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Rapture coincides with UPEW

TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
edited 2011-05-25 06:43 in General Discussion
Chance?
Coincidence?
Divine Planning?

I'm thinking that UPEW is a good place to be if the rapture does start this coming Saturday. After all, the mother ship will need techie types, and so being among a gathering of them is bound to increase my odds of catching a ride off this doomed rock.

Ho, wait, what is that bulge on the side of my face. Why it is my tongue in cheek.

Please forgive me lord for that, but you have to admit it is a strange happening.

Party On Dudes!
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  • RossHRossH Posts: 5,549
    edited 2011-05-18 22:02
    TinkersALot wrote: »
    Chance?
    Coincidence?
    Divine Planning?

    I'm thinking that UPEW is a good place to be if the rapture does start this coming Saturday. After all, the mother ship will need techie types, and so being among a gathering of them is bound to increase my odds of catching a ride off this doomed rock.

    Ho, wait, what is that bulge on the side of my face. Why it is my tongue in cheek.

    Please forgive me lord for that, but you have to admit it is a strange happening.

    Party On Dudes!

    Won't we all look foolish when it is all the Propellers that get caught up, leaving us mere humans struggling down here with all those PIC, AVR and XMOS chips?

    Ross.
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-18 22:08
    well, then I suppose we will deserve our dark fate. and then we will also know that the gods are space faring cyborgs and that the propeller was the entire reason for everything that happened since the first dawn that shone down on this crusty old rock.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-05-18 22:47
    I'll still be here, trolling the Safeway parking lot for a new car. :)

    -Phil
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-18 23:37
    the trick will be to match up all the car keys that are laying around on the ground with the proper vehicle. make sure you have a parallax screwdriver in your pocket in case you need to replace the batteries in that fine porshe alarm-lock fob that is just laying there in the checkout aisle. now a situational ethics question: if the groceries are bagged and paid for, but the purchaser has been whisked away, is it kosher (sic!) to take their groceries and their car?
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2011-05-19 05:27
    TinkersALot wrote: »
    Chance?
    Coincidence?
    Divine Planning?

    Its not going to happen. That guy has been date setting most of his life and it hasn't happened all of the other times he predicted and he uses flawed methodology. Have a good time at UPEW.
  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2011-05-19 07:21
    "No! stop!, don't go in... It's a cook book!!"
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-19 07:59
    @Ttailspin: ROTFLMAO!
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-05-19 08:06
    Ttailspin wrote: »
    "No! stop!, don't go in... It's a cook book!!"

    OMGROFLOL!!! Funniest reference all day!

    OBC
  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2011-05-19 08:14
    Wait i thought the world was supposed to end in 2012?:)
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-05-19 08:38
    Well I'm just happy to know that someone will be looking after all the left-behind pets: http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/
  • Bill ChennaultBill Chennault Posts: 1,198
    edited 2011-05-19 08:41
    Ravenkallen--
    Re: Rapture coincides with UPEW
    Wait i thought the world was supposed to end in 2012?
    It is. Just wait and see.

    --Bill
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,407
    edited 2011-05-19 14:09
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    I'll still be here, trolling the Safeway parking lot for a new car. :)

    -Phil

    Really? Did that beater-of-a-Mercedes finally roll over and die? That thing had at least 250K ocean-corroded miles on it, right?

    Get a Subaru this time.

    Ken Gracey
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-05-19 14:15
    Ken Gracey wrote: »
    Get a Subaru this time.

    Ken Gracey

    Spoken like a true Mountain Man. One time I was driving down from Tahoe in snow so bad the chain control guys couldn't tell what kind of car I was driving. When they realized it was a Subaru they waved me through without chains.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-05-19 15:11
    Ken Gracey wrote:
    Did that beater-of-a-Mercedes finally roll over and die?
    Oh, no: it still purrs like a kitten. It needs new ball joints, but I've still got a good 40K miles left on the tires, so I'm shooting for at least 300K on the odo.

