09/09/09

[Battery Rover]

For most of us it is just another day but for some it takes on a different meaning.

In Japan 9 is considered a very unlucky number with many of them refusing to enter rooms with a 9 included while japanese emperors would never have worn a robe with nine dragons.

Alternatively in China it is considered lucky second only to 8 due to it being associated with long life as it sounds like the word for long lasting.
Chinese emperors would also be associated with nine fearsome dragons as can be seen in architecture. It is believed also that the Forbidden City was built with 9999 rooms.

It could also be a marketers dream with plenty of €9.99 specials available I am sure.

The 9/9/09 is also the 252nd day of the year and if you add the 3 digits together 2+5+2 they equal 9

So does anyone on here have beliefs in numerology?

[atfconline]

Nein! :D

[strangeirish]

Nein! :D
Ha Ha.

[Magicme]

Yup. I am a number 1 person and would read into numbers a bit. Like the mysticism associated with them.

Am also slightly to very number dyslexic (depends how tired or stressed I am!) so I kinda fear and hate numbers too.

[Paddyfield]

Alternatively in China it is considered lucky second only to 8 due to it being associated with long life as it sounds like the word for long lasting.
Chinese emperors would also be associated with nine fearsome dragons as can be seen in architecture.

My son was born 13 weeks prematurely on 08/08/07. He weighed 1.1kg and the medics said he would not survive more than a few hours.. A friend gave me hope by saying that he will thrive because he was born on the 8th day of the 8th month, based on the Chinese theory on the number 8.

Four months later he left hospital.He celebrated his 2nd birthday last month and is a perfectly normal child with out any side effects.

It would make you think...!

[dahamsta]

09/09/09 is a poor relation to 11/11/'11 at 11:11am.

[Magicme]

Totally agree, cant wait for the 11's to stack up. 11.11 is my favourite time of the day as I love the perfect symetry (sp?) of it. I like to get up at that time at weekends and will be logging off at that time tonight.

[SkStu]

why was 6 afraid of 7?



Cos 7 8 9.

Oooh mystic!

[tetsujin1979]

my parent's wedding anniversary is 11/11...

[Dunny]

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/06/10/9-poster.jpg

[jebus]

How do people believe in such garbage

[dahamsta]

Yeah, numbers are rubbish. But crystals and magnetism rock!

[thischarmingman]

How do people believe in such garbage

Get out of here with your bad vibes!

[brendy_éire]

Dates and numbers are just ways of telling the time. Nothing else. New Year celebrations annoy me too. Pointless.

[elroy]

Apparently the world is going to end on 21 December 2012! FACT, well sort of.


Apparently a whole bunch of ancient and modern tribes have all predicted this date, mind you alot depends how you interpret what they say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

[pineapple stu]

I like this bit -


Schele and Freidel calculate that the date at which this odometer would run out lies some 4.134105 × 10^28 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe

[strangeirish]

Yup. I am a number 1 person and would read into numbers a bit. Like the mysticism associated with them.

Am also slightly to very number dyslexic (depends how tired or stressed I am!) so I kinda fear and hate numbers too.
So, with a 6 and 9, you wouldn't know if you were coming or going?:D

[Pauro 76]

I once looked at the stars above and they seemed to join themselves into the numbers 3.14159. I then thought it must be pi(e) in the sky.

[Sligo Hornet]

Apparently the world is going to end on 21 December 2012! FACT, well sort of.


Apparently a whole bunch of ancient and modern tribes have all predicted this date, mind you alot depends how you interpret what they say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon


We normally finish work for the Christmas Shutdown on the 20th.......so if that's the case, I might consider letting my staff have the afternoon off

[First]

So, with a 6 and 9, you wouldn't know if you were coming or going?:D


Whereas if you put them together coming would be a given.

[centre mid]

Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?

[First]

Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?


About 14billion and 51 mins

[pineapple stu]

9th September 2009.

[First]

9th September 2009.

Working off that darn Christian clock Stuie:)

[pineapple stu]

Darn tootin. If a tree falls in a forest and no-one's around, it makes a lovely loud crash.

[superfrank]

08/08/08 was another lucky one.

Apparently, that's why they the Olympics open on that day last year.

