Yeah, at least it's good to know that the Big Mistakes of '00 and '04 didn't cause enough lasting damage to make it into the long-term record books. Guess that means things are going to get better!
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wikipedia is wrong or was edited for hilarity. in the books, it's actually "big mistake of '38"
Actually, I performed that edit, but it's the '38 that's wrong. I was just reading The Rise of Endymion last night, and it clearly says "Big Mistake of '08", page 92, near the bottom. And that's coming from the AI on the Consul's ship, so it ought to be reliable;-)
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It's an odd coincidence that Dan Simmons, in his Hyperion Cantos series of books, talks about an event called the "Big Mistake of '08" where humanity creates a tiny black hole during a scientific experiment, eventually leading to the destruction of Earth... Of course he doesn't say which century this was in;-)
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In related news, the sexual partners of male lab rats injected with Yellow #5 reported far less damage to vaginal tissue following copulation...
Seriously, I can't believe the shit we put into our food! What other crazy effects do dyes like this have that we don't know about?
So what you're saying is that Google's going to use the LHC to pretend to destroy the earth tomorrow? ;-)
Yeah, at least it's good to know that the Big Mistakes of '00 and '04 didn't cause enough lasting damage to make it into the long-term record books. Guess that means things are going to get better!
Apparently Simmons is not consistent!
5 occurrences of "Big Mistake of '08" in Rise of Endymion.
2 occurrences of "Big Mistake of '08" in Endymion.
1 occurrence of "Big Mistake of '38" in Fall of Hyperion.
No references to any year in Hyperion.
It looks like '08 is the clear winner.
wikipedia is wrong or was edited for hilarity. in the books, it's actually "big mistake of '38"
Actually, I performed that edit, but it's the '38 that's wrong. I was just reading The Rise of Endymion last night, and it clearly says "Big Mistake of '08", page 92, near the bottom. And that's coming from the AI on the Consul's ship, so it ought to be reliable ;-)
It's an odd coincidence that Dan Simmons, in his Hyperion Cantos series of books, talks about an event called the "Big Mistake of '08" where humanity creates a tiny black hole during a scientific experiment, eventually leading to the destruction of Earth... Of course he doesn't say which century this was in ;-)
But if they then turned sideways... Eureka!
Chalk another one up for the USA! I never knew gravity was discovered in Las Vegas
My whole post (minus the link) was a quote from The Princess Bride. It's a very popular meme on /.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.