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Guess When Mir Will Splash
Guess When Mir Will Come Down
I've been irritated with Mir for a while. It's up. It's down. It's up. It's down. It's saved. It's dead. It's broken. It's fixed. It's broken again. It's fixed again. Weeks ago, I started putting notes on Mir story submissions that came in, which said, "No more Mir stories until pieces start falling!". I even promised that we wouldn't post any more about Mir's troubles. But here I am, breaking that promise. Mir needs to be put down.
Guess when Mir hits the water and win a t-shirt from yours truly. Here are the rules:
1) Use ISO format in a comment submitted to this story - don't e-mail me. ISO format is 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'. Thus, a prediction for the afternoon of March 13 would be '2001-03-13 14:23:07'. All times are Eastern Standard Time in the United States, unless Mir makes it until we go on Daylight Savings Time. Your time prediction can be anywhere in a comment submitted to this story. Note that Slashdot stops allowing new comments on a story a few days after it is posted, so if you don't make your guess now, you won't get a chance later. Use ISO format so I can find it with my browser's find function later on. Closest guess wins.
2) Mir's splash time will be judged by reading the first reports submitted by the major fast-response news networks - CNN, AP and Reuters, in that order. I'm looking for a sentence like, "The first pieces of Mir hit the water at [time]." If none of them mentions a time when the first chunks of Mir hit the water (or land, as the case may be) I'll look for a time mentioned when Mir enters the atmosphere. If we still don't have a time (unlikely, I think) I'll resort to other major news sources, NASA, etc.
3) Cunning readers will note that Mir's ephemeris is publicly available and limits the likely splashdown times to various windows. You could probably substantially improve your chances of winning by doing a lot of research and calculations, not that that would be very time-efficient for a $15 t-shirt.
4) One entry per person, please. I'll contact you through the e-mail address you used when you signed up for an account.
5) Winners will be judged as soon as possible after Mir splashes. I'm the sole judge. There is no appeal. Void where prohibited. If you know me you can't win. However, if you have influence over Mir's trajectory and can influence the thing to come down at the time you picked, you win two t-shirts. No cash value. Contest prize consists of a t-shirt from Thinkgeek or Copyleft, winner's choice, provided by me and not Slashdot, VA Linux or anyone else.
I think this will be the time:
2001-03-15 22:20:37
-jfedor
the lameness filter says I need to use fewer caps. I hate it when it tells me that. Note: lameness filter should not check the .sig...
2001-03-28
Would you believe, too, that the Earth isn't flat? That's how Mir is able to actually be in orbit....
:: "I am non-refutable." --Enik the Altrusian ::
We have a new one up in orbit so we don't care if you fry
All those Russkies are sure to let out a big sigh
On the day when old Mir say goodbye
The REAL jabber has the /. user id: 13196
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
2001-03-23 04:37:28
and does anyone know if they plan on savaging it from the ocean afterwards? or will it just become a big nothing sitting in near the bottom?
Mir Pieces Splashdown: 2001-03-23 23:23:23
Nostradamus would be proud...
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
2001-03-27 01:33:42
We fill an open area with numbered squares, and let a cow walk around until it shits. It's called Cow Bingo. This with MIR would be Russian Space Bingo. >;)
Oh BTW, my guess is 2001-03-17 7:57:13
Yes, I am a biological organism. All rumors to the contrary are just that, rumors.
2001-03-17 00:00:30 Why not a random guess? Cheaper than playing the Lotto.
i know, 3:14 pm on 3/14....;-)
And now for something compleatly different; a man with a satellite up his bum.
---- fnord
This is just text to get around the lameness filter. 2000-03-15 14:08:17
2001-03-21 05:13:07 this is my guess
Pi day and Pi time... my interpretation of Pi time anyway... as I'm sure there will be others.
Krispy Cream is people
It'll drag out for a bit more... 2001-04-02 17:01:01 -Scott
2001-03-14 16:32
try again, should be 3.1415926. too bad there's only 60 seconds in a second...
A few hours after the first story "Mir Splashes Down" (which will contain 800 comments, most of which say 'Hey, Mir didn't really crash yet, you guys are lame', and most of the rest containing 'can you immagine a beowulf cluster of the pieces?'), another story will appear - "Mir REALLY Splashes Down".
2001-05-17 02:11:20 - and no science used in this guess.
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" - Will Rogers
Only a guess.
I wonder how the mechanism works if there's a little mistake and Mir starts coming down somewhere it wasn't expected. Considering how many planes are in the air over many parts of the world at any one time, how do all of the effected flights get redirected?
Evan - needs to hit preview before submitting
2001-03-18 11:34:00
That's my guess. Right there. 11:34 is a scary time. (I don't worship the devil.)
/whois John Galt
Today is the closing of a parenthesis opened before this sig, before this story, before this existence that is me (as if
Clearly going to land on
2001:04:02:12:14:32
Oh wait, whats that i see going passed my window.
i'd change my answer, but that's entirely too many backspaces.
"I don't like this deep shit about crazy crap"
Strange, the stupid lamer filter accused me of using all caps with a post that's all numbers (which is why I'm adding this line). I'd fire off a bug report to the slash guys, but god (er, linus) knows if they'd ever get around to fixing it. . .
-- Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be if we had eight fingers per hand.
And Voilà, a new statue for Easter Island.
:)
Well, technically that's part of Chili. Maybe it could fix Democracy in Fiji all in one blow by taking out that racist anti-Indian pseudo-nationalists with really his own interest at heart, George Speight, literally killing 2 birds with one stone!
>The TimeHorse has now been permanently banned from ever setting foot on Fiji<
Time Lord, Dark Horse: The Techno Mage of Gallifrey
2001-03-12 12:54:36 EST
First Listing in eBay of some piece of scrap metal that somebody is claiming is "Mir Debris":
2001-03-14 18:45:23 EST
2001-04-19 09:14:06 (I'm adding a little text to avoid the lameness filter)
2001/03/19 8:38:00 :)
My youngest brother's birthday/time
2001-03-24 08:03:03 - just a stab in the dark, and my sisters b'day seemed close enough :)
VK3TST
-- "People aren't stupid. Usually." -- jd
my bet
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Let me give you the lowdown
Beware the true ides of March, mathematically calculated :)
The sad part is I spent 10 minutes figuring that out instead of doing my Calculus homework.
Twitter.com/TrentonHyatt
I'm part Irish, so I'll predict 2001-03-17 17:45:35.
somebody give this guy a moderator point for being humorous.
2001-04-02 03-59-19
If you want my respect, give it first...
If you want my respect, give it first...
If you don't want my respect, expect mine before you give it.
Tell me what makes you so afraid
Of all those people you say you hate
lameness filter prevents making it just a pure post:
2001-03-16 06:43:30
You know, it always sucked on the Price is Right when someone would bid directly above someone who already bid a price.
2001-03-15 14:08:18
Cheers!
2001-03-21 15:30:01 - that's my guess....I took a shot
"I'm not a procrastinator, I'm temporally challenged"
2001-03-20 12:38:45
Posted by serpens:
It's not as though the Russians have been very consistent up to date with MIR as it is. Maybe it will land in the middle of China. Maybe even my backyard (that would be cool).
My guess is:
2001-03-22 14:38:22
...escapes from the island on a raft only to be hit by a chunk of falling satellite!
Wonder why this wasn't in Cast Away ?
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
2000-03-15 14:08:17 Beware the ides of march
That's my guess.
smnolde at hushmail dot com
so much as WHERE.
The original plan was for it to come down 1600km east of Australia.
1600km east of Australia is New Zealand. You'd think they'd be able to read a map...
I'm old enough to remember the concern about damage when Skylab came down in this part of the world.
The question is not when, 2001 03 21 13:12:33, but where is it coming down? I know what the big wigs say, but what if for a sec their wrong. What if someone sucks up and throws the Mir off course a few 1000 miles, I mean you could be sitting on the beach somewhere in New Zealand drink a mixed drink and BAM the Mir lands on your head. I know for myself that would really ruin a good day.
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to reform. --Mark Twain
2001-04-08 02:30:00 splat! (~sh)
That is only going to hurt those with low self esteem. Everybody else realizes that their English is probably much better than your Russian. My native tongue is German and I know that I tend to speak the harsh English dialect that is common to most Germans. I *do* laugh about jokes involving that accent. I don't see a reason why this should be different. Calm down.
2001-03-24 14:23:00, and i'm not using caps.
why not?
My guess tells me that something will go horribly wrong and the Mir will tumble out of orbit on 2001-03-21 15:32:09 uncontrollably and chunks of unburned station will rain down on some major city in Europe. But thats just me. :)
- Rob!
Check out The Overworld.
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
-C. Northcote Parkinson
2003-03-13 14:23:07 mir derfloppermachern
Wild Guess
Unix is mysterious, and ancient, and strong. It's made of cast iron and the bones of heroic programmers of old -
My son's b-day...a future astronaut.
2001-03-08 12:38:17
is this a scam to know people's birthdays?
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck,
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I'm going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
2001-03-10 18:23:37
Checking databases for tracking information is futile. Think they manage to hit the target area? Think again. And take cover. ;)
on or abouts 2001-03-14 09:17:00 splash down for Mir Pizza.... Just my entry don't bother to mod :)
Prospecting Stinks. Stop Wasting Time on Cold Calling.
It's just shot in the dark, but who cares? I wanna t-shirt.
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indyz
prolly get saved and ditched 14 more times, then get hit by a meteroite. Lands in Redmond. I'm feeling lucky, time to play power ball... 2004-12-13 18:26:42
I bet it will survive until next year.
rolu
2001-03-15 02:10:30
anti-lameness filter
Its my birthday and this is the time that I'm going to start drinking!
Of course, the "lameness filter" is there for a reason - to prevent "lame" comments... like that one?
arnald
2001-07-02 06:04:12
give or take
2001-03-21 06:06:06
(All numbers dividable by 3, time resembles 666).
