BC, AD.... Next? - Page 2

Spock · 01-22-2004, 12:35 PM

What? The year changes?

As for time on Mars, how about Babylon 5 where they used "Earth Standard" as a measurement. After all until we find anyone who has a different clock we can use ours.

***Jonathan*** · 01-22-2004, 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by Nurvingiel
But the number 2000 itself is not significant.

Hey! To me the number 2000 is significant. I happen to love round numbers

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Originally posted by Twista
Another question... If they founded a coloney on Mars for instance, would they 'Run' it on earth or martian time scale?

A day on Mars is only about half an hour longer than a day on Earth, so Mars colonists could run on Earth time for at least a few days without any problems

brownjenkins · 01-22-2004, 02:17 PM

PA ~ post-apocalypse

***Jonathan*** · 01-22-2004, 02:22 PM

A.F - After Ford, meaning the godlike automobile genious Henry Ford. Has anyone here read Huxley's Brave New World?

Spock · 01-22-2004, 02:22 PM

in the style of recent sci-fi books and of course T-3

M.A.=machine age.

Spock · 01-22-2004, 02:26 PM

J-yikes I posted and viewed it then 5 min later your post comes in posted at the same time and listed ahead of me. ..boo hoo.

Hell, I'm livin in Brave New World.

***Jonathan*** · 01-22-2004, 02:31 PM

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Originally posted by Spock
J-yikes I posted and viewed it then 5 min later your post comes in posted at the same time and listed ahead of me. ..boo hoo.

Hehe, after I posted I found it strange that my post was above yours, considering my post was only half a second old

I think the year 1999 should be year 0. That was when Ben Milder started up the Tolkien Trail.

Falagar · 01-22-2004, 02:42 PM

How about A.L.?

(=After Lord of the Rings. Though that'll only confirm all the disbel...the Tolkien-bashers' suspicions)

Spock · 01-22-2004, 02:47 PM

YEAH then too us "Tool Time" fans would be thinking its the year of Al.

"If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin

***Jonathan*** · 01-22-2004, 02:56 PM

Since RotK hit theatres last year, we could just call this the Fourth Age like they did in the books after the Ring was destroyed.

***Valandil*** · 01-22-2004, 03:04 PM

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Originally posted by Jonathan
Since RotK hit theatres last year, we could just call this the Fourth Age like they did in the books after the Ring was destroyed.

Oooo! You're gonna get pretty unpopular around here... advocating that we base our new time on the MOVIES!

Maybe Tolkien's birth? Publication date of LotR? Date of the famous, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'???

***Jonathan*** · 01-22-2004, 03:07 PM

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Originally posted by Valandil
Oooo! You're gonna get pretty unpopular around here... advocating that we base our new time on the MOVIES!

I know

. Just waiting for JD to comment that

Yeah, I believe 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' day would be a good date to call year 0. That's when all the trouble about the Ring began.

Spock · 01-22-2004, 03:11 PM

Indeed. Most logical.

LutraMage · 01-22-2004, 04:51 PM

AEM = After Entmoot! What other event was so significant?

Falagar · 01-22-2004, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by Jonathan
I know . Just waiting for JD to comment that

Yeah, I believe 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' day would be a good date to call year 0. That's when all the trouble about the Ring began.

Well, the real trouble with the slightest of all rings (just a little trifle) started some 1000 years earlier when an evil goth-lord with nothing better to do made it.

jerseydevil · 01-22-2004, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by Jonathan
I know . Just waiting for JD to comment that

Jonathan - we are NOT going to base the Fourth age off of that hack jackson (can I say hack in general messages?

)

Anyway - if anything - we will base the Fourth Age on the publishing date of RotK. Not those hollywoodize crap action movies. One of the writers would probably have to explain to Jackson what the different ages were and that there was a Fourth Age.

***Earniel*** · 01-22-2004, 06:21 PM

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Originally posted by Nurvingiel
There was no real significance to the year 2000.

