The Time Television

[Landshark]

Having, once more, a dangerous amount of free time on my hands I hooked up my time machine to my TV set, therefore allowing me to view programs from the future:

Right somethings coming through, just let me adjust the ariel.

My God! It turns out the all of the 9/11 hijackers were actually clones of Saddam Hussein created in a secret laboratory situated beneath the Eiffel Tower!

Oh hang on, I didn't have the time machine turned on, just had the set tuned to Fox News.

I'll give it another try. Switching on.

I'm getting a picture. It's a bit fuzzy. Hold on while I adjust the controls. There that's better. It's from 2050. Sunday evening. It's BBC 1. The announcer's saying something about the world's longest running sitcom, now been on air for more than seventy five years.

It's "Last of the Summer Wine".





Well at least it's nice to know that the cast of "Hollyoaks" is going to be employed in 46 years time.

Ah, we've lost it.

I'll try for something from one of the American networks.

Got one! The Yanks will love this it's a high speed chase. I'll give you a moment to get the chips out and call your friends.




Ready?

Can't get a date on this one but the cop cars don't look to different from the present day so it can't be too far ahead.

The car they're all chasing is really moving an..

WOW!

Well there goes his no claims bonus, not to mention his roof.

One of the criminals is standing up on the back seat and aiming a weapon at the cops. I think it's a shotgun.



No, my mistake. It was a 40mm grenade launcher.

Here's the voice over:

"Is this the end of the Olsen Twins fourteen state rampage of destruction?"

And we won't be finding out the answer to that question any time soon because I've lost the picture again.

Just talk amongest your selves while I twiddle my knobs.





Got something.


2092.


Some sort of discussion show.

There's a beardy type going on about how unless something is done about Global Warming the cockroach will go extinct like the pigeon and the sewer rat.

The other side's repling.

The other side appears to be Jabba the Hutt?!

According to the caption he's Sen. Dubya Pardey, Texas(R). Sponsored by EXXON?

The Senetor is saying that there's no conclusive proof of Global Warming and that any changes in the Earth's temperature are an entirely normal ...


Well that's something you don't see everyday.

Spontainious Human Melting.



Oh bugger it. I've completely lost the picture. I think a valve's blown.

I'll have to call it a night then.


Though I suppose you could get the same results if you adapted a cross time scooper. All you'd have to do is take out the phase shift defibulator, plug a self regulating tyachion stripper into the Durkin array and connect the entire thing to a scart socket and your away.

[Straha]

see my different space race thread on this forum and comment

when I turned on CCN I got 2018

The scene was a louisiana plantation with tech that looked more advanced being used by guards. The workers in the mines appear to be Iraqis with a few aistralians and the overseers were using what appeared to be plasma whips on them. The Station appears to be located in europe and they're discussing President Howery's america. After it shifts I get another scene this one being a nuked out wasteland and labled mecca. In the ruins, slave laborers are trying to destroy whats left of the holy kaabaa.

I try it again and I get a history channel documentary from 2041 called Islam:700 ad to 2018 ad: the history of a religion that affected the 20th and 21st centruies. The section I got talked about WWIII or the war of cleansing as they call it which was the european union,russia,the USA,australia,the white commonwealth against the islamic world,china and the pan-africanist africna regimes. It how the total combined popuation of the areas that fought agaisnt the west in WWIII was reduced to 10 million with nuclear,chemical,biological and tesla weapons.

[DuQuense]

I got a program on France 1. Appears to be the President of France Talking about the US and the War on Terror. Not sure what Year, but the French President is Wearing a Burnoose, and theres a Islamic Cresent on the Tricolor Flag behind him. Seems they are Demanding the US turnover the Terrorist leader it's protecting :eek: It's the Pope :D

[Legolas]

What I got at first was a news programme on Lithuanian National TV station. The date is only referred to 'October', but I grasp that it already has been more than ten years after 9/11 events.
Apparently the Lithuanian armed forces are 'eliminating the last elements of the rogue Belarussian Lukashenko regime.' The videos show tanks and infantry with Lithuanian AF insignias moving around the Balrussian countryside. A map is shown too. The war has been going for about 3 months already, and most of Belarus is under Lithuanian control, except for some pockets near the Russian border. Ukraine and Poland also are mentioned to have been aiding in the effort, and capturing some southern parts of the country.
Frightened a little, I turn another channel. This time it is TV1, of France. There are news there as well, and they tell of 'a warmongering new "Tiny empire" of Lithuania that has invaded and nearly completely occupied the independant nation of Belarus, and the Free World does nothing to counter this.' Other news state about the continuing crisis in NATO, where France, Germany, BeNeLux and Norway are discussing the possibilites of an attack against Lithuania/Poland/Ukraine, while USA, UK and Spain threaten to use all means neccesary to prevent NATO interference in this 'regional matter'...

[Leej]

hmm what is this, I can’t get any sound...There is a ancient though rather familiar looking man addressing a crowd of people, they appear to be standing on the walkway of some giant factory. Along the bottom is a news ticker, the channel appears to have the name G.N.N. Ah there it is-what’s going on here ‘William V attends launch of the SS Resolution’ ‘If all goes according to plan the Resolution could reach the stars in a matter of weeks’ ‘Terran nationalists no danger to launch’ ‘Hot XXX action click here’
Hmm…

[DominusNovus]

There's a beardy type going on about how unless something is done about Global Warming the cockroach will go extinct like the pigeon and the sewer rat.

And the downside to this is...?

[Archangel Michael]

I'm picking up as news station from somewere in Europe, in about 2014:

'German armored divisions, equiped with the new Puma II tanks, are curently pushing deep into the Czech Republic.' The picture shows three tanks, that look like a cross of the US Army's new Stryker vehcile and the current German Leopard II tank, rolling buy, and firing their guns at unseen targets. 'Luftwaffe aircraft have reprotedly hiting Czech military command centers.' Another image shows five American-built F-35 JSF with these markings. (http://www.skytamer.com/roundels/germany/10.htm) dropping JDAM bombs. 'Austrian Emperor Josef Franz I condemed these attacks on the semi-autonomous region of his grand empire.'

Another station, this one from Russia, 2022:

'Nazi hardliners has staged more riots in St.Petersburg, Moscow, and Kursk.' An image of a Russian waving a Nazi flag, that is just like the German flag, except the flag is blue with a white-swastika and no roundel. 'Nazi Party leader, Vladmir Kruznez, said that he "would return Russia to full power", meaing taking back all territory lost during the Great War of 2011-2020.' Another image shows a tall man, and looks like what the Nazis would call an 'ideal Aryan'.

[RMG]

And the downside to this is...?

The roach motel industry will go down the tubes.

[Diamond]

Heh, this is a fun idea...

Turning on my Telescooper:

I'm on an ABC affiliate out of... Jakarta? Looks like American TV networks have gone international.

...watching the tail end and credits for a sitcom called 'Operation Freedom' - it looks like a rip-off of M.A.S.H., but set in Iraq...

...OK, now the news is coming on. It's Monday, May 26th, 2076. Some news items:
-Radical Mormon separatists have threatened to destroy the Payson High Altitude Launch Facility just south of Salt Lake City, Utah, unless all Space Jet launches are cancelled. Mormon spokesman Michael Farris claims that Jet exhaust is responsible for a recent rash of birth defects and cattle die-offs in the area.

-Preparations for the celebration of America's Tricentennial continue in Chicago, the nation's capital, despite the recent missile attacks on the New White House.

-The Microsoft Orbital Station has denied US weapons inspectors entry and has applied to the UN for membership as a sovereign nation.

-The United Asian States have granted statehood to Tibet, making it the first UAS state outside of Southeast Asia.

-The first cybernetic spinal replacement was successfully performed today in Copenhagen, Denmark. Former Olympic cross-country ski champion Joachim Dacascos was the recipient. Dacascos, a quadraplegic since his tragic auto accident 5 years ago, is expected by chief surgeon Lars Olerich to be 'fully mobile within two months'.

[Leej]

I have a battle going on in a ruined city. It all looks very Stalingradesque...Actually it looks WW2 era so its probally a war film...No wait those are American weapons the soldiers are using! Now whats this...WOW A LIZARDMAN! It looks like they finally make a film of the World War series. Ooh the scene is changing again I wonder what it is now...Its a slightly older Keanu Reaves, oh well I guess I should have put 2 and 2 together- his acting style fits in very well with Turtledove's writing style.

[Straha]

I get a scene from 2094 where a foreing news reporter who is from Andalusi(!) news networke and she's talking about a crisis in the american reich where local bosses Zayn al Jafar,Matt Dromms II and Micheal Jackson(WTF immortality must be possible)

[Landshark]

Looks like some sort of American politician. He's really worked up about something called the Area 51 fiasco. He says that the destruction of Las Vegas is entirely due to the government's use of a giant Steven Seagal to contain the giant hamster threat.

[Beck Reilly]

All I got was a map and some video. There's no sound.

I see a batallion of tanks with both German and American markings moving at high speed, firing as they move. A label at the bottom shows the location as Frankfurt, Austro-German Republic, European Alliance. Another shows a French Fighter-Bomber with a stylized "EA" on its wing lying shot to pieces in the German Union city of Amsterdam. An American aircraft carrier is launching planes in the North Sea. All are heading south towards France.

[DominusNovus]

All I got was a map and some video. There's no sound.

I see a batallion of tanks with both German and American markings moving at high speed, firing as they move. A label at the bottom shows the location as Frankfurt, Austro-German Republic, European Alliance. Another shows a French Fighter-Bomber with a stylized "EA" on its wing lying shot to pieces in the German Union city of Amsterdam. An American aircraft carrier is launching planes in the North Sea. All are heading south towards France.
A pity. I like Spain, Italy, and Russia. Of course, Russia is cool mainly for vodka and their accent, and the Ukraine is evidently on our side, so I guess its not a total loss.

[Anthony Appleyard]

2050 :: Holland abandoned to the sea except for the southeast corner (Veluve area). Global warming has melted ice and the sea level rose until the Dutch had to abandon the fight aganst the sea.