These Russians - They went overboard when they moved away from the orthodox calendar. 03-18-2001 13:22:56
If it does not come down at that exact date and time, dire consequences will occur to Mir's immortal soul and stuff!
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
Pope Felix the Scurrilous.
Computer Geek by day, religious Icon by night.
6+14=20
;)
7-12 is the birthday of Poetin (Ok, it isn't, but I'm to lazy to go and find the real date)
I think the people of Chili are awake at 23:12:07. It would be fairer, since they'll be able to see the debris come down and can try to run away.
You don't really believe Poetin will let it go down over sea, did you?
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
2001-03-19 00:46:18
Hmmm, must remember to update the url in my profile to http://www.fidei.co.uk
Just remember that if the world didn't suck we'd all fall off.
If it falls... 2001-03-17 21:03:00 where it falls... not where it is supposed to.. - Illegal Mnemonic Character
Illegal Mnemonic Character
* Stay Simple *
I imagine this exact second has already been chosen by about 40 people already, but i'm too lazy to scroll through all those replies to find out.....
They're not caps, they're numbers, silly. 2001-03-20 02:54:37 My birthday.
Unfortunately, "between New Zealand and Chile" is where Easter Island is. Anyone put pillows on the Heads?
one week after pi day
definintily 2001-03-19 12:16:31
I guess I have to say something. Sooo...go visit Lileks. Dogs think we can read their minds!
Using a highly sophisticated mathematical algorithm and the processing power of an entire network of PC's, we have determined the exact time of the splash down to a very precise time span of about 6 years. Further refinements by me have placed the numbers at 2001-03-28 01:12:58.
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Mr_Whoopass
now all anyone has to do is figure out the significance of 10, 17, and 23 (the last one is hard because it should really be a number higher than 60..)
2001-04-21 13:12:36 Mir will crash into the ocean (at least I hope it crashes into the ocean) just in time to commermorate my Wife's 25th birthday!
2001-03-15 14:13:32 unless it hits Australia first.
& since this is so close April fools.. 2001-04-01 12:01:01
OK, how about
2001-03-22 21:21:21
as a splashdown time?
They'll never take it down
But if they do it can die with Caesar as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, I hope it lands on them too, even though both them and I are in Australia. 2001-03-13 19:30:13 Here we go!
The lameness filter appears to be lame. How about that.
2001-03-15 15:34:30
When Yahoo got ddos'ed last year and was down for over a day, did they post anything about it? That's just not something respectable sites do, and believe it or not, slashdot is, at least IMHO, a pretty respectable website.
Everybody just calm down, get yourselves some valium, and pull the golf clubs out of your asses.
I'm not one for Lotto tickets, but hey, why not?
I can no longer read Dilbert. It's too depressing, because it is too real. -- Hyperhaplo
2001-05-12 23:00:00 *shrug* blah blah blah blah blah blah blah BLAH!
My guess is: 2001-03-25 10:52:46
..as to why they're taking a risk and hurling it down to Earth. Wouldn't it just be a hell of alot safer to send it off into space somewhere?
2001-03-10 13:05:32 but I could be wrong.
As the current keplerdata available wont work for this, I can only make a random guess:
2001-03-17 10:25:30
Me says...
2001-03-16 08:03:23
Text interesting Text...Blah Blah Blah
Save the freakin' world, already!
WTFWJD
'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'
;)
2001-03-17 05:29:18
Nothing to honor St Patrick's day like a rain of fire and metal
PS: Dear moderators, modding down my guess will NOT improve your chances
"Fifty million Americans can't be wrong," said Rep. Billy Tauzin. Gore - 50,999,897 Bush - 50,456,002
2001-06-18 22:22:22
It will be saved again, and again.
2001-03-18 07:00:01 That would be a nice birthday present...
2001-03-26 13:56:23 |'m l4m3 |t s34ms.
________________________
2001-03-17 22:53:00 Hey, I've done dumber things for a t-shirt!
www.lucernesys.comHorizon: Calendar-based personal finance
Here's my guess: 2001-03-14 15:09:26
3001-03-15 00:00:15
Note: 3001 is not a typo - Russia just doesn't know when to give up!
My karma is in a nose dive
It is amazing that self proclaim computer experts do not know what year it is.
2001-03-06 18:31:51 ---- Yo, this is my guess!
(stupid lameness filter, who are YOU to judge my lameness? I demand an open source filter!)
C'mon lucky "2000-03-19 3:14:45"s...
Mir will be brought down on: 2001-03-16 14:00:00 to commemorate the historical significance of:
The first man to give dreams of reaching the stars a glimpse of reality was Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket to an altitude of 41 feet on this day in 1926. The test occurred shortly before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic and never received the headlines that Lindbergh did, but the historic significance was staggering.
I donate all spillover Karma to the charity of my choice... Ada was still a babe despite what people may say...
There is gonna be one big splash in the Pacific at exactly;
2001-03-22 06:26:37Can I get my tshirt in a 2X please...
-Life is a Journey, --Not a Guided Tour! ---Trust me, I've already looked for the guide book.
Well, it's a guess... The probability of winning that T-Shirt is extremely low, oh well it's the participating that counts anyway ;-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
i have consulted the Magic 8 Ball. I win.
tetrad
%$(* lameness filter
Ask Slashdot - google for stupid people.
2001-03-19 03:38:14 is when I think MIR gets wet
If you make something idiot-proof, someone will make a better idiot
I thought maybe someone had broken in again and was systematically deleting everything. What happened? I'm just curious.
2001-03-17 04:37:18
i'm adding this sentence because slashdot wouldn't let me post with so many caps....?
2001-03-17 15:23:42 (as an ex-NASA employee, I should win this eeeeeasy!) ;-)
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
2099-12-31 23:59:59 My Windows calendar only goes this far...
2001-03-17 22:51:31 PS: The above comment hit the lameness filter for all caps. I wasn't even using any letters! Oh well, hope this helps...
Here is my guess 2001-04-03 12:45:23
2001-3-15 15:12:07 Gratuitous text to fool the too-many-caps filter.
--Scott D. Iekel-Johnson
Type something, will you? We're paying for this stuff!
2001/03/21 15:42:42
Probably.
The original Doctor Dark.
How about we do a different sort of contest to settle Mir's fate. Lets stick the head of NASA and the head of the Russian space program in an arena and give them long poles with sharp metal ends, like on Star Trek. If the NASA guy wins, the MIR goes down NOW, if the Russian wins, NASA has to repair MIR and keep it up indefinitely. They can even fit until first blood if they don't want to kill each other.
2001-03-19 22:25:34
My birthday!
Cheers,
levine
This (parent to this comment) needs to be moderated up. Make it visible. Coldcuts
2001-03-16 13:12:01 be my guess, oh yes
2001-03-03 05:00:00
Poor lil mir...
-Egon
2001-05-01 12:00:00 quit filtering out this post, numbers are not capital letters
FYI - numbers aren't caps. 2001-03-15 01:11:11
Mir splash down will be at 20001-03-15 14:03:53
2001-09-29 23:59:59 They will lost contact in the next few days and have no idea where and when it will hit I think Mir will fall and hit Canada in Sep
2001-03-19 06:20:00
Ad the only reason I picked this date is that it's my sister's b-day.
Since her mood has a tendency of crashing down... I thought... maybe...
Karma karma karma karma karmeleon: it comes and goes, it comes and goes.
2001-03-12 21:30:10 .02 is my racecar... uhm. I mean guess.
2001-03-21 15:42:42
the 42's are obvious really...
The original Doctor Dark.
2001-04-21 14:26:01
:)
So I get the "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted." because before I added this annoying blurb, the system thought I had too many caps.
Before the text: 0
After the text: 9
Geeeeee, that makes sense now
I am
Well, we can narrow the field by adding the fact that MIR's orbital period is about 90 min, and that re-entry has to occur somewhere near India to allow for a Pacific impact in the desired area.
With an altitude of around 280 mi, we're looking at about 18-25 min from re-entry to touchdown, so,
I'm going to guess 2001-03-22 07:35:18.
But that's just my WAG
Using my super secret decoder ring, magic 8 ball, and dumb luck, I've calculated:
2001-03-25 05:03:12
So I'm getting married. August. 2001. And her birthday? March 4. Would have guessed that, but CNN screwed things up. So I think that I will go with my own date, the date that Hugh Hefner was born: 2001-04-09 17:35:21 I mean, come on, if Hugh has got things going down on him, there has got to be a correlation! PS, my official entry is the hugh hefner date. Don't tell my fiance.
TossableDigits.com: Temporary Phone Numb
Happy April Fools!
ÕÕ
I think a good Irish wake would be in order. Mir's already green, what with all the various fungi that's infecting it...
Mr. Ska
I slit a sheet
A sheet I slit
Mr. Ska
What does this mean for airplanes and boats? Aren't they supposed to know when this is going to happen so they can either a)change their route that day or b) delay their departures?
;)
I seriously hope so! I'll be returning from Oz in mid-march and would definatly disapprove of being torn apart in mid-air by a rotten, russian space station.
(Actually though, I'll be heading in the other direction.
Surely it'll hit on 2001-03-17 06:17:05 (Paddy's day) ....top O' the morning to you, where's the Blarney?, etc. etc.
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No sig. today thank you.
"The rescue mission has been delayed another six months. Not to worry. This is actually good news."
"Sure it's now sitting on the bottom of the Ocean in several chunks. There's no better way to store it for later use. People of today are just too small-minded to understand Mir. Wiser people generations from now will reassemble it and revere it for what it almost was."
My Father always said: "Never get in anything Russian made with an airlock."
Obviously, it will be saved at least once more, so I'll bet a bit into the future..
Hoefully the closest user wins:
2002:05:15 lets say 10:10:25
Although I know it's really going to be 10:10:13.
I'm gonna get me a free T-Shirt
ThePoorYak - Just think of something clever and imagine it's my sig.
As random a time as any other.
