5 Historical Predictions that Actually Came True

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[@animehaven886]

"This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years."... "20 years and 64 days later, Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War 2." Ooofff

[@williamwilkins8037]

Throughout history no one has more of a right to say "I told you so" then that guy 🤣🤣🤣

[@deannelson7027]

I predict that Simon will rule all of KZbin some day.

[@PoE-TV]

Na... we're in the days of latter Simonism. New talking heads on the channels, so tired he's sitting down, only 1/10 videos becomes about communism. Slow burn desimonification.

[@leeanneb7178]

The cats would disagree.

[@simonmeadows7961]

​@@leeanneb7178The Simon-cat synthesis will be unstoppable!

[@fattiger6957]

The Whistle Empire. The official uniform is a pair of Vessis

[@artman2oo3]

In about ten years it will be SimonTube.

[@Gotenhanku]

I predict that one day the editors and writers trapped in Simon's Basement Dungeon will be free and overthrow their dungeon master entirely.

[@Rich-fr2yv]

Seize the means of video production

[@richardmiller9883]

Worth noting that Mendeleev was arranging the elements by number of valence electrons before the discovery of the electron.

[@AGDinCA]

I was going to mention that, too. 👍

[@AGDinCA]

@nasababy2279 Right? I feel privileged to live in this day and age, at a time when so many great discoveries have been and are continuing to be made.

[@ThatRegnar]

"Don't skip ahead..." You're not my real father, you can't tell me what to do!

[@jackmason5278]

Charles Babbage should NOT be credited with designing the first modern computer. He was obsessed with building calculators. It was Ada Lovelace who pointed out to him how to make it do so much more. She even wrote a programme for it. Ada alone should be credited with this great leap.

[@thelordofcringe]

All early actual computers were nothing but calculators with zero programs

[@johnrickard8512]

But as the Intel 4004 proved not long ago, even a humble calculator can do computer things if you are both creative and patient enough. Makes me wonder if I should rename Turing's Law to Lovelace's Law...

[@Leyrann]

You do know that computer and calculator are originally synonyms, right? The only difference between them is how much more complex computers are. Heck, the calculator I used in high school had some programming options...

[@cynthiaherbst3909]

Simons skin color matching trousers. "Its a bold move Cotton, lets see if it pays off"

[@crandleberrysadie]

I really thought he was wearing short - shorts at first 🤣

[@veryhuman7472]

underground pneumatic tubes for parcel delivery would be amazing

[@samsarastarkey]

I predict all news will be presented by ai versions of Simon in every language known.

[@jackd7267]

Also George Orwell's 1984

[@Z_TPI]

If you focus on Simon's face, it looks like he's not wearing pants(trousers for the English folk) 😂

[@Kaltagstar96]

I was just about to say the same thing.

[@jeffknott1975]

I had to look twice lol (and up north in the uk we call em pants, only old people call em trousers around here)

[@Kaltagstar96]

@@jeffknott1975 As a Geordie, I also call them pants.

[@DMTrance87]

Knickerbockers

[@EggsOverSleazy]

Rocking that 2020, "work from home," style.

[@theawesomeman9821]

I don't get why people were shocked that WWII happened, a defeated veteran wrote a book about starting the war years before the event happened.

[@amazinggrapes3045]

maybe he started the war 😂

[@alexhaladay4345]

HG Wells predicting World War and atomic bombs in War in the Air. Though HG Wells atomic bomb was hand held and used radium and was slower burning, melting its way through the crust to create volcanoes

[@SVanHutten]

And on the same year (1908) Anatole France published _Penguin Island_ where modern civilization is obliterated by n*clear te**o*ism, with mushroom clouds and all.

[@AlexanderSamardzhiev]

Jules Verne predicted a lot of things as well.

[@tomholroyd7519]

98% for 24 hours is insanely good

[@myrlyn1250]

Yes it is, and I would say it's 70-80% for the seven day forecast. They have some massive supercomputers working on it and they just keep getting better.

[@100percentSNAFU]

My favorite old-timey future prediction was traveling to the moon via a projectile shot out if a huge cannon 😂 I think that was Jules Verne? Although he's another one that got some of his predictions right.

[@jamescobban857]

Correct predictions about the first mission to the Moon by Jules Verne: 1. It would be launched from Florida. 2. There would be political competition between Florida and Texas. 3. It would carry a three man crew. 4. The spacecraft was cylindro-conical. 5. The spacecraft was built mostly from aluminium. 6. It would use rocket engines for course corrections. 7. The first mission would NOT land on the Moon. 8. The spacecraft would splash down in the Pacific. Verne was not a mathematician or an engineer. He could not anticipate the invention of the multi-stage rocket.

