What was the most hyped up diasaster that never happened?

[imported_weadjust]

Britany Spears

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Y2K
Anthrax
Bird Flu
SARS

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
I am going to go with the Three Mile Island incident for the US. If you survey the average person about nuclear disasters they will often put Three Mile Island right after Chernobyl..yet it was not a significant disaster. I consider it major since it has very heavily influences the US nuclear policy for decades now.

You better read up on what ALMOST happened there. That was more luck than over-hype.

I am roughly familiar with what happened. The question is not about the greatest potential for disaster, but about the actual disaster...and with TMI there was essentially nothing. Furthermore, most of the "hype" today about it is based on misinformation (mainly that there was a large disaster).

 

[her209]

When that piece of foam ripped off the space shuttle and damaged it... or something.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
NINE ELEVEN.

Scrolling through waiting for someone to throw that out there like it was funny.

 

[Chewy]

segway

 

[Captante]

Never happened implies that the chance of it ever happening was greatly exaggerated beforehand is now zero, so the Y2K scare is somthing this applies to.

Mutually assured destruction via the USSR & USA both launching massive nuclear strikes at the same time & wiping out virtually all human life on earth was not only a very real possibility in the 1970's & 1980's, unknown to many it continues to be a risk to this day.

 

[legoman666]

global warming

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Sqube
Hasn't happened yet != Never happened, so you can't claim armaggedon/saviors/etc.

Huh?

1. Stop revlealing your age by using the overused forum kiddie "!=" stuff.

2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Sqube
Hasn't happened yet != Never happened, so you can't claim armaggedon/saviors/etc.

Huh?

1. Stop revlealing your age by using the overused forum kiddie "!=" stuff.

2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?

you mean programming "slang"?

Fail.

 

[DVad3r]

Weapons of mass destruction in the middle east.

And I agree with the 9/11 comment.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Sqube
Hasn't happened yet != Never happened, so you can't claim armaggedon/saviors/etc.

Huh?

1. Stop revlealing your age by using the overused forum kiddie "!=" stuff.

2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?

you mean programming "slang"?

Fail.

It has become forum kiddie speak. Most of them can't program a microwave let alone a computer.

Let me guess, you're 16-22?

 

[upsciLLion]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?

From Princeton Wordnet:

not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on ...

So you're wrong.

 

[amicold]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Ns1
i saw the thread and immediately thought "y2k"

same here too.

 

[Ika]

Y2K

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?

From Princeton Wordnet:

not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on ...

So you're wrong.

My god you're idiotic.

He said "never happened. It denotes the past. While the word "never" can be used to refer to the past or future, the other supporting words define the timeframe. The word "happened" is past tense and refers to the past.

You even copied/pasted the examples they gave which show how the word can be used, yet you didn't read what you posted.

Do they even teach basic grammar in schools anymore or is everyone just too damn stupid to understand?

 

[compuwiz1]

All the times some lunatic has predicted the date and time that the world will end.

 

[upsciLLion]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?

From Princeton Wordnet:

not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on ...

So you're wrong.

My god you're idiotic.

He said "never happened. It denotes the past. While the word "never" can be used to refer to the past or future, the other supporting words define the timeframe. The word "happened" is past tense and refers to the past.

You even copied/pasted the examples they used to show contexts in which the word can be used to refer to the past or future, yet you didn't read what you posted.

Do they even teach basic grammar in schools anymore or is everyone just too damn stupid to understand?

If you replace the word, "never," with the definition, you'll see that, "hasn't happened," and, "at no time in the past or future happened," are not the same.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: jfall
SARS, Bird Flu, Y2K

those were the ones I thought of

 

[Pepsi90919]

Y2K
Daikatana
Chinese Democracy
Global warming

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: thraashman
WWIII with Russia
Y2K
Guiliani becoming President
Anthrax attacks (yeah like 7 happened and then nothing)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Zombie apocalypse

The CMC was quite real and the world was a pubic hair away from getting nuked.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

If you replace the word, "never," with the definition, you'll see that, "hasn't happened," and, "at no time in the past or future happened," are not the same.

Ho-ly shit you're dense.

Where the hell are you getting the idea about the future? Who said anything about the future? In the context that this word was used- "never happened"- it can ONLY mean the past.

The only use of it was "never happened", and you cannot even attempt to suggest that this also means the future.

It's obvious that you're confused by the definition and usage of this word. Please go back to school learn basic grammar.


While the word "never" itself can be used to refer to the past or present, the rest of the sentence has to agree with it. If I want to use it to mean the future, I can say, "This will never happen." If I want to use it to refer to the past, I can say, "This has never happened."

My second example is the only one that applies to this thread, since that exact wording was used in the title. Why don't you just be a man and admit that you tried to be a wiseass and looked up the definition of "never" without considering the importance of context?

 

[Evadman]

Y2K. I heard it from a chicken man.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: upsciLLion

If you replace the word, "never," with the definition, you'll see that, "hasn't happened," and, "at no time in the past or future happened," are not the same.

Ho-ly shit you're dense.

Where the hell are you getting the idea about the future? Who said anything about the future? In the context that this word was used- "never happened"- it can ONLY mean the past.

The only use of it was "never happened", and you cannot even attempt to suggest that this also means the future.

It's obvious that you're confused by the definition and usage of this word. Please go back to school learn basic grammar.

A literalist, are we? Language means so much more than your narrow definitions. Clearly you never advanced beyond basic grammar.

Any sensible person knows that the phrasing of the OP:

What was the most hyped up diasaster that never happened?

Implies a disaster that was predicted, hyped up like crazy, and after the disaster period was over it turns out not to have happened. The OP isn't interested in things that occur on an indefinite timeline, like the chances of the sun suddenly going supernova with no warning.

Y2K was a good example. It had a very exact "disaster date". In 1999 you could NOT say that Y2k "never happened", because the danger period hadn't come yet. Technically it hadn't happened yet, but there was no guarantee that it wouldn't happen on Jan 1, 2000. There's a difference between "hasn't" and "never" happened.

Similarly, if someone claims that a specific comet is going to hit earth and kill us all, you can't say that it "never" happened until the comet has passed us by, or we know enough to prove that it won't strike earth. However, if someone claims that someday an unknown comet is going to hit earth and kill us all, you can NEVER claim that this "never happened", only that it hasn't happened yet.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: DVad3r
Weapons of mass destruction in the middle east.

And I agree with the 9/11 comment.

So what exactly did Chemical Ali use to gas the kurds? Raid ant traps? You don't get the name Chemical Ali from being a nice guy.

Anyways, my vote is for Y2k.