If they're anything like me, they'll say "Why not leave it up there awhile longer? It might come in handy." So, I'll guess oh....say 2001-05-02 01:00:01
2001-03-23 06:12:25
Let The Games begin
2001-05-13 13:13:13 (That's a Friday)
Insert wit here.
hmm.. lets try 2001-03-19 03:23:01 sure.. why not..
I'm going to make a grab for the possibility that they extend its life YET AGAIN.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
word
and it happens to be MY birthday as well.
"See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
2001-03-15 09:23:08 Is the right answer.
This is it. Mir will come crashing down into the ocean. Or possible my private island in the South Pacific where I will make the Mir museum/tourist trap^H^H^H^Hattraction and makes lots of money. It fits quite well into my plan of world domination. Bwahahaha...sorry. Too much Pinky & the Brain.
In God we trust...all others please have two forms of ID
i have one hell of a user number...
OK, The lameness filter won't take it like this so... 2001-01-04 06:00:00
MIR is already down. It crashed on top of a bus in Isreal and was reported to be a terrorist bomb by news sources.
What is pirate software? Software for inventory of stolen treasure?
Wouldn't it be cool if it dropped on April Fool's day? No.. I guess it wouldn't.
Look at all the people who need new t-shirts.. :)
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
I'm a phycisist. We're supposed to know stuff. We are also known for roaming the corridors in old washed-out t-shirts. I deserve to win this one. 2001:03:27 10:17:36
and on the time of my birth
2001-03-09 14:44:24
But we must all beware the perils of Haagen-Daz Day: 2001-03-16 16:33:58
Tired of sitting at that karma cap? Start a flame war today! See just how low you can go!
Just because I like those numbers.
No time for
2001-04-03 05:22:35
(Um, why does Slashdot think a post with nothing but number is using too many caps?)
2001-03-14 01:59:26
So I had to throw in the 0 for effect.
As x approaches total apathy I couldn't care less.
Wild guess. What the hell.
2001-04-08 18:30:00
2001-03-14 15:00:00
Within the constraints of a date falling in March 2001 there is not much room for writing digits of pi and not violating date format conventions.
----- "I'm still sane on three planets and two moons."
What the the hell; godai at neomueller dot org
Wood Shavings!
Wood Shavings!
- Godai
I have this wierd feeling that this will be the joke of the year. :)
You know, it's funny: for all the griping about MIR stories, I didn't see any place in the Topics preferences that would allow anyone to exclude MIR stories. Oh, well.
My pitiful guess for splashdown is
2001-03-20 07:36:29
2001-03-22 09:18:51
And I have absolutely no good reason to think so. But I can enter the contest anyway.
2001-04-01 04:03:22
(Happy April Fool's Day!)
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. I'm all out of bubblegum." MSE USC APX AIA CSI CASp
I also predict that it will hit the ocean at sea level plus or minus 8 meters.
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dman123 forever!
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dman123 forever!
Filtering out the -1s and 0s since 1999.
My guess: 2001-03-17 15:22:14 ish!
I stole this sig.
Coming to an ocean near you:
2001-03-21 02:45:15
I have forseen it.
Followed by metallic showers and tidalwaves. Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfonded scientists. 2001-03-28 10:04:22
MIR will come down exactly at this time
:)
2001-03-14 13:34:40
"perit nim vas MIR... pasadi Amerika!" - Aria
MIR will definitely play the role of a giant Alka-Seltzer on:
2001-03-18 23:16:04
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz!!!
I am posting as AC to preserve what little karma I have against the zealous attacks of some angry moderators.
The original post went from +4 Funny down to +1 Troll (maybe further by the time I hit submit), all because, it seems, Michael took offense at a completely benign and non-trollish post. Moderators toting the "Thou-shalt-not-criticize-Slasdot" flag followed along, intending to moderate the original post to Oblivion.
tristan f raises an extremely valid point, in no way was it "useless". A lot of us Slashdotters have an incomprehensible addiction to frequently reloading the page to get the lastest whatever. The major, and lengthly, problems that afflicted the site this week left me, and I am sure many other, scratching my head, wondering what was going on.
With thousands of readers every day, it is a simple courtesy to inform your loyal readers and posters of just what is going on. At least this would be respectful of the readership, at best, a poster might have a suggestion for improvement.
If an informational story as to Slashdot's woes is not warranted on the front page, I propose that a section for "System Status" be added on the side, or at the very least a link that shared such information somewhere between, say, preferences and submit story, or something.
Such information would be informative to all of us curious Slashdotters, and educational to those of us operating similar projects.
Thank you for your Time
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Let's see if another week's delay will happen...:)
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2001-03-19 14:07:25 (uh, rejected? "Please don't use so many caps"? Where does that script see ANY caps in the above numbers?)
Might as well be nice and guess my sister's birthday=)
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
'2001-03-16 01:22:15' ;-)
I just wanted to make a guess, but to put some comment: how will the closest match be found with a browsers find function?? Who can make the one line regexp parser for this?????
Short and sweet: 2001-03-21 21:15:52 NI, KWSN - Den Store Mester
NI, NI, NI, KWSN - Den Store Mester
I'll say...
2001-03-26 07:26:00
Why? Well, the day/hour/minutes where when I was born. As judgement and skill will have nothing to do in the outcome, why the hell not!
Ok, I'm game, made me go and register....
March? March of what year? wasn't this thing supposed to splash down last year? or was that iridium? ;>
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
MIR Crash Prediction 2001-03-20 12:00:00 how about mid day on my birthday?
Girlfriends birthday and her favourite number. And *no*, I did not just give away my password or PIN. ;-)
Surely using the format described in RFC2550 would be a more sensible way to represent the date? Particularly if they keep delaying it. :-)
Well with the way the various delays have been going I'll make a really wild-assed guess and say it will come down on my birthday, 2001-06-30 09:42:30.
2001-03-18-24:00:00
Thats my guess, hope I win the t-shirt
I'm guessing mir will hit the ocean at 2001-03-17 12:34:38 est. This is based on a predicted visible pass over auckland NZ.
Well, there was kind of a response, if you visited #slashdot on irc.slashdot.org. I forgot the exact wording of the channel topic, but it was something along the lines of "Yes, slashdot is broken, why don't you read k5 for a change." :) I believe it was by CowboyNeal.
it's gotta be.
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Karma: Chameleon (you come and go)
2001-11-31 - 12:00:03 :)
The problem with capped Karma is it only goes down...
SIG: HUP
Michael, it is very nice of you to finally provide a perfectly helpful and pleasant response. Could you possibly try doing it again (one of these years)? I take it that you missed the school bus yourself...
Here is my guess
2001-03-19 15:52:22
FoonDog
Hmmm, I think Mir will go down 2001-03-25 14:45:50. The Communist newspaper Zavtra was reporting that a kamikaze astronaut was going to crash Mir into the Manhattan island, "thus destroying 'world evil' and 'free' Russia from foreign occupation. http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/12/12b.html That would be an interesting thing to see.
Spork.
P.S. Spork.
The Other Nate
2001-03-20 15:31:34 . Nothin' else here. :-p
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Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
Yup! I say that it doesn't even make it in March!
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Berto
I'm guessing there will be another delay.
2001-04-10 00:00:00
Whee!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Here's hoping MIR isn't manned when it goes down:
2001-03-19 11:00:11
After all, are we sure the MIR decision makers don't read /. ??
Dumaju, shto eto budiet' 2001-03-29 01:00:15 . Pochemu ja tak dumaju? Vot, vsio w vostochnoj Jevropie zanimajet bolshe vremieni chem na Zapadie.. Celaja eta istoria eto kak jebat' tigru: i smeshno, i strashno...
January (nu, ja nie Russkij, ja Poliak...)
...the date when Mir comes flaming down. Maybe they will give her a tiny boost in between to gain a bit of time for fruitless discussions. So I guess it will take a bit - let's assume april (with the boost).
2001-04-16 19:47:13
Rough guess on time - visibility estimated from parameters.
Here is my guess 2001-03-16 19:43:19
2001-03-16 19:04:01
Let's take a shot at: 2001-03-18 13:10:15 I suppose the South Pacific isn't such a bad place to live, if you can deal with space debris raining down on your head every 15-20 years or so.
since i'm encountering the lameness filter, i thought i'd write some more stuff in here so there aren't so many caps. 2001-03-21 09:15:00 am
I'll have to go with my birthday (Like a few others here)
2001-04-23 21:37:00
if( read(this) ) { you = programmer; }
Oh I would not worry about it, the Russians will file a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) with the ATC folks to make sure everyone is out of the way.
I don't think its posible to fly an airliner more than 2 hrs without a NOTAM about *SOMETHING*.
Erlang Developer and podcaster
Did I win?
Jesus Taco! You and your lameness filters.
2001-03-19 14:22:41
There is still some sort of corruption issue with the users table.
That might explain the weirdness that's been going on with my account today. Apparently, I've got a karma of 31337, and I've also got access to several other features I haven't seen before.
Could someone explain what happened, before I click on this 'promote Anonymous Coward posts to +5' button by accident?
Ford Prefect, posting at +1 (instead of +10) so as to remain inconspicuous.
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
2001-03-14 17:35:00
/. member wears size L or smaller. (^_^)
Size XLT or XL t-shirt please.
As if any
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
2001-03-17 09:15
round about the time the paddies day parade goes down O'Connel st in Dublin, Ireland
2001-03-07 17:42:11
If I win, I'll be surprised.
JMR
Try e-gold - (contact me). I'm NOT e-
2001-03-16 12:35:00 and then there were no more Mir (not even on slashdot)
Any way we can get it to crash in Redmond? Our-Buddy-Jim's giving his latest speech to the troups on how the Anti-OpenSource legislature lobbying is going, with Our-Lord-And-Savior-Bill-Gates sitting there beaming his weasly little smile, then...
BAM!
