Guess what is happening on Wednesday of this week?
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Tue Apr-04-06 03:56 PM
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Guess what is happening on Wednesday of this week? |
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This came in my email:
At two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again.
Pretty cool.
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Tue Apr-04-06 03:58 PM
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Happy 1:02:03 a.m., April 5, 2006!
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Tue Apr-04-06 03:59 PM
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2. I am selling software which will protect your computers from the |
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implications of this anomaly. $125.00. PayPal only.
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Tue Apr-04-06 04:03 PM
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Tue Apr-04-06 04:03 PM
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3. Technically, it will be 04/05/06 01:02:03 |
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Tue Apr-04-06 04:05 PM
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5. We must count from the smallest increments of time to the largest |
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Edited on Tue Apr-04-06 04:05 PM by Generic Other
And unlike an eclipse, it will happen twice!
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Tue Apr-04-06 07:26 PM
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7. Guess since I come from the IT world... YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS |
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So, to be even more accurate it's:
2006/04/05 01:02:03
;)
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Tue Apr-04-06 04:06 PM
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6. Well, it will happen every 100 years |
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2006 - 01:02:03 04/05/06. 2106 - 01:02:03 04/05/06. 2206 - 01:02:03 04/05/06. etc.
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Tue Apr-04-06 07:30 PM
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10. If you read Isaac Asimov's story "Nightfall" |
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You would not take those hundred-year events so lightly. In that story, such events brought on cataclysmic results mostly due to human stupidity.
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Tue Apr-04-06 07:26 PM
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8. 01:02:03 on 04/05/06 happened almost exactly 2000 years ago. |
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We missed out.
Oh well.
Where's the condoms, let's screw anyway. :rofl:
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Tue Apr-04-06 07:28 PM
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9. Actually it will happen several times that morning through the time zones. |
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Edited on Tue Apr-04-06 07:30 PM by OmmmSweetOmmm
;)
Way cool btw! :)
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Tue Apr-04-06 07:35 PM
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11. And why haven't the fundies been freakin' out about it? |
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Shouldn't they be standing outside naked waiting for the second coming?
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Tue Apr-04-06 07:56 PM
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12. Maybe they aren't aware of it. |
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Rumors, lies and bs must be spread to them about this right away.
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Tue Apr-04-06 08:14 PM
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13. It's pretty late to start a panic |
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Damn. We may have to wait another 1000 years.
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