[7.3.5] "What year is it?" - Syntax - 7/9/07

Neoteny wrote:

Time is relative - the world has existed for billions, likely trillions, if not more, of years.

There was time before us, and there will be time after us.

Lest we forget that this is really something like the year 3,436,894,003,999 since the emergance of the Earth, and some infinite measure of time since the emergance of existance. But that's assuming existance didn't always exist, which is another matter, entirely.

I'm pretty sure earth is no more than 6 billion years old... assuming time is relative and all that stuff..

Quite possible - I just pulled that number off the top of my head, because, like the rest of us, I don't really know.

We can only really guess, albeit in an educated manner, when our humble planet came to be, just as we can only guess when it will cease to be.

Skill wrote:

Neoteny wrote:

Time is relative - the world has existed for billions, likely trillions, if not more, of years.

There was time before us, and there will be time after us.

Lest we forget that this is really something like the year 3,436,894,003,999 since the emergance of the Earth, and some infinite measure of time since the emergance of existance. But that's assuming existance didn't always exist, which is another matter, entirely.

I'm pretty sure earth is no more than 6 billion years old... assuming time is relative and all that stuff..

Quite possible - I just pulled that number off the top of my head, because, like the rest of us, I don't really know.

We can only really guess, albeit in an educated manner, when our humble planet came to be, just as we can only guess when it will cease to be.

phi wrote:

Top notch! I would have sold my left leg to be the one talking to Tick Tock.

Given that the war most likely happened some time around 2100 (look at the masses of construction in the Real along with the extensive "sewers" even with all the machine labor, construction takes time.

Then say another another 200 years per Matrix implimentation/purge cycle puts us at around the 3300 mark with an error margin of anything up to 600 years. Make it 100 years, like the Zion we have/had. And scratch two of them since the first two versions of the matrix fell flat quickly. Assuming the war ended around the turn of the 22nd century (2100 A.D.) Then that would leave us with the year 2500 A.D.

However, the name plate of the Nebuchadnezza says it was made in the USA in 2069:

Given that they still had the concept of countries at that point, the ship had to be made some time around the start of the war, or just prior. So unless the ship is around 1000 years old, something isn't adding up.

Lol, would you rather have it say:
Mark 3.45
Nebuchadnezza
Prdouced in Factory XYZ in 01
Date 3068

I doubt the Machines would have wanted to arise suspicions by adding REAL dates and facts.

I'm still wondering what it was TickTock was waiting for exactly...