2070 :: some European country :: an Islamic party takes power. Civil disorders. Europe finally realizes the end result of letting Muslim immigrants come in and then breed and breed. War across Europe. Mass expulsion of Muslims.

2060 :: Deforestation and overgrazing in the Nile headwaters area continues. A long hard drought starts. Nile dries up, and no water reaches Khartoum. This continues for years. Egyptian diaspora largely prevented because nobody wants yet more mass Muslim immigration.

2100 :: Most of the Nile delta is now below sea level because of the long slow geotectonic sinkage, which is no longer offset by silting because the Aswan high dam lake now traps all the silt coming down.

[Max Sinister]

And the downside to this is...?

Ecology must be pretty bad if even animals like pigeons and rats went extinct. And cockroaches, OK we're talking ASB stuff here... they even survived nuclear tests! You may well guess that humans have to buy not only food and water, but even oxygen in this TL. And I also guess that senator Jabba has the oxygen monopoly.

[David Howery]

Dang, all I get is news reports...
2005: Al Jazeera is running a report that the remnants of Al Qaida are hotly denying the rumor that Osama bin Laden died of rabies after being bitten on the ass by a squirrel while he was squatting behind a rock taking a dump. AQ has insisted that AbL died fighting US infidel forces and that he killed 20 American soldiers with his bare hands and shot down 2 fighter jets with his pistol. Spokesmen from the US, UK, and Pakistani governments were unable to comment on the rumor because they were laughing so hard...
2015: Sketchy reports from Australia indicate that the population there has finally revolted and thrown down the repressive regime of Dictator for Life Macsporan. His bizarre wealth redistribution programmes drew much criticism, and his declaration of war on Israel (regardless of the total lack of a cause) caused widespread demonstrations. Apparently, the final straw was when the Dictator was found walking down the streets of Sydney shooting people at random and cackling madly, "gonna give the land back to the natives, ha ha!". Unfortunately for Macsporan, the angry mob who finally got ahold of him broke 75% of the bones in his body, castrated him, set his hair on fire, and finally beat him to death with a shovel. Macsporan's successor, the widely regarded Prime Minister Loh, promised a return to normality...
2020: An baffling mystery was finally solved this week when maintenance workers at the UN discovered that a faulty air conditioning unit was leaking chemical vapors into the general assembly room. This explains some of the UN's recent bizarre declarations, such as the decision to move the UN to Atlantis, the decision to miltarily intervene in Canada (despite the lack of any war there), and the declaration that terrorism was, quote, "poopy".
Oh wait, here's something from prime time.. dang, it's just a reality show. "Who'll eat bugs for money?"... apparently, people go on the show, eat bugs, and get paid for it. The bigger and hairier the bug, the more they get paid. I could watch that....

[Diamond]

2015: Sketchy reports from Australia indicate that the population there has finally revolted and thrown down the repressive regime of Dictator for Life Macsporan. His bizarre wealth redistribution programmes drew much criticism, and his declaration of war on Israel (regardless of the total lack of a cause) caused widespread demonstrations. Apparently, the final straw was when the Dictator was found walking down the streets of Sydney shooting people at random and cackling madly, "gonna give the land back to the natives, ha ha!". Unfortunately for Macsporan, the angry mob who finally got ahold of him broke 75% of the bones in his body, castrated him, set his hair on fire, and finally beat him to death with a shovel. Macsporan's successor, the widely regarded Prime Minister Loh, promised a return to normality...

LMAO!!! That inspired me to attempt to draw a picture of Papa Joe... I mean, Mac. If the end result is any good, I'll post it. :)

[Chris Oakley]

Here's what I've picked up:

It seems I've tuned in to a Super Bowl--not sure which one specifically, but I'd hazard a guess the date is sometime in the mid-2040s.The NFC is being represented by...can you believe this?...the New Orleans Saints,and the AFC entry is an outfit called the Montreal Blizzard(must be an expansion team).The Saints have the ball on Montreal's 32-yard line late in the third quarter,and their kicker is lining up for what looks like a field goal attempt that will tie the game at 41-41 with three minutes to play.

There's the snap...ball is on the way...and I have no idea whether he made the kick or not because I just lost the picture.

Let's see what else is on...

Ooh,now I'm tuned to CNN.The date is March 23rd,2033 and the headline at the top of the screen reads "HAVANA RIOTS".There's some video footage of a statue of Fidel Castro being vandalized,and I can hear a news anchor saying that 20,000 protestors are marching through the streets of Havana demanding that the Cuban Communist Party be abolished immediately.

[Adam Parsons]

Let's see...

Okay, I've got CNN on the tube. Seems that the top story is about President John Parker condemning recent Chinese moves in Taiwan. While the anchor's talking, I'm seeing some footage of what look like MiGs flying over a burning city. Wait, I've just heard that that is Taipei.

Changing channels...

Now I've got an economics show. The topic tonight is "Nigeria: The Japan on 2020?" Appearantly, there's a lot of arguements about Nigerian manufacturing cutting into the American economy, and how most of West Africa has become an economic vassal to the "Nigerian behemoth".

One more look...

Back on CNN. They're talking with a Mr. Peter Molyeux about the game "Black and White 5". I just saw a screenshot of a giant, rainbow-hued tortoise walk through the downtown of a giant modern city. Man, that looks incredible.

[wkwillis]

see my different space race thread on this forum and comment

when I turned on CCN I got 2018

The scene was a louisiana plantation with tech that looked more advanced being used by guards. The workers in the mines appear to be Iraqis with a few aistralians and the overseers were using what appeared to be plasma whips on them. The Station appears to be located in europe and they're discussing President Howery's america. After it shifts I get another scene this one being a nuked out wasteland and labled mecca. In the ruins, slave laborers are trying to destroy whats left of the holy kaabaa.

I try it again and I get a history channel documentary from 2041 called Islam:700 ad to 2018 ad: the history of a religion that affected the 20th and 21st centruies. The section I got talked about WWIII or the war of cleansing as they call it which was the european union,russia,the USA,australia,the white commonwealth against the islamic world,china and the pan-africanist africna regimes. It how the total combined popuation of the areas that fought agaisnt the west in WWIII was reduced to 10 million with nuclear,chemical,biological and tesla weapons.

Louisiana is underlain by salt. If the plantation workers are in mines under Louisiana, then Louisiana must be pretty damn cold upstairs. Is this the timeline where nuke winter froze the Mississippi solid for six years? The total world population in that time line was about 100 million. They lived on pond scum raised in artificially heated and lit greenhouses, mostly around the nuclear power plants, natural gas fields, and coal mine based power plants.

[tom]

I got "Foresight and how we survived the Nanotechnology Revolution". It seems to be from the 2030s or 2040s.

[Chris Oakley]

My latest look at the time TV has yielded a 30-second spot promoting what looks like a biopic about Jack Nicholson.

OK,commercial over...I've got CNBC on now,and the date on the bottom of the screen says "July 23rd,2027".The anchor is talking about Playboy filing for Chapter 11--apparently Hef's finally lost his touch.

[Diamond]

The anchor is talking about Playboy filing for Chapter 11--apparently Hef's finally lost his touch.

My God, he must be 110! I guess a regular diet of blondes and brunettes really does make you healthy.

[Chris Oakley]

And the daily seaweed injections didn't hurt either. ;)

[edvader]

Hmm. I'm turning on to CNN. It's a broadcast from Harriman Memorial on Luna City,Luna. It seems to be a speech commemorizing the late D.D.Harriman who developed Space Travel. Ooops, I'm now seeing a glimpse of Washington DC for the swearing in of the new President- Power Girl. Yes, I distinctly recognize her in her outfit. Sorry, power is off.

[Torqumada]

All I keep getting are informercials and reruns of Hogan's Heroes and The Amanda show!

Torqumada

[Chris Oakley]

Well,if you're looking for something different,this might interest you:I've got ESPN on right now,and I'm seeing what looks like an auto race from 2059--and the funny thing is,half the cars in the race aren't even using wheels.

[Chris Oakley]

Anybody checked this set's picture tube lately?

[Grimm Reaper]

Torquemada, you're doing better than I am. All I have is reruns of the Mod Squad, and a discussion of how President Clinton would have done better in her three terms had she divorced John Kerry in 2011! Oh, and the burger wars between Roy Rogers and Taco Bell are still going on.

[TheLoneAmigo]

Picked up the BBC World Service. They seem to be reporting on the Caliphate of Iberia's crackdown on extremist Christian terrorists. The weather is scrolling along the bottom: 12 December 2067 London -30/-10 snowing Glasgow -30/-5 EXTREME GLACIAL WARNING Amsterdam -31/-14 snowing New York -26/-18.

Chilly.

[Chris Oakley]

Check this out...I just came across a CNN news report from 2057 saying that the Philadelphia transit workers' strike is about to enter its fifth month.

[DocOrlando]

I turned it on and all the channels were showing the same thing: a glowing white dot in an otherwise black screen. After a few seconds, a voice started speaking. It said:

"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set."

I got scared and turned it off.

[Michael]

Back on CNN. They're talking with a Mr. Peter Molyeux about the game "Black and White 5". I just saw a screenshot of a giant, rainbow-hued tortoise walk through the downtown of a giant modern city. Man, that looks incredible.
They are planning to make one actually

[Aedh Rua]

Hmmm, picture is fuzzy. Date, looks like.....2015, let's see, it's a reality TV show! Yeah, the contestants appear to all be naked, except for blades strapped to their hands and feet, they are fighting in cages, there's a lot of blood, and some detached body parts. I guess the last one alive gets a million dollars. Yeah, there's the logo.......Million Dollar Cage Match.

Ok, what else, it's coming through clearly this time, something called Celebrity Stalker, I guess they _really_do_ stalk celebrities.

Hmmm, not reality TV this time, looks like a series........._SS_Elite........something about Nazis on the Eastern Front. Not very realistic, there's lots of sex, again.

2015 looks like a pretty depraved year.......

Ok, let's move ahead.........what's this? News show, hmmm, looks like 2020. They're going on about dead zones in the ocean. A government rep is saying that we can get by with half the oxygen we have now.............

