful sports coat.
We don't have a lab outpost on the Moon, much less Pluto. We didn't flood the Sahara. We don't use ESP for military purposes. We didn't have World War III, we passed five billion in the 1980s.
He's right about the common cold, though. I don't know how he does it.
Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE! Still plumbing the depths of this issue of Amazing Stories, a reader named Clarence W. Van Tilburg wins the prediction contest and while not perfect, he does a hell of a lot better than Heinlein.
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!
Yes we love the Alan Rickman!!! It's hard for me to believe he's only one year younger than I am. Well, he's 14 months younger, but who's counting?
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