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Skriven 2012-03-03 03:35:37 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 25958 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
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Hello Michiel,

 LL>> note: A few weeks ago Michiel van der Vlist wrote in the FIDONEWS
 LL>> when the real end of the world will occur - during the Transit of
 LL>> Venus.  He also noted the date as to when this will occur, which
 LL>> happens to be the same date noted in the Mayan calendar - 6/6/2012.

 MvdV> You are putting words into my mouth. The article was about IPv6 launch
day
 MvdV> on the 6th of June. In passing I also mentioned that on that same date
 MvdV> there would be on of these rare Venus transits.

I am sure it is coincidence, and nothing more, that the IPv6 launch
day and the end of the world happen to be on the same date.  After all,
the Mayans made absolutely no mention of IPv6 in their calendar.

 MvdV> The link to the end of the world is yours, not mine as your wording
 MvdV> suggests.

The Mayans made the connection, and should be given due credit, which
is what I did.  Why you take issue with that is beyond me.  While you
may not have been aware of the connection, that does not change the
fact of the matter of when the end of the world will be.

 LL>> The Mayans knew such transits of Venus always occur in pairs,

 MvdV> These transits do indeed occur in pairs that are 8 years apart. But I
find
 MvdV> it extremely unlikely that the Mayans knew that. One can not observe it
 MvdV> with the naked eye and since the invention of the telescope, only six
 MvdV> transits have been observed. There are no indications the Mayas were
ware
 MvdV> of the phenomena.

The Mayans used five calendars, direct evidence proving the Mayans
were very much aware of the phenomemon, and could predict when those
transits would occur.  If you would like me to prove it through the
mathematics of their calendar, I will gladly do so at your request.

 MvdV> The last one was on the 8th of June 2004. I watched that in all its
glory
 MvdV> with my own telescope from my own garden. That will probably be the only
 MvdV> one I will ever see, because the next transit in june 2012, the second
of a
 MvdV> pair, will take place when the sun is below the horizon here, except for
 MvdV> the last hour. I do not have a clear view on the eastern horizon, so I
will
 MvdV> have to travel to see it. I don't know if that is worth it. In this
country
 MvdV> there is a 50+% chance there will be a cloud cover anyway. And the one
 MvdV> after that in 2117, I surely will miss.

I am sure there will be future transits after the event on 6-6-2012.
However, none of us will be there to observe the phenomena, as mankind
will have ceased to exist.

 LL>> with the first being the "birth of Venus" and the second being the
 LL>> "death of Venus", the symbolism meaning the birth and death of the
 LL>> human race.

 MvdV> So Venus lives for eight years, to be rebourn after 121 or 105 years?

It is a continuous cycle, until the last transit.  In which case
it really won't matter.  Not to us, anyway.

 MvdV> Yeah, right.

I'd like to hear you say that the day after The End.

--Lee

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