Mir, in all it's firey glory, crashing through like a message from God. Bonus points if you can:
They're probably on different orbits, and I'm sure it would be a real pain in the butt to change one orbit to match another. That's why the shuttle launches for ISS have a 5-minute window. (I'm sure there are actually lots of 5-minute windows, spaced about 90 minutes apart.) Even then, the shuttle spends a whole day catching up. And ISS is probably in a higher orbit now that the shuttle has been boosting it. It would probably be easier to try to crash Mir on the moon than to have it dock with ISS.
Besides, I'm sure that Mir stinks inside. 15 years of sweaty astronauts has got to be as bad as an athlete's sweatsocks and jockstrap combined. And there's the nice toasty smell of burnt wire insulation from the fires they've had.
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
2001-03-22-17:22:27
(Too bad 36:24:32 isn't a valid time...)
- W. Blaine Dowler
http://www.bureau42.com
My prediction for the falling out of the sky of Mir is exactly: 2001-03-16 22:55:00
Bzzzzzt..."AAAAaaaaarrrgh!!!" Thud.
We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx!
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I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.
2000-03-14 01:12:22 (Score:)
by Tarlyn (vincentc@marlboro.edu on soon (#)
http://10lbcock.go.to
2000-03-14 01:12:22
Hmmmm, my original guess was 2000-03-14 01:12:22, but the lameness filter rejected it. Does
I am Jack's broken heart
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise
Russia has large areas of unpopulated arctic terrain. They should sent it into an irregular orbit to reposition it to do the Tunguska into an Ice field and auction off the remains to pay off that goddam money sinkhole of an International Space Station.
...which consisted of reading the CNN article, and consulting a time zone map, here is my guess:
:-)
2001-03-18 10:56:12
The things I'll do for a t-shirt...
human://billy.j.mabray/
human://billy.j.mabray/
"Every good system has a backup." -- Dale Hanchey
At 2001-03-16 02:22:22 I will hide under my bed and wait for at least an hour before coming out to see if I won.
ker-splash!
...vividly encapsulates that post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of all yourself.
I want the Got Root? shirt.
I/O, I/O, its off to disk I go, with a read and a write, and a bit and a byte, I/O, I/O, I/O, I/O
2001-03-16 00:00:00 :)
Please of great lameness filter, let me post.
whee.
seven two six five
seven four six one seven
two six four two e
My estimate: 2001-03-24 02:00:00
That was what seemed to be the second significant outage in the last week. I don't think I'm alone when I say that I think the readers deserve to have such events posted as a news article to the main page.
I appreciate your being forthcoming here, Michael, but a reply posted to an offtopic post (no offense to the parent poster) in a story completely unrelated to the outages isn't exactly keeping us informed.
But as we've all heard before a million times, Slashdot is all Rob's, he'd continue to do it even if he and Jeff were the only ones to read it, he's not in it for the money (obviously), etc., so who are we to ask?
-tf
Hi, I'm a pretentious cock who will make some gay comment about ignoring AC posts here.
That's my guess...
Swami says: 2001-03-17 04:15:00 If I get one more notice about useing caps with this I'm going to bring Mir down on someones head.
Caus MIR is going to be crashing down.
2001-03-15 01:13:30
2001-03-21 02:20:55
I'm with Mir mission control. This isn't a guess.
2000-03-14 13:42:32, and two cheeseburgers please...
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Salvor Hardin
2001-03-19 23:12:44 Lameness filter is kicking in.
It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
Anything goes...
"The Internet, of course, is more than just a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs." - Time Magazine
I'm thinking that it's going to be 2001-03-11 18:03:11. Best of luck to everyone... Z-Man
Guess: 2001-03-15 04:20:00
Damnit...couldbn;t they postpone it another month and 4 days or so, that way I could guess 2000-04-20 04:20:00
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
My birthday ;)
Keeper of the Wedding Shenanigans Home Page
Liked this comment? Why not buy me something nice
Right when I'll be watching WEEZER step onto the stage!!!!
"Cornflakes are not the innocent critters they seem"- Sterling Morrison
2001-03-16 12:34:56, for example
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
2001-04-03 19:34:22 After all, we should be entitled to a few more delays :)
Hopefully the lucky numbers pay off...
2001-03-17 03:33:33
2001-08-16-14:30:00
/."
'Course I've never heard whether the MIR has a penchant for fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches...
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
The House Between - Original Sci-Fi Series
I was born on 1978-03-19 00:31:?? so I will guess: 2001-03-19 00:31:00 Dan
Doh!
2001-03-17 14:22:58
Here's some useless text to get around the lameless filter.
2001-03-14, 21:03:48
:)
Or sometime close to that
UNIX doesn't have a monopoly on Good Ideas, it just owns most of them. --Alan Cox
2001-03-15 02:07:34
Et tu, Michael?
Free music from Jack Merlot.
2001-03-17 01:12:00 that my guess
spambait e-mail
my web site artistcorner.tv hip-hop news
please help me make it better
if you see me, smile and say hello.
2001-04-05 03:06:07
just being weird...see the 1234567...
Groovy
Kinda like Moe, but just a little more Kool
Bah. Stupid other people's computers that don't have all my cookies... Having to try six different passwords until I find the one that works isn't so great either.
I still like 2001-08-12 08:12:01.
See that "Preview" button?
Beware the Ides of March.
Also... I'd like to take ithis moment to meditate on the possibly deadly repurcussions of combining a) the home-video news-coverage craze, and b) A space station-cum-meteor-cum-meteorite. ;)
-Omar@I fall to pices (da da da) each time I enter your atmosphere...
2001-03-15 16:23:08
What's up with that lameness filter thingy not letting me just submit the time?
maybe baby :)
2001-03-18 21:17:00
xxl for me please
2001-03-17 15:11:00 that's just because this is my birthdate. :)
A very slow AC wrote:
4th Post
No you aren't - I got in faster (& on topic)!
See the real 4th post!
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
Michael, you're a bastard. Look what you just did to this poor guy's karma.
He's right, putting your "helpful" information as an obscure offtopic post is not appropriate.
2001-03-24 10:08:30 I could be wrong though...
2001-05-26 23:47:37 these noncapitalized letters included to beat lameness filter
2001-03-04 19:42:44
Cheers (uhhh.. the lameness filter just cut off my post the first time because there were toooo many CAPS.. nice.. didn't realize you under capitilize numbers)
2001-03-16 19:57:32 ok i wont use caps.
2001-03-03 03.66.60 I would also like to add that the millisecond count that I'm guessing on will be .333666 (add to above timestamp). This is the day my sky will fall down, so I figure it's a good day for Mir to fall too!
An unfortunate bird will parish during the event. At the time, the bird will be thinking, "What a wonderful day! The sea is so big, the sky is so blue, and it is so peachy to be a..."
Birthday plus a bit of pi
I don't think anyone will read this unless I win, which is highly unlikely. :)
:))
My guess is that Mir will go down on 2001-03-22 18:15:42, because that's when my birthday is, and the time is very nice.
That's why. It couldn't be easier
Regs,
Göran Weinholt.
(And remember that it is great power in that date, that's Shatner's and Kirk's birthdays
2001-03-14 15:09:26
As close to pi as I could render, ignoring the year and the inserted zero in the minutes column.
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2001-04-04 04:04:04 and here's some text to avoid the "lameness filter."
Gerv
2001-04-01 11:11:11 unfortunately, submitting just the line above activates the lameness filter. Seems the Slashdot system has it's own thoughts about this contest...;-)
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Cthulhu fhtagn!
It stayed up so long, why should this time be final? Besides, everyone else was covering the infield, and HemogH with his 2008 bid the outfield...
Again: 2003-01-12 - 12:00:03
Hurricane Application Group, Dept of Meteorology Control, Ministry of Proactive Defense
They're just fooling everyone with the mid-March date...
Ok, here is my guess!! 2001-03-16 23:11:34
Mir will come down on 2001-03-14 15:26:31
Not many predictions for April; most people seem to be deluded into thinking it's really coming down on the current schedule.
I guarantee a win on my part...
Why? We'll, let's just say I'm going to make sure it happens at that time. You see, back in the '60's I developed a satellite shooting machine, which was in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser". Using these "lasers", we punch a hole in the protective layer around the Mir Space Station...
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I was just trying to enter the contest with 2001-03-13 21:43:00 but the system didn't lest me post this date because i were using to many caps??
2001-03-15 16:34:12 Here's to the Space Fungus that's gonna come crashing down on us!
2001-03-21 14:21:46 There is a slight chance that I can win... yeah right.
I plan on killing Mir at ...
2001-03-19 10:11:01
-dynoman7
Blarf.
Either that or it will be abducted by aliens from the planet of Xi.
Virtually Yours, Pontus Ullgren
2001-03-16 09:13:33
try to find caps in this! excluding sig, oc.
My guess for MIR splashdown is above. Too bad Mir and Alpha are probably too far apart to dock together because that would be a cool use of the extra hardware. It seems like a waste, to me, to not figure out a use for this stuff. It can't be all bad stuff. I guess it woul dprobably be too much of a logistical nightmare to get them to re-use these modules.
Gorkman
Grrrr... A discussion board that doesn't allow (nt) comments... *grumble*
2001-05-16 06:15:23
Ok, it may not last this long, but it may last longer. Why do I bother? I don't know.
2001-03-23 14:32:56
This is timed to coincide with the little-known (and even littler-cared-about) anniversary of Tsar Nicholas' admission that his way of describing the pending revolution:
SERFS' UP, DUDESKIS!!
was indeed an awful joke.
---Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.---
It'll come down: 2001-03-17 15:25:27
Animals have rights!
We all know that Mir will never actually be de-orbited. William Gibson has already explained that there will still be cosmonauts aboard it when the survivors of America's economic collapse launch rockets from balloons and board the damn thing.
Be that as it may, my prediction is: 2001-03-16 05:17:54
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
2001-03-21 05:55:29
Nothing to see here people....
I also predict that 11,741 seperate pieces of Mir will impact the Earth.
