kwun
12-31-1969, 06:00 PM
<html><giggle> <giggle><p>let me add to the list.<p>6. average american still plays badminton in their backyard and think countries who have badminton as their national sport laughable.<br>7. china becomes so developed there are no more space to raise geese and no more cheap labour to make them. the price of shuttle goes up to US$500 each (taking into account inflation of course)<br>8. besides 5/9 games, the IBF will still be experimenting with points in each rally.<br>9. startv becomes galaxy tv, and even though mars has badminton broadcast, the US still don't.<br>10. they realize the jumpsmash most efficient when executed in the moon.<br>11. and especially tough to do in mars and saturn (mars is bigger than earth, right?)<br>12. mars is so cold that they start producing speed 60 shuttles.<br>13. but then they realized that the air is not as dense there.<p>so basically, nothing changed on earth.<p>kwun<p>ps. about the y2k bug, it has to do with the perl script i am using for this bulletin board.<br>since it is so minor, i will instead spend my time working on the next, improved version of badminton central.<p>: Hi, Kwun<p>: I just noticed your Y2K date fix for the postings. '100' for the year 2000 is a neat idea. Of course, this is <br>: only a temporary solution. Eventually, you're going to run into a Y2.9K problem :) Here's my prediction for<br>: 2900: We'll still be using shuttles with goose feathers.<br>: The court dimensions will remain the same.<br>: Everyone will want Yonex's latest racquet made of Miraculo, the wonder alloy that adds 2 km/hour to<br>: a top international player's smash and does nothing whatever for anyone else's game.<br>: The IBF will still be debating whether to play best of five nine-point games for a match.<br>: Video broadcasts will be so advanced that badminton fans in North America will be promised the Thomas and Uber cup broadcasts live "in a few years."<p>: marshall<p>
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