It is a very hard list to crack 01101001, I note none of my ideas rated a mention
This is the heart of the matter. Only you can put your mind at ease. Since this is a conspiracy forum you have made the attempt to contact the best there is in answering questions from the logic of science.

The logic of the mind is very much in your hands. There are normal precautions that include a home emergency kit. Candles, radio, blankets and the like. Where you have to be able to draw the line is how reasonable for you and that means you personally is the best balance for functioning at your best. That means not freaking out family and friends or compromising life satisfaction. Case being some run to the wilderness and just are not wilderness sort of people. They are the ones who do get into trouble when 'normal' rescue people have to come looking for them.

Anyway I worked for the government in a minor capacity, selling train tickets years ago and if bureaucracy is anything to go by everybody knows what is coming and when it does come it is late. Nobody "knows" for certain what is not yet come. So if it is not possible to know what is coming or when it is coming ... then know where you are going. Have a place to meet and a communication link because normal every-year events like normal earthquakes can but do not necessarily disrupt life.

Scouts motto ... be prepared
For me that is knowing where there is a can opener
Life is an adventure and adventures are supposed to be fun and build character. Selection of reading material will make a big influence, cheers

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"Nature is obliged to let reality determine its laws, whereas mathematics is under no such constraint."

Would that lucky person happen to be me.

I believe it went on to say Maksutov believed the problem to be resolved. Some things start one way and end another.

It takes a level of bravery to post your thoughts on a public forum and I congratulate you for that. The level of concern is how far you take it or how far you let it take you ... there is a difference.

In, well in my case I wrote to the department of homeland security and at the last check had not received a response. I consider that to be my level of responsibility ... it may be more or less than others, but at some point you need to hand over and live. Even better if you find acceptance.

So since I know the approximate location of one of the two working can openers in the home (and two that don't work) I may just get a couple more before 23 December 2007 ... or at least it has made the list of things to remember

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"Nature is obliged to let reality determine its laws, whereas mathematics is under no such constraint."

Ah, no harm done, was just trying to be funny :P

That is the most important thing. A good sense of humour helps ... being able to blame it on others excuses it

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"Nature is obliged to let reality determine its laws, whereas mathematics is under no such constraint."

Was she karving her initials in the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush?

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

It took you guys long enough! HA!

Pete

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PJE

There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

The people responsible for obtaining the Moose costumes have just been sacked....

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PJE

There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Guys, I found a loophole! Just make your own calendar and let it start at year 1! You'll have about two milleniums of time then!

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If we use First Flight time, we're only in year 105!
And in Apollo 11 time, it's just year 38!

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

I know this post was in jest, but it exemplifies the biggest problem with these "calendar says we'll all die" shenanigans, which is the fact that all calenders currently in use (or no longer in use, like this one) start from an arbitrary date. That's not to say that the inventors of said calendars didn't have a reason for picking the respective start date, but in the grand scheme of things, said date is still arbitrary.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

The most important calendar started on December 24, 1958, by "your" calendar. I'm not quite sure when the universe will end according to that calendar (call it SST - Swift Standard Time), but I suspect some time between year 70 and year 100 of SST. At that point, at least as far as I'm concerned, the universe will end.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

If the doomsayeers are correct, you can dine and dash without consequence.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

That's not to say that the inventors of said calendars didn't have a reason for picking the respective start date, but in the grand scheme of things, said date is still arbitrary.

And no matter what date you pick, the nature of the celestial motion and the nature of numerology guarantees that some "significant" coincidence of celestia and calendar is only a matter of time.

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"Facts are stubborn things." --John Adams
Clavius Moon Base

My post was in gest indeed, but I wrote it with that thought in the back of my mind, pointing out the problem in a humorous way.

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I've got an idea for a calendar that restarts every year as Year One. It's the secret of eternal youth!

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I'm sorry, I can't take the ideas of a one year old seriously.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

I put together a calendar that was very popular at work. It looked like this:

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A person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.

Not quite so severe is, for instance, the Japanese emperor era system. This is Heisei 19, year 19 of the Heisei era.

2000 AD was Heisei 12. No Y2K problems there.

What will be the era name and number of the year 100 years from now? No problem. Nobody knows!

2012? Maybe Heisei 24. Maybe not.

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