What "Fox News Alert" would we have had 100 - 200 years ago?
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100 years ago: San Francisco was hit by a devistating earthquake.
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probably nones unless back in the 1700s
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Nahhh, if you check history. The troubles we're in now are a piece of cake. Look at World War One & Two, The great Plague, Various Famines, French Revolution, The Civil War. Attila The Hun. I think it was the 1700's when a single volcano erupted and the ash cooled the earth so much that it snowed in July in the USA..\n  My advice. Live a good life and don't worry about it.
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Sometime in the 20th century
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I don't know about where you are from, but here in England we usually have a warning just before the news telling us that some scenes may be upsetting, that is only helpful though if we see the news right from the start. I do think that news like that should only be shown after the 'watershed' about 9pm.
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100 Years\nby: Five For Fighting
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I'm guessing a hundred years!
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1895...or 1900 depending on how you look at it.
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i agree if you care so much  sign up and help us out. besides what do you care anyway? stop watching the news.that question sounds sooooo  fox news'ish !
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We need to emmulate ourselves about 150-200 years ago.
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it depends of the situations. But the general answer is 100 years.
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I have a reference from 1997 that already says it is old:\nhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/terror01.html\n\nThe fact that numerous sources fail to give the original source of the quote suggests that no-one actually knows when it was first used.
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http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/1998/03/20/890347033.html
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It would sure make some things a lot more clear, like you say, hovering over us and inspecting.  Also would explain how come we have no evidence to support it.\n\nIn the far distant future, there is no telling what advances might be, and for us to say it couldn't happen is ridiculous.\n\nIt hasn't been all that long ago that we managed to get our primitive rockets to blast off and put a man on the moon and bring him back.\n\nCertainly it would have been deemed a fantasy in 1800.  So who is to say what might happen 500 years from now.
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It was more than 2,500 years ago.
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Ahh... the "Tabula Rasa" or blank slate... I believe we all could only wish for that.  We are imprinted by age three.  But... let's just play...\n\nIf you came to me with Christianity, Islam, or a theology that stated the world is carried on the back of a turtle (valid native american belief), I imagine I would call you insane, leave your presence, and gossip about you to all of my friends!\n\nOk... maybe not the gossip part... cause no one would understand a word of what I was talking about!  But... you get the drift...  it all sounds insane when heard by someone without familiarity.\n\nEnjoy!  It was an engaging question.
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Any of the prophecies that were going to happen,  happened centuries ago.