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40 Years Ago, A Novel Predicted The Coronavirus Outbreak; Called It Wuhan-400? (Conspiracy Theorists, COOM ITT!!!)
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
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What do you mean? It's a real book that exists, and who cares if it got the dates wrong, the fact that it was predicted fictionally tells me that reality isn't what it seems sometimes.
Airola
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It wouldn't be the first time 
en.wikipedia.org
Maybe some writers are accidentally prophets without them even knowing it. The ideas they get are visions from the future and they don't even know it
The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility - Wikipedia
Maybe some writers are accidentally prophets without them even knowing it. The ideas they get are visions from the future and they don't even know it
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
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It's not fake.
This isn't the first time a book predicted a major world event:
Futility (1898 Novella)
Although the novel was written before the RMS Titanic was even conceptualized, there are some uncanny similarities between both the fictional and real-life versions. Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank in April in the North Atlantic, and there were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers. There are also similarities between the size (800 ft (244 m) long for Titan versus 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long for the Titanic), speed and life-saving equipment.
DunDunDunpachi
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What's more contagious than coronavirus?
All the threads popping up covering topics that were discussed in the coronavirus OT months ago. I see it in Gaming board, too.
All the threads popping up covering topics that were discussed in the coronavirus OT months ago. I see it in Gaming board, too.
nkarafo
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There are millions of novels out there. That means billions of pages and trillions of words. Chances are a few lines will result in weird coincidences like this. But 99.9999999999999% of times they won't.
I mean, if there is no conspiracy or time travel antics, this looks like a logical explanation.
I mean, if there is no conspiracy or time travel antics, this looks like a logical explanation.
ClanOfNone
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Ah Koontz, the poor man's Stephen King. I read a lot of his stuff back in the 90's, but I missed this one. I really liked Lightning and Midnight back in the day.
ClanOfNone
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Jeez, dude has 105 novels to his name!? Even King tops out at 70 or something.
Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo!
Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo!
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DonJorginho
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BlackOlivesMatter
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#Phonepunk#
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given the number of books printed in the last 40 years i think it's probably reasonable to expect the phrase Wuhan flu or Chinese flu to show up.
especially given that historical plagues often have their origins in fleas on merchant ships from China.
especially given that historical plagues often have their origins in fleas on merchant ships from China.
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slugbahr
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The Scrivener
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What? The chances are a trillion to one to the power of one trillion plus one.
He's not saying the author predicted it, he's saying the world works in mysterious ways.
In fact, isn't science discovering theories that the universe and time whatever is cyclic? Fuck knows, couldn't care really.
Cyclic existence is probably the answer for this. I used to work in a call centre and I'd get the most bizarre customer name, then a few days later I'd get the same name but for a different customer. Then never again.
Karmic bubbles I used to call it. Shit's fucked up.
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holygeesus
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It is a very small section of the book, and the name is pretty much the only similarity. The symptoms don't tally, and it is a lot more fatal, so obviously not a premonition.
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slugbahr
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The guy isn't going to make it obvious that he can travel into the future, and God knows what other super powers he has.
JareBear: Remastered
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This is how the world ends....
Not with a bang, but with a *BRAP*
Not with a bang, but with a *BRAP*
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Everything ever written in a book no matter how old that is within the realm of possibility has a chance of coming true. It doesn't make it a prediction though. Coincidence is not prediction.
This was someone who had enough working knowledge to incorporate it into a story and by coincidence we find ourselves in that situation. I mean Tom Clancy was investigated by the FBI because he had several things in his books about intelligence, weaponry, tactics and such come true but all it came down to was he had knowledge on how things worked and he wrote stories based on his knowledge and he wrote things that seemed logical and plausible to him, and it turned out they were true. But he certainly didn't predict anything.
Prediction is a very specific, exact, and intentional thing like predicting the weather. It isn't saying something and by chance it is vaguely true at some undetermined point in time somewhere in the future. Coincidence is something else entirely.
This was someone who had enough working knowledge to incorporate it into a story and by coincidence we find ourselves in that situation. I mean Tom Clancy was investigated by the FBI because he had several things in his books about intelligence, weaponry, tactics and such come true but all it came down to was he had knowledge on how things worked and he wrote stories based on his knowledge and he wrote things that seemed logical and plausible to him, and it turned out they were true. But he certainly didn't predict anything.
Prediction is a very specific, exact, and intentional thing like predicting the weather. It isn't saying something and by chance it is vaguely true at some undetermined point in time somewhere in the future. Coincidence is something else entirely.
WinterIsComing
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By then it was just a flu, bro.
daveonezero
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Bitmap Frogs
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Actually in the book the doctor was russian and the city some russian city. It was reprinted in 1989 and since communist russia was looking shaky they went with chinese. The book also says the fictional virus kills 100% of infected in 24 hours.
Hardly a prediction, but hey you get attention so I guess you're happy now.
Hardly a prediction, but hey you get attention so I guess you're happy now.
cryptoadam
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Simpsons too. Remember Osaka Flu (close enough chinese, japanese, they all have slanted Vagina's anyways).
Darkmakaimura
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There was also a book over 100 years ago called The Adventures of Little Baron about a boy named Baron Trump.
He meets a guy named Don....
Apparently one of his adventures leads him to a place in NYC that in modern times is the exact location of Trump Tower....
en.m.wikipedia.org
He meets a guy named Don....
Apparently one of his adventures leads him to a place in NYC that in modern times is the exact location of Trump Tower....
Baron Trump novels - Wikipedia
EverydayBeast
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Seems like a stretch
MiyazakiHatesKojima
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Do monkeys possess the understanding and intricacies of the English Language?
Nester99
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they don’t need to, they have statistics on their side. 1000 monkeys with 1000 type writers will eventually write Shakespeare...just banging on the keys.
Random sequence with infinite time is wacky.
MiyazakiHatesKojima
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I don't agree at all with this argument, and I will leave it at that.
Nester99
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Lets leave it at this
The Infinite Monkey Theorem Comes To Life
Can a monkey randomly striking keys on a typewriter write Hamlet? It doesn't seem likely. But that hasn't stopped people from trying to bring this idea to life. Watch and find out what they did.
www.npr.org
infinitys_7th
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Japanese women make you an omelette in the morning after you bang the slant.
Chinese women fry some roadkill in gutter oil.
Big difference.
Whitesnake
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Monkeys, Typewriters, etc.
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