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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 133754
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Posted: 01 January 2025 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | 1
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To the Future we go!
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 12801
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Posted: 01 January 2025 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | 2
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I just heard from the other room a song playing on the TV...
"...highway to hell... we're on the highway to hell...!"
Okay!
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Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 August 2018 Location: United States Posts: 911
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Posted: 01 January 2025 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | 3
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Happy New Year all! Channeling love and peace!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 01 January 2025 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | 4
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Since the Century turned, 25 years ago, the dates have seemed increasingly like something out of sci-fi.2025 seems especially so!
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James Johnson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 March 2009 Location: United States Posts: 2177
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Posted: 01 January 2025 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | 5
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I'm trying to think of peace and happiness today for 2025, but the events in New Orleans have me being very pessimistic for this year......
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Steven Queen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 February 2020 Location: United States Posts: 955
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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | 6
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I 100% agree. The year 2025 seems like a time for jet packs and personal force fields.
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Eric Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 27 October 2013 Location: United States Posts: 2398
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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | 7
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I really enjoyed DEATHLOK as a kid, set in the far off future of--1990!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | 8
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Many a time stories are set too close. I cautioned Frank Miller that his 1995 timeframe for Martha Washington was one we were going to catch up to very quickly. Meanwhile, I imagined NEXT MEN as taking place in the early 21st century, tho I did not tie it down too closely. At the other end of the spectrum, Isaac Asimov set his robot novels (THE CAVES OF STEEL etc) much too far in the Future, at 50,000 years. The people and their society were much too familiar to be so far away. Meanwhile, we are currently being inflicted with a DUNE “prequel” set 10,000 years before the original, yet looking much the same.
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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 8172
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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | 9
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"Since the Century turned, 25 years ago, the dates have seemed increasingly like something out of sci-fi.2025 seems especially so!" --- It freaked me out when I realized that the "new millennium" is already one quarter done!
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 16033
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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | 10
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Vinny wrote:
It freaked me out when I realized that the "new millennium" is already one quarter done! |
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The first century of the new millennium is approaching a quarter done. The millennium itself has considerably more left.
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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 03 January 2025 at 3:11am | IP Logged | 11
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Duh, yes, that is what I meant. And for added error, I forgot about the millennium actually starting in 2001.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 03 January 2025 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | 12
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Wellll…. Calendars are based on tradition, not math. And with our calendar, the tradition has long been that the new century (or millennium) begins when the last two digits flip over to 00.Those feeling pedantic about it will argue that we don’t start counting to 100 with 00, but since we do not know the precise year for the event we are commemorating (the birth of Jesus, which can be no later than 4BCE), it’s perfectly acceptable to use the long established tradition of 00.
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