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   "Jack Bohn"  wrote in message   
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   > David Johnston wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Nov 8, 11:41 pm, Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   > >> In article   
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   > >> > What was that episode which showed Janeway's ancestor and some stupid   
   > >> > arch or shopping center or something that was going to be built and   
   > >> > her book store was in the way. I'd nominate that one.   
   > >>   
   > >> Millenium. And, yes, they got the year of the Millenium wrong. And the   
   > >> year of the 21st Century.   
   > >   
   > >By which I take it, you mean that they were celebrating the odometer   
   > >clicking over, at the time when people really were celebrating the   
   > >odometer clicking over?   
   >   
   > IIRC, the show was shown in the year before the odometer clicked over,   
   > but was set on the eve of entering 2001.   
   >   
   > One character mentioned the Y2K scare, but how it "didn't turn off one   
   > single light bulb."  I give them half credit for that optimism; but,   
   > basically there were four scenarios they were looking at:   
   > 1) Y2K doesn't turn off a single light bulb   
   > 2) Y2k had so few problems that a year later the assesment would be   
   > that it "didn't turn off a single light bulb."   
   > 3)Y2K was serious, but survivable   
   > 4) Armageddon   
   > Only in the third instance would there be anyone to point out they   
   > were wrong in their prediction.   
      
   Options 3 and 4 were never going to happen anyway and were only believed by   
   the gullible, the scaremongers, and those making (massive) profits out of   
   "fixing" things, many of which didn't even need "fixing".   :-\   
      
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