Cereal experiments: bane?

>present day, heheh... present time! HAHAHAHA
what exactly was meant by this

And you don't seem to understand

Time and tide, they wait for no man.

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Nor do I, Mr. Tunt. Nor do I.

And unless my demands are met, I will launch nerve gas missiles on New York, Washington, and Miami in...

It doesn't take place in the future, but right now.
A shame, you seemed an honest man.

eleven hours

... and oh look at that!

11 minutes.

Hey, make a wish :)

I, for one, wish you fools would stop destroying the oceans! Overphishing, industrial runoff, and don't even get me started on wailing

Lane a shit

Dumb Phoneposter

BEGONE, PHONE

And plastic bottles?? I can't even

There is a floating mass of garbage outside the pacific TWICE the size of the United States!

And where the hell is the news crew I asked for?

SEA ORG OUT!

Addendum -

I'll be waiting for you

Especially you btw whoever you are

the fuck

Sealab to DSV, over :D

This is DSV, I'm skippering!

I hope I'm not still banned

Seriously I didn't post any CP what is that all about?

Oh good my appeal went through

Time for a drink

it is happening as we speak.as we speak serial is at her computer.

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Well I'm glad that's all settled. Anyway, the point is

the new Shrek movie won't look nearly as good.

And all the fears you hold so dear...

The events of the show are not really part of any sort of abstract timeline, but they are taking place right now.
It doesn't matter much when you watch Lain, because the themes and the narrative are not reliant on any specific point in time. The perceptions of technology as tool to communicate will not change.

why is this so funny though?

It's laughing at the people who believe SEL to be a sign of its time itself.