My mother also remarried that day but I think that was just down to availability.

[Magicme]

Of the date to marry, your mother or her husband?

[stann]

Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?

Not untrue, but you could as correctly say it's also somewhere between one second and 160,000,000,000,000 million billion trillion millennia old. :)
The accepted figure for our solar system is in or around 4.6 billion years, with our gaff some 4 or 5 hundred million years younger than that. The 14 billion is currently at the top end of the age of our universe.

I like numbers, the freaky things they do, like the multiples of 9 thing.

But as to any significance? Of course not. They're pretty arbitrary symbols after all.
For one thing the numbers we use come from a range of different cultures.

[TheBoss]

Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?

The earth is older than the universe !

[centre mid]

The earth is older than the universe !

Best guess puts the universe at between 15 & 20 billion years old, but thats all it is, an educated guess. Our solar system formed about 4-5 billion years ago so its estimated that earth began forming 4.5 - 14 billions years ago.

[pineapple stu]

I think you can take out the 14 billion year old earth theory! It'd be impressive if it were 10 billion years older than the rest of the solar system.

[centre mid]

There isnt really a definitive theory yet but they are getting closer to one all the time. The problem being its very hard to correctly age anything that is too far away to radiation age. Different strands of science will have a different theory of how old planets/stars etc are, it depends what field of science your working in I suppose. There are mad whores who think the world is only 6000 years old but thankfully his 8 years were up last Jan.

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, but I think 4.5bn is the common consensus. On the basis that no-one was there to check, it can't be proven, but I don't think there's any serious argument for the earth being 14bn years old.

[Battery Rover]

Apparently the world is going to end on 21 December 2012!

Have read about the Mayan calender ending on that day alright along with the appearance of the lizard king and Planet X. Some pretty heavy stuff about it on conspiracy theory websites.

Well if its true we have
1200 days
Or 3 years, 3 months, 13 days

103,680,000 seconds
1,728,000 minutes
28,800 hours
171 weeks (rounded down)

I know quiet day:D

[DeLorean]

My son was born 13 weeks prematurely on 08/08/07. He weighed 1.1kg and the medics said he would not survive more than a few hours.. A friend gave me hope by saying that he will thrive because he was born on the 8th day of the 8th month, based on the Chinese theory on the number 8.

Cool, that's my birthday too, except the 07 bit obviously!!

[DeLorean]

Apparently the world is going to end on 21 December 2012! FACT, well sort of

Great, then I get to die with all ye great guys, instead of dying alone at a later date.:o

[thischarmingman]

Whereas if you put them together coming would be a given.

Speak for yourself...:(







:p

[thischarmingman]

On the subject of the origins of the world, I always think of Archbishop Ussher, who spend years going through the Bible in the 1650's and finally calculated the beginning of creation to have been nightfall preceding 23 October 4004 BC (around suppertime).

[stann]

Best guess puts the universe at between 15 & 20 billion years old, but thats all it is, an educated guess. Our solar system formed about 4-5 billion years ago so its estimated that earth began forming 4.5 - 14 billions years ago.

Eh... no it doesn't.
The accepted consensus is that our universe is between 13 and a half and 14 billion years old.
The solar system is 4.6 billion years old.
The earth cannot be older than the solar system, as it formed from the circumstellar disc formed as the Sun itself formed, and indeed it isn't. It's pretty much agreed that it is 4.5 billion years old or so, maybe a smidge more (4.54).
Nobody estimates that it began forming 14 billion years ago, don't know where that's coming from.

[Mr A]

Anyhow, here's a Motorhead song about today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K5mHHhVU4

[tetsujin1979]

Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?

next tuesday.

[First]

Speak for yourself...:(







:p

Thats a good start tongue out:)

[Magicme]

Have read about the Mayan calender ending on that day alright along with the appearance of the lizard king and Planet X. Some pretty heavy stuff about it on conspiracy theory websites.

Well if its true we have
1200 days
Or 3 years, 3 months, 13 days

103,680,000 seconds
1,728,000 minutes
28,800 hours
171 weeks (rounded down)

I know quiet day:D


Yeah its fascinating how the Mayan's looked at things and how much they knew. They are my favourite of the ancient civilisations and if had a daughter her name would be Maya in honour of them!