Re: If JT\'s predictions came true
No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, which would be an excuse for a war.
Yea him and 50 million liberals "predicted" that.
The hidden code in the IBM 5100 verified by Bob Dupke and other engineers.
Bob Dubke added the ibm mainframe emulator. Some argue the emulator was not the "secret" function at all because an emulator can not fix old source code. The secret feature would have to be "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" and Bob Dubke did not admit to that.
Dangers of Microwave popcorn...(turns out the artificial butter is deadly)
He never warned about Microwave popcorn!! He was refering to non-leathal microwave weapons being used on people.
JT:However, there are a great many “non lethal†weapon systems in development that turn out to be quite lethal. Anyone for microwave popcorn?
China and a Manned Space Mission
He wasn't predicting anything, he was reading newspapers. China worked very hard on that for a very long time.
I believe they are pretty close to putting a man in orbit. It shouldn't surprise you if they do that soon.
He specifically said he would NOT warn of natural disasters. He made NO such prediction. In fact, He used that as a HYPOTHETICAL example for why YOU should not try to share predictions if YOU went back to 1970:
The space Shuttle having an accident
No, he said he specifically made up that prediction to joke about how useless it was to make predictions. He didn't say accident, he said problems connecting :
JT:I have thought again about how to revel information that would make me more believable but I always come across the following problems:
1. All of you become much less interesting as sheep. I can't talk to you if you're not skeptical.
2. Anything I say could be acted on beforehand and changed anyway.
3. All the really interesting information is months or years away and I'd be gone when it happens.
4. I find it morally wrong to assist someone with anything where they might gain and someone else would lose or die.
5. There's a slim chance your worldline is just different enough my "prediction" won't happen.
6. I simply don't know.
Consider that you are a time traveler who goes back in time to the first week of February 1970 and you are confronted with the same problem. What do you remember right now about the second week of February 1970?
Naturally, the conflict in Vietnam and the Middle East come up but as someone has already stated here, "that's old news". I suppose I could predict the failure of Apollo 13 spacecraft but since time travel is ridiculous, I would be blamed for sabotage. I might even decide to tell you about an earthquake in Peru but then people that would have died by chance will now live and vice versa.
All I can think of is to make something up. So here goes: The space shuttle mission may or may not have a problem connecting the new lab to the space station.
Cryptic message about 9/11 in NY
That came from the faxes sent to Art Bell in 1998 :
You can alter history in the new universe that you have just created. Most of the time the changes are subtle. the oldest one was a sky scraper that don't exist in New York .
Interestingly when you travel in time you must compensate for the orbit of the Earth since the time machine doesn't move you have to adjust the engine so you remain on the planet when you turn it off.
His prediction about wireless internet refered to the new infrastucture that we get after Russia nukes the one we currently have. Still have a long time to wait on this one.
Virus being a cure for some types of Cancer
He said there would be advances made, not a cure. And there has been. There have been advances made in this field since the 90's. It's like saying " I predict computers will get much faster". hehe, he tried to say that too didn't he.
Hybrid seeds being dangerous
Hybrid seeds put us 1 step closer to someday feeding the planet, ending world hunger.
There were outbreaks of Mad Cow in back in 96. Controls and safeguards have gotten better since then no thanks to JT and human cases are not near epidemic proportions.
Comments about IT/Ginger/Segway too early as it hadn't been released.
His only comments about "IT" was that he thought it was a lot of marketing hype. The press was talking about it, and they should have been talking about real issues instead of acting as salespeople for a product that didn't exist yet. He didn't "predict" anything here.
100,000 people dead tomorrow...the results of the Tsunami
He never said anything about the Tsunami. And the death toll was well over 100,000 for the tragedy you are using.
Problems at the 2004 Elections...
He never said there would be problem with the 2004 elections. He said we would see civil unrest and there was none. He said the 2008 president tries not to give up his power. Nothing about 2004.
