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It’s 2020. What can go wrong?

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[gestures broadly at everything]

Remember the Mayan calendar brouhaha over 2012? They just forgot to carry the 1.

And here we are.

Would have made a great movie. "The Mayans were off by 8 years"

I'm sure the Mayan's original paper they submitted for peer review had the appropriate margins or error detailed, it was just lost once the newspapers picked it up.

Great point!

Let me guess - it would begin like this: a scientist sitting at their desk late at night (at home, old furniture, bookshelves in the background, the table covered with papers and scrolls, faint light of an desk lamp (green lampshade?), maybe an open fire bickering offscreen) suddenly grabbing a paper, looking closer, adjusting their glasses, then starting to flip pages in a book, looking again at the paper, covering their mouth with a hand, jumping up, tapping a spot on the paper, rolling it up before grabbing a coat from the coat rack, ...

Wow! This short intro is actually quite good.

Thanks! Some more? :D

Scientist drives down a road (darkness, rain, a forest) and reachs a town (darkness and rain again, occasionally a streetlamp, high contrast, lights are blinding). Checks if paper is still in their pocket and accidently runs a redlight. Then: deep roar of the horn of a truck, t-boning the car a moment later. Blue lights flashing. Firefighters pulling the scientist from the car, the ambulance drives off. Coat is seen at the site of the accident. ICU, ECG beeping: the scientist is still unconscious or in a coma. End of intro.

I really like your ideas. You seem to have talent for this. Would definitely read something like this if you ever chose to write it.

It's like they have never read H.P. Lovecraft.

Even if you've read HP lovecraft, the lessons contained are pretty specific to the 1920s. Air conditioning, non-euclidian geometry, previously unknown colors, cities, black people, poor white people, immigrants, native americans, interracial marriage, basically anyone that lovecraft didn't like, are all eeeevil. scary.

We wish these irrational fears were confined to the 1920’s, and not still with us in the 2020’s.

Waking up ancients sleeping under the sea for aeons, sounds perfectly safe to me.

with 2020 having less than 50% chance over 2021 of something going wrong, I feel kinda upbeet. Maybe these microbes escape and end up curing cancer!

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