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October 10, 2010: The Day the World Will End!

March 21, 2007 8:49:24 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

It all makes sense to me now!

For those who know me, I am a HUGE Douglas Adams fan, have been for many many years. So I was pontificating and I have decided the world will end on October 10, 2010.

Bonus points to anyone who can make the connection as to how and why I came to that conclusion. I'll tell ya after I get a fair sampling of guesses

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Reply #1 March 21, 2007 8:57:35 PM
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Ok, here's a hint for those of you who must have spoilers. DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY STUMPED!














seriously...only read this if you're stumped










I'm not kidding, folks











































I MEAN IT!






















Hint: since you were so desperate to have it: put the date in the standard (mm/dd/yy) format.
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Reply #2 March 21, 2007 9:50:29 PM
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Binary?

I place DA on the highest pedestal there is, but I'm so far removed from reading THGTTG that I can't remember why October 10 is significant. On the upside, you've inspired me to go read the books and revisit the man responsible for making me want to be a writer.
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Reply #3 March 21, 2007 9:59:50 PM
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Ouija board?!
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Reply #4 March 21, 2007 10:03:36 PM
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Philomedy is on the right track...

keep chasin'...you're almost there!
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Reply #5 March 21, 2007 10:13:06 PM
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101010=Binary for 42=The answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

YES!

I'm such a nerd.
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Reply #6 March 21, 2007 10:16:26 PM
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On an interesting side note, 101010 is ASCII code for asterisk, which is a search wildcard. Hence, if you are searching for *, you are searching for everything.

Perhaps the world will not end, just some monumental discovery will be made.
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Reply #7 March 21, 2007 10:19:42 PM
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Very Good, Philomedy. You get a cookie!

Did you do it without the hint or did you use the hint? (be honest, now!)

The asterisk information is very cool as well. I didn't know that was the ASCII code for asterisk. Somehow I think that was probably done on purpose! LOL!
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Reply #8 March 21, 2007 10:30:41 PM
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I will admit to requiring the hint. As I said, I haven't read the books in nearly 2 years. I knew it was connected to 42 somehow, but I didn't make the connection to binary until I read the hint and numerized the date.

My backup idea was that October 10, 2010 was the date the dolphins left.
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Reply #9 March 22, 2007 12:27:25 AM
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Except for where you're wrong, Gid. The world is gonna end when the zombie uprising occurs.

In 2046.

On March 31st.

At 2:03 pm.


(All right, what am I referencing? Really, really big amounts of geek points for whoever can get this.)
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Reply #10 March 22, 2007 1:09:37 AM
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Gid, I got the date thing right away.

SC... I was going to say Buffy first... but then you said serious geek points so now I'm wondering if you are talking about STNG First Contact. That's about as geeky as I get... well okay. Not so. But as geeky as I can at the moment
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Reply #11 March 22, 2007 1:16:00 AM
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The world is gonna end when the zombie uprising occurs.


LOL. My 9 year old is an *expert* on zombie uprising survival (he read a really cool book about it; I can't remember the name of it now), which makes him an excellent conversationalist when it comes to speaking with, proper, uptight adults. Hahahaha.

"What did he say?"

"Um, he said 'use your head, cut off theirs'...nice weather we're having, huh"
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Reply #12 March 22, 2007 6:30:27 AM
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Kudos to Philo.

Re: ASCII - for us old war horses, we had to memorize the codes like signalmen did Morse code.

I would have wondered why you were talking about an asterisk tho.

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Reply #13 March 22, 2007 6:55:46 AM
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SC... I was going to say Buffy first... but then you said serious geek points so now I'm wondering if you are talking about STNG First Contact.


Not sci-fi geeky as much as internet geeky . . . but nice guess!

And Buffy would be most appropriate. I've just picked up the first issue of Buffy Season Eight (the comic that's the continuation of the television series) and I'm hooked all over again.

Damn that Joss Whedon.
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Reply #14 March 22, 2007 11:34:24 AM
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2010 is a little too early for me. Please.
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Reply #15 March 22, 2007 6:50:54 PM
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Gid,

I love it. Thanks for the laugh.
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