Some kind of celebration, appears to be live coverage............lots of people dancing orgiastically in Times Square, some blood, looks like, ah, here's a voice over...."High Priest Charles Manson Jr. is on the podium beginning the invocation to Yog Sothoth. You can really hear the discipline as he keeps his voice on track, speaking sounds never meant for human vocal apparatus, and if you look at his hands, you can see the hours of training that allow him to make non-Euclidian gestures with only a small chance of being devoured." "Yeah, John, you can really see the control on his face, no trace of ecstacy or primal fear." "Right you are, Tom. And take a look at the sacrifical victims, they are some live ones, aren't they." "They sure are, John. Even in subzero cold, they are still trying to get away from the tentacles......."

Hmmm, an ad, for the new Disney World Korea....."Disney World Korea, built on the radioactive ruins of Pyongyang, but don't you worry, Disney radioactivity is perfectly safe, and the glow makes for a night-light that will keep your kids feeling secure and untroubled....."

Hmmm, more ads, "Come take the scenic boat tour to the flooded towers of what once was Manhattan....."

Ok, now what's this? CNN! Yeah, it's CNN, and they are in the South Pacific. I guess a seismic disturbance has revealed some kind of pre-human ruin on a island formerly under water. They're going in to check it out, hoping the inscriptions in the ruins will show humanity new ways to revel and kill.........whoops, looks like they've triggered some kind of big door......darkness coming out, thick like smoke, and spreading..........something moving in there.........emerging.........My God! a mountain walks or stumbles, all the shrieking insane abnormalities cannot contain such a vision of vast cosmic alienage! THE ANGLES! THE ANGLES!

Fade to black.

[Chris Oakley]

I'm getting video from 2098--and highly dramatic video,too.I can't quite hear everything the news anchor's saying,but from what I can hear it looks like I'm watching a police standoff near Kansas City.Five people belonging to a group calling itself the Christian Defense League have barricaded themselves inside an abandoned farmhouse and are threatening to set off a dirty bomb if the cops make any attempt to arrest them.In the background I can see two dozen or so people carrying picket signs with slogans like "BRING BACK RELIGIOUS FREEDOM" and "IT SHOULDN'T BE A CRIME TO READ THE BIBLE".

[Straha]

crazy stuff I turn it on and I get a signal from 2041, apparently is my inaugeration as president...

[Doctor What]

crazy stuff I turn it on and I get a signal from 2041, apparently is my inaugeration as president...

Weird--I turned my on and got a signal from 2043 about your impeachment.... ;)

[mattep74]

I found a channel that showed the news in 2012. Its about the european championship in fotball and the Italians meet Switzerland in the final round of the group stage. The teams only need 3-3 to go on to the playoffs. THe two other teams in this group are Norway and Scottland and Norway has to win. Norway wins with 2-1 but the Italian game finish 3-3 and everyone say its fixed. Switzerland was in the lead by 3-1 with 20 minutes to go and had more chanses of doing 4-1. One ball struck the goalpost, rolled along the goalline and struck the other goalpost before the italian goalie could save the ball.

whats this? UEFA sais there is no chanse the game could be fixed because thats something fotball teams dont do(grin)

[Archangel Michael]

I found a channel that showed the news in 2012. Its about the european championship in fotball and the Italians meet Switzerland in the final round of the group stage. The teams only need 3-3 to go on to the playoffs. THe two other teams in this group are Norway and Scottland and Norway has to win. Norway wins with 2-1 but the Italian game finish 3-3 and everyone say its fixed. Switzerland was in the lead by 3-1 with 20 minutes to go and had more chanses of doing 4-1. One ball struck the goalpost, rolled along the goalline and struck the other goalpost before the italian goalie could save the ball.

whats this? UEFA sais there is no chanse the game could be fixed because thats something fotball teams dont do(grin)

That sounds oddly familiar...

[Diamond]

I'm getting a channel called CSPAN-6-Global. They're broadcasting what looks like a Congressional Hearing of some sort. Someone is bringing the hearing to order...

...chairman bangs gavel, bringing the 16ths Session of the Second Revolution War Crimes Hearing to order...

Chairman Suarez: "Madame President, you have been charged with ordering, either directly or indirectly, the mass killings of more than 12,000 Californians between May and August of 2046. How do you respond to these charges?"

President Bush: "Not guilty."

...the chamber erupts as dozens of people shout obcenities at the former President...

(voice-over): "Well, there you have it; the opening statements in what promises to be the most sensational of the War Crimes Trials scheduled for this summer. After last year's conviction and execution of former Secretary of Defense Alan Morris, one can only imagine what the trial of President Jenna Bush will be like..."

[fhaessig]

From CNN :

.... When questionned about EU claim of CIA involvement in the countefeiting of Euro banknotes, Senator Blisher called this ' a legitimate US response to the EU economic warfare disguised as environmental standards'.

On domestic news, the president has signed a presidential directive outlawing the so-called 'society for the respect of the constitution' as a terrorist group. All suspected members have been arested last night and are presently in Guantanamo. Confessions are expected shortly...

Zap


'.... This was Selene TV, and this concludes our first transmission direct to the Earth...'

Zap

... On ecological news, GreenPeace continues to protest the project to dam the Gilbraltar straits on ground of impact on the salinity in the Mediteraneans and calls the bombing of the buiding site by GreenWar 'a deplorable but understandable action' and the casualties among the workers 'unfortunate'...

Zap

... And the Winner of this year's Eurovision song contest is.... Kazahkstan.

[Chris Oakley]

Here's something interesting:a reality show from 2056.If I'm interpreting the images and dialogue correctly,the idea is for six contestants to prove their skills manning a space station in orbit around the moon,with the most skilled contestant winning a $10,000,000 cash prize and free six-week vacation in the lunar hotel of their choice.

[TheLoneAmigo]

CNN June 4 2022 AD:

"AmLev workers have continued the 5th month of striking over the layoffs and automation of the maglev system. However, AmLev-Boening president said yesterday that AmLev efficiency would not suffer despite the loss of more than 90% of the workforce, thanks to increased AI usages. In other news, President Raynd denounced claims that the incarceration of several leading Democratic party members was a political manuever."

President Raynd: "These people have repeatedly flaunted federal election regulations, refusing to mantain confidientality over Homeland Security and Commerce affairs."

hmm... let's flip to EuroNet

"The majority of Unity Party members yesterday voted in favor of the Socialist Party's "High Income Taxation Act". Under the act's measures, all personal income over 500,000 Euros a year will be taxed at 100%. Dissident Unity MEP Jacques Mousile said that the bill will have serious economic repurcussions and that it is proof of "the Socialist Party's lack of foresight". Jacques Mosile also last year sponsored an act that would have reduced welfare spending by 6%.
In other news, Nokia CEO Mari Lekkison annouced that its headquaters would be relocated to Beijing to take advantage of China's "progressive economic measures". Finnish President Mikko Kakkinen denouced the move, calling it the action of a corporation unwilling to pay its share of taxes."

scary... let's try the BBC World Service:

"Chinese President Zhang Hu today rebuked claims from Maoist faction leader Wu Jahn that he has departed from Communist principles, saying that the loosening of market regulations is "merely an evolution of Communist principles for the 21st century". He also pointed to the billions of dolars that have poured into the Chinese economy following the introduction of his "market Communism" policy. The Communist Party elections next week are expected to be a close run between the Progressive and Maoist factions. Other issues sure to feature heavily is the Progressives' support for the Taiwanese Union party and the Maoists' support for raising taxes and nationalizing the rail service."

strange.... very strange. Well, as for me, looks like I'll be heading to China in the 2010s.

[Chris Oakley]

Get a load of this--C-Span from 2041.The caption at the bottom of the screen reads:SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE/HOMELAND SECURITY REORGANIZATION HEARINGS.Apparently there's some kind of legislation in Congress to split Homeland Security into two separate departments;one for domestic intelligence,and another to handle overseas security that would merge the CIA and NSA with the intel branches of our armed forces.

[Diamond]

2065: I'm watching a game show called 'Scream Your Ass Off'; the host is a black woman with a thick Scottish accent. The point of the game seems to be a competition between three contestants on who has the best scream, based on duration, volume, facial expression, etc. Contestants receive lower marks if they need 'stimulation' to scream: for example, one is being zapped with what looks like an electric cattle prod. Yup, that'll make you scream.

[Chris Oakley]

I've gone to ESPN again,this time in 2076.I can distinctly hear the anchor mentioning something about a cybernetics enhancement scandal threatening to disrupt the Summer Olympics in Johannesburg.

[Straha]

I get a program from the 2030's about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the united state. The tone of the program is similar to that of the fall of the USSR.

[Grey Wolf]

Weird--I turned my on and got a signal from 2043 about your impeachment.... ;)

Oh dear, Johnny Diamond has assassinated you on the way to your verdict...

Grey Wolf

[TheLoneAmigo]

It seems to be... a rerun of Star Trek: Voyager. bugger.

[Chris Oakley]

How do you like this?I'm seeing Game 5 of the 2067 World Series.The Colorado Rockies are hosting the Minnesota Twins,and the score looks to be tied 2-2 going into the eighth inning.I see a familiar face managing in the Twins' dugout...and lo and behold,it's Chipper Jones.
Whoa!Twins are now ahead 4-2;their center fielder just hit a two-run triple to the gap in center.

[Chris Oakley]

**bumping**

[Stalin]

I'm getting a few signals from what looks like MSNBC, let me see the dates are...

2007

The anchorman looks pale, almost shaking as he reads the news...

“…Tens of thousands are feared dead after North Korean troops used Sarin gas and other bio-chemical agents on Seoul’s Citizens. US casualties are estimated to be at 1,400…�

FLIP

“..Kerry is expected to announce a withdrawal from the People’s Republic of Korea after the massacre of…�

FLIP

“…Riots continue after the announcement as pro-war and anti-war groups take to the streets in anger over…�

FLIP

2008

“…Unemployment has risen to 8%, and Inflation continues to go up to 13%, leading many economists to warn about the possible return of Stagflation…�

FLIP

“…the Islamic Kingdom of Arabia announced gas prices would be raised to...�

FLIP

“…Violence continues in Iraq as Isalmist insurgents launched a serious of bombings on...�

FLIP

"...McCain defeated John Kerry in a landslide victory of..."

