2 things I thought were funny

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  1. death_star

    death_star What's a Dremel?

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    My social teacher was talking about the year 2000 and how all the computers were gonna screw up all technolegy by displaying the wrong dates ect. well my social teachers friend was gonna go to the edge of a timezone at 11:45 PM (world time) then step over the time zone so that it would be 12:45 wait an hour and step back so technicly, when 2000 hit, he wasnt anywhere! smart/crazy friend huh then he could tell his grandkids that he wasnt anywhere in the world when 2000 came. the other thing is for you people that always need somone to talk to... add bot2k3@hotmail to MSN and type !help its pretty addicting.
     
  2. hydrogen18

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    umm wow, only missed it by about 3 years!
     
  3. Guest-16

    Guest-16 Guest

    So technically, it doesnt have to be 2000, it can be anytime.
     
  4. death_star

    death_star What's a Dremel?

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    heh, he thought of this 3 years ago but didnt have the cash to do it. just found it interesting.
     
  5. Astrum

    Astrum Dare to dream.

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    That would be an impossibility.
    Although we have the world defined in set time zones they are only for convenience and would serve no practical purpose in a situation such as this. His instentaneous time can be in only one of three states, pre-2000, 2000, or post-2000. Since the measure of time would be infinitely small in a situation such as this he would infact at one point hit the year 2000 so to say.
    Even in a non-technical thought he would still be somewhere when the year changed to 2000. After all, once he crosses the time zone from 1999 to 2000 the year changes for him. It might have changed for everyone else already but it is changing for him right at that moment. So in all actuality he would have would have been crossing time zones when 1999 changed to 2000.

    I'm such a math geek. :geek:
     
  6. death_star

    death_star What's a Dremel?

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    Astrum Dare to dream.

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    I was disproving your proposed course of (late) actions to miss the change over from 1999 to 2000 :D .
     
  8. Pflumingo

    Pflumingo givem the bird.

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    Next February is one of my good friend's 8'th birthday... He was born in 1972, on February 29... So yea, he will have lived for 32 years, but only had 8 real birthdays. Kinda funky...

    Astrum, Not to contradict you, but since time is relative, and he was never aproaching the speed of light, then his case would be correct, and he would never have to deal with the actual time, 2000.0000 (being that a day is 1/365 of a year, midnight on January 1, 2000 was technically 2000.00273972602739726027397260273972603) He jumped right from 1999.997356786546544 to 2000.000342152344235234, never hitting 2000.00000000 like the rest of us.

    Ok, so I'm a geek.
     
  9. :Galokin:

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    stop it wiv all the technical jargon...damn i cant stand being stoopid! lol :lol:

    Tell us in easy to understand terms :)
     
  10. acron^

    acron^ ePeen++;

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    I am so so totally lost...

    so, where do beef burgers come into it again?
     
  11. :: Phat ::

    :: Phat :: Oooh shakalaka!

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    Code:
    1999------------------------------|--------2000
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                                   Here.
     
     
  12. Yo-DUH_87

    Yo-DUH_87 Who you calling tiny?

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    I have a cousin that has the same birthdate. When he went in to get his drivers licence, he broke the DMV computer because it didn't know how to deal with Feb. 29th :D :D

    Heard of a guy that flew around the world following year 2000, but I think it is just a rumor, kinda stupid if you ask me...
     
  13. penski

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    That would mean maintaining 330.5mph for 24 hours...

    *n
     
  14. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    Yur thinking of Louis Wu,
    And to answer Penski, he used transfer booths. :rock:
     
  15. Astrum

    Astrum Dare to dream.

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    Depends what time is relative to. I beleive time would be relative (in this instance) according to your exact position on the Earth. This can be represented by our convenient time zones. However for this situation our time zones would have to be infinitly small so we can have exact measurements. So if you were to go East then your relative time (relative to your position on Earth ignoring all other cosmological movement) would increase an infinitly small amount of time for each time zone you went into (which are also infinityly small). Likewise going West moving from an infinitly small time zone to an infinitly small time zone would subtract an infinitly small amount of time from your relative time.
    So when he first moves from 11:45 -> 12:45 by moving East he has to somehow gain that one hour. Since we are talking about infinitly small time zones he would have to walk a fair distance to get to the time 12:45 (by the normal flow of time plus infinitly small amount of time increments in accordance to the number of time zones passed). Since we are using infinitly small measurements for time and position there must be some point when you are at the year 2000. Then when you head West it reall doesn't matter since you already passed the year 2000 previously.

    Now if you wanted this to all work out and not have a math geek create a huge theory that disproves it, all you have to add is: "standard" to your time zones. Time zones can mean any time zone I would like to define while standard time zones mean... Well, standard time zones that everyone uses around the world. Aren't I mean and longwinded? :D
     
  16. Bruno_me

    Bruno_me Fake-ad‎min

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    here, have a cheeseburger

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  17. acron^

    acron^ ePeen++;

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    Aha! Makes sense now.
     
  18. Astrum

    Astrum Dare to dream.

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    You have no idea how hungry I am right now Bruno... I really hate you.
     
  19. MikeTitan

    MikeTitan Ling Ling: 273 Battle Points

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    And "that" make you hungry.?? :eyebrow:

    Seriously so the burger is relative to time.

    So the hunger of the person looking at said burger is inversely proportional to the invtingness of the said burger.

    I get it.. really.. I do.. :worried: :idea:
     

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