By Amber Crawford
The Simpsons is well-known for making spot-on predictions about the future, including Donald Trump becoming president and the Ebola outbreak. The show continues to yield accurate predictions for the future, and 2021 showed a lot of Simpsons moments coming to fruition.
Richard Branson’s Spaceflight
In a 2014 episode, “The War of Art”, an animated Richard Branson is shown floating around in space. As depicted in the Simpsons episode, Branson reached the edge of space this year in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and shared some pictures that were very similar to those from the TV show.
How can The Simpsons show predict every Damn thing? 😯 pic.twitter.com/9wt3uSbiFh
— Aditya Kondawar (@aditya_kondawar) July 12, 2021