(Anything to get past the lameness filter!)
I just hope it doesn't land on anyone's head.. :)
The IDES... THE IDES.... Ahhhhhh..... Ok anywaise..... my guess would be.......
2001-03-23 12:26:01
snowulf.com
You know the reference: "Yeeee hawwwwwwwwwwww!"
.sig a .sog, .sig out loud, .sig out .strog"
2000-03-18 21:15:45
".sig,
".sig,
Here's my guess: 2001-03-17 21:25:31 Had to add this line to make it past the lameness filter.
2001-03-14 15:14 Happy Pi day!
Besides, Mir's got the Fungus From Outer Space, and who wants that crap on ISS anyhow? Yes, I know ISS will probably end up with its own fungal infection, but Mir's been up there 15 years, so it could be a decade before ISS has fungus problems.
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
2001-03-16 12:35:00 Hoping i win a tee shirt :)
-Colin
2001-03-15 16:20:00
<BR><BR><BR>420!
Because something will go wrong and delay two more weeks.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - G.B. Shaw
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS = 2001-04-20 06:30:00
:)
Heh..., It's worth a shot..
2001-03-10 12:01:22
grrrr. silly filter doesn't like me just entering the date.
I predict that this will happen on Maslyanitsa (the Russian festival just before Lent).
After all, for the once mighty Russian nation, a space station represents a major symbol of pride, so they will certainly want minimum publicity as it crashes into the ocean - it's an act of impotence rather symoblic of the state of the Russian nation as a whole - and so they will choose a day when people are too busy partying to care.
The time of the splashdown will be 2001-03-21 14:58:26. The location will be 13317'26" E, 3954'40" S. My T-shirt will only become comfortable after it has been washed 11 times.
These are neither guesses nor predictions. They are expressions of my will. I will make it all come to pass.
(Hey, a little confidence never hurt.)
2001-03-17 15:29:01
I was amazed Mir lasted as long as it did, but hopefully the ISS will make up for Mirs loss.
2001-03-17 15:12:44
Unfortunately, I cannot post this alone, therefore I must include this text. Thank you.
Execute? [Y/N] _
2001-03-17 11:18:01 is my guess.
OK, I'm guessing my birth time:
2001-04-16 22:31:00
(At least that's what my birth certificate says, who knows how accurate that really is...)
I'm betting on more delays from our vodka-swilling buddies.
the no
2001-03-17 17:26:04
That's my best guess... I'm also sick of all the delays in bringing that beast down...
Quoted from article:
Maybe the /. saga of MIR postings will stop once the leftover "chunks" (weighing up to 700kg/1500lb) hit the bottom of the ocean halfway between New Zealand and Chile
Okay. I'm taking orders right now.
Send me $50, and I'll send you a 1"x1" square of scorched iron and weird exotic alloys, cut from the side of a burned 1982 Ford F-150 that has already been through the car crusher.
For only $4000, you can have a "MIR guidance computer", made by putting a junked microwave oven timer board through a pottery kiln. Only two available.
Check out my other online sales: Used Berlin Wall chunks, recycled from the little precast concrete curbs that are put into parking lots. (Shhh! It's recycling!)
Limited quantity available. Act now.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
2001-04-01 00:00:00 Bound to be ;o)
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Splash!
www.vurt.co.uk
My guess is: 2001-03-18 12:15:45.
However, as someone suggested, time should have been UTC.
2001-03-18 21:08:33
Why? Because I said so!
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
whoops
2001-03-25 12:00:00
that's a guess. only a guess. i swear.
Tactical guess: 2000-02-20 01:01:01 At least I'll know soon that I did not win ;-)
In Murphy We Turst
Carp filters.......
2001:03:23 12:26:01 EST
wtf is with these filters? its doesnt like my est.... Gah
snowulf.com
2001-03-16 04:29:01
Beware the ides of March - so I'm taking the day after...
2001-07-04 20:00:00
Fourth of July baby.. whoo..
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
I need a new sig...
"The quality of life is determined by its activites."--Aristotle
My brother's birthday March 25th, 2001, at 15:04:04 EST. Why not?
So there I was. Naked. In a refrigerator. With a potroast on my knees. Smokin a cigar. That's when it got REALLY weird.
2001-03-16 11:04:51
That is EXACTLY one month from now. Go team. =)
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CitizenC
This not all caps, these are all numbers... 2001-03-23 04:07:33
et les Shadoks pompaient...
That is my guess.
Mario.
My guess...
My guess for atmospheric contact is the subject.
I also guess...that it will never hit ground, and that Russia will somehow manage to bounce it off the atmosphere back into space.
Don't ask me how; it can't be that hard to slow something down enough to crash it...now, controlling the crash, that's a bitch.
It would be just their luck that the Progress would go haywire, spin the station around a bit, end up pushing it forward instead of down, speed it up enough to skim off the atmosphere, and suddenly we have our first habitable craft heading off into deep space...never mind that it remains unmanned, or that you couldn't get me into that thing, or that I doubt the Progress has enough fuel or power to speed up Mir enough, but with the luck Russia's had lately...
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
<CODE>So mir is finally gonna die right? probably not.... i forsee that we will still have more mir postings :)</CODE>
Lameness filter is... well, lame. 2001-03-22 13:12:11
2000-03-20 22:07:00 is my guess. Hurrah!
Boy I'd hate to have to read through all of these :)
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
Yup thats when It will hit all right
Driving backwards on the highway of life
2001-03-19 20:35:10 I suppose this will be the date
Thanks to the phone lists and bottle of coke on my desk to inspire me with the right numbers...
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
"Instead, realise the truth"
"The truth?"
"That there is no MIR"
* Amazed look across Neo/Slashdotters eyes
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Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - Ovidius
is that it will hit at 2001-03-14 12:31:56
Those who don't know me, probably shouldn't trust me. Those that do know me, DEFINITELY shouldn't trust me.
You can keep up-to-date with MIR's location here.
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Moderator's essentials
... or is this "contest" being implemented in a very archaic way? Would it have taken the /. wizards that long to put together a poll-like form, with little drop-down forms with the year/month/day/hour/minute/second, and a box for the person's user ID/email address? This would certainly have saved someone a lot of grep'ing and such.
Whatever...
- Mike
Beware the waves of March (depending on the sizes of the chunks); good surfing ;)
2000-03-13 13:13:13 ...and it'll probably smash a mirror when it hits too.
DC
Good Idea:
2001-03-18 07:34:21
CokeBear
(and whazzup with that lameness filter? it treats numbers as caps? now *thats* lameness.)
Reality has a liberal bias
I tried merely posting the following time and got a "lameness filter" syaing I was using too many caps like I was "yelling" So now I have to supply a lot of extra text to make me statistiaclly acceptable :(
2001-03-14 01:30:30
2001-03-16 19:42:39
And a bit extra to avoid the Lamness filter...
Invalid form key!
Once we finish with Mir, can we guess what happens to NEAR?
-- Cheer, Cheer, The Red and the White.
Why not....
March 6 is my birthday. It would've been a great birthday party, but NOOOOOO.
"So let's recap: you've taken a perfectly helpful and pleasant response to a useless question, and posted an inflammatory and insulting reply to it."
1) The OP wasn't a question, it was a joke.
2) Your response was pleasant, but not especially helpful. Remember that the original joke wasn't just talking about last night's outage, but about outages in general. Your response then was too specific to be helpful.
3) I've read and re-read tristan's response and I fail to find anything even mildly insulting. On the contrary, he praises Rob and Jeff for continuing to run the site when they clearly aren't making much money for it. Are you insulted that you weren't included?
As for inflammatory--you may well be inflamed by the response, but that's a feature, not a bug. We (the readers) are pretty tired of unexplained (even unremarked on) outages and we are starting to ask WTF is going on. Can you blame us?
--
Non-meta-modded "Overrated" mods are killing Slashdot
(Hey Ryan! Here's your proof!)
Should use UTC (Zulu) time - all astromical events are timed in this, not some silly and arbitrary offset from GMT.
Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
Karma: Chameleon
2001-03-20 05:00:00
(writing some useless stuff to override the CAPS lameness filter. *snort*)
Oh Lordy! the sky's a fallin'!
Stuff and things to fill space...
Here's some random text so that the lame lameness filter doesn't accuse me of using all caps. 2001-03-13 11:23:31
I object to that article, and to the next reply.
2001-03-17 06:23:21 i've got this one dicked. i called my psychic.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
yeah. uh. fnord and stuff. fisfhcuerk.
it's a comin down in flames
Help, I'm being repressed!
2001-03-20 04:11:00
Didn't use any guessing, that's just my birthday!
And then, as the rest of their April Fools joke, they'll down it in Siberia by accident.
here's my guess: 2001-03-15 04:12:37
2001-03-17 13:13:37 , get it? 3l337, and you know those ruskie rocket scientist have to be 'leet cause they haven't got any money, but still managed to schlep that space garbage up there and maintain it for so long on so little. They should drink some champagne (or vodka) when it crashes so they can move on.
well, we dont' have much room to play with the year (2001), and out month is pretty well set (3), however, through simple deduction we can compute the remaining information:
Since the bringing down of Mir is clearly the result of satanic forces, the day will be the 18th (6+6+6). which also computes with the month (3*6=18)
it will occur at the 05 hour (Hail Eris!), on the 23rd minute; since Mirs touchdown will clearly be one of teh largest acts of a Discord(ian) nature in a while.
and it will occur on the 59th second because, as well all know, 23 = 59 (especially issultrated through the law of fives, exemplified by the hour, in this case)
so: 2001-03-18 05:23:59
reporting live from Anal Necro Rape Camp Earth
2001-03-13 23:04:27
We'll see if my birthday/time is lucky.
I drink to prepare for a fight; tonight I'm very prepared. -Soda Popinksi
Hmmm.... 2000-03-14 was last year, right? :)
*splash*
-- Morten Jensen
The lameness filter didn't like me sticking only a date in the reply so here's some text first, and then my guess... 2001-03-19 19:19:19 ratthedd
Here it is: 2001-03-21 at 09:34:21
-- Hobbits suck!
