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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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Was she karving her initials in the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush?
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The people responsible for obtaining the Moose costumes have just been sacked....
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And in Apollo 11 time, it's just year 38!
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I want to go back to the moon. I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear. "If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis Rovers forever! - ToSeek |
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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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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 |
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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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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 "The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves "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 |
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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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Ah, yes, using the Garfield numbering system.
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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction." Shakespeare, Twelfth Night "The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves "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 |
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I wrote an article last year, just for fun, where I created a few fun calendars with unusual Begining Dates.
The Titanic Calendar: This is year 95. The US Independance Calendar: This is year 231. The Dinosaur Extinction Calendar: This is year 65 Million.
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I like the Atomic Age calendar, which is numbered from the year we first developed the technical means of making ourselves extinct.
This is year 62. We've done surprisingly well so far. It'll be interesting to see if we make it into four-digit territory. (Well, interesting to somebody, but probably not me!)
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How about the Space Age calendar, which marks how long we have been able to send objects beyond the Earth. We are in year 50.
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Wow! I read a few pages on that link, man those people are serious business!
Did you guys know that the sun has been at a minimum for AGES!? ![]() Quote:
I can't stop reading, this is funny stuff... Oh, there is it, they mentioned planet X, I'm done. Last edited by Exirus; 18-December-2007 at 06:18 AM.. |
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One wonders whatever became of Nibelheim. Abducted, subducted, subluxioned, or just spirited away?
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Well, I don't know that they're all crazy, but they definitely left out a letter for their acronym. Perhaps the folks there should rename it "God Like Obsequious Productions", AKA, GLOP.
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Ooh, here's a choice Planet X thread (language warning):
Planet X vaporized - Zetas RIP "Earlier today SOHO caught on video Planet X plunging into the sun and causing a CME...No further information is available at this time, our thoughts are with Nancy Lieder for the loss of all her zetas." OP's follow-up post: "Please note the Pole Shift and associated doom is canceled forthwith. Please begin to clean up the planet as we will be here for a very long time." ![]()
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