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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#121 - 2012-12-21 21:04:18 UTC
Borascus wrote:


There is a book called "How to make friends and alienate people" - I claim to have only read half of it.




The better book written in the 90's was : "How to Separate People from Their Money"

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#122 - 2012-12-22 11:06:31 UTC
So, wait, I'm confused, when was the world supposed to end, 21.12.2012 or 22.12.2012 ? :p

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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#123 - 2012-12-22 17:39:08 UTC
Cracked has an amusing article concerning this.

5 People Who Will Be Disappointed the World Didn't End Today

Nancy Lieder is why UFOlogists can't have nice things.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#124 - 2012-12-23 11:06:02 UTC
The world has ended; this is the end. Shall we start again?
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Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#125 - 2012-12-23 11:07:06 UTC
Akita T wrote:
So, wait, I'm confused, when was the world supposed to end, 21.12.2012 or 22.12.2012 ? :p


It's Solstice. 21 or 22nd depending on your Calender iirc. Never paid much attention to it, but that's all it is.
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Borascus
#126 - 2012-12-23 11:39:02 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:
Akita T wrote:
So, wait, I'm confused, when was the world supposed to end, 21.12.2012 or 22.12.2012 ? :p


It's Solstice. 21 or 22nd depending on your Calender iirc. Never paid much attention to it, but that's all it is.


Indeed, the days in the northern hemisphere only get longer form here.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#127 - 2012-12-23 13:05:41 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:
Akita T wrote:
So, wait, I'm confused, when was the world supposed to end, 21.12.2012 or 22.12.2012 ? :p


It's Solstice. 21 or 22nd depending on your Calender iirc.




The Solstice was exactly 6:12 UTC the morning of 12/21/2012 on every Julian-based calendar.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
pussnheels
Viziam
#128 - 2012-12-24 05:44:58 UTC
so this was disapointing

when is the next doomsday predicted

I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire
Borascus
#129 - 2012-12-24 09:06:20 UTC
You need the following:

a. A mystery people can apply grandeur to.
b. A mysterious element giving a date in the near future / combination of words that are "nearly" the same words we use today.
c. Interpretation of these words to apply different meanings.
d. someone with a doctorate claiming the events are true (even doctor's realise that going down in history is more fun than going down on the titanic)
e. 50% reason / 50% cultist
f. broil for 20 years.
Jawas
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#130 - 2012-12-24 17:31:01 UTC
So, if the world ended on Friday, the afterlife seems vaguely familiar and seems to have EXACTLY what we had when we were all still alive. Strange, I kind of expected something different.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#131 - 2012-12-24 17:45:25 UTC
The show is over. Next.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#132 - 2012-12-25 03:46:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Mars Theran
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Mars Theran wrote:
Akita T wrote:
So, wait, I'm confused, when was the world supposed to end, 21.12.2012 or 22.12.2012 ? :p


It's Solstice. 21 or 22nd depending on your Calender iirc.




The Solstice was exactly 6:12 UTC the morning of 12/21/2012 on every Julian-based calendar.


We use the Gregorian Calender, but good luck finding anything but a continuous count of days for the Julian Calender. Apparently it had an actual monthly calender at one point, but it doesn't have one easily accessible on the internet that I can find.

Anyway, point being that the Gregorian Calender or something along the way ended up with the Soltice landing on the 22nd, and that's what we use now. Depending where you are in the world however, it's debatable as to whether you would be on one calender day or the other when the actual event occurred. Technically, it is a celestial event, so it does happen when it happens, whatever your time of day, or day you happen to be on.

Technically, 0600 UTC would be 2200 the previous day where I am, but that's another calender.
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