h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One of the pioneers of the computer age (sorry his name escapes me at the moment) has been warning all of us about the Y2K effects on computers since the beginning. Appenrently he even talked to Eisenhower and congress about it way back. He recently came out of retirement to start a small IBM mainframe fix it Y2K service. He has been designing software for generations, and thinks he has at least part of it figured out.

Frankly, its not the banks and electric services that worry me...its the oddball, traffic light, little rinky-dink nothing company issues that will get us in the long run. I expect to see a lot of small businesses go out of buisness in the next year...basically from little screw ups and the inability to afford the fix.

wsfn

Yes, and just wait for the January sales as all those companies that have been stocking up begin to to offload their merchandise on the consumers!

1 million toothbrushes going cheap, anyone?

tents...camping gear of all kinds...water, WATER for sale...nice freeze dried water!

wsfn

Experiment, scheduled for November 1999, at the Brookhaven
National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Brookhaven

Scientists will use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to bring quark-gluon plasma in to existence to gain a better understanding of the origins of the
universe.

Some physicists fear a black hole will be created and demolish the earth fairly quickly.

How do you suppose that the survivalists would feel upon realizing that stockpiles of beans
and rice and emergency generators are just as easily "spagettified" as everything else?

I think that I would feel pretty silly as I disintigrated.

Of course there is a thoery that the universe it self is computerised and that the sun will come up on 1/1/2000 thinking it is 1/1/1900. Imagine the differences!!!