[Chris Oakley]

OK,I'm guessing you won't be voting for the Kerry/Edwards ticket in November. :D

[Coriolanus]

How do you like this?I'm seeing Game 5 of the 2067 World Series.The Colorado Rockies are hosting the Minnesota Twins,and the score looks to be tied 2-2 going into the eighth inning.I see a familiar face managing in the Twins' dugout...and lo and behold,it's Chipper Jones.
Whoa!Twins are now ahead 4-2;their center fielder just hit a two-run triple to the gap in center.

Hmmm...Chipper Jones managing? I'd hope he would lead Atlanta there as well. :D

Oh yea...this is my TV.....


Game 7 2017 World Series

Fenway Park, Boston

I can see that the Sox are playing San Francisco....score is 3-0, Sox in the lead. Top of the ninth, 2 outs, 2 men on, 0-2 pitch...wait, I see a Giant player hitting a long, deep fly ball, over the monster!!!!!!

click

Hmmm....I can see that this is CNN. Looks like a State of the Union address.....

It's the year 2015. President John Edwards is discussing American resolve against the latest aggressive acts of the China-North Korea alliance. The Vice President is....Evan Bayh, formerly Senator from Indiana.

Wait..I see the year 2009. It's the Super Bowl between the Atlanta Falcons and the New York Jets. Doesn't look good for NY....it's 31-14 in the Fourth Quarter, Atlanta.

2007. May. Something about Iran...American tanks rolling down the streets of Tehran....some people throwing anything they can at the vehicles, others cheering the defeat of the theocracy. American, British, and Russian troops are fighting hard in some areas of the bombed out city. Something about a nuclear explosion in Western Europe, linked to this country.

[Imajin]

Hm.. "True and Unbiased Network", the date is apparently June 19, 2035... Someone who looks a little like me is claiming that some "Empire of Eastern Massachusetts"'s invasion of China is only due to international law violations by the ruling Hapsburg Dynasty, such as only using "standard-grade" poison gas, unlike the Empire's superior-grade stuff...

*click*

Interesting.. this show claims that if the Germans had lost the Great War, this would allow political crazies like this anti-semetic Hitler guy to come to power and could have casued another World War...

*click*
It's a World Series game... the Red Sox are up at bat.. the score is 9-0, it's the last game, top of the 9th... If the Red Sox win this game against the Idaho Mets, they could win their first World Series in exactly 100 years! But wait, what's that in the sky!
(Channel is blurry, the switches to a news broadcast)
We have recieved word today that Austria-Canada has bombed Potato Stadium right now. Austrocanada claims that if America will not relinquish claims to Oregon, then more bombings will continue. An enraged Red Sox fan was heard to say "Figures.. first Fenway collapses and then this?..." The rest of his conversation did not pass our censors..

*TV shorts itself out...*

[edvader]

I'm warming up the time TV. HOKEY SMOKE! I'm seeing the swearing in of the new "President-Bullwinkle. Toons have the citizenship and Vote. The Chief Justice is Elmer Fudd. Click! Hmm! looks like the coverage of the world premiere of GONE WITH THE WIND! Let's see" There's Bette Davis, Erol Flynn, Ovila Dehaviland. Broadcast live from...... Drat! The signal's lost!

[Chris Oakley]

Now I'm picking up what looks like an infomercial from 2034.It's plugging some kind of rehab clinic out on the West Coast..and it's being hosted by Scott Stapp of Creed.Time has definitely NOT been kind to this guy,that's for sure...

[Chris Oakley]

****bump****

[Diamond]

****bump****

You sure like this thread, don't you? :D

_________________

Oh, this is scary:

The 2020 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have apparently been cancelled due to some kind of airborne flesh-eating virus having been released by a terrorist group called the Native Restoration League.

(from an emergency news flash on the UNBC (United Nations Broadcasting Corporation).

[TheLoneAmigo]

I'm picking up a channel: on the top, it says RBN2. A guy in jeans and a shirt with a pepsi logo (apparently called Marcos Pepsi, as the newsbar says Marcos Pepsi's) is standing infront of an airport terminal. He says that the Democrats' refusal to pass the Islamic Internment Act has jeopardized America's national security, and points to an area under construction in the terminal. The guy says that this kind of suicide attack is a direct result of Democratic negligence. He then starts ranting about how the Europeans have been supplying the Caliphate with microbombs. I switch it off.

[mattep74]

its the current date

update from the olympic games

Sweden has a field day in the olympics, everything goes their way

Bäckstet wins the mens bikerace after a long breakaway
Susanne Ljungskog wins the ladies bikerace after a exellent last 400 meters
swimming
4*100 mensteam wins thanks to froelander
4*100 womansteam win thanks to Emma Igelstrom
Anna-Karin Kammerling take the bronze in 100 m butterfly

Tomas Enkvist wins against Carlos moya after 7-5 in the last set and Robin Soderling won his first game and Jonas Bjorkman turned a 1-0 to win 2-1 in the tennistournament

mixed team in badminton reaches the semifinal and atleast have a bronze

Swedish soccerladies win against Japan with 5-0

[Chris Oakley]

What about the basketball team? :D

[DuQuense]

The Zulu Republic of Course. Ever since they raised the Basket to ten feet............

[Chris Oakley]

Ten feet,huh?

[Chris Oakley]

***bump***

[Yossarian]

A hysterical looking news caster is reporting the destruction of San Francisco by a chinese nuclear weapon. The date is 2020 Hmmm, remind me to stay out of California in 16 years.

[Chris Oakley]

Tuned the set in to 2035...CNN's talking about a political scandal in Canada.Seems three members of the Canadian Senate have been implicated in a conspiracy to overthrow the prime minister and install a far left regime.

[Chris Oakley]

****bump****

[Romulus Augustulus]

I have news footage of demonstrators in the streets...

A reporter says, "There has been a new wave of rioting in the United States following Fox Media's refusal to withdraw its new reality show, Survivor: Straha's House, after it became clear that it sucked. Recently, the American public has acquired the habit of protesting moves by the entertainment industry it dislikes, and a number of media groups have sucuumbed to this trend. Let's speak to one of the demonstrators now. What is your name?"
"Jordan Sykes."
"Ah..ha..."
THe transmission ends there.

[Imajin]

Hm.. an interesting program. It shows a burned out ruin, and the American flag being pulled down from a building. A new flag is being pulled up- A Red-White-Green tricolor with a Black triangle near the hoist. There is a large Bald Eagle on the Tricolor section of the flag, which is drawn like the Eagle on the Egyptian COA. "After the city's fall, the supporters of the former regime fled. Meanwhile, the revolution established a state called The Islamic Republic of America. The new government, however, did not control the still mainly Christian areas of New England, California, Alaska, and Hawaii. Among these, New England continued to sylize itself as The United States until recently, when the government in Quincy, D.N.E., entered into diplomatic relations with the Islamic Repub-

Darn, lost the connection.

[TheLoneAmigo]

Strange, very stange... I'm picking up a CNN Headline News style station in what sounds and looks a lot like French but obviously isn't. I can make out the date, though: 1/6/3007. It's showing pictures of a protest and a speech in a very Scottish-sounding English of a bald man wearing a business suit: Here's what he's saying, as far as I can make out:

"The European Commision's (canmant? dunno what that means) intervention into Bretic affairs is a serious break in the seperation of faith an' state. I hope I speak for all Bretics here: faith has no place in the (alns?) of state, or in our current (gihad?) in Al-Idali."

Here's the current news bar:

(Provence) Le Repub di Sud Firanj si affecture vos le intervenue di Leganae di Bretae den Al-Idali"

Eurodam 24 cel(cloudy picture), Liberporl 14 cel(rainy picture), Milaran 26 cel (sunny picture)

In the corner is an eagle logo.

[TheLoneAmigo]

Got another brief cut:

What looks like a zombie with a bad combover pointing his hand (his fingers seem to have vanished) at the screen and saying "You're fired!". In the corner is NBC: The Apprentice 2146

[Chris Oakley]

I just tuned in the 2091 World Series and you'll never guess who's playing...
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Tampa's up 2-1 in the fifth inning in Game 7 with a man on base and one out...

[Thande]

Yossarian, you seem to have tuned into my future timeline, in which San Francisco (among other cities) is nuked by the Chinese in 2020. Scary...

Shouldn't the Islamic "Republic" of Southern France be al-Jumhuriya rather than using a term derived from 'republic'?

[Chris Oakley]

**winces**

[Othniel]

O...K...

CNNA World News
Apparently the U.S. capital was moved to Helena after Montana threatened to nuke several cities without the change of capital. This comes after a new states rights movement which started with Illinous annexing Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indianna. The number of states has dropped to 28. Year 2034.

The Untied Kingdom in the same year has been sweeped with a movement to take the lands of their ansetory, sweeping across France, Iberia, and Italy. Germany provided a token force in return for help against Autria. Russia has broken into city states...appartently in full out civil war.

[Thande]

THAT future I like! :)

OK, it's 2010 and I'm getting the fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise, back after its five-year hiatus after massive fan letter-writing campaign...

[Archangel Michael]

THAT future I like! :)

OK, it's 2010 and I'm getting the fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise, back after its five-year hiatus after massive fan letter-writing campaign...

Never gonna happen.

[Thande]

Excuse me? This is ASBs, is it not? ;)

[Othniel]

Ok, reruns...dang! *walks out to get snacks*

[Imajin]

Let's see.. I'll set the dial to random, see what I get...

Year: 2098
*cue CNN News logo, generic news-style intro music*
*Patriotic music plays, large logo showing a waving Chinese Dragon flag, with the words "WAR IN THE AMERICAS" under it*

"Hello, and I'm Jol von Grapp. Today, we at CNN bring you horrible news. The Chinese death camps in California have been confirmed. As China marches across what was once California in search for land, massive amounts of the American populations there have been massacred."

