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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:48 PM
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100 years ago we didn't have TV, instant coffee, or even corn flakes
Think up some stuff we should see in the next 100 years.

Flying cars! I want my flying cars, goddammit
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:50 PM
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1. Corn Flakes were invented in 1894
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:01 PM
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7. That's what I thought when I saw the headline
Kellogg -- and the health food movement that started in Battle Creek Michigan. Near the turn of the century --

no link -- just my memory for trivia.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:22 PM
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14. Yeah, but they weren't marketed for "normal" folks until 1906.
If you had 'em before then, you must have been a resident of Kellogg's Home for Un-Repentent Wanker-Offers in Battle Creek...:D
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 06:31 PM
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16. according to mythology of Battle Creek
The Seventh Day Adventists invented corn flakes -- and Kellogg stole the idea. Battle Creek had health resorts the SDA were into health issues long before it became popular. Some of the health resorts had some rather extreme "health" treatments.

More trivia from my SDA relatives.
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Katarina Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 07:01 PM
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19. No kidding!
Have you ever watched Road to Wellville? I would say rather extreme health treatments. Ugh.
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 07:51 PM
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21. That title sounds familiar
I've read about the "health" treatments of the turn of the century 1800s to early 19 hundreds. Hot/cold treatments, enemas, high colonics strange diets. Some of it may have been useful -- walking, fasting, country air etc. but very little science. The SDA had a prophet who used automatic writing to suggest health treatments -- that was "science" to this religion.

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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:01 PM
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22. There ain't enough room in me...
...for that much Yogurt!
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:48 PM
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27. According to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Dr Kelloge was a Seventh Day Adventist. It was his brother who decided to market the flakes(developed in the institute kitchens) causing a rift between the brothers that was never mended
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:23 PM
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28. Gosh -- I remembered most of the story!
I knew there was a rift -- I assumed that Kellogg was the mythical villain.

This should be a question for trivial pursuit!
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:42 PM
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26. as a cure for masturbation
really.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:45 PM
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33. I heard it was Graham Crackers invented as a "cure".
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:12 AM
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37. Maybe you're right
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:17 AM
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38. it was invented
to calm sexual appitite by filling the food appitite
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 10:07 AM
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42. it didn't take
:evilgrin:
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:50 PM
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2. Warp drive!
Well, Star Trek said so...:crazy:
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:53 PM
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4. Fuck warp drive. Gimme the holodeck!
Edited on Thu Jan-27-05 03:54 PM by trotsky
I'll never get another thing done.

"Computer, have Leutenant Troi and Seven of Nine report to my quarters for a de-BRIEFING immediately."
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:35 PM
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29. Quick, get this guy some corn flakes
:-)
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:51 PM
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3. Corn flakes were invented in 1894.
Kellogg didn't start as a company selling them until 1906.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:04 PM
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10. Okay, you got me on the invention date
Damn About.com
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kuozzman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:54 PM
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5. Microchips implanted in our bodies.
So the Chimps daughters, as President and VP, can monitor us.
:scared:
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 03:56 PM
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6. Holodecks !
Hurry-up dammit ! I can't wait a 100 years.
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:02 PM
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8. Death rays!
Wait . . . nevermind. Can I change that to tribbles? :shrug:
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:03 PM
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9. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him . . . we have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before, Stronger, Faster .

In 100 years there will be a shitload of bionic people and bionic dogs running around, stopping crime.
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:06 PM
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11. a cure for cancer and aids. flying cars would be cool too :)
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daydreamer Donating Member (503 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:07 PM
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12. That I can handle but no anesthesia?
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:15 PM
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13. Regarding 'instant coffee'
lucky 100 years ago; ditto corn flakes (did you know that they have more salt in than sea water).

Regarding flying cars, shouldn't you be checking the oompa loompa vs. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang thread.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 04:51 PM
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15. here's your flying car
i want a red one.

http://www.moller.com/skycar/
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 07:20 PM
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20. You stole my thunder....
Moller developed that thing just up the road from me. They are planning to build a business/theme park to promote it at the old 'Milk Farm' south of Davis, California (probably be completed about the same time the FAA lets them fly it untethered - never). Hey, I understand if the FAA let them untether the damn sucker, it would travel 300+ MPH! You can have the red one, I'll wait for a stealth midnight blue model M 400. Cool!
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 06:36 PM
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17. Orgasmatron.
Of course.
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 07:00 PM
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18. I think one actually exists...
I was watching a show on Discovery Health last week. Turns out some doctor has already invented it...for women only
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:04 PM
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23. interstellar communication
im@gine
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Shadowen Donating Member (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:09 PM
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24. Practical nanotech.
With that, the rest'll just fall into place. Advanced medicines, more efficient manufacturing, replicators, super tensile solids, "perfect" materials...
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:41 PM
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25. nuclear winter?
A fascist global corporatocracy in which we are all serfs/slaves? Endless war? Superplagues? Famine? Contamination of the food supply by genetic meddling? A "gray goo" nanotech catastrophe? Extreme global warming causes extinctions?

I sure some great things will happen, and I want to be optimistic, but there are some serious storm clouds on the horizon. Social progress is at a standstill. Life on earth won't get better with only just technological progress. The future ain't what it used to be.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:47 PM
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34. I'm thinking more along the lines of a super-winter brought on...
...peak oil running it's course, and our population finally running out of oil. We have pumped so much greenhouse gas in our atmosphere by burning fossil fuels the last hundred years or so, that the planet's due to balance itself out very soon.

This effect is clearly seen in our oceans. Algae and plankton abound more than ever because of all the extra CO2 that they love to eat. Once the extra co2 is removed, they'll suck up the blanket co2 that keeps us from freezing, and then, it's winter for a looooooong time.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:36 PM
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30. A way to make spam taste good
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:42 PM
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31. Good god no! You don't want flying cars!
Think about the idiot that cuts you off while driving because he's reading or shaving or playing a banjo or performing surgery on a small animal or something equally stupid to do when driving. Now, have that happen 5000 feet in the air.
As far as cool stuff goes though, I'd like to see the ability to replace a lung with a compressed air canister, and personal force fields. Somebody equipped like that could go for a walk in outer space or on the moon or anothe planet. Very cool. John Varley's Steel Beach talks about the idea.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:44 PM
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32. A way to have electricity with no cords or plugs.
I'm working on it. But I haven't gotten anything but....what I just wrote. I have an English degree and I find that is not helping.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:20 AM
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39. Research Tesla
he had it about down pact, but one lil miscalculation and russia claims a n asteroid took out a 15 mile chunk o its landscape
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:02 AM
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35. How about REAL RENEWABLE ENERGY!
Pretty please.
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:09 AM
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36. Hey dude
I was born in Ireland in 1945

What's this 100 year stuff?

Corn Flakes? That isn't food
First TV I saw when I was 16, and that was hazy because of the mountains back home.

But we had the Cisco Kid!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Dad got a car around that time - Ford Anglia
Chocolate was still rationed in 1952.
That's why I don't have a sweet tooth and am not FAT
:)
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:31 AM
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40. I can live without all three
!!
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 12:31 AM
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41. nueral shunts to plug into the internets.
thanks dan simmons!
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 10:08 AM
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43. We didn't have Fox News, Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter, Rush Limpballs....
....ahhh, them were the days!
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