[@100percentSNAFU]

​@@jamescobban857Pretty spot on all things considered. Understandable how they wouldn't have predicted rocket technology at the time, it was still a long way off. I still find the giant cannon projectile to be amusing, but putting yourself in that time period it would make the most sense. Verne was a brilliant man.

[@ashoush85]

Did you use to run another channel, Biographics ? I was so confused when i saw someone esle there Glad i finally found you

[@EbyTheDragon]

He never ran it, he presented for it. He hasn't been there for a year, after the former owner passed away. The new owner put out a video explaining what happened on one of the three channels, either biographics, geographics or top tenz. It was the end of last year or the beginning of this year so i don't remember which one. Edit: it's a video from 1 year ago on top tenz called "It's All My Fault (Announcement)"

[@OnAcidTripping]

You can check Simon's other channels (which he owns or runs in collab): Into The Shadows Megaprojects Casual Criminalist Decoding the unknown Places Brain Blaze Today I found out There are others, but you start with these :)

[@ashoush85]

@@OnAcidTripping Thanks! he's so cool I love just listening to him Even if the video didn't offer something new i just love listening to how he tells the story

[@OnAcidTripping]

@@ashoush85 Braine blaze is his most personal channel, and I mostly advice people to check the videos from old to new - so you can get used to the lore of the ‘whistleverse’ (let’s say his fandom took off)

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@MrYTGuy1]

I had to double take a few times as it looked like simon wasnt wearing pants today lol

[@rwarren58]

I skipped ahead. EDIT : This was a good episode. Informative, heartwarming, entertaining 4 the algorithm.

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

For about 5 seconds at the start there I thought Simon was sharon stoning us. 5 wonderful seconds

[@onkelkonkel5]

I remember back in the 80s when we had orienteering in class. I was dreadfully bad at reading the map and thought about how convenient it would have been with a dot on the map that showed my position in real time…

[@larryscott3982]

17:13 well Amazon’s drone delivery aspersions aren’t that far off. Point being that goods brought to your home autonomously instead going out to buy stuff, and even the elimination of delivery personnel.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

They can be wrong and not lose their job

[@kutlwanosebego991]

I always wondered whats the song that plays during ads? It heals my soul.

[@pauloboyle477]

Crazy they predict the weather better in a different planet 6months in advance when landing a craft but not tomorrow’s commute

[@stewartkuhnke5872]

I cant stop staring at the difference in color on Simon's beard from side to side

[@jsackett42160]

DAMN....for a split second, I thought Simon wasn't wearing pants 😂😂😂😂

[@mbathroom1]

1st! Last time I was this early, they were predictions

[@100percentSNAFU]

Last time I was this early, I just returned from a radon spa to my home painted with Arsenic paint, drank a bottle of coca cola with cocaine in it, and smoked 3 packs of Camels, the cigarette 4 out of 5 doctors recommend 😂😂😂

[@mbathroom1]

@@100percentSNAFU lool

[@ChopStickSoSushi]

A package 📦 being delivered via a truck or car may not be a nomatic tube but it is in a way a closed off shuttle that travels on the open tube of hwys and roads... So in a way if you squint the tube thing happened

[@100percentSNAFU]

Futurama used tubes as people movers. Hearing about this prediction of a sprawling cross country system ofpneumatic tubes, I wonder if that was a joke referencing that old-timey prediction. Knowing the writers of that show, probably.

[@deepanshukapoor8591]

I predict sir u will create a new youtube channel with another simpler name ❤😂 huge respect and lots of love from india 🙏

[@voshadxgathic]

In a way, Boyle was right about being able to transmute living beings. It's possible to code cells into becoming whatever kind of cells you happen to need, which we're just barely scratching the surface of. It's not alchemy, but it's still progress made.

[@mattsadventureswithart5764]

Unfortunately, we have people insisting it's wrong because we're "playing god" when we do any kind of genetic tinkering.

[@voshadxgathic]

@@mattsadventureswithart5764 i can see the problem with it. Of course, their view is usually about godly abominations. Which they're conveniently quiet about when they benefit from it. Mine is more about it being unnatural for a life cycle of the planet perspective. Humans are a plague as far as I'm concerned.

