# Sci-fi/horror predicaments you wouldn't want to find yourself in

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036 "2005-08-15T02:11:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036/81 "2005-08-16T15:34:04Z")

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Whoops. I was thinking “Spotless Mind”.

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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036/82 "2005-08-16T16:06:41Z")

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> [@OtakuLoki](#):
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> “Now, how’d she do _that_? We’re 400 meters down. And she blew up!”

I’m just _that_ talented.

Smartass. 😛

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036/83 "2005-08-16T17:56:44Z")

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> [@Loopydude](#):
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> I imagine having a chestburster, uh, burst out of my chest, especially during a meal, would be a pretty major sucky-ass bummer.

Second to last thought: Is that heartburn?  
Last thought: Nope.

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036/84 "2005-08-16T18:18:17Z")

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> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> I’ve seen/read stories set in the future where things we find common today become rare and expensive. You see a guy come home from shopping saying, “They actually had real tomatoes at the store today! They were $20 each, but it was worth it!”
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> I often wonder if that type of thing will ever happen.

Imagine people looking ahead from 50 years ago and proposing that people would spend actual MONEY on water in bottles…

I imagine they’d have been mocked mercilessly.

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036/85 "2005-08-16T18:31:37Z")

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> [@Merijeek](#):
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> Second to last thought: Is that heartburn?  
> Last thought: Nope.
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> -Joe

How do I spell relief? R-O-L-A…urk! Aaaaahk! GAAAAAAGH!

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-horror-predicaments-you-wouldnt-want-to-find-yourself-in/317036/86 "2005-08-16T19:37:35Z")

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> [@Merijeek](#):
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> Imagine people looking ahead from 50 years ago and proposing that people would spend actual MONEY on water in bottles…
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> I imagine they’d have been mocked mercilessly.
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> -Joe

And some of us still do it(excluding if your city has really crappy tap water).

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