October 10, 2010: The Day the World Will End!

Published on March 21, 2007 By Gideon MacLeish In Misc

It all makes sense to me now!

For those who know me, I am a HUGE Douglas Adams fan, have been for many many years. So I was pontificating and I have decided the world will end on October 10, 2010.

Bonus points to anyone who can make the connection as to how and why I came to that conclusion. I'll tell ya after I get a fair sampling of guesses

Comments

Gideon MacLeish

on Mar 21, 2007

Ok, here's a hint for those of you who must have spoilers. DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY STUMPED!

seriously...only read this if you're stumped

I'm not kidding, folks

I MEAN IT!

Hint: since you were so desperate to have it: put the date in the standard (mm/dd/yy) format.

philomedy

on Mar 21, 2007

Binary?

I place DA on the highest pedestal there is, but I'm so far removed from reading THGTTG that I can't remember why October 10 is significant. On the upside, you've inspired me to go read the books and revisit the man responsible for making me want to be a writer.

foreverserenity

on Mar 21, 2007

Ouija board?!

Gideon MacLeish

on Mar 21, 2007

Philomedy is on the right track...

keep chasin'...you're almost there!

philomedy

on Mar 21, 2007

101010=Binary for 42=The answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

YES!

I'm such a nerd.

philomedy

on Mar 21, 2007

On an interesting side note, 101010 is ASCII code for asterisk, which is a search wildcard. Hence, if you are searching for *, you are searching for everything.

Perhaps the world will not end, just some monumental discovery will be made.

Gideon MacLeish

on Mar 21, 2007

Very Good, Philomedy. You get a cookie!

Did you do it without the hint or did you use the hint? (be honest, now!)

The asterisk information is very cool as well. I didn't know that was the ASCII code for asterisk. Somehow I think that was probably done on purpose! LOL!

philomedy

on Mar 21, 2007

I will admit to requiring the hint. As I said, I haven't read the books in nearly 2 years. I knew it was connected to 42 somehow, but I didn't make the connection to binary until I read the hint and numerized the date.

My backup idea was that October 10, 2010 was the date the dolphins left.

SanChonino

on Mar 22, 2007

Except for where you're wrong, Gid. The world is gonna end when the zombie uprising occurs.

In 2046.

On March 31st.

At 2:03 pm.

(All right, what am I referencing? Really, really big amounts of geek points for whoever can get this.)

momijiki

on Mar 22, 2007

Gid, I got the date thing right away.

SC... I was going to say Buffy first... but then you said serious geek points so now I'm wondering if you are talking about STNG First Contact. That's about as geeky as I get... well okay. Not so. But as geeky as I can at the moment

Texas Wahine

on Mar 22, 2007

The world is gonna end when the zombie uprising occurs.

LOL. My 9 year old is an *expert* on zombie uprising survival (he read a really cool book about it; I can't remember the name of it now), which makes him an excellent conversationalist when it comes to speaking with, proper, uptight adults. Hahahaha.

"What did he say?"

"Um, he said 'use your head, cut off theirs'...nice weather we're having, huh"

Dr Guy

on Mar 22, 2007

Kudos to Philo.

Re: ASCII - for us old war horses, we had to memorize the codes like signalmen did Morse code.

I would have wondered why you were talking about an asterisk tho.

SanChonino

on Mar 22, 2007

SC... I was going to say Buffy first... but then you said serious geek points so now I'm wondering if you are talking about STNG First Contact.

Not sci-fi geeky as much as internet geeky . . . but nice guess!

And Buffy would be most appropriate. I've just picked up the first issue of Buffy Season Eight (the comic that's the continuation of the television series) and I'm hooked all over again.

Damn that Joss Whedon.

adnauseam

on Mar 22, 2007

2010 is a little too early for me. Please.

dynamaso

on Mar 22, 2007

Gid,

I love it. Thanks for the laugh.

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