Bulletin of Atomic Scientists/doomsday clock question?
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I forgot what the longest time from 12 was, but with USSR eased off, it should be max right now.\n\nI have not seen the clock lately either.\nLooks like 7 min till 12 is what it is on. 2006
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http://www.burtonreport.com/InfForensic/HumanExperPlutonium.htm\n\n\nhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet10/brief10/tab_i/br10i2j.txt
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So is this sequence based purely on a mathematical function?\n\nOkay, so there's a 52 in there, could this sequence somehow relate to the calendar?\n\nWhat sort of scientist? I'm a computer scientist and nothing's glaringly obvious about those numbers.\n\n** GOT IT *** 68! Er or Erbium, the sequence spells out Brainteaser based on the atomic weights of B, Ra, In, Te, As, and Er.
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True "o'clock" is short for "of the clock", but you must understand the sense of "of" here.   It might be better to express the ideas as "according to the clock".  \nhttp://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19970102\n\nBut even that does not explain the imagery involved in this expression, which we find by the14th century (Chaucer).   \nFor that we need to go back to the origins of the mechanical clock itself and the very word "clock".  \n\n"Clock" comes from Latin 'cloca' meaning "BELL".  It was the term applied to the newer devices in use for measuring time in the thirteenth century.   As the word itself suggests, the key feature of these clocks is the bell that chimed the hours  In fact, these clocks, often set out in public in a tower to make it possible to notify everyone, did not necessarily have hands.       \n\nThe key thing, then, was notifying people of the HOUR of the day (not the minute, and not, at least at first, the quarter or half hour either).  This practice of marking/announcing the hours is echoed by the watchman's call "nine o'clock and all is well."     Thus it is scarcely surprising that this way of expressing the time did not (and still does not, except in certain highly formal uses) state anything BUT the HOUR.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock#A_new_mechanism\n\nSo you may picture the situation around 1300 -- the bell in the 'clock tower' strikes ONE time announcing that the hour is "one of ['according to'] the clock".
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In my opinion, 666 is just another number, like 395. I see no threat in something like that. Other people, however, have different opinions and think that 666 really could have been the end of the world
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New agers and doom-sayers have lacthed on to this year as "the end of the world" because it is the roll-over year of the Mayan long-count calender.  Think about how your car's odometer works.  Yoiu hit 100,000 miles and it rolls over to zero.  Why did it roll over to zero?  Did the old car end, and anew car begin?  No.  All that happened is that you ran out of  numbers to count how many miles your car has driven, and thus you rolled-over and had to start counting with zero again.\n\nThis is exactly what happens to the Mayan calender in 2012, it runs out of numbers to count the days and must start over.  As far as some of the nuttier theories out there the Mayan's had no concept of a "black hole," allignments of the visible planets happen on almost 200 year cycles, Nostrdamus never gave any dates for his rantings, and the aliens don't have a magic clock.  The Mayans were facinated by the planet Venus on the othe hand and the cycles of Venus are partially what they based several of their calenders off of.
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3:46 EST\n2:46 CST\n1:46 MST\n12:46 PST\n11:46 AKST\n10:46 HST
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Don't confuse the workings of clocks with the passage of time. Clocks, like any mechanical device, are prone to errors and can fail over time (no pun intended). The passage of time will happen whether we have clock to measure it or not. That makes no difference.\n\nWe now do have atomic clocks that utilize the radioactive decays of heavy elements as a measure of time and they are accurate to a billionth of a second, but even atomic clocks are NOT 100% accurate. So as with any measurements we make in the process of scientific study, there will be errors. But I think in most cases, the accuracy of an atomic clock is more than acceptable.
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Looking at http://www.worldtimezone.com/index12.php, it looks like it should be 4:00 pm.
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time for you to get a watch\n\nor 1:58PM (current time in my time zone)
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go to http://www.howstuffworks.com/clock.htm and it will tell you everything you need to know.
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According to the Bible, no one knows the day or hour of the end of times.  There are too many things that have to take place before the end comes.  At some point, we may be able to predict it, but God's timetable is His and He will do it in His time, when it is the most appropriate.  Anyone who tries to tell you when the end of times will come, will be proven wrong.   There have been many churches, like the Jehovah Witnesses, who have predicted it over and over and were all wrong.  People have been predicting it since the Apostles were around and we are still here.
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OMG There have been 19 6-6-6es in the history of time existing! No nothing bad is going to happen! It never has happened! God didn't invent the calendar, humans did! Why would the world end just because of the date? What about 6 o'clock, 6 minutes and 6 seconds? Oh now you are going to be worried twice a day because I said that eh?
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Its probably a GMT standard clock. Whereever you live is GMT + or - a certain amount of hours.\n\nEST is GMT -5 so if GMT says its 12:00, its actually 7:00 here.
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Check out Yahoo widgets, I think there is one there that has a clock like that.
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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I only recently heard this from another friend.  I wonder if it is just for people who grew up with digital clocks.  By the time digital clocks were common, I was already too old for the "make a wish" phenomenon.\n\nOh, what we old fogies have missed!