[@DMJoeBing]

Want a weird prediction? When my wife had her second pregnancy, our (then) 7 year old daughter was excited. She said "Wouldn't it be cool if there were 2 babies?" when we first told her she would have a sibling. We just smiled and nodded. A few weeks later: "Wouldn't it be cool if there were 2 babies and there was 1 boy and 1 girl?", and again, we laughed. In the seventh month, we found out there were indeed fraternal twins, one boy, one girl. Oh, but the predictions don't end there. Another month: "Wouldn't it be cool if they were born on my birthday?", and again, we smiled and went "Uh-huh...but Mommy's not due until 3 weeks later." Night before her birthday, my eye and I find out she needs an emergency C-section ASAP due to placental abruption. Twins were removed the next morning, on her 8th birthday.

[@ynda777]

CLOSE THE DOOR!

[@Groknar]

I predict, that I will like this Video. As always.

[@H0lyMoley]

Darn it, I really wanted my pneumatic tube. :(

[@modernrelic7092]

I don't think this one is wrong. "Everything will come to us via a series of tubes." In other words, the internet, right? 😂

[@JamesDavy2009]

Insightful thinking.

[@jamesstanbridge2022]

No C,X,or Q? "Have you seen my pet At"? "Nurse! This man needs a Ray"! "Please take a number and wait in the Ueue"....... Definitely wouldn't have worked. Totally rakers idea.

[@stueymon]

There was a clue when they called it World War One

[@PalmelaHanderson]

Just want to say that i feel like it's a VERY euro centric view to say that WW2 started when Germany invaded Poland. Japan had already invaded China years earlier and the Soviet Union still had non aggression treaties with both Germany and Japan. Either the start of WW2 was when Japan invaded china on July 7, 1937, or it started on December 7/8 1941 when Japan attacked the United States, the UK, France, and the Netherlands/Indonesia which caused the two separate wars in Europe/Africa and the Pacific to merge into one. Having it start when Germany invaded Poland doesn't make sense because Japan, the US, and China had nothing to do with it yet. And even the Soviet Union was still buddy buddy with Germany.

[@hankadelicflash]

Once you create the periodic table, haven't you basically predicted every missing element?

[@rickt10]

Mmmm, seems like every economist you hear predicted the global financial crisis in 2007...according to them. They just never told anyone before hand😂

[@pudermcgavin4462]

But the fish thing kinda did happen! There is a group of people who have the ability to hold there breaths for a very long time and dive deep without the problems like nitrogen bubbles in the blood upon return to the surface!

[@Rabbit420_7I0]

1:12 it says the first world war (2003) 😂😂😂

[@grantwinthrop1835]

Yes, had Foch been German his named would have been pronounced that way. Mais il n'était pas Allemand, donc c'est F-OO-Sh

[@rgeorgek42]

0:02 on a small screen I thought Simon was wearing shorts 😂

[@multiyapples]

Yes predictions are hard but they’re fun as well to be honest.

[@ethanaleman]

That's why I watch the Simpsons

[@EggsOverSleazy]

Long live film photography. No doubt digital is superior in nearly every quantifiable way. But, I hope they can continue to co-exist long into the future.

[@ecash00]

TRY LAVA Soap.. insted of all those OILY soap.

[@jacobhizel1806]

The audio in the beginning sounds like you’re tryna pinch one off

[@plunder1956]

In many respects the events of WW1 should be seen, partly, as a response to the Franko Prussian war of 1870-71. This resulted in massive reparations paid by France to Prussia (who were by then dominating all of Germany). The difference was that France paid them on time. That is why France wanted a cast iron guarantee that Germany could never attack them in future. I think they were right to demand that guarantee against German aggression - as World War One and Two proved.

[@100percentSNAFU]

I predict that in the future, Simon will have pants 😂

[@johnrickard8512]

To be fair, isn't there a group of Indonesians that can hold their breath for like 20 minutes whilst freediving?

[@jamesstanbridge2022]

Menangeries, Simon? I think you meant Menageries. 😂

[@carscooby]

Matt groening n simpons not on here is mad 😂

[@josephnuite543]

My brother in Christ, it's B-OO-LIAN

[@michaelcordes]

i'm watching this with the nightlight filter on and it looks like you're not wearing any trousers, it's like you only bothered to get half dressed then forgot to adjust the height on the camera. that's never happened to me during an online interview.

