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Posted: 01 January 2025 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

To the Future we go!
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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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Happy New Year all! Channeling love and peace!

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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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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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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I 100% agree.  The year 2025 seems like a time for jet packs and personal force fields.
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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

I really enjoyed DEATHLOK as a kid, set in the far off future of--1990!
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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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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

"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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It freaked me out when I realized that the "new millennium" is already one quarter done!

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Posted: 02 January 2025 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

 Vinny wrote:
It freaked me out when I realized that the "new millennium" is already one quarter done!

The first century of the new millennium is approaching a quarter done. The millennium itself has considerably more left.
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Posted: 03 January 2025 at 3:11am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Duh, yes, that is what I meant. And for added error, I forgot about the millennium actually starting in 2001.
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Posted: 03 January 2025 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

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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