The Rational Side of "2012"

[Alareth]

I think it has something to do with this

 

[dropzone]

I was told there would be no math.

 

[dafydd]

I was told there would be no math.

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[dafydd]

I was told there would be no math.

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[wollery]

Well done Epix, this one failed on just about every level, although next time you might want to try writing it a non-existent language to make it truly incomprehensible on every level imaginable.

 

[Lukraak_Sisser]

Ah, wait, I see it.
If you add the numbers, with the first and last being multiplied by 10 and the middle numbers as they are, you get 41.
And since we all know that 42 is the answer, then the next year will be the year we know everything, provided you do some additional nonsense math to get what you want.

Its all clear to me now!

 

[nvidiot]

Even for epix, this is fail on a truly spectacular scale.

 

[Stellafane]

I passed the test with flying colors. Where's my couple of thousand young females? May as well get started on that breeding now!

 

[Aepervius]

It does not work in all language so it fails. It works only in english and a few others.

In some other languages (for example) 2012 is NEITHER twenty twelkve nor 2 thousand and 12.

Ni-Sen Ju-Ni.

 

[Ladewig]

From time to time, the Universe tests the natural evolution of the mind of human species. The 2012 hoopla is an example. The subject spread around like Spanish flu and became familiar to the point of Hollywood capitalizing on the notoriety.

The principle of the test calls for completing a statement with characters that seem to fit the circumstances. Before anything, when the collection of those four digits 2012 is interpreted as a year, there are two ways to verbalize it:

1) 2012 = "year twenty twelve"

2) 2012 = "year two thousand twelve"

you make the little joke, yes?

 

[Sideroxylon]

[cat pushing watermelon out of lake.jpg]

 

[Greedo]

Hmmmm

 

[Foolmewunz]

You know that conundrum about the infinite number of monkeys on infinite number of typewriters?

Is this one of the early trials?

 

[caniswalensis]

Epix, I have to admit that I have no understanding of your OP.

I do not understand the blanks, or what sort of question is being asked or what the guidelines for filling in the blanks might be.

It looks interesting to me, as I enjoy reading about Mayan doomsday theories even though I do not put any stock in them.

Maybe you would care to elaborate for me? I really just can't figure out what you are driving at.

Regards, Canis

 

[I Ratant]

You know that conundrum about the infinite number of monkeys on infinite number of typewriters?

Is this one of the early trials?

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Shakespeare it ain't, that's fer shure!

 

[Giraffe107]

He already explained it. Somehow the year that is the end of the Mayan Calendar's great cycle that corresponds to the year 2012 in the Gregorian Calendar means "the end" and since the Mayans invented their calendar when they were already an "ancient civilization" (????) the significance of our calling the year "twenty-twelve" is somehow "the end".

Yep. . . .that's some seriously rational thinking all right!

Thank you for distilling the OP is something resembling coherent English. I was not able to get even half of that by myself.

 

[devnull]

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Shakespeare it ain't, that's fer shure!

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times! Stupid monkey!"

 

[dafydd]

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times! Stupid monkey!"

'To be or not to be,that is the zwvornik'- Bob Newhart

 

[Sabretooth]

*GASP* Haven't you sheeple figured it out yet!!?!?!?! LOOK!





2012 = ZION



It's just a matter of time!!!!!

 

[Loss Leader]

I have worked out the solutions for (a), (b), (c) and (d), however, I consider them so plainly obvious that I see no reason to bother to state them here.