Oh, there was. There was one hell of a party. I still remember the 31st december 1999.

I was cleaning the house ( to get it cleaned before mum came home) with my walkman on, listening to the 'top 2000 of best songs ever', occasionally racing upstairs to start my recorder for a song I wanted to have, and complaining about my sister who didn't do anything to help me. I remember it well, it was loads of fun.

I still got that tape I recorded then, I was too late to switch it off at one point and I recorded the news-guy saying "It's seven'o clock and in Japan they start lighting the fireworks now..." It's a relic. Of course, they start lighting the fire works every year in Japan, but it was sort of special. Regardless of the fact that it wasn't really the end of the millenium, though. But you really didn't want all that rambling, didn't you?

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Originally posted by Falagar
(=After Lord of the Rings. Though that'll only confirm all the disbel...the Tolkien-bashers' suspicions)

How about AT: After Tolkien (I think Valandil mentioned it) We would be in the year 31 now, I think.

Twista · 01-22-2004, 06:26 PM

AD(2).... again. 'Age of Discovery'

Theres bound to be another golden age of inventions coming soon lol...

jerseydevil · 01-22-2004, 06:31 PM

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Originally posted by Eärniel
Oh, there was. There was one hell of a party.

Yes there were - i was in the heart of Time Square - for the huge Times Square 2000 celebration.

It was incredibly awesome. I'm glad I went and I'm glad we waited and went directly to Times Square.

Trish and I were going to go to the Twin Towers and then head back up to Times Square, but then when we got off the train we decided that if we were going to be in Times Square for New Years - we wanted to be right in the heart of it - not on some side street or too far away to really see.

Twista · 01-24-2004, 07:04 AM

^^^ thats a cool picture... what amases me most is that you can acually see the stars in New York! lol

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01-22-2004, 02:26 PM	#26
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	J-yikes I posted and viewed it then 5 min later your post comes in posted at the same time and listed ahead of me. ..boo hoo. Hell, I'm livin in Brave New World. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

01-22-2004, 02:42 PM	#28
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	How about A.L.? (=After Lord of the Rings. Though that'll only confirm all the disbel...the Tolkien-bashers' suspicions) __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 01-22-2004 at 02:44 PM.

01-22-2004, 02:56 PM	#30
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Since RotK hit theatres last year, we could just call this the Fourth Age like they did in the books after the Ring was destroyed. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

01-22-2004, 12:35 PM	#21
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	What? The year changes? As for time on Mars, how about Babylon 5 where they used "Earth Standard" as a measurement. After all until we find anyone who has a different clock we can use ours.

01-22-2004, 02:47 PM	#29
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	YEAH then too us "Tool Time" fans would be thinking its the year of Al. "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin

01-22-2004, 03:11 PM	#33
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Indeed. Most logical. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

01-22-2004, 04:51 PM	#34
LutraMage Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Tolkien's England where the tale grew in the telling... Posts: 330	AEM = After Entmoot! What other event was so significant?

01-22-2004, 06:26 PM	#38
Twista Orodruin's Flame Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kananaskis, AB Posts: 1,194	AD(2).... again. 'Age of Discovery' Theres bound to be another golden age of inventions coming soon lol... __________________ Council of Entmoot - Foreign Affairs Minister - 2004-05 Visit the Ye Olde Avatar Shop and The New One Dont tell me what I cannot do Two men are on a Island, they both see a "monster", one sees a bright light, and the other sees a dark cloud My name bares no reference to the music artist.

01-24-2004, 07:04 AM	#40
Twista Orodruin's Flame Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kananaskis, AB Posts: 1,194	^^^ thats a cool picture... what amases me most is that you can acually see the stars in New York! lol __________________ Council of Entmoot - Foreign Affairs Minister - 2004-05 Visit the Ye Olde Avatar Shop and The New One Dont tell me what I cannot do Two men are on a Island, they both see a "monster", one sees a bright light, and the other sees a dark cloud My name bares no reference to the music artist.