The little news bar at the bottom says "PRESIDENT JIANG WONG DEMANDS ALL LAND WEST OF MISSISSIPPI...FRANCE, GERMANY LAND TROOPS IN LOUISIANA...JAPANESE TROOPS BURN VANCOUVER..."

Depressing, I'll change the channel.

Year:2247
It's very fuzzy... I can make out a human face, and he's saying something.. Let me try to stabilize the time machine...

"...MER AMERICA. HAVE NO FEAR. I, YOUR BENEVOLENT LEADER, KING GEORGE X, SHALL PROVIDE IN ALL WAYS FOR YOU POSSIBLE. BUT YOU MUST FOLLOW OUR LAWS STRICTLY. CANADA SHALL NOT ALLOW YOU DISLOYAL TRAITORS TO STEP OUT OF LINE AGAIN..."

Darn, the screen went out.

[Cockroach]

Let's see.. I'll set the dial to random, see what I get...

Year: 2098
*cue CNN News logo, generic news-style intro music*
*Patriotic music plays, large logo showing a waving Chinese Dragon flag, with the words "WAR IN THE AMERICAS" under it*

"Hello, and I'm Jol von Grapp. Today, we at CNN bring you horrible news. The Chinese death camps in California have been confirmed. As China marches across what was once California in search for land, massive amounts of the American populations there have been massacred."

The little news bar at the bottom says "PRESIDENT JIANG WONG DEMANDS ALL LAND WEST OF MISSISSIPPI...FRANCE, GERMANY LAND TROOPS IN LOUISIANA...JAPANESE TROOPS BURN VANCOUVER..."

Why whould China go for the USA? I mean look at a much more acessable target: Russia, Siberia is largely empty and its rate of population growth is dropping, in a few decades the population may actually be shricking.

Note: the above was typed after a few too many drinks, please excuse any spelling errors

[Othniel]

Becuase who knows what happened to siberia in this timeline...

[BrianP]

Okay, lets have a looky...

Looks like a car commerical....the new 2020 Fordyota halftrack? Hmmm...only $129,999 at Honest Bob's cars!

Changing the channel...

Sportscenter...2008...looks like they disbanded the NHL after its was announced the 2008 season would be cancelled due to strike action. Appreantly, it would be the fourth season in a row cancelled.

Fading out to...

CNN news dated October 2061...forces of the "New Confederacy" are advancing on Indianapolis. U.S. troops are preparing to meet the attack with huge catapults loaded with roadkill....

Changing channels again...

Ah! The 2099 World Series! And it looks like the Cubs are in it. The announcer says they are one out away from winning their first series since 1909! Ah, damn...an asteroid just smashed into Chicago. Guess they didn't win.

One more channel...

Looks like a movie is coming on....."Police Academy XXIII - Geezers on Patrol"

Have to turn off my tv. There is a burning plastic smell coming from it.

[Romulus Augustulus]

I get a news broadcast. How convenient. It looks like CNN; the date reads March 19th, 2012. There's Wolf Blitzer. He's talking about a large movement of Chinese settlers into Siberia and the rising tensions between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation. He also talks about how Russia's ruling Russia First Party is more willing to seek war with China over Siberia. Then it goes to commercial break. There's a campaign ad for John Edwards and his VP, a Hispanic person I don't recognize named Juan Valdez. The commercial talks about the prosperity thath John Edwards has brought the US and how neither Dick Cheney or Jeb Bush are very good people or competent, either.

[Othniel]

Changing channels again...

Ah! The 2099 World Series! And it looks like the Cubs are in it. The announcer says they are one out away from winning their first series since 1909! Ah, damn...an asteroid just smashed into Chicago. Guess they didn't win.
The loveable losers will win...45 in a row before 2060! I don't care what the future says!

[swamphen]

CNN news dated October 2061...forces of the "New Confederacy" are advancing on Indianapolis. U.S. troops are preparing to meet the attack with huge catapults loaded with roadkill....

Good thing it was Indiana. If it was Ohio, the defenders would be eating their ammunition... http://www.swamphen.net/graphics/animated/smilies/lol.gif

[Imajin]

Why whould China go for the USA? I mean look at a much more acessable target: Russia, Siberia is largely empty and its rate of population growth is dropping, in a few decades the population may actually be shricking.

Note: the above was typed after a few too many drinks, please excuse any spelling errors
Taking on the country that was once the world's premerie superpower does a lot for the new Chinese government's image than attacking Siberia- and who knows what happened to Siberia, anyway

[NHBL]

I got The History Channel…

First, there was an image of a fleet plowing through the ocean—at least 6 battleships of a design I’m not familiar with—and I’m reasonably knowledgeable about these ships. From the bow waves, I’d guess they were making at least 40 knots. Naturally, there were cruisers and destroyers escorting them.
“January, 1990—the High Seas Fleet sails from Dars-El Salam in the province of Ost-Afrika to engage the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s carrier task force-the battle that would settle for all time the fate of the German Pacific provinces. Only one aircraft carrier was available, the Irish Republic’s “Belfast,” to escort the eight battlewagons as they sailed to face the seven carriers and three battleships China had to oppose them.”

I lost the signal, managing to tune in almost a half-hour later. A wall of missiles is flying towards the battleships, with aircraft close behind them. Missiles and guns open up—aircraft and missiles are exploding under a withering fire. The announcer speaks up, “Despite the desperate efforts of the Chinese pilots—inspired by the fact that they and their families wold be shot if they failed—only a few missiles reached the German fleet.”

At this point, the escorting cruisers opened up with what appear to be hyper fast missals, or perhaps energy beams. The swarm of missiles evaporated, although there were a few huge explosions. “Admiral Hindenburg was killed when the flagship was struck, and Captain Brenda von Spee took command.”

“With the elimination of the air wing, the carriers could not mount another attack. The desperate effort of the Communist battle line was for naught, as Admiral von Spee’s superior forces smashed the Chinese battleships in short order.”

There were a few spectacular pictures of the engagement before I lost the signal again.

I only got it back for a few minutes, It depicted the battleships bombarding a shoreline, and the anouncer continuing, “With no naval presence, the Chinese army threatening Tsingtao was blown to pieces under the accurate gunfire of the fleet’s 20” guns.”

[Othniel]

Sci Fi Channel: Reruns of Battlestar Galatic;s remake.

So THAT's how it ends.....this explains tons....

*is shaken by angry members not wanting spoilers*

[Stalin]

2007

"...Nicholas Sarkozy elected President of France in a stunning victory that..."

*Click*

"...Pro-democracy and nationalist protestors were shot and beaten by the Police. The protests, intended to mark the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, ended when..."

*Click*

"...those areas of the Netherlands worst affected by flooding have been declared uninhabitable..."

*Cick*

2008

"John McCain won election over Hillary Clinton by..."

*Click*

"Rumors of armed resistence in China have prompted a crackdown on..."

*Click*

2010

"...Rioting and guerilla warfare persists in Bangladesh, India, and China, in response to famine and illegal immigration towards Burma..."

*Click*

"...Military leaders in North Korea have revolted against the government. Fighting has broken out in..."

*Click*

[swamphen]

I'm currently watching what appears to be a History Channel special from a TL where the Yamato made it to Okinawa...

[Othniel]

What the hack...clock reads 7:23 am 2063. hmmm...this is bad....outbreak of what looks like the chicken pox and typhoid in West London has spread. Britain was been quartined, New York as well, and Northern France. Martial law has taken place in order to keep the diese from spreading....

[swamphen]

I presume you meant smallpox?

[vandevere]

I presume you meant smallpox?It could be a new, and very malignant strain... ;)

Vandevere

[Othniel]

I presume you meant smallpox?
Nope, it's achicken pox alright....one that can ineffect those that had the regular kind already. Especially nasty to Adults. So bad they say that the police force is made out of 12 to 10 year olds now.

[Othniel]

"Today the London Riots ended..."

[Beowulf2005]

2016...

"...here in Baghdad, it has been a very good day for the Republic of Afghanistan, winning the gold medal in soccer after an impressive win over Australia. The 2016 Olympic Games are brought to you by..."

[Chris Oakley]

2031....

"Acclaimed director Oliver Stone was found dead of a drug overdose late last night in a Boulder,Colorado hotel..."

[mattep74]

2010. George Lucas was found under the rubble of his home. GL was the man behind the star wars phenomen and had just anounced that he would make ep 7-9 and focus on the future of the alliance. Star Wars nerds that bought the books that Lucas now said is invalid wanted him dead and several thousands formed up and attacked his home before the police could get there in time. They burned the skywalker ranch and destroyed all plans for ep 7-9.

[Chris Oakley]

2017

"Former New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi today began a nine-year prison sentence for multiple counts of assault and battery...."

[Beowulf2005]

Huh... History Channel. From a TL where Cheng won in China. Apparently after the Germans launched that nuclear V2 at Moscow in early 1945, the Russians couldn't help Mao anymore because there was a civil war...
Pictures of Republic of China fighter jets dropping bombs over something called the People's Republic of Manchuria...

After commercials... The RoC's impact on the development of the State of Tibet and the Federation of Indochina...

[Chris Oakley]

2033

This just in from Fox News:

"52-year-old former socialite and reality TV star Paris Hilton checked into the Betty Ford Center late this morning for an addiction to prescription painkillers..."

[Othniel]

ABC, June 3 1953

"Ireland was declared part of the Federated Communes of Western Europe. The first non-french speaking country to do so, although Westphallia has been considering joining. The British Prime Minster Howards, German Chancellor Sneltz and Russian Priemer Mustav all disapproved of the action. Director Mussolina of Italy and President Thomas of the USA both appaulded the unity of the FCWE."

[Redem]

5 second before the complete destruction of the universe (more years that my patience can do zero) :

The simpsons are still on there only 6 second left to the last episode and the great revealation that will simply shock you like nothing else in the world. (Btw there releasing the first movie tommorow)

2071 : Cher is still alive every single part of her body have been separate from each other and have been put in little Jar and she just won best actress for her brief cameo in Dr.Frankenstein.

