The apocalypse on 2012?

[drothgery]

January 19th 2038. At that point unix timestamps can no longer be stored with a 32 bit integer. PHP currently doesn't handle 64 bit integers well, and post times are stored using unix timestamps - so on January 19th 2038 the clock stops if I don't have the upgrade done by then.

Ahem, it will be done quite a bit sooner than then though

Whereas over in Windows-land, COM dates and .NET dates run out in 9999. Microsoft plans on being around a long time .

 

[Numion]

what happens when you educate a dumbass? You get a smartass.

Your predictions are spot on!

Could you clue me in on the norwegian lottery numbers for next week? PM please..

 

[Alisair Longreach]

Some authors of books about the Mayan calender says that the end date of the calender is 21 dec 2012. A couple of other authors have made some calculations and place the end date late oct 2011.

Then there are those who say the calender is off by 5 years so 2007 = 2012.

Then we have the masonic conspiracy about the city plan of Washington D.C. with a timeline stretching from the Washington Monument to the White House. For further details, view the Secret of Washington D.C. videos on Youtube.

In the Book of Revelation there is mentioned a Woman clothed in garments of the sun with the moon at her feet and stars above her head who will go int hiding for 3.5 years and give birth to a man-child. Some interpret this passage as referring to a Venus Transit. A Venus Transit is when Venus crosses the face of the Sun. The last one happened june 4 2004. Do the math. There is speculation about an upcoming solar flare killshot on some conspiracy forums.

Happy Christmas (if we get one).

 

[ssampier]

I am not worried. My tin-foil hat works just fine.

Is there a restaurant at the end of the world? Perhaps one where the cows will come out and ask me what part of them I'd like to eat today?

 

[Rackhir]

Some authors of books about the Mayan calender says that the end date of the calender is 21 dec 2012. A couple of other authors have made some calculations and place the end date late oct 2011.

Then there are those who say the calender is off by 5 years so 2007 = 2012.

Are you trying to imply that the aliens might have given the Mayan's the wrong date?

 

[Alisair Longreach]

The first authors of the Mayan calendar books might have miscalculated the end date, or worse, deliberately placed the end date five years further out in a disnformation attempt.

This end date should also coincide with a planetary cross alignment. Interestingly 23 december this year the planets do line up in a cross formation at the same time as a full moon and with with three visible comets. The Sun has also just begun a new solar maximum sunspot cycle.

This year we might have a very interesting christmas.

 

[Rackhir]

The first authors of the Mayan calendar books might have miscalculated the end date, or worse, deliberately placed the end date five years further out in a disnformation attempt.

This end date should also coincide with a planetary cross alignment. Interestingly 23 december this year the planets do line up in a cross formation at the same time as a full moon and with with three visible comets. The Sun has also just begun a new solar maximum sunspot cycle.

This year we might have a very interesting christmas.

I'll worry about things like planetary alignments when they revoke the inverse square law in physics.

To make this a bit clearer.

Standing on the surface of the earth, the force I exert on the earth is roughly about 10^12 times greater than the force that Pluto exerts. (It's been a long time since physics class so I might be off a couple of orders of magnitude). So remember this next time someone start babbling about "Planetary" or "stellar" alignment and remember things drop off as the square of the distance.

 

[Umbran]

This end date should also coincide with a planetary cross alignment. Interestingly 23 december this year the planets do line up in a cross formation at the same time as a full moon and with with three visible comets. The Sun has also just begun a new solar maximum sunspot cycle.

"Just begun the cycle" means "is currently at a solar minimum". The next solar maximum is about five an a half years from now - closer to 2012 than 2007.