Totally useless trivia fact...

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by dlavery

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06

This is the first and last time this will ever happen.

Ah, but in Canada (and other places that use dd/mm/yy) this will happen again on May 4th.

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

Until 2106?

Mysterious...

Thanks for this tidbit

What about this dave?

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Ah, but in Canada (and other places that use dd/mm/yy) this will happen again on May 4th.

uhmmm. no, it wont happen again in Canada - it will happen once in canada, on May 4th :^)

[Elgin Clock]

I actually found this kind of ironic, since today I noticed what the digital date would be on June 6th, of this year. Then I saw this story, and was like.. oooh.. ok.. a cool number this time, and not a "bad" one.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

uhmmm. no, it wont happen again in Canada - it will happen once in canada, on May 4th :^)

Well OK, it won't happen "again in Canada", but it will happen "again, in Canada", since if you were to head north between the two dates, you would witness it twice.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by hillale

I'm pretty sure that Alpha Centauri is a star. You can't live on a star.

I love science.

Actually, Alpha Centauri is a star (solar) system composed of three stars - two similar stars (Alpha Centauri A and B), and the very small and dim Proxima star. If you wiki Alpha Centauri, it says that computer models have shown that rocky planets (not unlike Earth or Mars) could have formed around Alpha Centauri A and/or B. Many of the same characteristics of our own solar system are present in Alpha Centauri, giving Alpha Centauri a fairly good chance of harboring earth-like life forms (it may be single cell archaebacteria or multi-cell protists or even fish/reptillian/land animals).

Okay everyone, bet your morgages that Dave is wrong. Because if we move to Alpha centauri, we will most likely adopt local time as our own. Depending on the rotation of the planet[s] we inhabit, then there may exist a 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Note that I never said that one second on Alpha Centauri had to be the same as a second here on Earth. People are stubborn creatures. So we will invent seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years on Alpha Centauri just because we had them here on Earth. Easter Egg! lol. Dave is wrong, because even if we bet our morgages that he is wrong, our morgages most likely will not exist in 3006 and we will not exist either. Unless some crazy andriod things are invented. :-p

[KenWittlief]

yeah, but by then we will have come to our senses, and everything will be digital

and our calender will be binary

and we will get all excited when the time and date is something like 000100010001000100010001

[DaveA412]

so in 3 years we can have 12:34 56 sec 07/08/09

[Elgin Clock]

w00t.. I was awake for that earth shattering moment in time, and Ilet me tell you.. I'm a changed person after that.



I tried to post at that time.. But.. I uh.. couldn't find the thread fast enough..

I guess I'll have to wait until

12:34 on 5/6/07.

See you all then!!!!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I guess I'll have to wait until

12:34 on 5/6/07.

See you all then!!!!

Personally, I am waiting for 07:07:07 07/07/07

-dave

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Personally, I am waiting for 07:07:07 07/07/07

-dave

well 3/14/15 9:26:54 is coming up too....but we all know the only date that matters at this point is 04/27/06 07:30:00.

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I tried to post at that time.. But.. I uh.. couldn't find the thread fast enough..

Translation: Elgin stayed up late to post in this thread at the exact second

but was surfing the web and forgot, 37 minutes lapsed....

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Personally, I am waiting for 07:07:07 07/07/07
-dave

Isn't there someone who wishes to get married on that day?

/ducks

AB

[KenWittlief]

I think I found it - Hey Dave - is this the reason why there will be no 2106?

The article says they will crash into each other in 7 million years, but if they are 7 million light years away it could be about to happen any second (or may have already happened).

How fast does a burst of gravity waves travel through space?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200604...esboundtomerge

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Isn't there someone who wishes to get married on that day?

/ducks

AB

Yes, but...
NASA has determined that on Feb 3, 2007, a miniscule black hole travelling through the outer arm of the Mikly Way Galaxy will pass through Earth. The transit time will be nearly instantaneous, and the Earth will survive the encounter. However, the local space/time fabric will be warped in such a way that that timeline for 154 days to either side of the collision will locally collapse around the singularity horizon. As a result, September 2, 2006, and July 7, 2007, will occur at the same instant. In this way, the desires of the primary participant in the referenced ceremonial event and the realities of limited options on location availability will both be satisfied.

-dave