So what happened in 1998?

[pontifex]

Since people are obviously having a difficult time reading or understanding my thread, I have edited to an easy to understand 2nd grade level. Honestly, my original post hasn't changed much since my edit....the stuff in italics is essentially the only thing that has changed.

I'm reading a book about science.
As I'm reading it, I notice that tons of major discoveries were made in 1998.
I know what they are, the book tells me.

What happened in 1998 that caused all these discoveries to be made? Is there a reason why so many discoveries were made in that year?

There's probably no real answer, but maybe someone knows something I don't.


yeah yeah, this ATOT, that is impossible.

 

[Skacer]

Because we were motivated by the world ending in 2000.

 

[Looney]

What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

 

[theprodigalrebel]

"...Baby One More Time" is the debut single and signature song from pop singer Britney Spears, released from her debut album ...Baby One More Time during the fourth quarter of 1998

:Q

Viagra also came out that year, IIRC.

 

[krunchykrome]

Napster?

 

[slsmnaz]

It was a great year for football!

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Skacer
Because we were motivated by the world ending in 2000.

why bother doing anything when its all gonna be gone in 2 years?

 

[Skacer]

So we could party like it was 1999 next year?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

i don't remember what exact discoveries there were, a lot about space, but it will talk about several theories and then it will say something like " and then in 1998, jim bob discovered that so and so did this and that, opposite of what we previously believed." and then it will go into more detail.

i just noticed that 1998 comes up a lot.

 

[irishScott]

Windows 98?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Because in that year people were thinking positive and coming up with ideas. Following that came the dot-bomb, paranoia, rabid lawyers got set loose on the general population...

 

[Quasmo]

Wasn't that the year that the comet collided with Jupiter, and most of our theories about space changed to include impact craters?

 

[JRich]

I started my senior year in HS

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: pontifex
I'm reading a book about science and tons of major discoveries were made in 1998. Why was it such a great year for science?

GOD abondoned everyone.

science >> inteligent design

 

[George P Burdell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_science

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

Perhaps you should have been more clear in your OP. Or perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension so you could have understood the book and not come here with a vague question asking for answers.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel

"...Baby One More Time" is the debut single and signature song from pop singer Britney Spears, released from her debut album ...Baby One More Time during the fourth quarter of 1998

:Q

Viagra also came out that year, IIRC.

Coincidence?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

Perhaps you should have been more clear in your OP. Or perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension so you could have understood the book and not come here with a vague question asking for answers.

perhaps i should have been more clear but my reading comprehension is fine. The book doesn't say why there were so many discoveries in 1998. or people (read you) could just stop being pretentious, egomaniacal, pompous asses too.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_science

weird, that list doesn't seem to have anything about the stuff i read.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

Perhaps you should have been more clear in your OP. Or perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension so you could have understood the book and not come here with a vague question asking for answers.

perhaps i should have been more clear but my reading comprehension is fine. The book doesn't say why there were so many discoveries in 1998. or people (read you) could just stop being pretentious, egomaniacal, pompous asses too.

That's right, you should be more cleared. For somebody with 20k posts, you're an awfully slow learner.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

Perhaps you should have been more clear in your OP. Or perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension so you could have understood the book and not come here with a vague question asking for answers.

perhaps i should have been more clear but my reading comprehension is fine. The book doesn't say why there were so many discoveries in 1998. or people (read you) could just stop being pretentious, egomaniacal, pompous asses too.

That's right, you should be more cleared. For somebody with 20k posts, you're an awfully slow learner.

i don't see anything wrong with my OP. everyone else seemed to understand it, although they made the usual stupid responses. since you're obviously so smart and the pinnacle of ATOT posters, what would you have said? its a pretty simple question.

 

[skrilla]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

Perhaps you should have been more clear in your OP. Or perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension so you could have understood the book and not come here with a vague question asking for answers.

perhaps i should have been more clear but my reading comprehension is fine. The book doesn't say why there were so many discoveries in 1998. or people (read you) could just stop being pretentious, egomaniacal, pompous asses too.

That's right, you should be more cleared. For somebody with 20k posts, you're an awfully slow learner.

i don't see anything wrong with my OP. everyone else seemed to understand it, although they made the usual stupid responses. since you're obviously so smart and the pinnacle of ATOT posters, what would you have said? its a pretty simple question.

The original post was pretty vague man.

 

[Shawn]

I don't remember anything from 1998.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Looney
What book were you reading? Sounds like a pretty bad book if it mentioned the year but not any details (at least a quick one liner that said what these discoveries were).

where did i say it mentioned discoveries but nothing about them? its amazing how people just come up with all this stuff based on 2 sentences...

i don't remember what exact discoveries there were, a lot about space, but it will talk about several theories and then it will say something like " and then in 1998, jim bob discovered that so and so did this and that, opposite of what we previously believed." and then it will go into more detail.

i just noticed that 1998 comes up a lot.

i think the point of looney's post is that you mention this book states lots of wonderful things happened in 1998, and you ask ATOT if they know what they are.

This implies:
1: the book you are reading sucks
2: you didn't read the book

based on this last response, however, it seems like:
1: you read the book, but didn't care to pay attention. You "yada yada'd" your way through the details.

 

[FoBoT]

that was a good year, overall