BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012

Subject: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 12:34 PM

Man, I would make a *terrible* witch/nature god, I missed the solstice *again* ...

But Happy New turn of the planet around the sun! May this orbit dance you healthily and luckily around your spiritual core as our home travels around the core of our world! I hope that when another cycle has gone, we find ourselves here again, only better!

Love,

-Mrrzy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 01:36 PM

Right back atchya.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: Amos
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 01:40 PM

Same to you, Mrrz! But this number, (1)4,000,002,012
, is a bit obscure. Four billion? Fourteen billion? What is it presuming to count, and why is the first digit in parentheses?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 09:52 PM

Well, I figure using 2012 for the common era is OK, as it's within rounding error of either the approx 4.5 billion years the planet has been around or the approx 14.5 by the universe has...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: autolycus
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 05:03 AM

Winter solstice is a good choice of new year.

Your last reminds me of the kid seeing a dinosaur in the museum and asking the gallery warder how old it is.

"4 million and two years years and 5 months old."

"How do you know its age so exactly?"

"Well, when I started here, it was 4 million years old and I've worked here two years and and 5 months."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 12:10 PM

LOL!

Also, it occurs to me that before the planet the term "year" is rather useless, so it's really 4,500,002,012, happy new year all over again!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 02:32 PM

Happy New Year to all for the year

80 MGM.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 07:10 PM

May the Earth offer you its blessings this holiday season and throughout the coming year.

The holiday greetings card from Jackson School of Geosciences (UTexas).

Subject: RE: BS: Happy New Year (1)4,000,002,012
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Dec 11 - 05:41 PM

That's lovely!