[Chris Oakley]

2041:"Today Wrigley Field finally succumbed to the wrecker's ball..."

[Imajin]

2051:

Open Civil War opened across France as Napoleon VII signed the Muslim Removal Act. Recent censuses have shown that the majority of the population of France is indeed practicing Islam, though the Napoleons have mainly ruled by decree and blocked Muslim votes since establishing the Third Empire in twenty-thir-

Breaking News! Ongoing Story! We are recieving reports from Paris that the Imperial Palace has been stormed and destroyed by rebels! It is believed the entire Imperial Family is dead in the attack...

[Chris Oakley]

1962:
"This just in:NATO forces are engaging elements of the Soviet and East German armies near the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin...."

[Othniel]

*bumping this*

[Romulus Augustulus]

2231: The United States Space Forces, bolstered by allied contingents from the Russian Federation, China, and the European Union, are fighting a vicious holding action in the Regulus system against the alien onslaught, and it seems, for the moment at least, that they have turned the tide of the war in their favor...

*accompanied by footage of big space warships launching fighters and shooting big beams at stuff I can't see in the distance...*

[Agentdark]

Hmmm Looks Like CNN
2020
This is Bill O'reilly reporting live from the Ruins of Washington, the valiente defenders of our capital are fighting to the death to prevent the Chinese armoured columns from Bypassing the defensive line until reinforcements arrive.

Cant be good
*Zap*
Kerry King , former guitarist of Slayer was elected governer of California in a Landslide victory.........

*Zap*
The Commitee for the Salvation of the American peoples Republic has executed the capilatist pigs.....

[Romulus Augustulus]

Hmmm Looks Like CNN
2020
This is Bill O'reilly reporting live from the Ruins of Washington, the valiente defenders of our capital are fighting to the death to prevent the Chinese armoured columns from Bypassing the defensive line until reinforcements arrive.

Cant be good
*Zap*
Kerry King , former guitarist of Slayer was elected governer of California in a Landslide victory.........

*Zap*
The Commitee for the Salvation of the American peoples Republic has executed the capilatist pigs.....

Not at all plausible.

[Imajin]

((If you thought that was implausible...))

(logo appears onscreen)
CNN: The Canadian News Network

"We're coming in live from Hartford, where just a few miles west of here is the front lines. We have here with us President Frederick Kennedy of the United States. President Kennedy, how long do you think the six 'free states' can resist the American Caliphate?"

"We'll resist as long as it takes. We're not going to be like Washington, whose traitors surrendered as soon as the army came near. And we're not going to be like California or you Canadians, who immediately begged the Chinese for protection- and if I do say so, you're paying for it too. Look at that Shung Emperor guy, you seriously think he's going to let you have autonomy once the Caliphate tires down?"

"I'll beg you not to insult the Emperor on air, Mr. President."

"Look, get away from me. I don't have time to discuss politics here, I've got a nation to save."

"And now we turn to the view of the American Caliphate. Live from Wasintoniya, Gen. Ibrahim al-Bush. Due to the fact that he does not speak English, a translator has been provided"

"The free states position is indefensible after they lost al-Nayark. Soon, we shall break through the Hartford-Berkshire Line, and the infidels shall be smashed! Long live the Green, White, and Black flag!"

"That's all the time we have for this story, now, live at 9:00, is your traffic report in Vancouver... Traffic will be tied up in the port area of the city due to the moving in of the Chinese military..."

[Romulus Augustulus]

((If you thought that was implausible...))

(logo appears onscreen)
CNN: The Canadian News Network

"We're coming in live from Hartford, where just a few miles west of here is the front lines. We have here with us President Frederick Kennedy of the United States. President Kennedy, how long do you think the six 'free states' can resist the American Caliphate?"

"We'll resist as long as it takes. We're not going to be like Washington, whose traitors surrendered as soon as the army came near. And we're not going to be like California or you Canadians, who immediately begged the Chinese for protection- and if I do say so, you're paying for it too. Look at that Shung Emperor guy, you seriously think he's going to let you have autonomy once the Caliphate tires down?"

"I'll beg you not to insult the Emperor on air, Mr. President."

"Look, get away from me. I don't have time to discuss politics here, I've got a nation to save."

"And now we turn to the view of the American Caliphate. Live from Wasintoniya, Gen. Ibrahim al-Bush. Due to the fact that he does not speak English, a translator has been provided"

"The free states position is indefensible after they lost al-Nayark. Soon, we shall break through the Hartford-Berkshire Line, and the infidels shall be smashed! Long live the Green, White, and Black flag!"

"That's all the time we have for this story, now, live at 9:00, is your traffic report in Vancouver... Traffic will be tied up in the port area of the city due to the moving in of the Chinese military..."

Right...

*summons revolutionary commitee. Imajin is railroaded, given a show trial, and shot.*

[Imajin]

Right...

*summons revolutionary commitee. Imajin is railroaded, given a show trial, and shot.*
*survives shot by hiding the Tsar's Crown under his shirt, runs off to small caribbean island nation*

[Romulus Augustulus]

They shot you in the head. And the jugular. Twenty times total. With 7.62*39 mm. Good luck with that...

*pushes Imajin's corpse into the mass grave, watches as it is buried*

[Imajin]

They shot you in the head. And the jugular. Twenty times total. With 7.62*39 mm. Good luck with that...

*pushes Imajin's corpse into the mass grave, watches as it is buried*
The Tsar's Crown has holy power! He should have brought it with him when he fled :p

[Landshark]

The Tsar's Crown has holy power! He should have brought it with him when he fled :p

True. One should never travel without a decent hat.

[Romulus Augustulus]

Holy power?

*transforms into Bolshevik-Man. He looks exactly the same, except now he's dressed like Lenin and has the same beard and hairstyle. That, and he can fly, has immense strength, and has Socialist-Future Heat-Vision Rays that he can shoot from his eyes, or something similarly tacky*

[Count Dearborn]

Romulus, you forgot about the AH.COM resurecttion mode (tm Bruno What, 2003)

[Count Dearborn]

2012

CNN

"This is Wolf Blizter on the scene at the capitol of the Evergreen Khanate reporting on a coup that just happened. It seems that a cousin of the Royal Family, with the help of a faction the military has just taken control of the country."

[Chris Oakley]

1993

"Free agent contract talks between the San Francisco Giants and former Pirates outfielder Barry Bonds were abruptly halted last night after the two sides were unable to agree on salary issues..."

[monkey]

Year 2025, after flicking through a few reruns of old sitcoms I thing I have an infomercial:

" Phone 852 IWANTLAND to get your homestead of prime Asian land. It has been over a decade since World War Three and our scientists can confirm that the fallout in our propertys has trully reached safe levels. Landcorp have prime real estate in China, Korea, Indonesia, Iran and other countries. Why work 80 hours a week to pay for the rising price of food, when you can grow your own. All the locals have already been exterminated, all you need to is settle and agree to our 10% crop tithe, PAY NO MONEY NOW. Call Landcorp NOW!! Phone 852 IWANTLAND."

I also got a news Item about the post WW3 baby boom.

Stephen Wordsworth

[monkey]

Aparently the baby boom is not just due to the postwar efect. It turns out that TV and Movies just get so dull and boring in the future that people have to resort to the old fashioned entertainment.:D

[Agentdark]

-----------------------------
Another One, from 2040, its a news report

Red Guard Divisions have succeeded in Reaching Omsk, Russian forces are fighing a losing rear guard action against the Chinese juggernaunt, 1000s of civilians are fleeing the area afraid of being assimilated by China, Hey, I hear....
thwack
CHINA IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, WE ARE INEVITABLE
-----------------------------
From 2100

Coca Cola CEO Johan Riter has claimed in a speach today

We shall not let McDonalds imperialism go unpunished, we shall liberate the oppresed peoples of the Papal Union, or die trying.

In other News'
The Boeing Walmart Republic has declared war on the Playboy Imperium, stating, agression cannot go unpunished, and we stand with our Allies of Coca cola, and we go forward to defend freedom

Oh god, thats a weird world
------------------------------------------

From 1963, a very weird one
Its a Speach by President Kennedy

To the People of the Soviet Union, The Chinese and Ottoman alliances seem unbeatable, they have conquered Iran, Japan and Australa, but the United States stands with you, we will not let the Soviet Union stand against the Chinese Turk menance alone, America stands with you, we can never call retreat, the Chinese Turk must be defeated for the good of Mankind.
Thankyou and Goodnight

[Chris Oakley]

1997

"Thousands turned up yesterday for the Montreal Expos' World Series victory parade...."

[Doeth]

OCC:Sweet thread

IC:

Hmm, changing the chanels

GNN

40 million people die on mars today as the USA bombed the last few Muslim refugies on Mars. The reporter continues, "As you know president George P. Bush orderd all Muslims to be shipped to islands or sent off planet."

Jeb Bush jr. declared Muslims being sent of planet to be against the Monroe doctrine, and thus all Muslims on Mars were to be killed.

Upcomer George W Bush jr. agrees with this tactic, and announces he will run for president in 2040. The EU, AU, and OU say they will go to war against the US if they continue

[Chris Oakley]

I think we may need to take this thing to the repair shop...all I'm getting from it right now are Kevin Trudeau infomercials.

[DAv]

Hmmm... this is odd. A BBC report from 2030.

The American President today bowed to tremendous pressure and submitted the United States into the Neo British Empire. Since the Sino - American War 10 years ago, Britain has agreed to let the countries of India, Austrialia, Canada and now the US become part of its dominions. The move was condemmed by the Franco - Germanic Alliance as further proof of British Imperialism but the Prime Minister, Nancy Cameron, has pointed out the ongoing guerilla war being fought against French troops in Algeria.
From this day forth New York is to be renamed Chittingworth - on - sea...

Damn its cut off! And I was realy enjoying that :D

[Agentdark]

Hmm, from 1984

Soviet tanks crushed an attempted uprising in the British SSR today, occurding to Radio Moscow, 35 Insurgents were killed. The Insurgency in the British SSR has grown strong again after the failed uprising in 1962.
A strong protest was lodged by the American government, which was countered by Soviet mentions of American brutality in the State of Taiwan.