2001-03-23 23:23:23 Lots of 23's == Good.
2001-03-15 21:12:00
:)
This guess heavily influenced by the Rush CD I'm listening to. This statement heavily influenced by the lameness filter
Three dits, four dits, two dits, dah!
Radio, radio, rah rah rah!
2001-03-13 13:33:13
(MIR will not only hit the water at this hour, it will also mark the beginning of DolphinSpace1's construction. The Dolphins will begin salvaging pieces from MIR in an attempt to get off this planet.)
-HobophobE
-HobophobE
Nothing laughs forever.
is my guess. Hope I get a tee-shirt.
Funny, I have observing time at the Nordic Optical Telescope during the named period, they'd better get that thing down properly so it won't disturb my observations.... :-)
Employee of Inrupt, Project Release Manager and Community Manager for Solid
If I were really motivated I would try to calculate the exact moment when the earth is exactly equal... but I guess that is relative to position. My mind hurts, time to go to StarBucks.
drive stainless || live stainless
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas"
Sen. Davy Crocket to US Congress, Nov. 1, 1835
that's my best guess...
http://slashdot.org/~tf23/journal
2001-03-15 15:37:00
;)
must add text to prove that Im not yelling
2001-03-30 12:35:23
No doubt!
I read slashdot for the articles.
2001-03-17 13:25:42 "...and he was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday 21st of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 a.m., because God liked to get work done while he was feeling fresh." - Good Omens
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" - Groucho Marx
The Mir is falling, the mir is falling... 2001-04-05 00:30:00 -Bluto
2001-03-22 09:30:00
as good as any.
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS would be the format,
2001-04-01 13:13:13
would be fitting..
My guess: 2001-03-17 21:37:42
Just writing some more text here so that /. doesn't think I am l4m3.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
With all the delays, mir probably won't touch down until the late in the official prediction, so I'll guess 2001-03-18 13:12:11 . (Which also happends to be my birthday, not that they're related, but still.)
[Science] is one of the very few things that raises human life a little above farce and gives it the grace of tragedy.
2000-03-09 05:18:27
My birthday and parts of my phone number.
Can't fail.
2001-03-24 07:42:12 arg, it was saying that there are to many caps in the above.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
my 21st birthday!
I can hardly imagine AP news reporting: At 5:32PM and 38 seconds Mir splashed down. Hence I will keep to nice round numbers... 2001-03-15 18:00:00
2001-03-23 12:00:01
It will prolly hit land.....
I can't think of anything witty right now
2001-03-15 15:30:00
BTW, If a space station falls from space and hits the water with nobody around, does it make a sound?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
I've got a couple of ideas for fun contests that we can all play, and they're relevent for the /. community as well!
Firstly, we have How long will /. stay up?. Each of us can guess exactly how long (in hours) /. will be up for before it inexplicably dies with no response from the site admins. For bonus points, guess how long it'll take them to get it running again.
Secondly, Why did it go down?. We can all have fun here guessing why /. went down again. Was it a DDoS? Corrupted database? Someone tripped and pulled the power cord out? My guess for the latest one is the fact that there's now over a billion user accounts here...
Bah, this line is here because the lameness filter said I was using all caps, when in reality, I originally had only numbers in my post...
2001-03-14 14:30:00
Ok, now to the real post =) What does this mean for airplanes and boats? Aren't they supposed to know when this is going to happen so they can either a)change their route that day or b) delay their departures?
I would like to think that they would at least let the people who run these services know this info, because it would just suck to be traveling across the Pacific ocean and suddenly be hit by a 1,500 lbs chunk of a space station.
My time: 2001-03-15 02:03:22
Woah! This thing didn't let me post, saying I was using too many caps! Maybe if I type a bunch of other stuff down here it will get confused more and think things are alright...
Posted from the wireless couch.
2001-03-27 01:22:13
Ok, I won't yell.
Slagborr
There ya go.
Never goose a wolverine --./fortune
I am going to win ..neer-neer
"linux" it's not fastfood... If you want it your way code it yourself
Is it
2001-03-21 05:32:23 ?
yes!
Szo
Red Leader Standing By!
**My Daughter's Birthday & Time**
Crystalize your tears, dried upon The Cross
Blood drips on your pain, time to ride The Light
Crystalize your tears, dried upon The Cross
Blood drips on your pain, time to ride The Light
Yep. Without a doubt.
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2001-03-16 02:04:08
Just some nice numbers..
2001-03-14 14:23:12 hsjkdfhjsdfhsdfkjshfkjs To pass lameless filter ;)
2001-04-21 01:30:00
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Why that time, you may ask. 'Cuz a talking snow leopard told me so.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
I think Mir will splash at 2001-03-25 15:42:00
Hows about 2001-03-16 03:00:00 ??
I'm only guessing, but I'm sure everyone else is.
Dirk stood in the Stanley
ya
Gotta love extended delays. Now if only several 1,000 lbs of it would smack into Sony Corp like a friggin lawn dart. That would make my year.
"When the president of the united states, says your name in ANGER on national television, the sh!t has hit the fan" -Ice T
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. -Fight Club
This sentance conatins five words.
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stupid lameness filter won't let you post just numbers, claims it's all caps and that i'm yelling. so this worthless text is solely to get around the lame lameness filter.
my guess: 2001-09-04 01:01:01
The stars are crossed against you, Mir. That's my guess (let's say noon GMT, Ides of March).
Or something
THIS SPACE FOR RENT
2001-04-01 11:59:59 - The point being I reckon a "Mir went down" story will appear as an April Fools. Of course it will never come down. They probably don't know how to bring it down, never mind when. :-)
2001-03-26 08:23:46
Of course this is just a guess. Its not like I have a working suborbital ascent vehicle that could forcibly eject that piece of floating refuse from the heavens or something. Right?
This space for rent. All reasonable inquiries will be entertained at proprietors discretion.
2001-03-19 10:22:07 no this is not all caps
well putting in just a guess activates the lameness caps filter, so here is some lowercase filler
2001-03-12 07:45:00
Mir will go down on 2001-04-06 12:00:00
Isn't it ironic that the lameness filter hates contests like this.
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2001-03-17 19:08:01
Just like the lotto, gotta play birthdays!
2001-03-14 02:30:03
:(
But I have to type some garbage in here now because slash thinks the date guess on its own was USING CAPS and LIKE YELLING.
All numeric posts aren't allowed
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The harder you look the less you see. That's what we're up against.
2001-03-26 13:14:00 is my guess.
(BTW, lameness filters suck.)
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
2001-03-17 17:17:17 would be my guess.. So we'll see if I will be the lucky owner of a T-shirt :)
Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep
2001-03-14 12:52:29 - that's my guess.
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Preventive War is like committing suicide for fear of death. - Otto Von Bismarck
I wonder what duct tape looks like burning up on reentry?
ETA: 2001-03-14 13:42:33
-ParadoX-
A monk once asked another, "Why is a frog?"
Aftersome thought, the other monk replied,
"Because the higher he jumps, the much."
What about Gilligan and the castaways?
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
2001-03-27 07:35:22
Ya know, I want to see Dick Clark count this one down.
Blog,Twitter
My guess would have to be...
2001-04-05 23:52:30
This gives ample time for (someone to buy|aliens to abduct|George Dubya to blow up) Mir once more, realize it's a lost cause, then let the remaining piece(s) fall through the earth's atmosphere.
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bluecherry internet..http://www.bluecherry.net/
no witty .sig today...
Um, what are the odds that it'll be known down to the second?
And even when you think the stories are over, you'll get one about the divers going thru the wreckage.
March 24 is my B-day 2001-03-24 16:30:02
Come on lucky 19...
There ya go..seems kinda like playing the Lotto..how about we bet that I don't win this either? :P
"My days are less enjoyable because of people." ~ Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
A blind guess...
I think I'll go with...
2001-03-14 02:41:03
I wonder if anyone will guess right on the dot!
.plan!! what plan?
2001-03-26 20:26:00
Yeeee Haaahhh
sorry, I have no contributions for this story other than my pathetic attempt at getting a free t-shirt.
okaaaay... 2001-03-15 10:17:00
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
2001:3:16:16:24 thats my guess thanks to the lameness filter for forcing me to type more than i had to.
2001-04-09 12:12:12 This is my birthday, so please give me that t-short! 12 April - Space Day in Russia, 40 anniversary of Gagarin fly. It is sad to see falls of Russian science.
2001-04-01 12:34:56
'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss' 2001-03-06 09:58:00
"Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy
You broke the rules, only one vote ;)
2001-03-17 04:17:34. Just a guess. No real reason.
The Good Reverend
ASD
MG
2001-03-16 02:34:54
Ok, the lameness filter really isn't funny...
Jeremy Baumgartner
2001-04-20 07:10:00
we might think it's too late, but it would be without the help of the Russians.
2001-03-18 13:30:00
:)
*shrug* the time sounds good
--DrH, the Sandwich with the Ph.D.
2001-03-27 16:43:02
Okay, this is silly... the lameness filter won't let me just post that without some real text.
2000-03-15 14:08:18
The t-shirt will more than make up for the
chunk of skylab that killed my cat.
2001-04-20 16:20:00
;-)
Cause all kinds of good stuff happens at 4:20..
Shayne
Today I didn't even have to use my AK; I got to say it was a good day -- Icecube
Best guess..
That is my guess.
My guess is: 2001-03-23 11:10:30 Why not.
My sig left me for a younger user id.
2001-04-03 14:01:01
:)
...what people will do for a stupid T-Shirt..
Quoth the Penguin, "pipe grep more!"
I just hope none of the Russians leave anything important onboard. I think it'd suck to get home and think "now...where are my car ke...oh..crap... NOO!!! DON'T DROP MIR! NOOO!!"
Rushing toward Entropy one iteration at a time.
