So. Anyone got plans on what they're going to do with this extra second? Sleep in?
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Howie |
The Earth is slowing down. How will you spend your extra time? |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28117620/ On Dec. 31 this year, your day will be just a second longer. Like the
more well-known time adjustment, the leap year, a "leap second" is tacked on to clocks every so often to keep them correct. Earth's trip around
the sun - our year with all its seasons - is about 365.2422 days long, which we round to 365 to keep things simpler. But every four years, we add 0.2422 x 4
days (that's about one day) at the end of the month of February (extending it from 28 to 29 days) to fix the calendar. Likewise, a "leap second"
is added on to our clocks every so often to keep them in synch with the somewhat unpredictable nature of our planet's rotation, the roughly 24-hour whirl
that brings the sun into the sky each morning. Historically, time was based on the mean rotation of the Earth relative to celestial bodies and the second was
defined from this frame of reference. But the invention of atomic clocks brought about a definition of a second that is independent of the Earth's rotation
and based on a regular signal emitted by electrons changing energy state within an atom. ..............
So. Anyone got plans on what they're going to do with this extra second? Sleep in? |
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From Afar |
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According to this guy, we won't need to: prediction from
Utah Kinda off topic but has to do with time left. Sorta.
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12/13/08 09:28:56.
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Thinker102 |
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What to do with my extra second? ...whoops, there it went.
As to FA's link... 1) Guy seems like potential Jim Jones or David Koresh type. 2) The bit about the USSR (Russia) raining down nukes upon the US (and thus wiping out the biggest foes of the militia/survivalists movement) seems straight out of the `Turner Diaries' and more relevantly that internet time traveler hoax from near on a decade back. There seems to be an element of 'moral cowardness' here: these guys *know* that they are a tiny minority and that the *only* way they will ever see their totalitarian dream come true is if most or all of the rest of us die. Rather than face the moral/ethical consquences of doing this themselves, they invoke a third party (Russia/USSR with its thousands of nukes) to do it for them, taking themselves off the hook. |
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Howie |
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There's a local radio host I listen to who reports that the some assorted nuts in his family decided that Barack Obama is prophecized in the Book of
Revelations as the Anti-Christ, have moved to a compound in Texas, and have sent a message that they've stocked up on food and supplies, and as he puts it
"supplies is code-word for "Guns and Ammo", so, as he puts it, one of the these days we'll see his relatives on the news.
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From Afar |
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102, wouldn't thousands of nukes kinda wipe out the outcast/prophesy groups themselves? What struck me is that the guy is kind of "beyond Mormon"
roughly in a similar way to how a religious extremist (lately quiet) who Howie and I hosted here for awhile, was "beyond Messianic" after he went
Messianic in order to be "beyond standard Fundie." He even tried out an amateur version of doomsayer posturing now and then. It's like some kind
of a "damn you" to groups they branch off from, but which supplied some of their original inspiration. I think it's because their egos won't
let them belong to something where they are not personally dominant. The prophesied destruction is a wish-revenge projection, that they can't logically
want even if they could escape the nukes in their canyons, since they would loose the mainstream population they need to be "against." However, if
they would predict that some survivable bad thing is going to happen, leaving convinced survivors to broadcast to, that might make sense, as it would swell the
numbers of "followers." But they don't, so they're weird.
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Sassy Nation |
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I get an extra second! wow..better not be the second at work!
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Thinker102 |
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102, wouldn't thousands of nukes kinda wipe out the outcast/prophesy groups themselves? What struck me is that the guy is kind of "beyond Mormon" roughly in a similar way to how a religious extremist (lately quiet) who Howie and I hosted here for awhile, was "beyond Messianic" after he went Messianic in order to be "beyond standard Fundie." He even tried out an amateur version of doomsayer posturing now and then. It's like some kind of a "damn you" to groups they branch off from, but which supplied some of their original inspiration. I think it's because their egos won't let them belong to something where they are not personally dominant. The prophesied destruction is a wish-revenge projection, that they can't logically want even if they could escape the nukes in their canyons, since they would loose the mainstream population they need to be "against." However, if they would predict that some survivable bad thing is going to happen, leaving convinced survivors to broadcast to, that might make sense, as it would swell the numbers of "followers." But they don't, so they're weird. Pretty much sums it up. The author of the 'Turner Diaries' wrote at the height of the cold war when some deemed a nuclear exchange 'winnable' or at least 'survivable'. His work featured a racist USSR which actually supported the racist movement in the US, hence they targeted only the `non racist' US cities (by this point the US was fully embroiled in an all out race war). The internet time traveler hoaxer was an advocate of the rural militia movement, with the emphasis on the 'rural'. The soviet nukes in that version of insanity were aimed at the cities, thus sparing the 'right thinking' militia members. None of these people really bother to sit down and think through the full implications of these paranoid schemes, nor are they really capable of doing so. Their ideaology demands certain things, and the ideaology simply cannot be wrong. Worth noting: the worst enemy of groups of this sort is almost always another group of very similiar nature (faction fights between racist groups takes up a fair chunk of the 'Turner Diaries'). |
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Zenman |
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I guess I'll reset my watch with my extra second.
I think the militia members will be toast along with most of the rest of us, 102. The nuke fallout will likely overwhelm a good % of the of the US interior including the rural areas that escape the direct hits. From the maps, it looks like the only safe place from the initial fallout (as it spreads out and heads east) will be S. Ore and N. Ca. (Maybe Cascadia will become the new cradle of civilization, lol.) I couldn't find a good fallout map right off, otherwise I'd post one. |
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From Afar |
another basic glitch in the scenario | ||
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Why would Russia even oblige the fundie ones in the first place, since they would face the very same fate? Now, Al Qaeda maybe, but Russia? Argh.
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Howie |
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Last time I checked, Daniel Lee was the ultimate Ron Paul supporter, raising money to attend the Republican National Convention in Minnesota to hold a powerful
prayer fest that Ron Paul would win the Republican nomination and be on his way to the presidency. It didn't work out that well. Or maybe it did. If he
made it, I'd at least hope he got to attend the Ron Paul rEVOLution fest across the lake. Maybe Daniel Lee can move to one of those Paulvilles and try to
become a quasi-dicatator there?
Larouche has gone on the drum-beat that Barack Obama is not going to become president even if elected, the British won't stand for it-- sort of whimpered forward from the nominating fight when he was backing the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and leading the PUMA charge. I think he's off of that now, and settled into flogging the "British are plotting to Assassinate Obama" line (privately since the summer, publically since being elected). I did notice the blogger I refer to as the leader of the "Larouchian Cryonics Movement" (a rather strange case, he) was excited about the Birth certificate lawsuit (pursued to the Supreme Court by Alan Keyes among others) seeming to confirm that particular prophecy. A bit of trajectory: Larouche was "Beyond Quaker" when his father lead his family out of their congregation and formed their own splinter congregation over a difference of opinion on then current German leader Adolf Hitler. After that it's Trotskyite splintering, "Beyond Marxism" and of course the aptly named "Beyond Psychoanalysis." (In more substantial news: Last month the British government reopened an investigation into the death of Jeremiah Duggan, who attended a Larouche conference in Germany in 2003, and died at some point fleeing the place.) Some level of profanity in the Boiler Room in the Compound in Leesburg at that news. |
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