    -Phil
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-19 16:49
    I don't know, maybe I'll take an unannounced vacation, and stop answering my phone and everything else; if only to just to leave some wondering if they were left behind to deal with all the hard-to-make-work micro-controllers in the world.

    then again, maybe we should work on one of these as our overnight project?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQDipox0xg&NR=1

    I'm sure some folks would get a kick out this kind of stunt on the 'morning after'
  • Jessica UelmenJessica Uelmen Posts: 490
    edited 2011-05-19 16:56
    I dunno, now there's rumors that this 'rapture' is going to be a Zombie Apocalypse. I mean, if the CDC is preparing...

    http://n.pr/jGHURb
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-19 17:06
    well, now i'm left to ponder what all that plastic and duct tape is going to do for me in case of either an oncoming zombie horde (i mean worse than the normal zombies one encounters on a walk-about-the-bad-parts-of-town) or a space-robot invasion of biblical proportions. i should probably just focus on the tip of the soldering iron instead unless i would burn my fingertips..
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-05-19 17:09
    TinkersALot wrote: »
    well, now i'm left to ponder what all that plastic and duct tape is going to do for me in case of either an oncoming zombie horde (i mean worse than the normal zombies one encounters on a walk-about-the-bad-parts-of-town) or a space-robot invasion of biblical proportions. i should probably just focus on the tip of the soldering iron instead unless i would burn my fingertips..

    I guess the CDC felt it would be inappropriate to suggest a Mossberg and a few cases of double-ought buckshot.
  • jdoleckijdolecki Posts: 726
    edited 2011-05-20 03:34
    There is no rapture we will all just breakdown.

    According to Steven Hawkings

    He says: "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

    In "Grand Design," a book published last year, Hawking had declared that it was "not necessary to invoke God ... to get the universe going."
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-05-20 04:04
    TinkersALot wrote: »
    ..... if the rapture does start this coming Saturday....

    That man has seen the future: on that holy day we all get Macs:

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/19/apple.religion/
  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2011-05-20 07:26
    @Electricaye.... That is exactly why i can't stand apple and their freakish tech cult. I will use Windows or Linux till the day i drop:)
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-05-20 07:54
    Ravenkallen wrote: »
    That is exactly why i can't stand apple and their freakish tech cult.

    While I may have a shrine to Steve Jobs in my foyer and bow toward Cupertino three times a day ;), I also know a large number of "normal" people who use Apple products.

    Also, when you see articles like that keep in mind that websites know that posting articles like that will get them truckloads of page views. It's called link bait.
  • JimInCAJimInCA Posts: 80
    edited 2011-05-20 08:09
    SSteve wrote: »
    While I may have a shrine to Steve Jobs in my foyer ...

    Steve Jobs???? You must be a cultist. I on the other hand am completely normal with a shrine to Steve Wozniak…
    Jim...
  • Lord SteveLord Steve Posts: 206
    edited 2011-05-20 08:45
    So who is your authority, Stephen Hawking or God? God lays out the timeline of history in the Bible. Believers have been warning the world that, in general, a judgment day was coming. Now, believers can know from the Bible that the 17th day of the 2nd month of the Biblical calendar this year is the day of the Rapture and when the time of judgment begins. If you don't want to believe it, that is your business.

    In a matter of hours, the world will see that God was right all along. There is still time to look into what the Bible says about this matter.

    http://www.familyradio.com
  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2011-05-20 08:55
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  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-05-20 09:03
    JimInCA wrote: »
    Steve Jobs???? You must be a cultist. I on the other hand am completely normal with a shrine to Steve Wozniak…
    Jim...

    LOL
  • TinkersALotTinkersALot Posts: 535
    edited 2011-05-20 09:03
    as long as there is microwave popcorn in the local safeway on monday morning; i think we're gonna be okay. now if all the popcorn is taken away too, well, then that sounds like hell on earth, and so then i would vote for all of doomed to remain here humans to resort to the omega man solution.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-05-20 09:04
    Lord Steve wrote: »
    ... There is still time to look into what the Bible says about this matter....

    Matthew 24:36
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,261
    edited 2011-05-20 09:28
    Anybody disappear yet?

    I figure as long as Br'er Whit is still here, we're golden.

    But I haven't... heard... from... him... lately...
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-05-20 09:48
    I notice there was no timezone specified for when R-Day is supposed to start. So I suppose that means there will be a rolling rapture, starting at the international dateline and sweeping westward around the globe as Saturday arrives at each geographical location. This seems very sensible, actually, as it addresses any rapture bandwidth issues that might arise. Of course internal buffering may still be necessary where dense pockets of the Blessed are encountered.

    -Phil
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