Jealous Americans? I think so!
And then:
All times are Eastern Standard Time in the United States,
Um....I always thought ISO format implied UTC.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
is 2004-07-31 20:40:30, but it doesn't want to go past the lameness filter.
The uncertainty in the Mir splashdown date is actually posing a fair problem for me.
I like Mir a lot, and have always been impressed with its performance and long life, and I want to properly honor its passing. How to do, how to do..
Of course! A wake!
But you've got to schedule parties. You've got to order the vodka (unless you want crap vodka) and other assorted things. These changing dates are making my life hell! :)
Everything goes slowly. It won't come down 'til almost the end of March.
2001-03-29 11:11:11
2001-03-20 20:35:11
Comming to a Fiji backyard near you.
Technology is only a vehicle. People are the ones that drive it.
I think MIR chunks will be hitting the ocean at around:
2001-03-20 13:23:25
The Official Steve Ballmer Webpage
I think Mir will splash down at 2001-03-22 06:23:25.
2001-04-30 13:22:36
These things are always delayed. I'd be surprised if this thing actually came down in March. Heck, I'll be surprised if it happens this spring....
I wanna T-shirt!!!!!
Slashdot is encouraging us to use windows? Fat chance!
Using my birthday is a much better method.
2001-04-10 03:10:00
Hey, it gotta come down someday... Why not on my birthday...
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All browsers' default homepage should read: Don't Panic...
My guess to win the big prize: 2001-03-17 18:20:34
Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in 1599 and Caesar died in 44 BC = 15:59:44 (had to convert 99 to 0.99 * 60 s)
So my guess is 2001-03-15 15:59:44
AlpineR
So, I wanted to just post the above one-liner, and I got this:
What caps? There weren't any alphabetics in my original message at all! I guess that the lameness filter is really checking the ratio of lower-case letters to message length.Nothing for 6-digit uids?
on some South Pacific island logging camp at 2001-03-17 02:59:01
Um, Bob, I'm gonna bid $1
Of course it will drop on april fools day ;)
If so, I guess 0000-01-01 00:00:00!
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Another riddle for our children, I suppose - to be solved in the coffee break between the session about the nuclear waste and the one about climate pollution.
Ciao
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FB
My money is on Mir hitting a Japanese fishing boat...
http://www.space.com/news/spacestation/mir_chase rs _010208_wg.html
Also according to TASS, Mir is coming down between the 13th and 18th, let's hope they actually know....http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/15/r ussia.mir/index.html
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
definitely going to coincide with roman history:
2001-03-15 09:37:42
If water were beans, I'd be 70% beans.
I say that Mir will fall on 2001-03-21 16:52:51
2001-03-15 03:15:20
well hope i win..dont have enough t-shirts allready
"Nyquil - The stuffy, sneezy, why-the-hell-is-the-room-spinning medicine."
Let us all just hope it doesn't land on me!
things are always late when humans are involved...especially when it's flying things (stay away from LGA)
2001-04-07 14:23:35
Q:Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A:All my autopsies have been performed on dead peop
I'm betting the gyros or the power generators will go out again! And maybe if we're lucky it will land on a car insurance company!
--Richard
2001-03-28 07:35:45
lameness filter BEGONE!
2001-03-01 12:01:27
bypass to lameness filter bypass to lameness filter bypass to lameness filter bypass to lameness filter
Ever get the impression that your life would make a good sitcom?
Ever follow this to its logical conclusion: that your life is a sitcom?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
2001-03-18 16:12:00
DT
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Is this thing on? Hello?
give it a few extra days.
sulli
RTFJ.
2001-03-13 06:23:07 damn lameness filter
The Technonaut
2001-03-18 08:23:07
I am an official seer
Oracle and unix guy.
2001-03-16 11:42:55
(good gosh. lameness filter says that the post (minus these parenthetical expressions) is all caps and like yelling. very silly)
Beware the birthday of march. or somethin.
cheese logs keep my wang warm at night.
2001-03-20 04:30:05
OK, you can all quit posting now, it's just a waste of your time. Hey, I *said* that's the right answer. =P
If I win you can get to me at k_Na_Os_Sr_Pe_Ay_Mn@hotmail.com
No spam please.
-Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
Make sure you protect yourself. Goat's cheese is awful. Very nice comment...one of the most pertinent I've seen on /.! :)
and that is just a guess
2001-03-26 02:17:47
p.s.: size xl!
Uh, ok, so I just put the time in and encountered the lameness filter (too many caps). I guess this should be enough normal words to bypass that. Now back to your regularly scheduled guesses.
2001-03-23 14:34:56
I'll bring the weenies to roast when it hits that Yahoo! guy in Quasi, Australia. 2001-03-09 22:51:37
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AND THE WINNER IS.!.!..... Anonymous Coward step forward and claim your prize!!!!!
Anyway, my guess is: 2001-03-14 15:42:42
If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.....
2001-07-22 14:33:52 I think it'll be up there for a while yet.
Devolver's Homepage... more fun than a box of crackerjacks.
my sister's birthday 2001-03-17 03:17:01
redsaso
2001-03-21 09:22:32 I'm always wrong, so I'm shooting for later, rather than sooner. I assume that they will have to postpone at least one more time...
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. " - Revolution Books, NY
2001-03-20 11:54:56 it could happen.
Let's see if Mir gives me a birthday present
2001-03-22 10:35:23
Should be a good hit. lordarathres@hot_NO_SPAM_mail.com we all know the _NO_SPAM_ drill
stainless steel
how will you deal with duplicate entries? hopefully you have some code to pick only the first one, right?
2001-03-13 03:07:00
OR when we shoot it down. I mean, isn't it obvious? They're just stalling so they can drop it on our heads... "oops, damn metric->english conversion..."
I mean, I *could* just be paranoid, but a million voices can't be wrong... Can they?
2001-04-1 23:50:00
lamethisfilter
Fight censors!
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M
The unluckiest second on my birthday. It may just drop on its own :-)
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Mir Will crash on: 2001-03-17 22:13:43 at exactly the moment when the Irish-Influenced portion of the world's BAC reaches its peak for the day. This is also known as the only point in time when the average American is more drunk than Russian leadership. It will be a purposeful effort to give us a larger headache in the morning.
Information wants Coq
Mmmmm... green beer.
2001-03-20 05:11:23 is guess.
Will you ship the t-shirt to the UK?
stupid lameness filter.. since when is saint patrick's day so lame?
2002-03-17 12:00:00
-- "Flying is the art of falling and missing the ground"
They won't be so silly as to drop it on the Ides of March, would they!
The ISO format makes sense as it can easily be sorted into time/date order but why do the US insist on using MM-DD-YY? The UK (like the rest of the world?) uses DD-MM-YY which seems far more sensible.
Also, why use Eastern Standard Time (what ever that is). Why not use Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)?
OK. I guess I should stop whinging.
My guess for what its worth 2001-03-18 18:10:00 just in time to be shown on your news cast.
wot no sig
'2001-03-25 07:13:00'
the space fungus on mir will take a bath
the thing is going to hit whatever it hits on 2001-03-13 21:42:42
42
2001-03-11 06:05:00 I'm flying then so if its hits a plane and I win...
2001-03-14 00:00:01 Down with MIR, Long live the international space station! And my guess for the universe is 2000000001-03-14 00:00:01 Decryogenise me if i win.
"Failure is not an option, it come bundled with the software"
survey says... 2001-03-17 01:52:39
... serving your rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-the-middle needs for over 50 years."
"Ye Olde Rubber-Chicken-with-a-Pulley-in-the-Middle Shoppe
"No one's really gonna be free until nerd persecution ends" -- Gilbert, Revenge of the Nerds
2001-04-01 7:00:00
Would be quite an april fool's joke, eh?
well maby since the MIR is going down a new internet company could sell pieces of the mir that doesn't burn up
--this mesage will self distruct in five seconds--
The subject says it all. http://blackcomb.ca
HURD - Hurd's Under Research & Development
The first pieces of Mir hit the water at '2001-05-17 11:39:17'.
2001-03-16 13:37:00 Cal want shirt! want shirt now! give me shirt!
"Put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
I like contests.
2001-03-21 12:34:56
I will give my t-shirt to my dog.
It seems like people are coming out of the woodwork to post on this one.
Dozings.com -- Its kinda funny... If you're as crazy as me.
My guess is 2001-03-14 06:32:12
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I'll take April 15 for no good reason other then I can see a tax form near me.
2001-04-15 15:37:42
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
I'm not even going to pretend i understand everything required in such a task. However why don't they crash the station onto the lunar landscape? At least then future generations can look up and see a spot on the moon and say "see that used to be the old space station" Hell maybe it'll end up as a tourist stop on your way out of the solar system... It would be more interesting than watching such a historic achievement go up in Flames. ;-)
Precisely the time that Freaks & Geeks got replaced with Dateline. Those bastards!!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
2001-03-22 08:53:00 Had to add a real sentence here to avoid the lameness filter.
Hey michael, I'd be interested to see a histogram showing our distribution of guesses when this is all over.
AlpineR
2001-12-25 00:00:00
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted."
Someone probably should have disabled that...
No comment at this time
2001-04-01 16:02:01
Lame lame lame lame lameness.
2001-03-21 09:42:12
Point of impact: Milwaukee, WI on top of this person
k.
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are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
2001-03-20 14:23:03
i am not using any caps. a numeral a capital letter. some patch the slashdot engine. shejeez!
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jambo
system.admin.without.a.clue
-- js.
2000-03-20 10:10:10 knowing the russians they'll get lost
After careful deliberation,I have chosen 2001-03-14 15:33:33
The reporting on all this has been that they miscalculated the date that they would deorbit it. Well the truth of the matter is, it was requested that they reschedule it due to the upcoming Shuttle launch that would take most of the tracking resources in the early March timeframe.
This is a little useless sentence to keep the clowns out.
.oO Kaa Oo.
