That's in hex. But in more familiar decimal, it's 105.

parallaxicality, if you turn your Windows calculator on in scientific mode, you can easily make the conversions.

And, of course, current Biblical scholarship leans toward its being an allegory for current events anyway. Which means it doesn't actually predict much of anything. There's sort of a prediction of the fall of Rome, but not anything specific, more just a sort of "those who oppress us will stop oppressing us and pay for what they've done" kind of thing.

Incidentally, if you know what to look for, a lot of stuff on the History Channel is actually worth watching. I'm currently watching The States, which isn't sensational at all. What you kind of have to watch for is whether they're trying to increase their viewership with it or just trying to make its regular viewers happy.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

01101001

I like it.

Given I spend most of my time these days programming, it has a certain geeky appeal to me.

As with all media outlets, The History Channel needs to make a buck. In order to fund some of their serious efforts, they produce nonsense that they know will be eaten up by the same credulous multitude that picks up copies of The National Enquirer at the supermarket. UFO silliness has brought THC a lot of viewers lately, as have disaster predictions. Viewers of THC need to be especially alert so they are prepared to separate the wheat from the chaff. There is some very good stuff on THC, but you need to know how to discriminate, and not everyone does.

People who “want” to believe in something tend to welcome and accept uncritically any pronouncements from supposedly authoritative sources such as THC who lend validity to otherwise irrational notions. There will always be individuals hoping to make money by taking advantage of those gullible people and feeding them what they want to hear. The hucksters will then warn their disciples that unbelievers are either closed minded or part of a conspiracy to suppress evidence.

As others have noted, these “end of the world” predictions have been unending throughout recorded history. Every time that the fateful date has passed quietly, new predictions have arisen. This 2012 nuttiness is only the latest of a long series. Even evangelists are using it to enhance the fear that they use to keep their customers coming. I suppose if I were really smart, I would write a bestseller assuring the masses that the 2012 conjectures are really really true.

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For monthly astronomical calendar visit:
www.CurtRenz.com/astronomical

Since 01101001 has put this 2012 stuff to sleep (again) with his Master URL List, here's a simple puzzler for anyone out there that is bored:

The following is a sequence of numbers. What does this sequence of numbers represent?

111111111
1001
100
21
14
13
12
11
10
9
9
9
9
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9

Pretty easy. (Written in white so as not to spoil it for others. Highlight to read.)

It's 9 written from base 1 to base (inf-1)

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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

Very good Moose. I saw that sequence maybe 30 years ago and it stumped me at the time. It was one sequence in a larger list of sequences.

Being a prog helps. I don't do bitwise transformations all that often, but I've done enough that it's slightly ingrained to always be just a little suspicious of the numbers I encounter.

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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

What does Tim look like upside-down?

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That's great! I already passed along (to my wife) the one you made several month's ago of "Diana" - she loved it.

I hate it when number sequences come up in "intelligence" tests. I know I'm intelligent, darn it. Yet were there a test consisting solely of number sequences, my IQ would come out slightly below that of pond scum. :-(

Erm, what was the thread topic again?

Something with numbers in it.

Isn't there a law against using the word "current" twice in one sentence to refer to two different time periods?

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"Ask to understand, but don't challenge unless you have the knowledge."--NEOWatcher

The contents of this post are ©2009 by SeanF and may not be copied or retransmitted in any form without the express written consent of SeanF

*mfffff* "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".

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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

I wonder just how big Binary Man's Post of Doom thread will be on the actual date of doom? I think it's a fair bet that when we get to 2011, the predictions of doom will probably accelerate. This site will probably see a flood of new posters, eager to warn us about the coming disaster. Binary Man may have to hire some addition help to keep track of all the end of the world threads.

Or, all of these "end of the world" threads should get dumped into a "THE END IS NIGH" section of BAUT, and be locked, maybe with a quick note from a moderator explaining how the subject has already been mentioned over and over again.

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Yes, I have faith that the community, as well as the powers that be, will devise some method to keep the misguided year-2012 interest, as 2012 closely approaches, from disrupting the normal pleasant and useful operation of the BAUT Forum.

They handled Planet X. They will handle 2012. They're smart. They're able.

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See that's the real disaster. By December of 2012, his post with all the links will become so large and desnse with information that it will create an informational black hole that will suck the entire Earth in. And the Mayans predicted the entire thing.

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

One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple

One almost sure sign of psuedo-documentary fluff (or outright nonsense) is how much repeat they have of the same material over and over and over. Some of those shows that go for an hour, which means about 40 minutes of non-commercial program, have maybe 20 minutes of material. If you are watching a show and they recap the entire show after every commercial break - it's probably fluff, or outright garbage.

It seems THC has incrementally more of that kind of junk every year, to the point where probably 75% of their programming is now jetsam and flotsam.

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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

THC: It gets you stoned.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

The Historiness Channel.

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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

By 2012 there should be enough AOL floppy disks and CD-ROMs to collapse the Earth into a black hole. It's a race against time to see which doomsday scenario comes to fruition first!

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Microsoft is over if you want it.

The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

Good one! The truthiness shall set you free!

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Microsoft is over if you want it.

The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

And time is on our side.

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Microsoft is over if you want it.

The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

Yes it iiiiiis...

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Very Jerry Ragovoy.

And you'll come runnin' back (to get a jagger in your heart)...

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And now the History channel is on YouTube! Part 1 of 6, here.

I put no stock whatsoever in the various prophecies - given enough prophecies, you will eventually have a prophecy for thousands of events throughout each and every year. Also, I like the comment, "The basic principle for a good prophecy is, "keep it vague."

So, they're hardly noteworthy.

I do, however, find the webbot project intriguing, as it's been proven time and again that a group of people generally make better decisions than the average individual. However, it's also been proven that the group never does as well, and certainly never with innovation, as the leading, individual innovative thinkers.

I love the precision aspect of the Mayan calendar - wouldn't it be a hoot if they were simply the descendants of time travellers who became stranded long ago, perhaps having travelled then to escape some future calamity?

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Hey, monkeys and typewriters...

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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."

This website puts the End Of The World into hysterical (as in side splitting funny) perspective.

We learn about fumbles Human Kind went through figuring out Calendars. History in general is covered, as well as religious history. Then we get the history of the End Times themselves. If this website is to be believed, we don't even know what End Time it is!



It's The End Of The World As We Know It

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Ala Nose

Those aren't monkeys, they're chimps!


... Oh wait, wrong rant.

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Relight the Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)