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Remember the Mayan calendar brouhaha over 2012? They just forgot to carry the 1. And here we are.
by vz8 6y ago
Remember the Mayan calendar brouhaha over 2012? They just forgot to carry the 1.
And here we are.
- felipemnoa 6y agoWould have made a great movie. "The Mayans were off by 8 years"
- nkrisc 6y agoI'm sure the Mayan's original paper they submitted for peer review had the appropriate margins or error detailed, it was just lost once the newspapers picked it up.
- felipemnoa 6y agoGreat point!
- _Microft 6y agoLet me guess - it would begin like this: a scientist sitting at their desk late at night (at home, old furniture, bookshelves in the background, the table covered with papers and scrolls, faint light of an desk lamp (green lampshade?), maybe an open fire bickering offscreen) suddenly grabbing a paper, looking closer, adjusting their glasses, then starting to flip pages in a book, looking again at the paper, covering their mouth with a hand, jumping up, tapping a spot on the paper, rolling it up before grabbing a coat from the coat rack, ...
- felipemnoa 6y agoWow! This short intro is actually quite good.
- _Microft 6y agoThanks! Some more? :D Scientist drives down a road (darkness, rain, a forest) and reachs a town (darkness and rain again, occasionally a streetlamp, high contrast, lights are blinding). Checks if paper is still in their pocket and accidently runs a redlight. Then: deep roar of the horn of a truck, t-boning the car a moment later. Blue lights flashing. Firefighters pulling the scientist from the car, the ambulance drives off. Coat is seen at the site of the accident. ICU, ECG beeping: the scientist is still unconscious or in a coma. End of intro.
- felipemnoa 6y agoI really like your ideas. You seem to have talent for this. Would definitely read something like this if you ever chose to write it.