Not before the summer
2001-03-16 03:14:15 This text is added to circumvent the "too-many-caps filter".
- Tal Cohen
On 2001-03-21 22:23:24 the pieces will hit the earth.
2001-04-20 16:20:42 Im not actually a pothead, but I figured that this is as good a guess as any.
I'm a Tasty-vore. If it's Tasty, I'll eat it.
2001-04-01 13:01:01
How ironic that it would be called a "lameness" filter--it can't tell numbers from caps.
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Non-meta-modded "Overrated" mods are killing Slashdot
(Hey Ryan! Here's your proof!)
I asked my dog.
-Magnus
Mir will hit water @ 2001-03-18 04:52:04
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data.
2001-03-13 14:30:45. The luckiest day in march...
birthdate + 30 years
2000-03-24 23:57:42
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2001-03-19 16:35:43
Yeah, I'm just guessing.
Mainly because it's the first 2001 date in ISO format that can be found in pi. Specifically, between the 2771405th and 2771418th digits (counting the 3). The obligatory link to the actual decimals.
It will come down on 2001-05-21 12:00:21. It's my wife's birthday.
--Moo
My magic eightball says it's on 2001-04-12 03:08:01
(That's my guess in UTC. EST is this minus 5 hours. I run in UTC. Sorry if it flips yer noodle.)
Anyways.. An interesting note I read in the Chicago Sun-Times a few days ago:
(Heavily edited)
"Is there anywhere safe from a potential MIR drop?"
A call was placed to the Russian Space Agency.
"Is there any city that's safe from an accidental MIR drop?"
"Moscow. There's no chance any MIR debris will hit Moscow."
How thoughtful.
The reason? The potential MIR drop point can be anywhere between 50 degrees north and 50 degrees south.
I thought it was funny.
Ruling The World, One Moron At A Time(tm)
"As Kosher As A Bacon-Cheeseburger"(tmp)
I used to be someone else. Now I'm someone better.
Real life is underrated.
I think that mir will fall @ 2001-03-28 18:29:07 It's about time that one of our nations took the lead to arrange all space exploration jointly, making sure that it will be a level playing field for the the future! Sy
2001-04-01 00:00:01
:)
i'm betting those crazy ruskys have another setback
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Silly /.'ers, the MIR already landed! Was I the only one to see the first ever South Park Halloween special?
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
2001-04-03 15:37:37 That is my prediction for mir
c# - Wait, it's not pronounced coctothorpe?
2001-03-22 12:00:00 caps filter? I'll caps your filter.
If Anonymous Coward wins the contest? ;)
My guess 2001-03-27 23:11:05
gcc -o sig sig.c sig.c:4: #error NO SIG FOUND make: *** [sig] error 1
wouldn't it make a bit more sense to use universal coordinated time?
irb(main):001:0>
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Microsoft is not the answer, Microsoft is the question. The answer is "no".
2001-03-20 10:52:00
This is when I was born in 1980, with the correction to east coast time.
The shirt better not say, "I guessed when Mir fell and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
2001-03-21 04:42:42
Yes, those 42's are there for good luck.
:D
'2001-03-22 04:25:01' +/- a year or two.
This post made from 100% recycled electrons.
give or take a few milli secs
Mir will be deorbited, 2001-03-16 01:31:30 Great Game.
2001-04-24 20:08:08 is my guess.
2001-03-17 18:19:20 hmm - tee shirts for free. Almost worth checking out the Mir ephemeris data:)
Frog51
my guess is: 2001-03-19 01:01:17 this text is here to avoid yelling lameness error.
"It's because they're stupid. That's why everybody does everything."- Homer Jay Simpson
2001-03-13 16:23:05
trust me, i know this one.
some text to avoid lameness filter
Here's my guess...
2001-03-22 14:22:22
RTLM
Here is my not so educated guess:
2001-03-18 22:15:00
0001-01-01 00:00:00
john
Resistance is NOT futile!!!
Haiku:
I am not a drone.
Remove the collective if
Imagine all the people...
Heh. Lameness filter prevents us from just posting a date? 2001-03-14 05:25:00
my guess on Mir's splashdown: 2001-03-15 19:21:15
2001-03-23 11:14:23 --- and the caps filter is still in effect.. =)
As wild as any other guess.
w00t
~Your Friendly Neighborhood Anime Man
CNN: "In an unexpected turn of events, the MIR space station was hit by a medium size meteor, which drastically changed its trajectory; it is now heading into earth's atmosphere.
The collision took out the main control circuits, meaning ground operators cannot control the deorbit of the station.
The rapid turn of events have left ground operators unprepared and cannot acurately estimate the area in which the station's will fall down to earth.
The agency advised that 'Everybody get the hell out of the way' "
AC comments get piped to
2001-04-01 11:06:54
Maybe it's just one big April fools joke and it will never happen?
When's MTV Spring Break again? like..right in the middle of Springer Break. I think we have the technology for a precision drop, don't you?
... referring to this source.
2001-03-17 07:00:00
This is ridiculous. I posted just the time and was accused of being 'lame' for using too many caps. I didn't know typing a series of numbers was considered shouting. Anyway, my guess is: 2001-03-17 05:30:01 Cheers!
2001-03-26 11:11:11 (No the time isn't correct, but I'm not quite sure exactly when I was born, but I figured there wouldn't be many entries on that date, so my chances would be ok)
2001-03-19 04:18:23 this is the time that mir will hit water.
my guess is another two weeks, so put me down for
2001-04-03 19:47:30
It will touch water at 2001-03-16 12:25:00.
2001-03-23 02:02:02
Avoiding lameness with extra text.
Just a shot in the dark. (Apologies to Ozzy.)
(nil)
As of the time of this posting:
Okay, let's guess my birthday:
2001-03-18 05:58
(i just made up the time -- i don't remember
at what hour i was born)
2001-03-14 13:23:12 followed by green beer...
2001-03-15 11:09:37 Yea, that should work.
.sdrawkcab si gis siht
Here is a non-caps sentence.
There's no reason for a sig here.
My guess it that it will come down in March. If engineers are deciding, then it's definately comming down at a time related to e. I'm too lazy to convert 18:28:18 Mosco time to EST.
2001-3-27 18:28:18
Why is everyone so obsessed with pi?
e is a much more usefull irrational number.
Karl
I'm a slacker? You're the one who waited until now to just sit arround.
Copyright Violation:"theft, piracy"::Anti-Trust Violation:"thermonuclear price terrorism"<-Overly dramatic language.
In honor of the only Linux guru I know... I'll guess 2001-03-13 07:43:29. Seems apropriate that he introduced me to /. and this is when I'll most likely see the penguin loving college sophomore again. Go CWRU!
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Blessed are the geeks for they shall Internet the Earth.
Since my birthday is the 28th of March and I don't quite want to wager a guess that far into the month, the day of my birth is cleverly and firmly held within the hour, minute and partially, the second.
- http://pakman.sytes.net/
2001-03-09 08:00:00
;-)
139 years ago that day, you didn't want to be
onboard a wooden ship
First they burn books, then they burn people.
My Prediction for when Mir will splash down into the Pacific Ocean. 2001-03-27 06:25:00
2001-03-17 12:12:12 crappy lameness filter
Probably wont happen till next year !
2001-03-31 19:07:32
Or there abouts...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while(`/bin/date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` ne "2001-03-19 02:45:00\n") {
orbit();
}
crash_into_ocean("47S","140W");
Follow your Euro bills at EBT
[You KNOW I meant 2001, dude. I don't think even the russians have developed time travel yet.] (Yeah, yeah, I should have previewed.. I did, but the subject is lost to the eye)
Since my birthday is the 28th of March and I don't quite want to wager a guess that far into the month, the day of my birth is cleverly and firmly held within the hour, minute and partially, the second.
- http://pakman.sytes.net/
Thanks to um...cryptology and chinese numerology to inspire me with the right numeros.
Has no-one been following Mir at all? 2010-09-08 07:06:05
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mrBlond
CowboyNeal for president!
"Hit any user to continue."
2001-03-18 03:13:37
It's my birthday at a very elite time.
2001-03-13 14:23:07
"Stuff is falling from the sky, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
.sig last updated Jan. 14, 2000
2038-01-19 03:14:07 (assuming Mir uses a UNIX) see this for an explaination
2001-03-14 01:01:01 And this is how it will happen, after the thrusters are fired-up, MIR takes a righthand turn, while going 23.1 degree up and crashes into Alpha (CNN's new name for ISS?). The crash will also bring down the illegal 2 Billion Dollar Crack lab build by the US. --/-- Mark my words..
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
Makes me want to call one of those psychic hotlines always advertised on tv, see if *they* know. :P
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2001-03-18 03:28:46
(for some reason, the lameness filter interprets numbers as capital letters... Why is it so good at filtering out ISO-formatted time strings and so bad at catching goatse.cx?)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/charities.cron/
2001-03-14 00:00:07 (I already talked to the guy who will bring it down, and he said he'll bring it down right that second, so don't bother posting anymore. I won!)- -
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Jobs? Which jobs?
2001-03-07 00:47:00 yo yo yo yo
It will actually crash 5 hours AFTER Slashdot reports it. Maybe a day or two after. That would be more in tune with their record on reporting software releases.
That's right, 2001-03-20 19:49:24 is my guess.
Thats my guess
2001-04-28 12:01:34
Just a wild guess.
2000-03-20 12:00:01 there, thats my guess, and this is my Lameness filter avoidence line.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Here it is again: 2001-03-17 14:07:21
- The Sigless Wonder
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/21/science/21ap-mir .html
sulli
RTFJ.
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Death to Vermin.
"Trust me - I know what I'm doing."
- Sledge Hammer
ohwell, you can send me a T-shirt anyway
To make it even better, I'll give you the Universal Transverse Mercator Grid coordinate: J9 8524 that takes it down to 1000 feet... Time of splash: 2001-03-14 14:55:22 Knowledge is power... Power corrupts... Study hard... Be EVIL!!!