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

I also believve in magic and supernatural stuff, but as also a scientist, i recpognize ther are no measurable data points on those subjects and therefore no science can be done tto prove or disprove said notions and so i dont bother briging it into the equation when im dealing with other rational people. :P

[@ZomBeeNature]

Simon is trying to trick you into thinking he is showing off his legs so he can get more views.

[@modernrelic7092]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that!

[@jamesrochon2195]

Kind of ingenuous, Simon. You only talked about the wrong predictions a couple of times. Those “future predictions “ that came true were a tiny fraction of wrong predictions.

[@reggiep75]

Your audio signal is a bit too hot.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The coding language Ada is named after Ada Lovelace.

[@gertgilich3508]

Yip. WW1 brother..tiny difference @Simon

[@tomholroyd7519]

Well I don't know but I was around for Y2K (that's the year 2000 for you young folk) and everybody thought civilization would end because it was a round number. Nothing happened. But have you looked for the history around the year 1000? Have you? There's nothing! As far as can be told, civilization actually ended in the year 1000.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

King of Norway was defeated by Sweden and Denmark. As for Y2K. We spent a huge amount of money and time fixing it. If we didn't do anything then a lot of issues would have occured. I do remember some dude getting charged millions on his rented videos that were considered late. I also vaguely remember some issues did occur here or there. Yet can't remember what.

[@100percentSNAFU]

The Y2K scare was more centered around computers glitching out because they thought everything would reset to 1900 at 12 midnight in New years 2000. People literally thought planes might fall out of the sky. It's actually even funny saying the term Y2K now, you never hear it anymore but it's all anyone talked about at the time. I remember also around that time Segways were unveiled and were supposed to be the ultimate modern mode of transportation that would change the world...turned out they just made people look goofy riding them and were useful mostly only for mall security. Ironically today malls themselves are nearly extinct.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Leif Erikson founding Newfoundland was a significant event-he was the first European to set foot in the New World.

[@insaincaldo]

Yeah, like there was actually no civilization, or written history older then the year 1000. Don't you know.

[@toddnolastname4485]

@@dianapennepacker6854 Y2K was really a nothing burger. Because computers work in binary, and 100 is not a round number in binary. The real problem is coming up at the end of 2027. Because 7 digits is 0 to 127. And if you were really trying to save data space, you would have saved the year in a 7 digit (bit) chunk. But the input screens were limited to 2 characters, accepting only numbers, so you couldn't input 100 to differentiate it from 00. I think the tech tales website is long gone, or you could look there to see what @$$holes tech people are. I can believe they would charge millions of dollars to make a change that would take two hours to implement.

[@J30YLK]

Simons leg looks like a huge finger

[@PanPrawda]

Q approves current outcome of events.

[@skyek.9329]

His sourname is pronounced Fosh.

[@josephdobson6956]

Simon wearing shorts

[@Draugo]

Babbage's cabbages

[@Willspec]

Swear to god i thought he was in a dress.

[@pounkastle]

Alsace and Lorraine belong to France. We just tool them back from the German, what happened next is a terrible tragedy.

[@BullScrapPracEff]

Lmao, solves

[@ProjectNOTOS]

Very nice live! We should do some live too on our channel

[@Makabert.Abylon]

@@ProjectNOTOS why? Like anyone would watch. You write as you have something interesting to show

[@ronaldwhite1730]

Thank you . ( 2024 / Oct / 01 )

[@the-scamp]

Lol@ "comaRRRRnd"

[@alexwatson5791]

Ash Simon durbatulûk

[@ArmyofLove]

You sound like you could easily add an aussie accent and no one would know youre a brit.

[@MarcusGibson-d7u]

Its math not maths

[@AkaomeNanashi]

Too much exposition it is hard to watch..

[@williamwenrich3288]

I think that Germany should have been split Hanover, the Rhineland and Prussia as separate countries.

[@jackphillips3512]

I really wish this channel would get better sponsors. The skin care shit is just so irrelevant. I expect it is true for most of your audience.

[@paulmeneilly7175]

Alchemy isn’t magic though… it’s just more open minded science

[@NorthOntarian]

😂

[@gavkavOnUtube]

@15:10 "English the most spoken language in the world..." *Chinese has entered the chat*

[@thelordofcringe]

English is at 1.5 billion, Chinese at 1.3.

[@Betweoxwitegan]

Chinese isn't a language and English is spoken by more people than Mandarin is, Mandarin has the most native speakers...

[@josephnuite543]

My brother in Christ, it's B-OO-LIAN