So what happened in 1998?

[zinfamous]

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

based on that link....1998 being the discovery of RNAi is pretty freaking huge. basically changed the entire paradigm of genetics.

 

[zinfamous]

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.

classic pontifex
:beer:

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: 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.

no, thats not what i asked at all...
op has been edited for the illiterate.

 

[0roo0roo]

think there was a bbc series called i love 19xx...different shows for different eyars

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: 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.

no, thats not what i asked at all...
op has been edited for the illiterate.

so, did you edit it only after you noticed that no one had the real OP in a nested quote? This way, you have erased the only evidence of how vague and silly the post actually sounded.
Easy to prove a point on a foundation of sand, eh?

either way...good work, man
I admire your strategy
:thumbsup:

 

[silverpig]

Lots of important discoveries happened in 97 and 99 as well you know...

 

[clamum]

I don't think there's anything special that caused it... I mean technology and science keeps getting better no? So it just happened in '98 that advances in technology and science yielded those discoveries. Just my two cents.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Lots of important discoveries happened in 97 and 99 as well you know...

and 96, and 2000, and 2001,...

I don't think there really were any significant number more in 98; but perhaps that particular book is mentioning more from 98 than from other years.

 

[JS80]

Probably breakthroughs in computing.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: JS80
Probably breakthroughs in computing.

dense wavelength division mutliplexing was perfected allowing true optical mulitplexing over a single fiber strand, essentially re-revolutionizing optical communications.

that's all I can come up with off the top of my head.