Hmm, stark contrast to the previous one.........

[Chris Oakley]

2028

"Thousands gathered to attend memorial services for former Vice-President Dan Quayle..."

[Romulus Augustulus]

Let's see...

August 4th, 1973...

Warsaw Pact tanks roll across the West German border in Fulda and across the North German plain...

August 5th, 1973...

Vicious fighting in Western Europe as the NATO armies attempt to halt the Soviet advance; fighting on other fronts (North Korea and the Middle East); the US and Soviet Union going on nuclear alert...

August 11th, 1973...

Soviet forces 120 kilometers into West Germany; NATO forces fighting back in a few pocketered areas...

August 12th, 1973...

NATO counteroffensives; use of tactical nukes by Soviets; NATO tactical nuclear and chemical response; Frankfurt destroyed...

August 13th, 1973...

Continuing use of tacnukes; Soviet logistical nets destroyed...

August 14th, 1973...

More NATO counteroffensives; tactical nuclear use results in tremendous military and civilian casulaties; NATO and Warsaw Pact armies collapse into disorganized local fighting as affected regions collapse into anarchy; profligate use of tactical nukes, now mainly limited to short-ranged systems...

August 16th, 1973...

NATO and Warsaw Pact leaders meet to discuss peace terms; temporary ceasefire declared...

Whew. I thought that one was going to go all strategic. Purely tactical, thankfully, except in the Middle East. Man...the Israelis seem to have had more nukes here than historically...Amman, Damascus, Cairo, etc. are gone, and the Israelis have emerged the battered victors. North Korea? Overrun.

Now, China's massing troops on the Soviet border...

[DAv]

Hmm, from 1984

Soviet tanks crushed an attempted uprising in the British SSR today, occurding to Radio Moscow, 35 Insurgents were killed. The Insurgency in the British SSR has grown strong again after the failed uprising in 1962.
A strong protest was lodged by the American government, which was countered by Soviet mentions of American brutality in the State of Taiwan.

Hmm, stark contrast to the previous one.........

Not as good though :p Just joshing chief!

[Chris Oakley]

1977

"NYPD homicide detective Lt. David Berkowitz was gunned down last night outside his Staten Island home.Lt. Berkowitz,the lead investigator in the Son of Sam murder case..."

[Agentdark]

Hmmm

1962

American and Soviet forces have dynamited the Ural Mountian Passes, in an effort to the slow down advancing forces of the Greater German Reich. The Premier of the Peoples Republic of Manchuria have expressed solditary with the American Soviet Alliance, while the President of the Republic of China has declared his nations support for the German Reich.

[Chris Oakley]

2003

"John Kerry has categorically ruled out any possibility of campaigning for the regency of the Duchy of New Holland next year..."

[Unknown]

Let's see...

August 4th, 1973...

Warsaw Pact tanks roll across the West German border in Fulda and across the North German plain...

August 5th, 1973...

Vicious fighting in Western Europe as the NATO armies attempt to halt the Soviet advance; fighting on other fronts (North Korea and the Middle East); the US and Soviet Union going on nuclear alert...

August 11th, 1973...

Soviet forces 120 kilometers into West Germany; NATO forces fighting back in a few pocketered areas...

August 12th, 1973...

NATO counteroffensives; use of tactical nukes by Soviets; NATO tactical nuclear and chemical response; Frankfurt destroyed...

August 13th, 1973...

Continuing use of tacnukes; Soviet logistical nets destroyed...

August 14th, 1973...

More NATO counteroffensives; tactical nuclear use results in tremendous military and civilian casulaties; NATO and Warsaw Pact armies collapse into disorganized local fighting as affected regions collapse into anarchy; profligate use of tactical nukes, now mainly limited to short-ranged systems...

August 16th, 1973...

NATO and Warsaw Pact leaders meet to discuss peace terms; temporary ceasefire declared...

Whew. I thought that one was going to go all strategic. Purely tactical, thankfully, except in the Middle East. Man...the Israelis seem to have had more nukes here than historically...Amman, Damascus, Cairo, etc. are gone, and the Israelis have emerged the battered victors. North Korea? Overrun.

Now, China's massing troops on the Soviet border...

Update this to October 1973 and the PoD is the Yom Kippur War escalates:eek:. At least I still have a chance in this TL.

[Chris Oakley]

Albeit a very slim one.

[J_Britt_RSA]

*Turns on the Time TV - year 7,336,725 BCE*

"Rrrarrwwrrll-snaarrrllllwwrrll-click-brrrurrmmmm. SqreeeeeeCH! Snaarwwlr raarwwrralll-hrrmmmmnnnn-click-click. Nrrrrhrnn-click-SCREECH! Rwwwrrlllrrlwwl. Rrrarrwwrrll-snaarrrllllwwrrll-SqreeeeeeCH!"

Apparently, i've tuned into a Dinosauroid populated planet. And the translatir couldn't handle the language. But it looked like a "food preparation show". There was some mammal like critter on a stone and the dinosauroid was demonstrating how to cut it up.

I think.

[Unknown]

Albeit a very slim one.

I was born in 1981, so I might be butterflied away, and it is a very slim chance, IMO.

[Agentdark]

Hmm, its from 2011

The Endgame virus has continued to spread, reports of complete collapse across most of africa are continuing to be confirmed. THe European Union has declared Martial Law, and American troops continue to occupy Mexico to prevent hoards of illegal immigrants escaping from the cure to reach america. However, reports of mass infection in the Southeast are as of yet uncomfirmed....../

[Adam]

From January 2050...

A supervirus known as EINDS has decimated 80% of the human race. The dead are walking nearly everywhere in the six continents, and so do other sorts of hellish beasties propping from Chinese Mythology.

The source? Shaanxi City, Shaanxi Protectorate.

[general_tiu]

1995

We had a breaking news...the White House has apparently become a victim of a terrorist attack...apparently, the President and his family were inside the building at that time...

[Chris Oakley]

1947

"Large sections of downtown San Francisco were wiped out today by a tidal wave..."

[J_Britt_RSA]

The Time: January 28, 1986

"Challenger, go for throttle up."
"Roger, go for throttle up..."
"This is Mission Control...the Challenger is throttling up her main engines after transiting through 'Max-Q' or the maximum aerodynamic pressure that exerts itself on the orbiter as it transits the speed of sound..."
"Challenger, stand by for SRB sep."
"Roger, SRB sep on my mark..."
"And that call down from Commander Dick Scobee as he prepares to seperate the two solid rocket boosters...and we have SRB Sep..."
"Challenger, two-engine TAL."
"Copy that. T-E TAL."
"This is Mission Control - should a problem occur during Challenger's ascent, they have a variety of landing options - one of which is a trans-Atlantic abort option..."
"Challenger - Coming up on MECO."
"Roger that Houston. MECO in 5. 4. 3. 2. 1...MECO."
"And the Challenger has shut down it's three main engines. The next task is for the crew to seperate themselves from the external fuel tank..."
"Challenger - no need for reply. No OMS-1 required. You guys are in perfect trim."
"Copy that, Story. You should see our faces. Christa's all grins."
"This is Mission Control - to recap, the Space Shuttle Challenger has successfully lifted off on the twenty-fifth launch of the Space Shuttle Program with it's crew of six and teacher Christa McCauliff... The weather was perfect for Challenger's liftoff, with mild temperatures in the 50's..."

[Chris Oakley]

1998

"State security forces continue to arrest Muslim worshippers in Riyadh as Saudi Communist Party First Secretary Osama Bin Laden vows to succeed in his efforts to make Saudi Arabia a fully secular country...."

[Analytical Engine]

Time Television eh?

Lets see.

Hmm, I'm getting the inauguration of Sir John Kerry as President-General of the United Provinces of America. :D

[Stiletto]

I'm getting imagery of Hitler petting a baby seal.:eek:

[Chris Oakley]

Just switched the channel...now I'm seeing what looks like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore duelling with Luger pistols. :D

[edvader]

Getting a grainy black and white picture of a 1950s film with Rita Hayworth as Miss Sadie Thompson singing:Place the Blame on TH....oops it cut off!Another vision shows a tv ad for a film-March of the Sheep!:rolleyes:

[Analytical Engine]

Lets try tuning into a different channel.

This remote has a keybord on it. :cool:

Ho-hum - changing channel.

Its the news -

Tsar Peter V of Russia leads the commemoration of the 50th aniversary of the resounding defeat of the Bolsheviks by the White forces.

There's a picture -
its Aleksandr Kolchak, Peter Wrangel, Anton Denikin, Lavr Kornilov and Nikolai Yudenich being congratulated by Tsar Nicholas II.

[Chris Oakley]

I've got what looks like CNN or the Sci-Fi Channel...hard to tell which because the picture is grainy. Anyhow, it's showing downtown St. Louis; the Gateway Arch is lying scattered on the ground in a hundred pieces and chunks of the outfield roof are missing from Busch Stadium. There's a haze of smoke hanging in the air that makes it difficult to see anything else.

Hang on, the picture's starting to sharpen a bit. There's a caption at the bottom of the screen...

"CNN Breaking News: 9.1 Earthquake Rocks Midwest"

[Analytical Engine]

Ok, changing the channel (this thing is cool).

I'm getting some kind of Soviet Propaganda -

"Remember the day that mother Russia liberated Europe from the imperialist, capitalist United States"

"We strive for a worker's paradise accross the Eurasian Soviet Federation"

"Remember the day that mother Russia brought the revolution to Japan, and overthrew its oppressive empire over Asia"

[Chris Oakley]

Oh God, now I'm getting an infomercial for this really crummy makeup formula!

And worse, it's being hosted by Cindy Sheehan!!

*runs screaming into the night*

[DuQuense]

It was hard, the Heathkit for this addon is very expensive, and there was that major accident with the soldering gun......................

Ah I have The weather channel report from Chicago, February 14th, 2012.

