Hank: superior fish beings will emerge in 2012 (1990)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: recalled (2021-01-05) · owner: Hank
In his 1990 timeline, Hank predicted that superior fish beings would emerge in 2012. Reading it again in 2021, he admits he does not know what they do.
Origin known from later mentions
1990 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2021, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
Part of: Superior fish beings: 10-year-old Hank's prediction for 2012 (2021)
Told alongside: 10-year-old Hank writes an essay and timeline predicting life up to 2020 (1990)
About: What I Think Life Will Be Like in the Year 2020
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | first in the videos (recalled; it began earlier) | For 2012 the timeline predicts superior fish beings; Hank does not know what they do, but they exist. (playful) | In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are 00:02:50 |
| 2021-01-05 | recalled | John says Hank's video last week (week of 28 December 2020) almost skipped his childhood prediction that 2012 would bring the emergence of superior fish beings. (playful) | SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
11 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John asks whether young Hank expected fish-like aliens, a hyper-intelligent fish species rapidly evolving as in the cartoon The Snorks, or fish beings long hidden on Earth. (playful) — 00:00:30
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John: Avoiding spoilers, John says adult Hank has arguably written the two greatest superior fish being novels of the century, with few actual fish beings. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:58
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John recalls that he and Hank often speculated over the years about what would happen if the gods of Mount Olympus, the creators of the simulation or superior fish beings suddenly announced themselves. — 00:00:58
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John says he would be nervous if superior fish beings arrived tomorrow, but also relieved that someone actually knows more than we do. (playful) — 00:01:27
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John imagines the fish beings telling us to weigh the long-term consequences of our actions, especially large-scale changes to rivers and lakes. (playful, speculative) — 00:01:56
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John: They might also explain dark matter and how to better account for the value of natural resources in economic systems. (playful, speculative) — 00:01:56
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John grants the fish beings could crush or conquer us, or humanity could foolishly fight and lose, but he imagines them answering our questions with loving guidance, not orders. (hypothetical, speculative) — 00:02:26
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John sometimes feels humanity is an early adolescent in need of good parental figures, such as superior fish beings. — 00:02:55
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John thinks we already know much of what the superior fish beings would tell us, such as that war is bad. — 00:02:55
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John: So perhaps the superior fish beings have already emerged, John says, and we just need to learn to listen to them. (hedged) — 00:03:24
- 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS — John notes he has turned a video about superior fish beings earnest; unironic enthusiasm about them is on his 2021 vision board. (playful) — 00:03:24