106 posts ยท 2007-12-12 08:14:02 to 2008-01-07 05:43:02
So basically... events of the year are just labeled as the year before? That's surprisingly less complicated and confusing than everyone else makes it out to be.
Roukan wrote:The Live Event confused me to no end. Well it didn't, but the people trying to make sense of it did. Before that post I just assumed the Machines picked some random year to start with, and the end of the cycle would miraculously fall on 1999.So basically... events of the year are just labeled as the year before? That's surprisingly less complicated and confusing than everyone else makes it out to be.
Yeah, that's the very basic premise that I got out of that LE....
The concept is simple, but the effort involved in doing it is immense.
I was going to make a point last week, but I forgot what it was. Something about what Tick Tock said about the dates getting hazy as they progress further into the past and that being a terrible cop-out. I don't know.
it may be a cop out but its a terribly good cop out that works. You can hardly say you remember every day you are alive and can list off exactly the year, month, or even day of the week your most boring of boring days were.
However one question (the hadest of them all perhaps in the 1999 theory) is exactly how do the Machines get the transition from 12/31/99 to 01/01/99 to work?
The concept is simple, but the effort involved in doing it is immense.
Procurator wrote:To the constraints of a normal human brain it is.The concept is simple, but the effort involved in doing it is immense.
Not as immense as creating a whole virtual reality down the very particles that make up the real world. In comparison to that, manipulating that amount of data concerning 1999 is not so great.