The Forecast is for temperatures in the 80's as the northeast winds continue from the Arctic.

--This doesn't make sense, lets see if i can get another channel in the Same TL.-- OK-- I have Fox & a interview with a Vulcanologist.

It appears a Volcano erupted in the middle of Greenland, back in 2007, and last week dumped 26,000 cubic miles of warm water into the Davis Strait, Baffin Bay & the Labrador Sea. The entire winter Ice sheet has melted from New Found Land to the north end of Ellesmere Island.

They are talking about the Chinook already starting in the Hudson bay area. and with the warm temperatures for the last 4 years, the whole Ice cap will probably finish melting this summer.

Boy am I glad this is a.... Wait a minute the Alt. switch was off, That means only the time circuits were working. :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Chris Oakley]

I just got what looks like a soccer game. Let me see if I can make out the caption at the bottom of the screen...

LIVE FROM CALGARY, CANADIAN REICHSPROTECTORATE

:eek:

[danielb1]

I just got what looks like a soccer game. Let me see if I can make out the caption at the bottom of the screen...

LIVE FROM CALGARY, CANADIAN REICHSPROTECTORATE

:eek:

Might not be so bad. It could just be the result of a German Amerika with a monarchy... unless there was a Swastika on-screen as well...

I've got an additional circuit for my old quantum coaxial optimizer (aka 'scooper') - it turns out the best quantum coagent is a mixture of Vegemite and Nutella. I've hooked it up to my Apple Lisa II (probably the best computer for inter-dimensional scanning, Apple IIIs and Coleco Adams aren't reliable enough and Commodore Plus/4s have poor resolution).

Lessee... <tunes in on a particular frequency> its a news story; Apparently the Armenian government is being criticized for its lack of acknowledgment of the Turkish Genocide... it seems in this TL the Ottomans fizzled and the Middle East was ruled by the Armenian Empire until it collapsed after WWI...

[Chris Oakley]

Might not be so bad. It could just be the result of a German Amerika with a monarchy... unless there was a Swastika on-screen as well...


Funny you should say that....because I did see one, along with the logo of the Waffen-SS.

[Chris Oakley]

Great. Now the Time TV's busted too! :mad:

[Berra]

1938: A very drunk Hitler trying to conduct a military band in what looks like Poland.

[Chris Oakley]

1961

An even more drunk Fidel Castro hitting on Marilyn Monroe.

[Chris Oakley]

1998

A REALLY drunk Hugo Chavez putting the moves on Chelsea Clinton-- and getting the crap kicked out of him by the Secret Service. ;)

[NHBL]

1998

A REALLY drunk Hugo Chavez putting the moves on Chelsea Clinton-- and getting the crap kicked out of him by the Secret Service. ;)

I turned mine on, and got a news shot of Hugo Chavez putting a move on Chelsea Clinton. She proceds to kick him in the head--then take apart his guards. The voice overlay is "Action Film Star Chelsea Clinton acosted by President For Life of the South American Republic."

[Frederick the Great]

2102

There seems to be a report on a Korean condemnation of Disneyland Korea. The Korean president appears to be saying somthing about how even though North Korea was a horrible nation, it shouldn't be paved over and turned into a commercial state... now it shows healthy and nourished North Koreans (:eek: ) in a riot because the main populace has been turned into staff members at Disneyland Korea...

[Chris Oakley]

I've just tuned in to a Nick Saban press conference from last November...

"Of course I'm taking the Alabama coaching job! You think I want to keep wasting the prime of my career dealing with Ricky Williams' drama or Joey Harrington's lack of a passing game?!"

[Chris Oakley]

Now I'm getting a clip from a History Channel special about George Wallace...

"The controversial leftist agitator found himself a frequent target of KKK assassination plots for his radical pro-integration stance..."

[Chris Oakley]

Think we need to call the repairman, guys...picture tube's burned out. :(

[Chris Oakley]

Got a new picture tube! :D

Anyway, let's see what the Time TV shows us today...

"You're watching Mussolini: Stalin's Caesar on the History Channel..."

[Chris Oakley]

Anybody got new batteries for the remote on this thing? I can't get it to come on.

[Berra]

Hey. It's Clint Eastwood... PRESIDENT:eek: OF SINGAPORE:eek:

[Chris Oakley]

I didn't know Dirty Harry could speak Chinese. :D

[Berra]

I didn't know Dirty Harry could speak Chinese. :D

No but he did legalise eating icecream on the sidewalk or something.:D

[Chris Oakley]

Speaking of ice cream, is it just me or is that Stephen Hawking I see doing a 30-second spot for Ben & Jerry's?

[Chris Oakley]

I guess it was just me.

Anybody got new batteries for the remote?

[Berra]

Mmmm. porno... is that OTL prez Bush:eek:

[Historyfan 92]

I'm watching what appears to be the Coronation of a Man holding the title of Emperor of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The Cathedral full of people are starting to sing...

"Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser,
Unsern guten Kaiser Franz..." :eek:

[ArKhan]

2034: The sony network. "we now return to the remake of the classic SciFi film, The Matrix." Matrix remake! this should be good! .....WTF! it's an anime!2021: A very old Stephen King, talking about his...new graphic novel. Pass. 2152: "It is our sad duty to shut down this, the last Television station on earth. So ends a 200 year period in human history. One day people will people will look back on the Television era and see what it was they lost. Now a look back on the last 200 years"....A montage, I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Brady Bunch, Bill Cosby, very well done if i do say so myself! X-files, CSI, Some anime, Some sitcom, WTF!?!?!? some show called "Cirque du Feme" a girl with Irons hanging from her...*pukes*. That's it! I'm done with this!!!

[snowzinger]

1969

Its the moonlanding and a big ship just landed as the American flag was landed....the aliens are getting out. Neil Armstrong is trying to keep calm...

The alien is holding out its hand, Neil Armstrong has taken its hand. Holy F*** there shaking hands...

[Chris Oakley]

Ah, I see we've found new batteries for the remote. :D

Anyway, let's see what I can pick up this time...

Hmmm...looks like Access Hollywood from about, say, 30 years into the future. Let's turn up the volume and see what they're talking about:

"...Fans of the old Law & Order TV franchise have cause to celebrate this week; Universal Pictures has confirmed that it is ready to begin shooting next March on film adaptations of the original series and the spinoff Special Victims Unit...."

[alt_historian]

2007

"...Nicholas Sarkozy elected President of France in a stunning victory that..."

...

Well that one was strangely prescient - its from 2005!

[alt_historian]

Um... nobody else thinks so?
:(

[FrolicsomeQuipster]

233:There seems to be a man in a metallic suet advertising for some kind of free universal upgrade.... signal lost

[Chris Oakley]

Um... nobody else thinks so?
:(

Well, the same broadcast also predicted the Devil Rays would win the ALCS, so we need to take it with a grain of salt. :D

[Student Geologist]

2011: Tommy Sheridan inaugurated as the first President of the People's Republic of Scotland. Sunbeds made free :p


2012: Antarctic Empire joins the United Nations as a full member after the Clinton Affair. Penguins granted full sentient rights. Antarctica has the worlds 3rd largest Navy?!?!?!:confused:

2156: Charter of the Terran Alliance drawn up. All of Sol is united under one banner.

2157: BBC 40023487 is launched on interplantery cable network.

[Berra]

Some kind of monster is destroying a major city. Its a sealion:eek:

[Chris Oakley]

Nah, looks more like a walrus to me. :D

[FrolicsomeQuipster]

But its wearing a swastika!

[Chris Oakley]

That's not good. :confused:

[Splurgy]

Oh! Oh! I've got an infomercial!
..."arah, you really CAN get 5 free tickets for ANY cultural event credited to your soul, free with every Phostor!"
"But John, what IS a Phostor?"
"Oh, Sarah! Do pay attention! A Phostor is the new product from JML, which cuts sleeping time in HALF!"
"But how does it work?"
"Well, it syncs you br"...
Oh, damn, I lost it.

[Bishop]

Some news channel that I don't recognize...it appears there's really old people, wonder where it is. Okay, they look Japanese(most of them are pretty old), some guy says,"ever since the aging of the Japanese population, one of the things that went down was the porn industry. The Japanese porn industry, once the largest in the world has all, but dissappeared because the old men don't care anymore and there aren't enough young men to keep it in its top condition."

[Chris Oakley]

I'm getting what looks like a financial report...

:eek::eek::eek:

The caption at the bottom of the screen says "CHICAGO, AMERICAN REICH/LIVE"....

[ObssesedNuker]

Okay, 2024...

Is that a nuclear mushroom cloud?

Oh... just lost the signal. Nothing else beyond it is working.

... shit.

[Berra]

It is a press conferanse. Bill Clinton. He says:

"I did not have sex with that anderoid, K-605-2b."

[FrolicsomeQuipster]

I saw a countdown Chanel till 2012, it was a live feed from the Big Ben at new years eve, when it hit twelve a clock I started to hear screaming, then a penguin with a jet-pack and guns strapped to its flippers appeared in front of the camera and it went blank.

[Puget Sound]

It's CNN...they're broadcasting footage of September 11...apparently it is just after Sept. 11 and the President is about to come on air...it's Osama bin Laden, but in a suit and with no turban! He speaks about how the leader of al Qaeda, Ahmed George Walker Bush, is a terrorist and is not a good nor true Muslim. He uses himself as an example of how a Muslim can co-exist and work with other peoples to better the world.

[Berra]

It looks like they are waiting for a press conferance. It is CNN and a podium on the screen. And a comentator: "We are whaiting for the first press conferance by God but she couldn't decide what to wear so we are running a little late."

[Chris Oakley]

I hope none of you guys had plans to visit Mexico City this weekend; I just saw this CNN bulletin...

"The death toll now stands at 3800 as rescuers continue to search for survivors in aftermath of last Friday's Mexico City tsunami...."

[Emperor Qianlong]

"US President Dole and the representatives of the other NATO states said that they are eager to support Israel in a military strike against Libya following the poison gas attack on Tel Aviv last Friday that claimed the lives over 30,000 civilians..."